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Old 09-17-2011, 01:37 PM
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Two points here:

1. The performance numbers of most of the aircraft in the sim are simply wrong and need to be fixed. We all can agree on that. (I hope).

2. Historical combat outcomes can never be acheived in combat flight simulation. I have taken part in a couple of online campaigns that were very well crafted to simulate the war in North Africa, and the campaign over New Guinea. Correct plane sets as far as possible, correct bases as far as possible, correct numbers of available types, supply issues, etc... And not one time did the historic outcome from WW2 happen. Why? Because we are human beings and we adapt to the mistakes made in the past. We know what each side did correctly or incorrectly in the real deal, and we will not follow blindly the tactics that led to failure. We are not historic re-inactors. We are competetive and we want to win, regardles of what we say here.

So please stop using how the real campaign over England (or any other theatre) played out as justification for aircraft performance. It has nothing to do with it.
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