RAF Hornchurch

[GunnyCook]

would love this Airfield in the sim, was a sector base for 11grp, covered London and southeast.

[Slippa]

So would I. As important to me as Biggin Hill. 

I’ve met pilots that flew from Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain and if you walk the ground it was bleedin enormous. 

Drop Gatwick for it if needs be, Hornchurch defended London, Gatwick didn’t. It’d be good to have it.

Who knows?

[DD_Fenrir]

For a Battle of Britain scenario Hornchurch is a must. Even up till late 1943 it’s an important fighter airfield.

However by the time we hit the DCS WW2 fighter meta which is firmly 1944, Hornchurch along with other such luminary airfields like Biggin Hill and Kenley, becomes second line, being primarily Ballon Command support fields as Allied intelligence see the V-1 threat coming. 

As such there are a number of other airfields I would suggest should take priority; currently there are no prototypical Mustang airfields in the UK for the 2x 9th air force FGs that flew them and only one P-47 base.

In an ideal world all the appropriate bases would be present but would it not make sense to prioritise the introduction of airfields that are chronologically appropriate to the planeset we have?

Edited April 18, 2024 by DD_Fenrir

[Slippa]

On 4/16/2024 at 8:22 PM, DD_Fenrir said:

In an ideal world all the appropriate bases would be present but would it not make sense to prioritise the introduction of airfields that are chronologically appropriate to the planeset we have?

 

Sounds fair enough.