What are your impressions?

[ralph115]

What do you think about these ideas of mine?

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Siege of Sevastopol.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kursk.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Siege of Leningrad (Finnish Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Operation Bagration.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Romania (Royal Romanian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Budapest Offensive (Royal Hungarian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Assault on Reich (from the Vistula-Oder offensive until the Battle of Berlin).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Normandie-Niemen.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Night Witches.

[Finkeren]

Apart from the Night Witches and Normandie-Niemen, which would be some cool DLCs but don't require seperate installments, I'm game.

 

Put in a Winter War chapter as well for good measure.

 

If it's in the East it leads!

[ShamrockOneFive]

 

What do you think about these ideas of mine?

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Siege of Sevastopol.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kursk.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Siege of Leningrad (Finnish Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Operation Bagration.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Romania (Royal Romanian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Budapest Offensive (Royal Hungarian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Assault on Reich (from the Vistula-Oder offensive until the Battle of Berlin).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Normandie-Niemen.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Night Witches.

 

 

Sevastopol we could pretty much do right now. We wouldn't really need any new aircraft (a sub variant or two perhaps) to make this work. Just a Crimea map.

 

Kursk is nearly a no-brainer for some point in the future. Titanic air/land battle clashes would be very appealing to me as an Eastern Front battle. There are a bunch of new planes we would need to add to the mix in addition to the types we already have.

 

Leningrad is a big time span. Even the siege is. I'm guessing that most people would be interested mostly in the early portions with the Finnish B-239 being the principal fighter for that airforce, several German fighters that we already have, and a mix of aircraft on the Russian side. It could be a good opportunity to introduce an earlier LaGG-3 model, SB-2, DB-3/IL-4 and/or a lend lease Hurricane.

 

Bagration is less well known to most people, still it could have some interesting aircraft although it would be an incremental change from Kursk the year before. I suspect this is why lots of people jump to the approaches of Berlin in early 1945 as the aircraft set is quite different.

 

Romania and Hungarian campaigns would be similar. A mix of Russian aircraft attacking on the front lines and USAAF long range bomber attacks. It would be interesting.

 

Normandie-Niemen isn't really a battle. You could definitely include the Niemen outfit in one of the various scenarios. A Berlin scenario wouldn't necessarily give us the squadron but it could give us their preferred Yak-3 fighters (they flew other Yaks too) and undoubtedly a paintscheme or two.

 

Night Witches would be going back to Stalingrad mostly and tossing a Po-2 into the mix.

[Gunsmith86]

I think they need some more variations like this:

 

 

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Midway

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Okinawa

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Italy ( because this brings in the British side and plays in 1943 at a time were many new aircraft appeared )

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kursk.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Finnish winter war the Mannerheim Line  ( This map could cover the finnish winter war 1939-1940 and also the siege of Leningrad )

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Spanish civil war Battle for Madrid or Battle of the Ebro most blody offensive in the Spanish civil war (1936 -1939 )

 

After so many day light battles its time for something new a map that is played only by night and therefore has only half as much details then a daytime map needs but its twice as large and offers airstart points for players that don´t want to fly to long:

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of the Ruhr ( A prolonged offensive against the Rhine-Ruhr area (nicknamed "Happy Valley" by aircrew) began on the night of 5/6 March 1943, with the first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr )

 

next should be someting in the Pacific area Battle of ....

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Operation Bagration

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Romania (Royal Romanian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle for France ( Sedan 1940 )

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Night fighter Battles on the eastern Front 1941-1944 ( Night Witches Po-2 , Improvised nighfighter He 111 ( later used as train killer ), Ju 88 A4 with MG 81 gun pods Ju 88 C4 and C6 and FW 189 so called Nachtjagd Schwärme Ost ) This can be played useing all the existing estern front maps so that one map can be done that is eighter needed for a other game later that needs two maps but only one plane set or for a Battle were we allready have the planes for it.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle for Normandie 1944

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Budapest Offensive (Royal Hungarian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Assault on Reich (from the Vistula-Oder offensive until the Battle of Berlin).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Siege of Sevastopol.

Edited October 2, 2016 by Gunsmith86

[ralph115]

I think they need some more variations like this:

 

 

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Midway

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Okinawa

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Italy ( because this brings in the British side and plays in 1943 at a time were many new aircraft appeared )

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kursk.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Finnish winter war the Mannerheim Line  ( This map could cover the finnish winter war 1939-1940 and also the siege of Leningrad )

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Spanish civil war Battle for Madrid or Battle of the Ebro most blody offensive in the Spanish civil war (1936 -1939 )

 

After so many day light battles its time for something new a map that is played only by night and therefore has only half as much details then a daytime map needs but its twice as large and offers airstart points for players that don´t want to fly to long:

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of the Ruhr ( A prolonged offensive against the Rhine-Ruhr area (nicknamed "Happy Valley" by aircrew) began on the night of 5/6 March 1943, with the first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr )

 

next should be someting in the Pacific area Battle of ....

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Operation Bagration

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Romania (Royal Romanian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle for France ( Sedan 1940 )

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Night fighter Battles on the eastern Front 1941-1944 ( Night Witches Po-2 , Improvised nighfighter He 111 ( later used as train killer ), Ju 88 A4 with MG 81 gun pods Ju 88 C4 and C6 and FW 189 so called Nachtjagd Schwärme Ost ) This can be played useing all the existing estern front maps so that one map can be done that is eighter needed for a other game later that needs two maps but only one plane set or for a Battle were we allready have the planes for it.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle for Normandie 1944

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Budapest Offensive (Royal Hungarian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Assault on Reich (from the Vistula-Oder offensive until the Battle of Berlin).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Siege of Sevastopol.

I think that every Il-2 Sturmovik game set outside of the Eastern Front should have a different name.

And the night fighter campaign should take place in Germany.

[InProgress]

I want Africa, kursk, something with Finland(that Leningrad sounds nice) and battle of Britain.

[Gunsmith86]

I think that every Il-2 Sturmovik game set outside of the Eastern Front should have a different name.

And the night fighter campaign should take place in Germany.

To change  the name IL-2 Sturmovik would just confuse people because of that i would allways use the name IL-2 Sturmovik.

 

The Nightfighter campaign would not fit the western front with these planes also its allready covered with the Battle of the Ruhr. Nightfighting in the west was done whit radar and the faster the fighter was the better while in the east a slower plane was needed because the Po-2 was so slow that the Ju 88 C and Me 110 had real trouble to shot them down they were simply to fast and had often to lower the gear and use flaps to not catch up to fast and crash into the Po-2 before haveing time to aim. When they managed to slow down fast enough to shot at the Po-2 they had another problem because most of the shells they fire simply fly through the Po-2 whitout triggering the fuse in the shells. There were only two points that could be damaged with them; 1) the pilot 2) the engine

In the west that was diffrent. there it was better to have a fast, heavy armed fighter whit long range and radar to catch up whit fast flying bombers get into spoting distance ( mostly 400m or belowe ) than go close and fire a killing burst with all your guns from about 200m. When the tailgunner spots you there is a good chance that you are the one who doesn´t return home that night.

Another problem that the nightfighters seldom faced in the east were enamy nightfighters which flew with the bombers or waited near the airbases of the german nightfighter to catch them.

 

From German Nightfighterforce 1917-1945:

At first glance the list of aircraft used for ‘improvised’ night fighting on the Eastern Front suggests a scraping of the bottom of the barrel: next to some ‘true’ Zerstörer such as the Bf 110, Ju 88C and Do 17Z-10 there were the Fw 58, He 111P, He 111H-3 and H-6, Do 17P, Ju 88D, Ju 88A-4 and Bf 109E. But this hotchpotch was not as crazy as it would seem. Some of these types had already been used in successful night interceptions and had won the confidence of their crews. Apart from that, fast fighters could not be used to combat the Soviet night harassment biplanes, and this naturally led to some ‘remodelling’ of bombers and reconnaissance aircraft. Thus, for instance, a He 111 would be fitted with a ‘tin nose’ accommodating up to four 20 mm MG FF cannon, plus four MG 17s in a ventral tray and two WB 81Z gun pods on the ETC bomb racks— in other words, a total of 16 fixed forward-firing automatic weapons. With such a hail of bullets one simply had to hit the target! In the course of summer 1943 most of these improvised types such as the He 111, Do 17P and Ju 88D were apparently used up and replaced by true night fighters of the Bf 110 and Ju 88 series. Nevertheless, some Ju 88A-4s remained in operational service to hunt the slow Soviet night harassment aircraft. With their dive brakes out, the A-4s were able to slow down in level flight as well.

Night fighting on the Eastern Front was affected by the peculiar conditions of that theatre and presented quite a different picture. In summer 1942 there were only a few fighter and bomber crews who felt confident enough to take off and face up to the Soviet bombers on moonlit nights. Among the earliest recorded night interceptions are the successes achieved by Lt Leykauf of JG 54, who shot down six Soviet aircraft during the night of 23 June, and Uffz Döring of 9./ KG 55, who in his He 111 pursued and fought down three large TB-3 bomber-transports near Stalingrad. The newly activated auxiliary night fighting sections (BehNJ-Schwärme), which still had not managed to get into their stride during the winter of 1942– 43, had to face up to overwhelming odds in the early summer of 1943. However, by this time the training they had received from experienced Reich Air Defence crews began to pay dividends. Thus, during April– June 1943 the few available night fighters shot down more than 30 Soviet bombers in the Orel– Bryansk area alone. Among the more successful pilots were Hptm Schneeweis of NNJSchw Lfl 6 with 17 victories and Ofw Heiner of NNJSchw Lfl 4 with 11. But while these were remarkable personal achievements, the Soviet losses did not even amount to one per cent of the aircraft used. The picture began to change only after the arrival of IV/ NJG 5 in the Orel area. In July 1943 alone this Gruppe achieved 49 confirmed victories. It was at that time that Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein established a new record by shooting down seven aircraft during the 24 hours of the night of 25 July. 18 Size for size, even more successful was 10./ ZG 1, which shot down 28 Soviet aircraft in June while flying ‘illuminated’ sorties over the Kertch peninsula. Most of these victories were achieved by Ofw Kociok. The German Flak also began to profit from these night fighter successes. Until then the Soviet bombers had not seemed to be particularly worried by German Flak and searchlights; now the aircraft had only to be lit up by one searchlight and the Soviet pilot would hurriedly drop his bombs and turn back. These local successes were all interceptions of Soviet medium bombers. Combating the Polikarpov R-5 and U-2 (Po-2) night harassment aircraft was quite a different story. These biplanes were extremely difficult to intercept because they tended to fly very low and slow and were also highly manoeuvrable. The ground radar sites were very hard put to detect them at all, or— because of ground echoes— would give the night fighter pilots bearings that varied by 180 ° so that they were forced to fly dangerously low, practically skimming the ground, to make out the enemy aircraft against the lighter sky (the AI radar was also useless so close to the ground). To add to the difficulties, the night fighter had to fly with its engines throttled right back to avoid overshooting the target. To slow down a Ju 88 and Do 217, as used by 12./ NJG 5, to about 200 km/ hr (124 mph) it was necessary to lower the flaps and sometimes even the undercarriage. At this low speed the controls of the Ju 88 were decidedly sloppy, while the Do 217, with its higher wing loading, could hardly be held on course. And when the fighter finally reached a firing position, victory was still far from assured: standard HE ammunition simply went straight through the fabric-covered target,

only taking effect if it hit the small engine or the pilot. The aircraft best able to intercept and combat these ‘highway crawlers’ was without doubt the Fw 58 proposed by Falck. For a while some of these aircraft were temporarily allocated to various auxiliary night-fighting sections, but inexplicably they disappeared again after the catastrophe of the winter of 1942– 43. It took some time before somebody started to pay attention to the loud requests for similar aircraft from the Eastern Front night fighter units.

 

Edited October 2, 2016 by Gunsmith86

[ralph115]

To change  the name IL-2 Sturmovik would just confuse people because of that i would allways use the name IL-2 Sturmovik.

 

In this case, possibilities are unlimited:

 

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Invasion of Poland.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Norwegian Campaign.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of France.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Britain.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Balkan Campaign (Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Ardennes Offensive.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Flying Tigers.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Coral Sea.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Guadalcanal.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Gilbert and Marshall Islands.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Mariana and Palau.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Leyte (the Mexican Air Force!).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Iwo Jima.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Solomon Islands.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: New Guinea. 

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Bombing of Japan.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Western Desert.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Tunisia.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of the Mediterranean.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Italian Campaign.

[wtornado]

Unlike their budget

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

 

What do you think about these ideas of mine?

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Siege of Sevastopol.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kursk.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Siege of Leningrad (Finnish Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Operation Bagration.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Romania (Royal Romanian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Budapest Offensive (Royal Hungarian Air Force playable).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Assault on Reich (from the Vistula-Oder offensive until the Battle of Berlin).

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Normandie-Niemen.

- Il-2 Sturmovik: Night Witches.

 

Nice suggestions

 

The Night Witches became famous over Kuban, so all we'd need is an appropriate U-2 variant. Leningrad would probably come best as a standalone map with some Finnish aircraft as collector's products.

[Finkeren]

Leningrad would probably come best as a standalone map with some Finnish aircraft as collector's products.

Nah, I think it would warrant a seperate installment. The Axis aircraft could be mainly Finnish, but there are several good candidates for VVS aircraft as well: Yak-1 early series, LaGG-3 early series, Su-2, DB-3, Hurricane Mk. IIb.

[Gunsmith86]

I think so too.

But the Map could be used 2 times if placed carefuly. First for the Finnish winter war Battle for the Mannerheim Line and second for the siege of Leningrad.

In the time they need to build to sets of planes the map makeing team could build another map for a battle that cant be covered with a single map.

Edited October 3, 2016 by Gunsmith86

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

Unlike their budget

 

Say, where the heck is your BOM and BOK bar?

 

Were you sure to order the Yak-1b and Ju52?

 

The budget is obviously limited by the willingness of the consumer to get behind the team and the product.

[hames123]

Can the Leningrad map include Murmansk? If so, that would be the RAFs first foray into the new Il2 series. Also, I always wanted an Il2 Karkov, due to the 4 battles for the city, and Il2 Leningrad because of the length of the seige.

[hames123]

Also Il 2 Malta.(Spitfires and Gladiators for the fighter chaps, a beufort for the torpedo, a Wellington and a premimum Beufighter on the British side, A 109 and a MC 200 for the Italians, a Ju88 as the torpedo bomber and an SM bomber as the bomber. The premimum aircraft should be an Italian fighter, bringing the number to 3 Italian planes and 2 Germans, since Malta is in the Med.) Brits have to defend the Island and hunt subs and transports heading to Libya, Germans have to take out the Island, destroy British subs and transports heading to Eygpt. Both sides get Battleships and Crusiers as well. Maybe even a carrier for the British.

Edited October 4, 2016 by hames123

[LLv34_Temuri]

Can the Leningrad map include Murmansk?

The map would be huge if Murmansk was included with Leningrad. A separate map for Murmansk would be more feasible.

[Aap]

 

 

But the Map could be used 2 times if placed carefuly. First for the Finnish winter war Battle for the Mannerheim Line and second for the siege of Leningrad.

 

I would say even more than there two times. One map could cover the whole period from 1939-1944. There is no other map in the Eastern Front that could over the same time span.

1. Winter War, winter 1939-1940.

2. Operation Barbarossa, beginning of Continuation War, summer 1941.

3. Siege of Leningrad, with lots of different operations, autumn 1941 - winter 1944.

4. Soviet offensive 1944, Battle of Tali-Ihantala and Battle or Narva.

[Livai]

Say, where the heck is your BOM and BOK bar? Were you sure to order the Yak-1b and Ju52? The budget is obviously limited by the willingness of the consumer to get behind the team and the product.

 

+1

That's are my impressions:

"In the end the founder bar will tell who stay 100% behind this product in good times and even in bad times.

Because they said Pacific all start to dreaming about Pacific and other nonsense what is far far away future and forget that all depends on BoK success!!!"

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

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Because they said Pacific all start to dreaming about Pacific and other nonsense what is far far away future and forget that all depends on BoK success!!!"

 

This may only happen once but +1 SGB.

[Crump]

 

 

Because they said Pacific all start to dreaming about Pacific and other nonsense what is far far away future and forget that all depends on BoK success!!!"

 

I agree.  The success of the product depends on each build.   Part of that is customer service.  In order to be profitable, these games are expensive.  If people are going to pay that amount then they are due some customer service beyond, "You is wrong".  

 

I think it is very important that the devs get a knowledgeable volunteer and vetted by the company player team in on early testing.   By knowledgeable I mean a wide spectrum with each to his own talent.  I do not mean just aeronautical science but there needs to be computer talent and historical talent.  

 

The community has that and it is resource that they would do well to leverage.  Non-disclosure statements signed by all the "team" protect the proprietary information of the company and in return, the company gets everything from 3D models, FM characteristics, to computer bugs squashed.

 

The community is what keeps the game alive and profitable for the company.  Not recognizing that and nurturing it is a mistake.

[Rolling_Thunder]

+1

That's are my impressions:

"In the end the founder bar will tell who stay 100% behind this product in good times and even in bad times.

Because they said Pacific all start to dreaming about Pacific and other nonsense what is far far away future and forget that all depends on BoK success!!!"

BoK success isn't dependant on pre orders, or for that matter the customers. It also depends on the devs ability to introduce the changes they have said they would. Like my opinion or not, this game is still currently an empty shell. Sp content is lacking. Mp is a ghost town with cheaters. This is still the game that a lot of folk abandoned. Yes the devs have said changes will happen. And for that I'm happy. Folk are still entitled to an opinion no matter how many gold bars they have under their name.

[=/WoVi/=kirumovka]

- Il-2 Sturmovik 2050: Battle of Mars

[Gunsmith86]

Stop all that stupid talk about who is a true supporter of IL2 everyone who bought a IL2 part is a suppoter of the game it simply doesn´t matter if he preordered it and has a gold bar or not because he bought it later!

 

Back to topic and maybe a moderator could deleat all that childish nonsense.

 

One thing we should not forget when talking about battles is ( Battle for France, Invasion of Poland, Finnish winter war,...)  that many were fought on a area of many 1000km length and to make a map that large would take years because of that we must scale down and pick a important battle that was fought in that campaign and make a map just large enough for that battle.

[Crump]

 

 

- Il-2 Sturmovik 2016: Battle of Syria

 

Fixed that for you. 

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

Stop all that stupid talk about who is a true supporter of IL2 everyone who bought a IL2 part is a suppoter of the game it simply doesn´t matter if he preordered it and has a gold bar or not because he bought it later!

 

Back to topic and maybe a moderator could deleat all that childish nonsense.

 

One thing we should not forget when talking about battles is ( Battle for France, Invasion of Poland, Finnish winter war,...)  that many were fought on a area of many 1000km length and to make a map that large would take years because of that we must scale down and pick a important battle that was fought in that campaign and make a map just large enough for that battle.

 

There's really nothing childish about the financial implications of running a business.

 

Waiting for sales, buying from Steam, from G2A, begging for free keys or never buying at all is not supporting the future of our hobby, 777 or their products. The continuity of the hobby is directly bound by our willingness to support the product and team. That's the truth - moderated, name-called or otherwise.

 

Whining about not having the Pacific yesterday and about not having the Western front tomorrow, while being completely hostile towards the idea of supporting the team or the products we have now, is childish.

Edited October 4, 2016 by Space_Ghost

[BlitzPig_EL]

Crump,

 

Sometimes I disagree with you, sometimes a find your posts enlightening, but you hit it out of the park with this one.

 

There are lots of very knowledgeable people in this community.  Not to utilize their talent is really a mistake, especially on matters historical.  The team in Moscow has a wealth of info at their fingertips about the war in the East, but I'm guessing that the Pacific is in many ways utterly new territory for them.  Much as it was when the half baked Pacific Fighters was released.

 

Of course Jason has a good background in the Pacific, but there a many here with a great knowledge of the air and ground war in the PTO.   It would be wise to use this knowledge.

[xvii-Dietrich]

The map would be huge if Murmansk was included with Leningrad. A separate map for Murmansk would be more feasible.

 

A huge map would actually be good.

 

The current maps are rather small. Even the Moscow-map is only 290x270 km. That's smaller than the IL2-CloD map!!

[Rolling_Thunder]

There's really nothing childish about the financial implications of running a business.

 

Waiting for sales, buying from Steam, from G2A, begging for free keys or never buying at all is not supporting the future of our hobby, 777 or their products. The continuity of the hobby is directly bound by our willingness to support the product and team. That's the truth - moderated, name-called or otherwise.

 

Whining about not having the Pacific yesterday and about not having the Western front tomorrow, while being completely hostile towards the idea of supporting the team or the products we have now, is childish.

And whining about the whiners is mature? Weve all read jasons posts. Were all aware of the situation. Some folk are obviouslt under the impression that if everyone doesnt pre order and get the gold bar the game is doomed. I would think the total number of sales pre order and those that chose tovwait will be what the money men will look at when deciding about the next chapter after kuban. I think some folk need to relax and not panic at the thought of some folk having fewer gold bars than they have

[Lusekofte]

Bigger maps should be possible when migrating to DX 11 should it not? Bigger maps is a necessity in my mind to bring better gameplay

[Lusekofte]

And whining about the whiners is mature? Weve all read jasons posts. Were all aware of the situation. Some folk are obviouslt under the impression that if everyone doesnt pre order and get the gold bar the game is doomed. I would think the total number of sales pre order and those that chose tovwait will be what the money men will look at when deciding about the next chapter after kuban. I think some folk need to relax and not panic at the thought of some folk having fewer gold bars than they have

 

This kind of side discussions , does it help ever?

Why can´t we just stop getting personal, and no I do not mean just you or SG I mean in every damn topic these private disagreement´s occurs.

It is a fact they need funding for all hours invested develop this game, but it is not our job to mend it, it do not bring money in anyones pocket arguing about it. The gold bars mean nothing else other than we get to have a little cheaper purchase and the developers get a little more budget. It do not bring anything to anyones character 

[Gunsmith86]

Bigger maps should be possible when migrating to DX 11 should it not? Bigger maps is a necessity in my mind to bring better gameplay

 

I think the limit for map size is the time it takes a team to make it.

[Gambit21]

That's not the only limit

Edited October 4, 2016 by Gambit21

[Crump]

Crump,

 

Sometimes I disagree with you, sometimes a find your posts enlightening, but you hit it out of the park with this one.

 

There are lots of very knowledgeable people in this community.  Not to utilize their talent is really a mistake, especially on matters historical.  The team in Moscow has a wealth of info at their fingertips about the war in the East, but I'm guessing that the Pacific is in many ways utterly new territory for them.  Much as it was when the half baked Pacific Fighters was released.

 

Of course Jason has a good background in the Pacific, but there a many here with a great knowledge of the air and ground war in the PTO.   It would be wise to use this knowledge.

 

 

It is a free and valuable resource.  It would only make sense.

[TheBlackPenguin]

Not bad . How about these?

 

After Kuban?

 

Il2: Battle of Midway

Il2: Battle of Guadalcanal

il2: Battle of New Guinea

il2: Battle of Okinawa

 

Il2: Battle of Malta

Il2: More North Africa

 

Il2: Battle of 'Northern France' operation crossbow etc leading up to Battle of Normandy

 

Il2: Battle of the Ruhr (expanding into full daylight raids too, including B-17's, 24's, with the help of modders maybe).

 

Il2: Korea. 

[hames123]

+1 to Malta, also for the Eastern Front, they could always do operation Mars or the battles around Estonia, with IS 2s and Panthers