Shifty,
Something in my reply to Oaktree's post lead you to believe I was against this idea? I love it, and agree wholeheartedly about consideration. In fact, we as a squad discussed prior ro requesting Allies this operation, that we would switch sides with any USN squad that got assigned Axis. When JG11 came to FSO, the CM's, and player base at the time were all like, "WooHoo, finally a dedicated Axis unit", as DD mentioned, most side requests are heavy on the Allied side and light on the Axis. We generally request Axis in the Pacific for just this reason as well, so as to show fairness and continuity in our Axis status, even though most of the squad prefers PTO Allied over IJN anyday of the week. I can tell you personally that in 72 FSO sorties, I have flown the Corsair once, and the Hellcat three times. That's it.
It's difficult enough to make sense of some of these posts, and my sole purpose was to demonstrate that no unit, Axis or Allies is guaranteed anything, nor does any unit Axis or Allies get there favorite ride regardless of theatre, contrary to Oak's statement about Luftwaffe rides. I fail to see the similarity he asserts between the Bf110, and/or JU88, compared to the 109 and 190, other than country of deployment. And I was not complaining about our assigned rides in Husky either, just demonstrating to Oak that in three frames, we did not get the ride we hoped (requested) for. None of the three assignments were seen as a negative by us, and we endeavored to perform our mission to our best like every week. Certainly we have never complained about any assignment, nor would we, as long as how you say it, the CiC's show some consideration, and at least some effort or evidence of forethought in distributing ride assignments and role assignments as fairly as possible within the given constraints of the Operation and participants.