[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Pluto

... Instead of incorporating the Italians and their planes, they should have extended this sim as a, "WW2 western front sim... whatever name you want to give it", at least to a point in history where the F-models of the BF109 were available and also better Spitfire variants.

Italians dont deserve to be in such a sim.
When France was beaten in 1940, Mussolini thought he might as well get a piece of the cake and like a hyena going on a dead body, he tried to attack France as well.
But the Italians got such a hit from the already beaten french army, that they had to retreat. Actually they were not successful on any theatre of WW2. Sorry, I dont want to insult any Italian of today but that is a fact of history!

I dont need italian planes in Cliffs of Dover, only maybe as AI-planes.
I`d have prefered an extended western front flightsim, not only covering the short period of the Battle of Britain in summer 1940.

Well, when I first read that this sim will be released again by Ubisoft, I already knew that trouble was on the way and I was right!

Hopefully the sim will improve in the years to come,....

To be honest, i think the decision to incorporate the Italian expeditionary unit was more in tune to later planned scenarios. A mediterranean expansion has been rumored to be among the first for a long time, so they maybe had this in mind. It looks like a case of "let's include a few bonus flyables that we will have to release anyway in one of the first add-ons", just to spice things up a bit probably.

Maybe their modellers were working a desert scenario in parallel and since there were a few Italian types active in BoB they just though "what the heck, let's put them in the BoB sim too".