OK, let's move forward and start focusing on answering questions about Falcon here...

BMS has everything one could want in a single click installer. Looks great, plays great.

AF still has the better campaign engine. BMS is catching up and I expect it to meet/exceed AF in that regard too. It's already taken over AF as the premier MP platform stability wise.

Can't say it much better than that. BMS is what you're after!

exactly.


Many of us here are long term falconites, on and off since 1999 for me. I have played various flavors of F4, but after suffering through multiple CTDs and screwed up campaigns, I came to value campaign stability. F4AF was the first version where the campaign worked as designed and you could actually complete a campaign without CTDs. It is still the gold standard IMHO. It would have been nice if the engine consistently produced realistic strike packages, but at least you could tweak the air and even ground war.

There have always been various theaters floating around, great if you just want to sightsee or build a TE, but the acid test has always been getting one with a stable, working F4 campaign.

There are threads at BMS on the current state of the Balkans Theater:

http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?7331-Balkans-Theater-Discussion

http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?6220-Balkans-Bugs-and-Crashes-Thread

The BMS boys are hard at work and I am looking forward to seeing what they eventually come up with, but I would not dive into a campaign until the final version comes out.

So to go back to my first post, if you want to play a stable Balkans F4 campaign, your only choice right now is the F4AF campaign.