What about BoB at night?

[1.JaVA_Sharp]

Originally Posted by Viking

I recall a conversation with Oleg in the good old days when he frequented ORR, the topic was nightfighters. Oleg claimed, correctly in my opinion, that very few users would be interested in a game where you had to fly blind, on instruments only, for hours, led by a voice until the very last moment when you homed in using radar or a faint visual image, fire a burst and then, depending on if you hit or not, repeat it over again. How many hours will even the aficionados spend in that game?

A correct moon phase and star map for the BoB almanac, 10 July to 15 September, is expected. But the time of year indicates that the nights will not be pitch black.
Later on, further north, different story.

to add to that, the RAF had a virtually none existent nightfighting capabillity in '40. Experienced pilots were allowed to try nightflying though and had to work with searchlights from the ground to even find their targets.

[jasonbirder]

Navigation is fairly easy in daytime

??? It might be in IL2 but it certainly wasn't in real life! Especially with the weather that is typical over North West Europe

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by jasonbirder

??? It might be in IL2 but it certainly wasn't in real life! Especially with the weather that is typical over North West Europe

Remember the great 'Kenley' raid in the Battle of Britain,a group of specially trained airmen in Do17's flying all the way from France to Kenley in the UK at very low altitude to bomb the airfield!Amazing stuff!
Nightfighting was a big percentage of the war in the air,and it would be great to have it in SoW one day.
Bit O/T but a shame Oleg has said the Do17 will be ai only. From what I have read it made up 25% of the LW bomber force in the BoB.

[Zorin]

I don't think the Do family will remain AI only. It lasted on in so many versions that it would be a real shame. Just think of Do217s with Hs293 or Fritz X launching on naval targets in the Mediterranean

[JG52Uther]

Last time I spoke to him,admittedly some months ago,he stated that the Do17 would be ai only.Hopefully that position has changed since then.It would be a real shame to not have this important plane.

[F19_Klunk]

when I find the time to play around with FS2004, night flying with ILS is one of my favourites... difficult as hell when not used to it, I can only imagine how difficult it was back then...

[JG52Uther]

A 'nightfighter/bomber add on' for SoW might have more sales than they think!.