I think those structures extending above and below the wing of the 190 in Xilon's pictures could be enlarged ammunition magazines for some kind of big cannon, but i'm not sure.
As for the eastern mediterranean, i'm from Greece so i would be definitely interested to see a Balkans map. From the early days of the axis invasion when RAF hurricanes and Greek PZL24s were trying to intercept the incoming bombers, to anti-shipping patrols through the rest of the war in the Aegean during the occupation of Greece (lot's of Beaufort/Beaufighter and Ju88 action if i'm not mistaken), as well as the bomber campaign against Ploesti (15th AF vs the axis nations of the Balkans), the theater is quite wealthy. There were quite a few important shipping/landing actions by British and Greek forces to retake occupied islands with associated counter-landings by axis forces, changes of allegiances (when Italy was about to exit the war, it was a matter of each unit's commander to decide if they would stay with Mussolini's side or switch over to the allies, sometimes German troops even attacked them pre-emptively to prevent that) and that's only in a small part of the theater, around the confined Aegean sea.
However, i have a feeling that maybe Oleg's team will do the med in an expansion for SoW and maybe that's why TD is not working on it. I don't know if it could be done in a single map, but we can hope for an eastern med SoW map that will include Malta and Sicily, the Balkans and part of N. Africa. It would see a lot of action for sure, since it would have a good mix of long and short sortie times (quite a treck for the attacker, eg RAF from N.Africa/Malta flying to the Aegean is a long time but axis forces flying CAP for their ships would be able to dash in and out fast, the roles would be reversed if the Axis wanted to attack) and would be relevant for scenarios from 1940 until 1943-1944. But just like i said before, i think this project is reserved for the SoW team.
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