I'm all for an Axis vs. Allies arena, but we don't have enough of the right planes for that to work right now.
Allies have:
US- one version of one heavy bomber, one version of one medium bomber, sufficient mid-late war escort fighters/fighter bombers, no attack/light bombers, some mid-late war navy fighters, one navy bomber
Britain- not enough spitfires, a tempest, typhoon, no hurricanes, one heavy bomber, no medium bombers, no attack/light bombers, one naval fighter
Canada- A? we need all the plywood aircraft we can get here
Russia- three fighters/interceptors, Russia ain't got squat
Axis has:
Germany- decent numbers of mid-late war 190's, decent numbers of mid war 109's one lousy mid war medium bomber, no attack/light bombers, no decent fighterbombers, no heavy bombers
Japan- they got them a Jap zero, soon enough a He.100 and a UFO, no bombers, no fighterbombers, no attack/light bombers, no medium bombers, no heavy bombers, no naval bombers, practically no naval or army fighters
Italy- ohhh the shame
Misc. other capitulating countries- Fin 109?
Hey if HTC can quadruple the planeset and quadruple the number of aircraft variants, perk everything after 1942 or 43, uberperk post 1943 junk, and snafuperperk 1945 monsters, we might do all right with an allies vs. axis arena.
I’m all for an arena that forces 42 or 43 planes on the poor players, the US would still have all the best light/attack/medium/heavy bombers (minus a few guns in the front), faster early war bombers to, and our uberdweeb P-38, the P-47 to, maybe the P-51B. The brits would get furball spits a pleanty and everything else. The Japanese would be very balanced. …and Germany will have kick bellybutton interceptors, good medium bombers and attack bombers, which is the way the 3./JG2 likes it.
