But the majority of players of this game are American, and the majority of Americans who know anything about WWII fighters know about the Flying Tigers. John Wayne even made a cute movie about them.
US gringos love their John Wayne heros and their US dollars go toward anything that lets them live out their John Wayne fantasies. We have every right to get excited about things we love, whether you know them or love them yourself
I am all for adding every World II plane in every conceivable variant and paint scheme, but in a WWII flight sim being marketed to Americans, the P-40B in AVG markings should be a pretty high priority for an early war planeset as evidenced by the number and length of threads about the P-40 in this BB alone. The only American aircraft that would be of equal importance would be the F4F. When the P-40B is added, it would make sense to add the F4F, A6M2, and the Oscar as well. Could this be the theme for AH 1.10? Early Pacific!
I think if any aircraft is more deserving to be added to the planeset than the P-40B, it is the Ju87. I don't know about anyone else, but for me, "World War II" conjures up an image of the Ju87 diving on Poland with sirens screaming and fat German POW camp guards who like apple studel and know nothing.
Of course, there is plenty of room for Finnish variants of F2A Buffalos, British Gladiators, French De.520s, or any other plane most Americans have never seen or heard of.
