Questions and suggestions for/about pilot career, especially Battle of Moscow.

[Aleksander55]

I'd like to make a few questions and sugestions for the BOM pilot career, I don't know if this is the right place but here they are:

 

>German bombers always at 2000 meters in BOM. Aparently after the latest update it's still like this.

 

In 'intercept bombers missions' the german bombers are always at 2000 meters, every time. I know that at the eastern front the fighting was at lower altitudes, but bombers always at 2000 meters? I'm not complaining from a gameplay perspective, getting above 4000, 4500 meters as it can happen in the quick missions in the poor i-16s isn't easy, I'm just curious about historical acuracy.

 

Likewise, in escort missions, the PE-2s are also always at 2000 meters.

 

 

>No JU87s also during BOM. Up to the point where I've been able to survive, mid december 1941, there are no JU87s. Looking at the german airbases on the map confirms this: No Stukas around that front. Is this historically acurate? In this case, from a gameplay perspective, the missions are harder for me: 'Intercept attackers' missions are almost always a death sentence for my flight, as it is almost always 6 109Fs escorting 6 109Es with bomb racks. If I tried putting more fighters in my flight, the mission director AI puts more fighters in the escort.

 

Now that the standard I-16 flight size is  at 9 airplanes,  I still have to fly one such mission to see what happens.

 

 

>Mixed flights of I-16s and Mig3s. Is this historically accurate?

 

 

 

 

Sugestions:

 

Button to 'repeat setup' (fuel, armament) of 1st airplane for all airplanes in the flight when the player is in command. If there are not enough of the weapons for all fighters put a symbol for 'non compliance' besides all the planes that can't be equiped.

 

Name of the player flight's callsign present in the planning room and in the mission specifics tab on the map during the mission. I always start my missions in the air. When I'm the lead I can give a command at the start to know my callsign. But when I'm not, there are many times that I have no idea what our callsign is, especially confusing if there are many friendlies around.

Edited September 11, 2022 by Aleksander55

[LukeFF]

4 hours ago, Aleksander55 said:

No JU87s also during BOM. Up to the point where I've been able to survive, mid december 1941, there are no JU87s. Looking at the german airbases on the map confirms this: No Stukas around that front. Is this historically acurate?

 

Yes, the Ju 87 model we have is the D-3, which only came into use during 1942.

4 hours ago, Aleksander55 said:

Name of the player flight's callsign present in the planning room and in the mission specifics tab on the map during the mission. I always start my missions in the air. When I'm the lead I can give a command at the start to know my callsign. But when I'm not, there are many times that I have no idea what our callsign is, especially confusing if there are many friendlies around.

 

Yes, this is something that needs to be changed. ?

4 hours ago, Aleksander55 said:

Mixed flights of I-16s and Mig3s. Is this historically accurate?

 

Probably not, but since there is no way to separate them if the player is not the unit commander, nothing can be done about it right now.