IL2 DCG Campaign Balance

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Originally Posted by Biggles

Are you serious? ALL 60 downed!? That sounds incredible. I've sure as hell never seen anything like it. In my campaigns both sides take losses, if anything, the axis somewhat more than the allies.

Every single plane.
I've flown a lot of missions and half-missions in Normandy 41 as the RAF, but always testing - testing to see what reduces stutter, what increases framerate, which DCG settings I wanted, etc. Every time I started a new campaign fresh, and the RAF always take heavy losses. But this is the first time I played out a mission in full, and it was a long-range mission so all the other flights had time to carry out their missions as well. Not a single plane made it back. I went down in a sea of Bf-109's without another spit in sight (I took two of them with me though ).

It's hardly surprising when you look at the normandy 41 campaign file: A ton of Veteran Bf-109's are pitted against Average Hurricane Mk1's and Average Blenheim bombers. And the Axis have AAA of course. How the hell is that supposed to result in good game balance?

I gave my squadron spits, and there's one or maybe two other spit squadrons, but it's not enough.

Edit:
Those hurricanes should be MkII and Veteran I reckon... or Average MkII's against Average Bf-109's maybe. The Axis should have an advantage over Normandy in 41, but losing the entire RAF in one hour is just daft.