Blimey, that is an AWESOME map in Kursk!!!

My only (ongoing) issue is that horrible 'draw bubble', which means we can see all those amazing building, popping up like popcorn when they arrive inside 'the bubble'.

I wish it was possible to have a user switch so that those with 'high-end' machines could toggle the bubble size.

The main issue is it kills the immersion of video when you can see buildings being drawn into the frame. I know camera angles can be used to disguise this (trust me I really do), but just to be able to increase the draw bubble size would be great!

Cheers, MP

Hes done almost all of the stock east front maps now. Kursk, Crimea, Porokohvia(sp?), and Kuban.
They are all excellent.

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By the way, are we getting any new map in 4.12? Someone spill the beans, please? :)[/QUOTE]

Yo please!
The Grand Canyon map is fun to fly (still on 4.101 with all the AI issues according mountains... BTW, will thayt be better in 4.12?) and since ClOD is about to be abandoned as it seems, the Circus map would be great either.

What takes me most wonder, is that there is no Poland map at all.
No "05:45 shooting back", no Blitzkrieg.

All the more because, contrary to popular belief, there was quite a lot of "shooting back" in the air over Poland in September 1939. The Luftwaffe lost some 250 aircraft by the month's end, including some 170 shot down by Polish fighters.
However, it would take more than a map to reenact this. More aircraft like PZL.23 Karas and PZL.37 Los. On the other hand, the two would come in handy for Bessarabian scenarios since they were later flown by Romanians against the Soviet Union.
Also, it would take some more German types, which have been banned so far, like Do-17 and early Bf 109E variants. Hs 126 would be great, too.

agree, planes like hs-126 and fw-189 (especially) it's VERY good addition for soviet-german front, maybe, like german attack plane hs-129, because now no? any flyable reconnaissance planes and spotters like these planes (and like il-2kr, r-10, su-2 etc), which was important planes in RL and can be successfully used in some online...

The P.11, on the other side, though really being a "cr*pplane" by 1939 most advanced standards, was still rather capable and rough, and is in fact quite undermodeled in Il-2, basically because no one has put a finger on it (nor its awful-looking cockpit) since it was put into the game, and I think it's a pity.

The external model and the flight model of the P.11 were updated I think with one of the last two patches.

The P.11 points out the rapid change in aircraft technology between the wars really well.

In 1933 it was one of the two or three best fighter aircraft on the planet. Six years later it was totally obsolete.

I have not flown it in a long while, but I always liked it. We had a blast with it when it was first introduced to the sim.

if i'm not mistaken, in 39 p11s has lower performance because were old, so, interesting, this was included in fix or not...


and custom quote about fw-189 at soviet-german front in 43 (few emotionally, and, i think, mainly based on other people's stories, but in total consistent with other views) - Zaharov -

Let me try to translate to English:

"In spring of 1943 the germans do intensieve aerial reconnaissance of our positions and heartlands
...fokke-wulfs hung over our position constantly. Because of double fuzelage our soldiers calls them "frame" ("rama").
They hate "frame" fiercely - more then any other german plane. There was no place to hide from artillery fire when it was over trenches. So all ground's commanders requests were - "Shoot down the frame!"
By the way, shooting down a "frame" was a difficult task...
So we thought very hard to make "anti-frame" technique.. "

By the way, I've noticed that shooting down FW-189 in the game is very simple..