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When you say "respective camps on CFS3" I presume you mean the ones who think it's has been pretty much a failure in many areas and the ones who live on another planet.

Please, before I am howled down. j/k j/k j/k j/k j/k 

I know what you mean Ozzy.

Sharon likes the aspect of me not being "under foot".

We solved the "remote" problem years ago, I have the TV in the loungeroom and she has the one in the bedroom. She has the dvd connected to hers and i have the vcr on mine and we both have Foxtel cable.

The only thing we have to share is HER P.C.

Gees we are all geared up for some real solid watchin', aren't we? 

Medium Bombers, especially the B-26, rarely flew in "bomber streams" that was a British Heavy tactic.  Marauders flew low and fast to knock out specific point targets, Bridges, power plants, etc,  They loved moonlit nights  which the Germans referred to as "Marauder  weather".

I am truly disappointed in CFS-3 because it is so lacking in historical reality.  It is more of a "crimson skies" format rather than historical.  There are so many anti-shipping missions that you would think you were campaigning against the US or GB rather than Germany.  Also single engine fighter bombers were rarely used on anti-shipping missions.In 1943 Fighter Bomber definetly were not attacking industrial targets that was a job for the heavies.  In the RAF the Bristol Beaufighter was the designated ship-killer until the advent of the DH  mosquito when it  had to share the effort with this great plane. You (the player) are restricted to flying the P-47D "Razorback" in all USAF campaigns but can fly the later model P-47D with the bubble canopy in single combat missions. The gunsight on the P-47D has a structural member running through the center of the gunsight making it extremely hard to hit your target.  Also the perfromance parameters of the P-47D are all wrong, the aircraft flies like the "proverbial ruptured duck" at altitude exceeding 5-8ooo feet  when , in fact, it was the best performing fighter the US had at altitute.
They  (MS)  has the P-47D carrying 1,000 lb bombs in 1942  something the aircraft was not fitted for until 1944. The P-47 fighter pilots association website has some really interesting information concerning this aircraft from the pilots who flew them in combat.  The aircraft performed much better than MS allows it to perform in their game.

Also American tracer ammunition is red not silver. green, or white but RED.  on the other hand Germ  and Russian (later Soviet Bloc) used silver/green tracers.  This is a small thing but MS should get it right  if they are going to produce a Combat Flight Simulator.

I have one more comment reference to combat damage.  I can get on an opponents six and fire my whole "basic load" of ammjunition into him and see hits, parts flying off, etc, and he still doeasn't go down.  However, an opponent can ( very rarely, of course) get on my six  fire a two second burst and utterly devastate my plane, kill me  and RTB. Also German Bombers were mainly armed with Rifle caliber machine guns yet I have been shot down from 1-1500 yards -- I don't think a Rifle caliber MG (7.9mm) could do this much damage to a P-47 from that Range or for that matter closer ranges. 

I have so many complaints but I wont take up anymore of your time except to say ; CFS-3 SUCKS!

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I'm real sorry mate. If your situation was to hit me, I would be a candidate for the funny farm. Just so I could get the use of their TV facilities.................lol.

Seriously, because I'm not all that mobile, I probably tend to be too much of a TV/ Movie addict, but I suppose there are worse things. I do learn alot from the Movies and doco's and specials.

Saw a History Channel Doco on the WWII DUKW. You wouldn't think an hour about a floating truck would be interesting, but I was rivetted.   

I think there are so many shipping missions at the beginning of the campaign as its meant to be Germany is preparing for Operation Sealion. So logically that is correct. Personally I quite enjoy them, although my bombing skills in a Spit still need some work

Ozzy

that makes complete sense, i'm glad i'm not alone in thinking this way about cfs3

Sherman,

I'm no officionado when it comes to CFS3. I haven't had oportunity to spend more than 20 hours actually playing the game but I think, aside from the obvious performance problems and complaints, there is also an inherent lack of research having been done on the part of M$. All part of an obvious rush to get it out. WHY!?

As for some of the AI planes in CFS2 performing and maneuvring way past their historical capabilities, this has been a very often reported/berated problem with the Sim, particularly in these forums.
As for the Betty, it does seem to be a particularly vicious little piece of work in CFS2. I have learnt that historically that they were not a difficult plane to drop at all, but in the Sim, if you go within 500 or 600 yards you get shot to pieces.
But still, for what my opinion is worth, CFS2 is a far better game from a performance and historical point of view. At present, anyway.