Pacific Fighters Bombed - inadequate maps

[csThor]

PF was essentially an orphan - it wasn't Maddox Games's "brain child" but RRG's. However things didn't work out as planned (hence the "orphan" title) and so the product always felt more like an alpha than a full release title.

But idiosyncratic map placement isn't confined to PF - it's been a problem ever since Il-2 came out. Looking at nearly all Eastern Front maps (minus those made by Ian Boys, the slovak team and the new Bessarabia map) from the perspective of historically relevant operations it's amazing to note that the maps exclude important areas of operations and limit the usefulness for historical campaigns (e.g. Leningrad map should have been released in two parts - one for the Finns going up further north to include Immola airbase and one for the germans to include the area down to Lake Ilmen). And of course the lack of several maps such as Brest-Litovsk, Beresina crossings, Kharkov, Mius front & Taganrog, Rostov ... Of course I know that the initial maps were very much limited by the computing power available at that time but the trend to leave out relevant areas is almost characteristic for MG maps. Weird ...