"brady I still dont agree with your pos markings", The only pos I refered to is the Lagg 3.
I doubt very much that I have anymore pull than any of you all hear when it comes to modeling planes, in fact mybe less after a few of my tempertantriums, In gerneral I feal threads like this are good for the comunity because it can serve as a learning tool, point out new planes, one maybe we had not thought of, also it helps to show us all just how hard it is for Pyro to decide what planes to add, look at how Karnak choped that list to 10, imagine pyro doing that but instead of 10 he picks 3, also he does have the luxery of catering just to US the miniourity comunity in AH, he must cater to the MA and us.
Look at the Boston for example, a superlative choice for a bomber, great early war use, was used in the Battle for France, and the later varients prety much till the end of the war, good usefull bombload fast well armed, both models withen their respective timeframes. Their he killed two birds with one stone. I imagine that is a primary concern the MA is their bread a butter.
Production numbers historicaly apear to have no bearing on wheather or not HTC adds a plane, nore imo should they, it is a double edged swoard, their are numiours planes that would of been excluded on both sides of the fence, and realy countries like Japan and a much small industrial base and their production numbers were dwarfed by US standards the figure of 1,400 some odd Georges, or 3,500 Franks may not seam like much compared to 39,000 IL-2's( I think it was 39k,or was it 35k?) but they were importnat plane's for Japan, and fantastic ones at that, the C hog only some 200 were built and it is included why?, well heck it's a blast to fly and represents one of the most potentent US planes of the war, The Ta 152 was added because Pyro asked what perk prop plane we wanted and we voted ,it wone. The Me 163 will be a blast to fly, true not many were used but it has captured all of our imaginations and is as famious (almost) as the 262 is. Why do you think their are so many US planes in the plane set, because the player base is largly US and they are catering to a preceaved demand for those planes, Russian planes are not as popular, in the US we wone WW2, while the truth is that Russia realy had hittler by the balls and all we realy did was secure western Europe so it would not become comunist, that is obviously an oversimplifacation, but goes to point out that while planes for Italy Russia and Japan are wanted and imo neaded they are not popular, how many people apon intering this game do you think expect that Italian plane to be such a joy to fly, Figure that a Japanese fighter would be one of the most dreaded planes in the MA, and that a Russian fighter owns all the US planes below 10k? Despite all the squeaking and moaning I do, have done, and will do about the plane choices they have made or will make it is in part to bolster suport for plane adations from the forgoten 3, Russia, Japan, Italy( France....imagine a D520:) ), it is also always done with the realazation that the making of those choices was not always easy and driven by forces outside my scope of concern.
These planes the odd ducks are fun, and very MA I am not bumed we are geting the Me 163 I cant wait to fly it:)
HTC is adding new planes all the time and they will continue to add early war planes, hopefully they will see these posts of ours and relise we are very interested in broading the plane set, and see what planes for what theaters we want, big brother is watching m8t.
