Agiel Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 One of the major gripes of the P-51D Mustang and the soon to be released FW-190 D9 "Dora" modules for DCS is the lack of a plausible theater (they still use the Georgia map made by Eagle Dynamics) and period-appropriate threats (even against the "slow, lard-ass" A-10, which can be armed with 9-Mikes, it's a hilariously one-sided dogfight in favour of the Hawg). However, some of the people behind the famed Il-2 Sturmovik series have stepped up to the plate to fix those problems with a Normandy 1944 theater and a whole new roster of period appropriate aircraft, "targets (ground vehicles)" and then some. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/508681281/dcs-wwii-europe-1944/posts/597595 Despite a strong start and a goal that is projected to be reached quite easily, the prospects of it reaching its stretch goals look grim. Most notably the B-17 Flying Fortress complete with all the crew stations (pilots, bombardier, and anti-aircraft gunners) at $500,000 as well as the dreaded Me-262A (the world's first fighter jet) and the ultimate goal, German night fighters (complete with the Schräge Musik for shooting down those poor Wimpys and Lancasters) at $1,000,000. It's got 19 days to go, so every little bit helps from here until then. 2 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
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