I just feel new players will be looking for the ones they know and have seen. I'm sure it was a great plane, but sill not a plane you see very much of when you grab a book on WWII.  Perhaps they should add planes based on the number produced during the war.

I fully understand we want to include as many other nations aces in the game to get a wider user base, guess just another way at looking at it.

Dorb said:

If they used that method to which models we should get would the lineup be very different. For Wow we wouldn¨t even have a Fokker triplane yet then, it was only made in 350 planes. The Pfalz DIII and DIIIa was built in over a thousand planes and it isn't in the game yet even if it is coming.

I think they focus mostly on what planes the aces flew, how cool they look and try to make some planes from all the different countries involved. The game is popular in france so they probably threw it in to make all their players happy.

There is also gamebalance, the plane is closely matched to Hurricane and Me109.

Still, it isn't my favorite plane either. I wouldn't have been sorry if they had made another plane instead, like Gloster Gladiator or something.

But everyone knows about the Fokker DRI. Perhaps if a Richtofen flew a De520 in WWII folks would care, but they just don't.  As it is I support WoW and only buy "their" planes for their game which last count was up to 67 planes so I guess you could say I have a "invested" interest in what they pick. I will buy it, just hate to see it in the 2nd series.  I would love to have seen your preferred pick - that could possibly work in both systems.

Dorb said:

Richtoffen actually flew an Albatross DIII a lot more than the DrI. He also flew a Roland DII for quite a while, and a Albatross CIII. The interesting thing is that he died in the DrI, if he would have died a little later the plane people think about would have been the Fokker DVII (they got it 3 days after his death).

I got about 20 Wow planes (and 40 or so other planes), and would still say I support Wow but they just can't make enough models for me. I have about 25 different kinds of planes right now and it is growing fast.

No, I am sure the De was made for series 2 because they wanted a plane from another allied country beside the brits and yanks. Just like the Hansa-Brandenburgh/UFAG CI for Wow. 

 hi, sorry to change the subject a bit here, getting away from the albatross or what ever. but i dont care what planes are in the set providing i can get my hands on a junkers ju.87b-2 stuka dive bomber, like in fire from the skies.

lets face it stukas were awsome bombers.

spitfire15 said:

Yes and no. As long as you have air superiority they are among the best planes you can have, tgey have a precision most planes can compete with. But you don't want a Hurricane or Spitfire close to your Stuka, they are not something you want to dogfight in.

But I agree, the Stuka is a good choice for a model and will become an important plane for the axis.

The Sundance Kid said:

No way!!! Hurricane is a more important aircraft to the early war years. You cant have a ariel combat game without it. Plus it then lends itself to be used by Soviet forces from Northen (Karliea) squadrons. FW-190 would be great to see in the future, plus p-40, mig, eyc .....but not before the Hurri

FYI, there are 1/200 scale models out there if you do not wnat to wait.  I have to Stukas waiting fro paint right now. ;)

afilter said:

We know that, but that is not really a reason to not comment on the official choices. We seen a few weirder planes both in WW1 & 2. the Hurricane was right however, it was way more important to the war than the P40.

My Wow campaign have been down since X-mas  and we plan to go into WW2 for full this summer (Now we do 1918). I think we will run 1/144 instead of the official scale, 1/200 is so small. But nothing is certain yet of course.