An appeal to *all servers*

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Avimimus

Hello everyone,

I have a problem: I can fly a dozen aircraft reasonably well. But all of them are pre-1942 models. To make matters worse, I have little or no interest in practicing on later aircraft.

After 1941-1942 increased power to weight ratios and speeds changed the way aircraft interact with the air and dogfights develop. More importantly, the widespread use of aircraft cannons and the replacement of earlier cannons with high-velocity, high rate-of-fire ones lead to much more abrupt kills.

I enjoy combat in which complex energy management and maneuvers matter - not just who can dive on a target and get enough bullets over it to indiscriminately blow it to pieces. I yearn for combat in which it take multiple runs to shoot down an enemy aircraft, and in which a pilot knows they are being beaten well before they are shot down - combat in which one can gauge and study their opponent.

So my question: Is it possible that any dedicated server could split their maps into two three year sets as an experiment?

1939-1941-1942

1943-1944-1945

I think that, if tried, this may be a popular way of splitting up environments.

Thank you,

-Avimimus

Personally I would have been much happier if instead of IL2 1946 we had moved back the other way and got the Spanish Civil War and various other small conflicts throughout the 1930's.

An IL2 with Hawker Furies and Letov S328s and the Swordfish and Avia B534s and Gloster gauntlets and Grumman F3Fs and 109E3s and Ds and flyable versions of the MBA and U2 and otehr non flyable early war stuff would have been awesome.

Unfortunately the online crowd will always push for later war and more power and speed and hastle for rare high performance prototypes of their favorite rides whilst the average marketing whizz kid is going to prefer something more swish like "secret Luftwaffe prototypes" to sell. Sad but cannot be helped.

[Thunderbolt56]

I-16 type-24's can ruin an Emils day in very short order too. I-153's too. Those early shvak-armed slowpokes are vicious killers.

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by *Buzzsaw*

Salute Avimimus

I think you might find that even in 1942, the Spit V's can take off a wing with a single burst. The 190A4's can do the same even easier. Even in 1940, the 109E4 can dewing pretty much any aircraft with a two second shot placed accurately. And the aircraft with a 20mm in hte nose, like the F4's and Yaks are pretty powerful too. Unless you are flying 109F2's versus MiG-3's it is a dangerous world...

Are you the Avimimus who used to build COOP missions?

In any case, if you are looking for a 1942 enviroment to fly for the next 6-8 weeks, RAF74 is holding an online COOP campaign entitled OPERATION JUBILEE, re-enacting the Dieppe Raid, and we are welcoming individuals and smaller Squads to participate. At the moment, besides RAF74, we have II/JG1, WingWalkers, Redwulf and 2Gvsap. There is room on the Allied and German sides.

Thank you for the invitation, I will certainly consider it. Yes, I do miss the days of Bf-109F2 vs. Mig-3 (rather than the main option being 1944 Normandy...) Dieppe has a special place in my psych (as a Canadian).

I've been around for a long time, I don't recall making co-op missions though (or encountering a doppleganger)

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Personally I would have been much happier if instead of IL2 1946 we had moved back the other way and got the Spanish Civil War and various other small conflicts throughout the 1930's.

I would have gone for an SCW scenario too. There are so many counter-factual scenarios possible from that time period... I did try creating an experimental Luft'36 style dogfight map.

It is actually quite exotic when you remove cannons, the TB-3 becomes a flying fortress which requires all of one's ammunition to bring down, the Il-2T becomes a bomber destroyer and the 1st generation monoplanes become energy fighters... - a new experience for me at least.

Side 1 (I-153M62, I-16type18, Il-2T, TB-3_4M-17, P_11c)
Side 2 (TB-3_4M-34R_SPB, Ju-87B-2, Ki-27-Ko, Ki-27-Otsu, J8A, CR_42)
The file is still available if anyone wants it...