revised wishlist:
1) better terrain engine (we know of what "Wings of..." quality) with actual roads ground units could follow, and destructable, collidable buildings that consist of more than 5 faces
2) ability to apply normalmaps on older LODs without the need of rewoking them, preferably via objectname.ini texture pointers
3) AN ACTUAL WAR going on below, with moving tanks and APCs in the fields and on roads, naval activity including submarines, artillery pieces shelling targets, helicopters on fac/sar/medevac/recon, cargo planes flying from bases, conwoy columns, troops, be it even EAW or Gunship style animated sprites, that have portable MANPADs aimed at you or jumping from burning trucks (all hail Rowan's Mig Alley), put here what you've seen in other titles...
oh, did I mentioned helicopters? You know those little noisy plane-wannabees with rotor on top..? Have been around in active service at least since 1940s...
And some nice Mig-15, Mig-19 and Mig-23 cockpits of SF2 quality could be nice too...
Ok, rant off, I ate to much yesterday