Imagine that - a fighter, which never fought at all for it's entire life.. and people argue that this is a "WW2 plane".
Since, effectively, the aura of historicity which gave AH its character, seems to have been abandoned by some people, I see no reason why this game should use WW2 planes in the first place.
Let's move it to planet Zork, with Quakians and Dorkians and Skorwhors fighting each other, in their turbo-laser armed space fighters.
After all, the fun in the MA is the only thing which matters, right? Who cares if everything just changed into complete fantasy? HTC doesn't even need to cope with the 'whiners' and stuff, since this is entirely fantasy.
Heck, they can add infinite variety of wild and wacky planes which will always interest the MA fans more and more, instead of filling out the gaps and holes of historical planesets and trying to finish the balanced 'WW2 plane set' in the first place. All the midwars and earlywayrs are hangar queens anyway/
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Why do we even bother asking HT to add our favorite planes, which saw significant use, with real service records, and had pilots fighting in them for their lives, and participated in the major battles of the World War...
... when we can always ask for a fantasy/what-if plane that suits MA needs, which never even saw one enemy plane during its entire service time in WW2(which isn't saying much, for that matter), and still call it a 'WW2 fighter plane' ?