Now, for something entirely different

[leonid]

Planes I want to see:

• Ki-27 Nate
• I-16
• CR-42 Falco
• Gloster Gladiator
• Fokker D.XXI

I can think of three WWII settings where these planes saw combat.  Personally, a Greece and China scenario sound very interesting.  Oh, and Finland!

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[gatt]

OK, I've subscribed. I can whine  
The first big mistake of my beloved AH is the first plane set.

An early war one would have been the *real* AH ace in the sleeve. Enuff to hit hard WarBird and WWIIOnline.

A Blitzkrieg, North-Africa (Greece and Malta), CBI and Russian plane set .... can
you imagine the impact on players? Ah, I was forgetting the PTO (for our US friens  )

I dont mean *only* early war, but would have been nice to begin with it. Now its hard to come back to 1939 when people ask for monsters like the TA-152 or the Black Widow.
Its a risky choice to go back but I'd like to see it!

<S> Leonid!

[Saintaw]

Sigh....dissapointed :
I was expecting to see John Cleese replying to this thread somewhere...  


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[leonid]

Saintaw,
That Monty Python line was, "Now, for something completely different!"

 


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[leonid]

gatt,
The reason I like the Greece scenario was because of all those mountains!!!  They flew in extremely mountainous terrain, through stunning deep valleys.  It would have been glorious, having a dogfight between Gladiators and CR.42s within a treacherous mountain valley, while SM.79s flew on to bomb an aerodrome  


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[Westy]

Hey I plopped the card down last night too!

 I'd like to add the A5M Claude to that list if I may. I've been reading Saburo Sakais book and that plane saw action everywhere up till mid/late 1941.

 -Westy

[leonid]

Westy,
Yes definitely, the 'Claude'!  Sorry for my omission  


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leonid
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[funked]

If you're going to have Claudes and Nates, we're gonna need some Chinese fighters (P-36, P-40, P-43) and some early USAAF fighters (P-35, P-36, P-40).

[JENG]

Good post leonid...

I'm with you guys all the way... hope to see some early/mid warplanes.

For example I would love to have some Finish/Russian winterwar scenario  

The problem is no HA for the immediate future... so I don't believe they'll make early planes (except the easier to do types of the same plane... i.e. C202, spitMkVb etc). I would love to fly a buffalo or a polikarnov but you wouldn't be able to fight let alone survive in the MA. I feel sad... sigh  

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[Sundog]

Don't forget the Spanish Civil War. They had I-16s, 109s, a few He-112s (Would like to fly that), SM.79's (As leonid mentioned), Ju.52s,etc.

With all these early war planes, we would be able to stay within pretty good visual range since our turning radius's would be smaller.

Would the Brewster Buffalo be too early for that plane set? Don't forget the P-35 export version either. (I believe that was a fixed gear aircraft when exported).

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[indian]

If you want to guess what they might do next look for the planes tht had many varients that look alike. They want to get a good base plane set and introduce some new never before done planes at same time. heard maybe a ki-100 might be on the way which makes the ki-61 (i like this one). look for planes that only need a graphical change to bring in loads of them Pyro can then write the FM's for them.

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[Replicant]

It would make a pleasant change to see something as beautiful as the Gloster Gladiator!!  or even the later Meteor would suffice!

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[funked]

Baaa screw the Ki-100.

Ki-44 has better performance and saw combat in much larger numbers.  Over 1000 vs. less than 100.

[Sundog]

If they are basing it on variants, it shouldn't take too long to add 1 more cannon, move the oil cooler from under the nose to the ventral/wing trailing edge line, and add a new paint scheme and powerplant to the La-5 and give us an La-7.
:::HINT:::HINT:::
or PLEASE!!! Whichever works best!
And, just think of how many variants of a YAK you could model?? You would defintiely get more mileage from a YAK model then a
Ki-61/Ki-100. And the greatest number of variants of a Japanese fighter was the Zero. I know it's on the way, but given the Ki-61/Ki-100 choice vs Ki-44, I would rather see a Ki-44.

Of course, they already have the `engine' model for the Ki-61   .

Like I said, the La-7 should be easy.
Pretty Please?

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[pzvg]

Good post,
suggested additions to above list;
PzL P.11c (yes Poland did fly some homegrowns)
Ms406
D520
Fiat G50
TB3 it's big, it's Russian, it's ugly
Amoit 540 it's big,it's French, it's ugly  
Blackburn Skua
Fokker G.1 no major numbers built, but they were in combat, unlike some planes on wish lists around here  
CA-12 Boomerang (for the Aussies,why just suck up to the Poles and the Finns?)
Belgian Hurricane Mk.1 (4 .05's )and 2b (12 .05's!!)
KI-27 the Nate is cool
DO 17
HE 111
Farman F222 also big,French,and uggglee!
FW 2000 Condor only German buff with decent bombload
Fokker C.X
IL-4
Martin Maryland
PE-2
PE-8 this thing could close 2 fields in one flight!
PZL P.37 A Polish buff
SB-2 good early Russian buff
Wellington ww2 without the Wimpy? perish the thought!
Not too tough a list and could we have them by Friday?  



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