1916 campaign?

[PlasmeticRaven]

Now that FC Vol. III is starting to see the light of early access, are you working on/planning to work on extending the campaign backwards to 1916? Should we not expect anything before all or most of the planes are flyable? Thank you for your hard work Mr. Wilson!

[PatrickAWlson]

Over time, as planes drop, I will move PWCG back in time.  Unfortunately, the N11 and Halb D.II are not enough to wind the clock back to 1916.  At a minimum I need the FE2b and DH2.  To make matters more challenging, I need a proper transition to early 1917.  With no Albatros D.II or D.III and no Pup and no RE8 that is not in the cards right now. 

 

Up to this point 1C has done a good job of going in chronological order from the end of the war.  For whatever reason, they seem to have abandoned that approach.  I'm not sure what they are thinking, but as I look at their release plans the planes seem to be dropping in a sequence that are not good for career.  Dogfight servers maybe, but definitely not a career and really not even a campaign.  

 

Still, once we get the full plane set PWCG will go back as far as RoF (I think that was early 1916 with the Eindecker, N11, and DH2).  It will suffer from all of the missing two seaters that RoF suffered from, but it will be playable.