[JMHawkins]

Bellarmin,

Great to hear there's a Pacific fan in Bavaria.

The aircraft do have differences, both between different nationalities and different periods of the war (Allied aircraft get much better later in the war, for example). But none of this is shown to the player just to keep things simple.

For a patrol requirement, if you don't allocate enough ships to patrol, when the Execute timer counts down to zero, it will reallocate enough ships to meet the requirement, cancelling whatever other operations it must. I have a feature request in the list for a possible future patch to give the player a warning first.

I'll add your two suggestions to the suggestion list for consideration.

Thanks,