Brewster Buffalo

[dev1ant]

Are there really that many scenarios that the Buffalo can be used for that you couldn't sub in the F4F/Fm2?

Was kinda hoping for something a little more useful.

[Saxman]

Are there really that many scenarios that the Buffalo can be used for that you couldn't sub in the F4F/Fm2?

Was kinda hoping for something a little more useful.

Eastern Front, and very early PTO scenarios (RAF, RAAF and Dutch prior to American entry).

[Guppy35]

Are there really that many scenarios that the Buffalo can be used for that you couldn't sub in the F4F/Fm2?

Was kinda hoping for something a little more useful.

Useful in that latewar, latest and greatest sort of way so you won't have to work at the game much? 

Seems like filling out the EW plane sets is quite useful, as is getting the Finn's out of their 109s and into Buffalos.  More of us might have a chance against them this way

[A8TOOL]

Are there really that many scenarios that the Buffalo can be used for that you couldn't sub in the F4F/Fm2?

Was kinda hoping for something a little more useful.

Well it seems as tho the Buffalo will be flying Axis so you don't have to worry about it being in the American plane set even tho it's an American Design.

[Motherland]

Well it seems as tho the Buffalo will be flying Axis so you don't have to worry about it being in the American plane set even tho it's an American Design.

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The Buffalo was most famous for its service with the Finnish Air Force, so it only makes sense that that's the version that was modeled...

[Hajo]

Axis??? The Buffalo?


Oh boy................it is apparent that a lot of History has been skipped over.

Look at the markings again.

those are Finlands markings.

[A8TOOL]

Axis??? The Buffalo?


Oh boy................it is apparent that a lot of History has been skipped over.

Look at the markings again.

those are Finlands markings.

Looks like swastika's on the wings to me. So who would you fly it for?

[1701E]

Looks like swastika's on the wings to me. So who would you fly it for?

Was answered a few pages ago, by Motherland.

Contrary to (unfortunately) popular belief, the Swastika was not a Nazi symbol. It was around for thousands of years, being associated with good luck in cultures around the world before the Nazis defaced it and gave it a new connotation for Western Culture (I'm not sure if the same connotations are held in other cultures?). The blue swastika in the white circle was adopted as the roundel for the Finnish Air Force in 1918.
We have the version that was sold to the Finns, I would assume, because it's the one that saw the most significant service, being the mount of some of the highest scoring aces of all time.

[Furball]

Just out of interest, will the B-239 differ greatly from the FM2?  I don't know a lot about the specifications of the Finnish version.  Nice looking plane, glad the Finnish guys have it finally. 

[BlauK]

To answer A8TOOL:

Finland is often counted among Axis countries even though it did not officially belong to the Axis countries.
Possibly the correct term to use such situation is "Co-belligerence".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-belligerence


Brewsters also flew against Germans in 1944

[A8TOOL]

Contrary to (unfortunately) popular belief, the Swastika was not a Nazi symbol. It was around for thousands of years, being associated with good luck in cultures around the world before the Nazis defaced it and gave it a new connotation for Western Culture

Seems flying a plane with swastikas pasted all over it in WWll might be considered bad luck when surrounded by Allies. ........I'd shoot it.

The swastika didn't help Manson out much either.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Looks like swastika's on the wings to me. So who would you fly it for?

Lol what a tool! 

[Motherland]

Seems flying a plane with swastikas pasted all over it in WWll might be considered bad luck when surrounded by Allies. ........I'd shoot it.

The swastika didn't help Manson out much either.

Well, I doubt the Finnish Air Force, let alone the hundreds of ancient cultures which used it from around the world, foresaw that an insane dictator from Germany would adopt the symbol and provoke the largest war in human history and commit massive genocide.

Alternatively we can assume they're all Nazis.

[MORAY37]

Axis??? The Buffalo?


Oh boy................it is apparent that a lot of History has been skipped over.

Look at the markings again.

those are Finlands markings.

Um... maybe it is you that should do the reading.

Finland was allied with Germany until 1944.  Hence the fact that there are 109's with Finnish livery in the game.  It wasn't until the Finns threw the Germans out in 1944 that they started fighting them.  Therefore, Finland fought on both the Axis and the Allied side in WW2.

[Masherbrum]

Looks like swastika's on the wings to me. So who would you fly it for?