Boulton Paul Defiant... someday flyable?

[major_setback]

On 3/24/2024 at 9:58 AM, BOO said:

some ideas really need two coats of thinking about.

 

Explain!

[Enceladus828]

8 hours ago, Volant_Eagle said:

Although I’m often advocating for less popular or less effective airplanes, that is only because they need more advocation. I understand modeling any airplane is a huge task and resources are very limited. I hope I don’t come off as critical of TFS’s future plans. I’m definitely not. Given only so many planes can be added per module, and the scope of each individual module has to be limited, I think TFS’s current roadmap for the future is excellent. I believe they’ve made very wise decisions with their plane sets so far, and I therefore have reason to believe they will continue to do so in the future.

Very well said. TFS is meeting combat flight simmer demands with flyable heavy bombers, covering lesser known theaters or events of WW2 such as the MTO and Night bombing from 1940-42, and lesser depicted planes. The sad reality looks to be that 1CGS is done with WW2 in Europe including the MTO and any future official maps set in these theaters will be made by 3rd party teams. If that’s the case it means that we’ll only see a map with Sicily (either the Tunisia campaign or Operation Husky) via a 3rd party but since the terrain and landscape are very complex it would be a poor starting or early map for a 3rd party team, therefore the first official IL-2 GBs MTO map would be the Libyan-Egyptian desert. 
 

Not to be pessimistic here, we’ll probably not see a flyable B-25 or medium WW2 bomber, flyable heavy bomber and a return to the ETO, assuming they do, until the 2030s decade. Fortunately we have a flyable medium bomber in CloD, the Wellington, in the near future we’ll be seeing flyable heavy bombers and many lesser depicted areas or events. It just goes to show that without TFS we wouldn’t be getting what combat flight simmers are mainly desiring right now and are also giving us appealing content that hasn’t been in the IL-2 series… except for Mods and BoP.

 

Salute ?