:rolleyes: lol. Its true. Actually I think it had more to do with the fact that the Finnish Buffalo did not have all the extra armor for the pilots and self sealing tanks. RAF and Americans added all these extra features and performance dropped.

Vichy
 

Not a new aircraft, but would be nice to be able to add France to the axis side for mission building. Vichy aircraft did fight against the RAF and initially against the American during the allied landings of Operation Torch.

:)

Perhaps the Ba.88 could have been a useful light bomber, but only if it carried nothing but a light bomb load and a pilot, and had just about all the combat equipment stripped from it.

It's good points were an overbuilt, very heavy structure (stressed to 12 G), 3 12.7 mm guns, and very good range for a ground attack plane (12 self-sealing fuel cells, 1640 km range). The bad points were that it was overweight not just due to combat equipment, but also utter lack of attention to weight reduction during design and production.

At best, if a team of very clever Finnish engineers got their hands on it, they'd turn it into something a bit like the Hs-129, but with less armor, lighter bomb load, and considerably less firepower. The obvious places to save weight would be to get rid of the rear gunner and remove at least half the fuel cells. Perhaps, they'd use captured Soviet engines with more power.

Even then, it would probably have ended up like the G.50 - an inferior plane kept in service long after its useful life, upgraded in small but clever ways, and used to maximum effect by a small but highly professional air force, along a quiet sector of the Eastern Front.

+1.

The "All Nations" mod is one of the handiest mods out there. Among other things, it gives the options of Vichy France as an Axis nation, and Hungary and Italy as Allied nations.

It has already been mentioned but I too would like to see the Blenheim IV made flyable seeing as it saw a lot of service in many theaters around the world during the early and mid war periods.

Likewise it'd be great to see (even if they're 'just' ai) the Lockheed Hudson as well as the B-34, PV-1 and PV-2 family, these types seeing a lot of service with many airforces in a number of theatres.

B-34 wouldn't be needed since it didn't see combat, PV-2 was built in limited numbers during WW2 and didn't see much action. +1 for the other suggestions.

Most of the below exist as Mods but they would be relatively simple (I hope) to port across

British
Mosquito BIV
GladiatorI and II with UK cockpit
Spitfire Mk XIVC, XIVE and LXIVE
Typhoon

Japanese
Ki-44 Tojo
Nakajima J1N1 Gekko Irving night fighter
Yokosuka D4Y Val dive bomber

USA
Helldiver dive bomber

Didn't the B-34 see some (admittedly unsuccessful) action as the Ventura Mk I with the RAF? Fair call on the PV-2 though.

The UK originally ordered the Ventura, before the USAAF had any interest in the type. That was the Ventura Mk. I.

It was only after Pearl Harbor that the USAAF impressed some Ventura Mk. IIA ordered by the UK and called them B-34s. They were mostly used for training, but some (~30) were used for ASW patrols along the North American coast. After 1942, the USN took over ASW duties and also took over production of the Ventura under the designation PV-1.

During its time with the Air Force, the B-34 never saw combat and never left the Western Hemisphere. Hypothetically, the Ventura Mk. IIA would be similar enough to the B-34 that it could substitute. So, no reason to model it.

Would it be possible to get the following flyables?

RAF
Gladiator I and II (just needs a cockpit revision)
Typhoon (late version with bubble canopy)
Mosquito bomber version (just needs a slight cockpit revision and bomb aimer's position)

IJA/IJN
Ki-44 (a big omission)

USAF/USN
Helldiver

AIs

RAF
Halifax/Lancaster/Stirling

IJA/IJN
Judy
Irving

USAF/USN
P-61
B-26
B-17

Luftwaffe
Me-410