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Indeed it would be. A Battle of Midway scenario comes to mind, but I doubt we'd get the correct aircraft anytime soon, if ever.

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Magnitude 3 might be working on a Pacific theater. They're definitely working on the F4U Corsair and the USS Yorktown.

 

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Pacific Theater and Yorktown is news to me. That's awesome

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I think that the Solomons campaign would offer the greatest scope of possibilities as far as varied aircraft and terrain is concerned. From F4F's and P-400's to F4U's and P-38's and early Zekes to late models (sorry, my knowledge of the IJN a/c is a little sketchy).

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Woah. Does this still work with 2.5?

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Corsair on the way, leak on Zero also....looking forward to it!

PTO in VR is dream come true!

 

I just hope they'll do it better, faster and with more content than they did Normandy.

I have no interest in flying single plane cos of the plane, i'm more scenery guy so i hope they'll get on this one right, with nice map, carriers, destroyers, opposition planes, AI bombers and one torpedo carrying aircraft per each side.

Nothing more fun and challenging than dropping torpedo and sinking destroyer/carrier.

Many of us are waiting for modern PTO flight sim and this could be nice success for ED.

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Better prepare for a very long wait. ;)

 

I know, unfortunatelly!

PTO can be a big seller for DCS since there is no competition on this theatre, at least for now and demand is big as seen when they delayed il2PTO....

They're gona need ww2 PTO assets (AI bombers, ships, carriers..), map, two flyable fighters and one bomb/torpedo plane per side to be able to recreate interesting battle.

Ww2 MP would burst!

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PLEASE SANTA!! DCS we need the PACIFIC CAMPAIGN!!!

 

Wouldn't it be GREAT to get the Pacific Theater modules!!! I'd personally pull out the old wallet RIGHT NOW and buy every module there was. Here's a few I'd buy RIGHT NOW!

 

F4UA-C Corsair

F6F Hellcat

F4F Wildcat

Dauntless Diver

P-39 Airacobra

P-38 Lightning

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk - Maybe an African Campaign aircraft? hmmmm

‎Brewster SB2A Buccaneer

Philippians Map, Iwo Jima Map, Peleliu Map, Midway Map, Guadalcanal Map, Pearl Harbor Map, Okinawa ....... this list goes on and on and on - There is A LOT of money for DCS to make here!!!

 

I'd be broke in no time. :o)

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I'm imagining desperate battles to sink the other sides carriers while preserving one's own.

 

The dogfights, the diving on the enemy through angry swarms of AAA.

 

It'd be glorious.

 

 

 

I have a similar thread to this, last post of 11/20/19, "WWII Pacific Theatre Planes and Maps". So I agree with you. I think Midway might be the best map to start with because that seems to be the most well known carrier battle. If it's possible for them to create a 1000nm x 1000nm map, that would be great. It should be relatively quick and easy to make because it would be about 99.99% water...unless the Hawaiian Islands were included. Plenty of room to patrol for enemy ships for hours... and maybe find nothing. It would be really cool if AI could be made to pilot scout aircraft in search patterns and when they find something, to radio the information back, either by voice or by keyed code over HF radio. Just make it Morse Code for simplicity. Complete with radio signal propagation and interference simulation. Then we have to learn Morse Code...or include a cheat option that simply displays the text on the screen.

 

 

Anyway, for a Midway map, just one US Navy carrier type, the Yorktown Class. On the IJN side, I don't know if any of their carriers were of a same class. I could look it up. And the escort ships on both sides. Of course, one could put modern ships and aircraft in this map and have some nice long stretches of sea and sky to fly in.

 

 

For the aircraft: US Navy: F4F-4 Wildcat, TBD-1 Devastator and SBD-5 Dauntless (I think it was the -5, I could be wrong there). On Midway Island was some TBF Avengers, and I'd have to research what others. But mainly those first three...starting with the Wildcat, and then it's adversary, the A6M-2 Zero.

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Wouldn't the Midway map be just basically water and a few island?

 

Yep.

So it would be easy to build, run really well and give us a massive sea area for carrier operations

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Yep.

So it would be easy to build, run really well and give us a massive sea area for carrier operations

i think midway and wake island would both be ideal for a dcs map. histroically and strategically relevant, mostly water, but the little scenery there is, is still very nice to look at.

i assume that it would be so easy to make, that it would be a reasonable expectation to get two versions: one vintage, one modern.

 

midway could include many little islands like Tern island (halfway to hawai), making it interesting for non-carrier-aircraft island hopping...


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i think midway and wake island would both be ideal for a dcs map. histroically and strategically relevant, mostly water, but the little scenery there is, is still very nice to look at.

i assume that it would be so easy to make, that it would be a reasonable expectation to get two versions: one vintage, one modern.

 

midway could include many little islands like Tern island (halfway to hawai), making it interesting for non-carrier-aircraft island hopping...

 

 

 

Exactly!! One Vintage 1942 and one Modern day.

 

I don't know if there is a limit on size of an area of open ocean due to coordinate system numerical limits in DCS. If that is not a problem, it is 1028 nm between Wake Island and Midway Island. Maybe make a map that covers everything from 165 E to 168 W Longitude and 15 N to 35 N Latitude. From 165 E to 168 W (which crosses the date line at longitude 180) along 15 N, the distance is about 1570 nm. Along 35 N, the distance is about 1330 nm (because the Earth is spherical). The distance from 15 N to 35 N is about 1200 nm. 1.9 million square miles! That ought to be enough room for a hunt and seek carrier battle. That includes Wake Island in the far southwest corner, Midway Island to the northeast of middle, and Johnston Island in the far southeast corner. Those little 1 to 3-mile-wide islands are pretty much the bulk of the dry land. Modern Wake I. has a 9800' runway. Modern Midway Is. a 7800' runway. And modern Johnston I. is closed, but a runway large enough for a B-52 still exists. Midway is an atoll, so the area of light blue shallow water is about 5 by 7 miles or so. About 45 miles WNW of Midway is Kure Atoll (about 5 mi wide) with Green Is. with a small airstrip. About 90 miles ESE of Midway is a larger atoll about 15 x 8 miles with a scattering of islets. Attached is a map of the chain of reefs, banks and shoals that lead from Midway to the Hawaiian Islands. I think many of them are visible from the air as patches of light blue sea. As far as that is to the SE of Midway, Wake I. is to the SW...but, I believe, with nothing but blue ocean out that way. And so, this is pretty much the area of sea in which the Battle of Midway took place in June of 1942.

 

 

If someone could just start with an F4F-4 Wildcat and A6M2 Zero.

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