all the anxiety aside, why do I have feeling the typical campaign or single mission will consist of:
Player's flight of 4
friendly flight of 4
enemy fighter flight of 4
enemy bomber flight of 6
2 or even 3 flak guns over target area
this based on my (long) experience with 1C/Maddox and 777's ROF. Oh, but we'll get new extremely detailed cockpits cockpits more Il2 FB (2003) than CLOD (2011) in appearance
I'd take EAW working on current systems with graphics update (bumpmaps/specular on the very same lovely low poly 3D models as they were, higher resolution terrain textures,. rudimentary clouds, self shadowing) than anything at the moment. Oh or CFS3 with some tweaks