Why not the Mediterranean Theater next?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by 150GCT_Veltro

Oleg is gone, we know it, but he did say: "Med after BoB 100%"....yes, a lot of time ago.

However now we don't need neither Moscow nor Malta but only The Battle of Britain, if possible.

Oleg isn't gone, he is still the head of Maddox Games, and has never said the Med would be 100% the next addon. I do agree that the Battle of Britain should be finished before thinking about the next addon. Although I'm sure they are doing some preliminary work.

[150GCT_Veltro]

I'm quite sure about this Oleg's statement, but as said above is not so important now. However considering how is going BoB, The Battle for Malta would have been probably a better choice..."Water, water, everywhere"....

[JG14_Jagr]

Originally Posted by Chivas

I do agree that the Battle of Britain should be finished before thinking about the next addon.

You need to remember that 3D modellers don't do coding.. If I am employing a 3D modeller, I want him creating models all day every day. He will have a time line and a production schedule that is in parallel with the coders. There is no way you want to be paying a guy to do nothing just because his part of a project is done.. they move on to their next project right away.

You need to look at the big picture, fixing things will be the norma for the next 10 years. Every time an addon or new content is released there will be improvements, optimizations, new features, turning on features that are in but invisible to us now.. Its a long process.

Flight Sims require a HUGE investment of time and resources before you evr get the game to market. Its what has killed most true sims.. the model they are using is to give the engine 10 years of life..so they can continue to add new content and continue to generate revenue while they improve the whole package. If they have to keep going back to re invent the wheel you simply cannot afford to do it..

[HamishUK]

Originally Posted by Chivas

Oleg isn't gone, he is still the head of Maddox Games.

Are you 100% sure? All indications and posts indicate Oleg has left 1C or is this not the case?

Maddox Games after all is just a subsidiary of 1C (and has been since 1999). It's called 1C Maddox games which is 1C's usual way to add pattern before the name.

[Kerosine]

IF they do the MTO, I would rush to buy it. Fighters here recognised the MTO as a hell on earth, and the misfits elsewhere managed to make a name for themselves here, vide Beurling and Warburton, for instance.

I would certainly love such a sequel, or expansion pack maybe and I am confident that Malta would be played over and over if realistic battle scenarios are recreated - there could be Junker dive-bombing missions, BF109/FW190 escort missions, high-altitude bombing missions from RA/Luftwaffe, Night bombing raids, raids on ship convoys...(and that's just the Axis side)...from the Allied side you could be involved in missions ranging from recon to base defence, as well as skirmishes over northern Africa and southern Italy / Sicily. The potential is huge. I would love it. Then again, I'm Maltese.

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Originally Posted by HamishUK

Are you 100% sure? All indications and posts indicate Oleg has left 1C or is this not the case?

Maddox Games after all is just a subsidiary of 1C (and has been since 1999). It's called 1C Maddox games which is 1C's usual way to add pattern before the name.

Oleg has gone and as been gone for some time, Luthier is now in charge of CLOD, thats why we no longer hear from Oleg. Chivas just got a little confused I think.

[Rickusty]

I would love a Med theatre add-on as well, especially since it has been a quite forgotten part of the war in computer games.

I don't know if anybody of you reckon it, but there was an air combat sim. based exclusively on the Desert fighting: the game was called "Desert Fighters". It was cancelled and it never came out, but I remember flying in the demo in the C.202 over northern africa in 1999 (I was in Canada at that time).

It could be something new and refreshing, as the original Il-2 has been for the Eastern front.

But... I would also love to see a France 1940 campaign, so...
Whatever will come out, I'll buy it. As long as it has propeller planes in it, I'll be sold for it

Cheers
Rick

[DoolittleRaider]

Originally Posted by Kerosine

... Malta would be played over and over if realistic battle scenarios are recreated - there could be Junker dive-bombing missions, BF109/FW190 escort missions...

Just a minor technical point....I don't believe any FW-190's ever flew over/against Malta. FW-190's were in Tunisia Nov '42 through May'43, then later in Sicily engaged against the invading Allied forces there from July onwards.

So for a "Malta Campaign/Sequel" (1940-1942) or a "Malta-Greece-Crete-Libya Sequel" (40-42), no FW-190's would be needed in COD. A more expansive Sequel covering all of the Mediterranean including North Africa/Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy (say 41-43) would require additional aircraft such as FW-190, P38's, etc etc