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You might want to give the "Features" list for the game a closer read, my friend:

"Highly realistic and easy to use off-map artillery as well as air support, simulating heavy artillery (including naval artillery) as well as strafing and bombing runs by aircraft such as the P51 or FW190"

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Under the TO&E's list you'll se air support listed as ...

Air Support (Various loadouts)

German

FW-190A8

FW-190F8

American

P-47D

P-51B

P-51D

http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=276&Itemid=460

And also lots of yummy artillery support. Can't wait to see Typhoons and Mosquitos when the Commonwealth module hits next.

(Drats, beaten by mere second by YankeeDog.)

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Can't wait to see Typhoons and Mosquitos when the Commonwealth module hits next.

Typhoons should be fun to play with but it would be inaccurate to include Mossies as ground attack aircraft over Normandy. The Commonwealth forces should be provided with Typhoons and Spitfires only. Nothing else would be accurate except, perhaps, a few Mustangs. In later periods of the war Tempests could be added to the Commonwealth's arsenal with zero effort since they would be identical to Typhoons in terms of their effects on the battlefield. Tempests weren't used as ground attack aircraft over Normandy as far I remember though.

Either way I think the only difference we can expect to see between different aircraft is that strafing runs by German and Commonwealth aircraft will be noticeably more destructive than those by US aircraft due to the use of 20mm (and possibly 30mm, depending on which Fw190A-8 BF chose) cannon. Otherwise the ordnance loadouts for all the included aircraft are more or less comparable, except for the Spitfire, which carried such a laughably light ordnance load that it was only ever used for ground attack because their were sod-all airborne targets for it to hunt.

Now, if BF got round to depicting different (accurate) silhouettes for each aircraft as it zoomed over the battlefield, that would be cool. If they went the extra mile and included accurate sounds for each aircraft type... well, suffice it to say... bloody brilliant stuff, Steve!

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