Dasuto247 NOW you keep on doing Mission for the Pacific Theater. Your project sounds great. We need More mission and other project dedicated to the Pacific Theater of war. World war two was base on world not just on the ETO. I find This Simulator fascinated because its equally dedicated to represent World war two as it really was. A world conflict and not just a European conflict. I notice lately its really turning to a another ETO Combat flight Simulator Only.
Hi Miamieagle,
I agree with you 100% a world conflict such as WWII must not be confined to Europe only. CFS2 was born with just the PTO in mind and it's unbelievable how it grew to cover the entire WWII and beyond, like WWI and the Korean conflict.
I do not agree when you say lately it's turning to another ETO CFS. If we look into SOH Library, the quantity of PTO dedicated campaigns and missions is quite large.
Our late Talon before departing posted huge PTO campaigns like the Flying Tigers, for example. AF=Midway covered the early, decisive battles of the Pacific war. The huge Defense of Australia addon was the very first I ever downloaded. The entire Dec. 7th, 1941 scenario was added by the PHP team and just about all of the major Pacific campaigns were covered as addons by a number of extremely talented folks around here.
We have to remember all of these splendid works were posted years ago, CFS2 was first released at the end of 1999. Now, if a lot of ETO-oriented material seems to have been the mainstream of new addons lately, I think it's simply a catchup over the majority of PTO addons. They were posted during the previous years, when only a scant Battle of Britain pack, a two-sided North African desert war campaign and two Eastern front campaigns were available for the European CFS2 potential.
I like this Simulator because it representing the whole war and not just the ETO.
You're right again, I fully agree with you.
By the same token, I also agree a lot with Rami's comment, subscribed by Dasuto247, about a lack of Japanese's point of view missions and campaigns in the PTO.
I think we are all unconsciously paying homage to the sacrifice of millions of young soldiers, by re-enacting virtually WWII airwar. No matter what side they fought for, they only followed mandatory orders from above. Not everyone had their head full of either democratic patriotism or world domination ideals.
I believe the vast majority of those young victims of the worst holocaust Earth had ever witnessed, given the choice would have gladly settled disputes among them with a soccer/football game, or a baseball game, or a rugby game.
Therefore each one of them should be fairly represented in CFS2.
"Least we forget"
Cheers!
KH 