I have some suggestions for the next campaign if anyone is interested. I ended up getting more hours and I have my own clan to worry about so I won't be able to construct my own campaign for the squad like I wanted to.

I did a lot of research into the planes abilities and compared them so the planeset is as balanced as possible, so please consider these for the next one. I'll help as much as I can as I had a great time in the Manchuria campaign, and I believe with one of these 2, we could draw even more people into the fray!

Suggestions:


EUROPEAN


Normandy/Falaise Pocket, June 1944

This map always is popular because of the amazingly balanced planeset. It wouldn't be too realistic historically but plane wise it would be impeccably balanced compared to the unbalanced nature of Japanese/Allied aircraft. In my opinion, this should be the first consideration as it is the largest of the Western Front maps loaded in the game, it has the best planeset, and it's a change from the Japanese we just finished playing. I'm sure poke, warren, and tiger could get that map configured in only a few days.

ALLIED:

Fighters:
P-47 D-27 "Thunderbolt", 1944 High Altitude Fighter Bomber
P-51 D-20 "Mustang" (K-14 gunsight) Mid-High Altitude Intercepter
P-63 C "Kingcobra", 1944 Mid-Low Altitude Interceptor
Spitfire Mk.IX E clipped wing, Low-Mid Altitude Interceptor 1944
Spitfire HF Mk.IX E, High-Altitude Interceptor 1944
P-38 L "Lightning", 1944 Mid-High Altitude Interceptor Fighter Bomber
Tempest Mk.V, Ground-Attack Fighter


Bombers:
B-17 G-10 "Flying Fortress", 1943 High Altitude Bomber
B-24 J-100-CF "Liberator", 1943 Mid-High Altitude Bomber
Mosquito FB.Mk.VI Series 1, 1942 Ground Attack Bomber

AXIS

Fighters:

BF-109G-6 "Gustav" 1943 Fighter
BF-109G-6 A/S "Gustav" 1944 Fighter
BF-109G-10 "Gustav" 1944 Fighter
Bf-109 G-14 "Gustav" 1944 Fighter
Bf-109 K-4 "Kurfurst" 1944 Fighter
Bf-110 G-2 Destroyer 1942 Ground/Air Attack Fighter
Do-335 A-0 "Pfeil", Fighter Bomber 1944
FW-190 A-9, Focke Wulf 1944
FW-190 D-9, Focke Wulf 1944
Ta-152 C, Focke Wulf High-Altitude Fighter

Bombers:

Ar-234 B2 "Blitz", Jet Bomber
He-111 H-6, Heinkel
Ju-87 G-1 "Stuka", Junkers
Ju-88 A-4, Junkers
Me-210 CA-1 Zerstoerer, Ground Attack Bomber


PACIFIC

Burma 1942 (Summer '42, 23rd Fighter Group)
I know we had this before but actually working this time would be cool, with some more options like the hurricane and early spitfires. It doesn't have to be 100% realistic.
Planeset:

ALLIED:

A-20C Havok 1940 Bomber
Hurricane Mark II B Fighter
Hawk 81 A-2, Curtiss Fighter
Tomahawk Mk.II B Fighter
P-39 D-2 "Airacobra", 1941
P-400 "Airacobra" 1941
Buffalo Mk.I (B-339E), 1940

AXIS:

A6M3 Zero Model 32 1942 Fighter
KI-43 Kai "Oscar" 1943 Fighter
Ki-61-I Ko "Tony" 1942 Fighter
G4M1-11 "Betty" 1941 Bomber
Ki-21 II "Sally" 1940 Bomber

Eastern Front 1941:

Axis:

BF 109 E-7/B
BF 109 E/7Z
Ju-87B-2
He-111 H-2/H-6
Ju-88 A-4
MC 200 VII Fighter-Bomber
MC 202 III (Maybe a limit on these? They outclass everthing the soviets had tho they have marshmellow shooters)

Allies:

Yak-1
LaGG-3 4 Series
I-16 Type 24
I-153 M-62
IL-2 Series 3
Pe-2 Series 1
DB-3F
Pe-3 (Maybe bis?)
TB-3 M34R

Dig the European!!!!!!!! Gimmie a 109 and put a smile on my FACE!!!!

It's probably the best balanced fleet of craft we'll be able to get post-1941. The only other really balanced suggestion I could make would be a semi-historic Battle of Britain, but without a map covering Southern England, it's kind of difficult.

Rebiv4 wrote:It's probably the best balanced fleet of craft we'll be able to get post-1941. The only other really balanced suggestion I could make would be a semi-historic Battle of Britain, but without a map covering Southern England, it's kind of difficult.

No use Italy as a Substitute map??? Or Gulf of Finland? (I know they look far apart from being britain,but me want Ju-87B sooooooo baaaadddddd XD)

FU would likely prefer the normandy campaign tho,i would too,MMM JUGS MMM

The normandy 44 looks promising. I've seen simular line-ups in different servers, and they work pretty good.

Just as a footnote, there is a very nice BOB map out there, but it's for 4.09. Might be a bit much to get enough people on board for this, but a few of us got what was needed and tried it out, VERY NICE. Here are the links if you are wondering:
MOD switcher
http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1932
channel map
http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5332

you also need these two files to make it work.

http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5444

again it's a little involved, and might not be good for a campaign as such, but if you are interested, and wanna try it out we'll be ready.

Great planesets....one thing , though; could we include the A20G in one of those scenarios? it's got a more loadout options and 2 more .50cals in its snoot. 6 .50s will shred a Wirbelwind. The visibility may not be as good with the lack of a bombardier's station, but this crazy Beaver likes the extra forward firepower.
I'm also sorting out the details for a 'what if' scenario where the 1944 bomb plot had worked, ushering in a....shall we say, different set of alliances.