I am in favour of playing IL-2 in general, of course, so I vote Aff. As for missions, from what I recall the last time we tried DCG (in this very thread) it worked out pretty well until we got sidetracked by some other game, so we can give that another shot. Alternatively (my preferred option), we can do what we did with that old P-38 campaign and find some hand-made campaign we can use and then modify it to suit our needs (with personal aircraft and the like). This gives us something that isn't DCG but doesn't require us to make our own missions, which we often get bogged down with.
One thing I think we should avoid though in both DCG or a hand-made campaign is having it set too early in the war. While we had some rather fun campaigns in Spain, Poland, France and so forth, we usually find ourselves trying to progress through the whole war and then being stuck in Russia or something and dropping the whole thing. This time we should try starting in 1942 or 1943 at least, which will also give us a much greater variety of aircraft and theater choices.
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