I played European Air War a hell of alot. Some really beautiful addons.

Now I've got IL2 FB. Which is stunning, even if the load times are shocking. plus i have a problem loading the paratrooper mesh for the russian so i can't play vhalf the Axis campaigns, and if i fly as russians it runs out of memory and drops to desktop as soon as I get in any sort of serious dog fight. Can get some of the early Bf 109 and FW190 campaigns to work, which are great, except that I can't stay on my leaders course to save my life (or his) :)

I'm looking forward to the Oleg Maddox BoB though I agree the Med would've been good. He is putting the Chianti party in though, so you will get to fly htose beautiful CR42 (and no doubtt get a swift taste of hte English channel.