Hey kanttori. I really like the map but I cant help but complain about the F4F- (FM-2). It really has no place in here. The FM-2 is a much better airplane than the Brewster. Even the so called better, faster Brewster the Fins had. The Brewster was nothing but a pile of junk.
I don't know what model the Fins had but the F2A was a complete dog. The Curtiss prop had a very bad habbit of going into low pitch and become uncontrollable, if you rolled it more than twice or tried to stay upside down, you would loose oil pressure because it was not pressurized. The landing gear hydraulics were a disaster and their was even two "D" rings under the instrument panel to pull to release the gear pins if the gear did not come down, which it did not many times. If that didn't work, you had to cut the cables with cable cutters that were kept in the airplanes. As a matter of fact at one training base, it was standard practice for the fire crew to actually follow the Brewster down the runway, not just sit and watch, due to the extremely high possibility the damn thing would ball up for some reason. No not just because there were students in them. Not only that but the Brewster built F4U Corsairs also had similar problems! Those are just a few of the funny examples but the airplane was a dog and is why they were replaced very fast. They were reduced to trainers (ironic) but faded fast.
If you want to model the Brewster Buffalo for early war, that's fine, model it correctly but it was junk PERIOD and my argument is that the FM-2 has no business being a sub for it. The FM-2 was too damn good. Removing the FM-2 will not hurt or help MY gameplay, it just doesn't belong in there.
Now the guys in Finland who know about the history of thier Buffalo may tell a much different story....lets hear them!
