New German Planes for Sequel

[rga]

I'm looking forward to seeing the Eins Zwei Drei (Hs 123) in action.

OT: why do you all think that the Fokker will be again the best fighter in the sky in game? I mean it was indeed a superb fighter, but it did not automatically own every opponents it met in 1943. CEM plays a very importal role in CloD, much more than in IL-2, and before you tell me about the Kommandogerät, I believe it was not perfect and sometimes manually adjusting gave better performance (at cost of work load though).
I know I have opened the can of worms, so let keep talking about the Doppeldecker, OK

[ElAurens]

The late war fans always need their horsepower and cannon crutch.

The FW 190 played no part in the time period/theatre of the next installment of the sim.

Why not try broadening your personal horizon a bit?

I have my favorite planes as well, but you will never hear me throw such a hissy fit about not having them in the sim.

I'll buy the next installment even if it only has I-16s, I-153s, and IL2s against the entire inventory of the Luftwaffe from 1939 onwards.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

I'll buy the next installment even if it only has I-16s, I-153s, and IL2s against the entire inventory of the Luftwaffe from 1939 onwards.

And loving it!

[kendo65]

Wikipedia says (?) that the Luftwaffe was only operating 22 HS 123s at the start of Operation Barbarossa.

Maybe not really worth the trouble of representing in the game?

[ElAurens]

Maybe so, but there are never enough last gen biplanes that we can fly.

I'm still somewhat crushed that the Gladiator and CR.42 will not be flyable in CLOD.

[JG53Frankyboy]

even with its low numbers in service during operation Taifun, not more than one Gruppe (~40 aircraft ) , the Hs123 played a very important role in the gruondsupport of the german troops in this time. And even more when the soviet counteroffensuvevstarted!

in general:
as fighters the Bf109F-2/-4
as groundattack Bf109E-7, Bf110D/E, Hs123, Ju87B
as bombers Ju88A-5/-4, He111-6
as recon Hs126
as transport Ju52

[addman]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Maybe so, but there are never enough last gen biplanes that we can fly.

I'm still somewhat crushed that the Gladiator and CR.42 will not be flyable in CLOD.

Me too, what a waste of gorgeous plane models...anywho let's hope for the HS-123 and maybe even a flyable Polikarpov U-2! Oh that would be so sweet. Ok, calm down now, don't get your expectations too high now like last time.

[Flanker35M]

S!

After reading German pilot memoirs it seems that at beginning of Barbarossa they used a lot of older versions too, not always the latest batch of fighters and bombers. For example JG 5 Eismeer had it's last Bf109G-2's in 1944 and Emils were phased out as late as 1942/43...

Will be interesting to see what we have in the sequel. For sure getting it if it means we get Mediterranean/North Africa too at some point

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Maybe so, but there are never enough last gen biplanes that we can fly.

I'm still somewhat crushed that the Gladiator and CR.42 will not be flyable in CLOD.

Maybe a Malta map in the MTO at some future point?

Here's hoping.

[kestrel79]

I hope to see more of the "crap planes" in BoM. I like flying the non popular planes, even if their performance isn't the greatest.

Maybe we could get some planes in BoM that would transfer over to CloD as well, kill 2 birds with one stone.

I'm still hoping for some sort of water plane for rescue missions, or a transport plane for resupply missions. Air Warrior on AOL had this feature in 1996 on their online servers and I loved flying the C-47 below radar and resupplying bases or dropping paratroopers to capture a base.