Friendly fire is one of the tragedies of any form of warfare, Combat situations would have to be caotic and confused. The 'Battle of Barking Creek' was slightly different.

An error in the radar set swapped around the display so that aircraft comming from the west appeared to be comming from the east. The opperators saw a flight of unidentified aircaft that apeared to be comming in from the east (actually a routine RAF Patrol), they scrambled more RAF planes. As they did the number of planes that appeared to be comming in from the east increased, So they scrammbled more RAF fighters. This soon escalated so that it appeared that there was a massive German raid in progress. (Which everyone was expecting any day at this point)

The RAF fighters converged into a small area and one squadron of Spitfires sighted a Flight of Hurricanes in the location that they were expecting to see the Hostiles. They were all eager to get into the Hun and from memory identification was poblematic due to the conditions.

One of the major upshots of the battle was that the RAF expidited the introduction IFF equipment which was a major help to them in the Battle Of Britain.

Regarding the quality of the trailer,

Could it be possible that the leaked release day hastened the UBI press release. There were a number of ommissions in the official announcement, which have since been fixed up. Maybe the Official Trailer had not been completed and the one posted was hastily put together or taken off the shelf?

Cheers!

I'm confused: is this an update to the existing engine like Pacific Fighters was to IL2, ie. updating the game and adding the Cliffs of Dover to it?

Or is this using a different engine as a stand-alone only install? If so is this the final release form of the Storm of War project?

Thanks to the name Ubi adopted, confusion like this is going to be very common...

IL-2: CoD is going to be a completely new game, new engine, and is stand-alone. It is not an update. It is also completely unrelated to IL-2: WoP.

I think we should make a petition to Ubi to change the name, but it's way too late now I think.

:shock::P:D:lol::D:D:D:D:D

Well, pre order is done here :-P

I'm very disappointed to see how many poeples can have a very bad attitude at this crucial moment that we waited for years...

This soft is fantastic, upgrading the level at a never managed one ! How could you stay grouchy as that ??? Some of us, unfortunately, don't deserve such a work ! :-x

The others are very confident in the Oleg and his team's work, and know that they always do 10 times better than the better competition... And in more, if you want to REALLY know how will be this soft before buy it, please, LOOK FOR ALL YOU CAN KNOW SINCE YEARS ABOUT IT, BECAUSE ALMOST THE INFORMATIONS ARE IN THIS SITE AND A FEW OTHERS !...

Marvellous day is this release date... can't wait !

+1..

The best title for this would have been

From the creators of the Award winning IL2 series:
Storm of War:Cliffs of Dover

Who knows.. maybe there was some legal issue with Storm of War.. but then again .. I was under the impression that UBI would not be the publisher of this... so maybe this is just some UBI pencil pusher marketing BS where some jerk behind a desk who has no clue decided that this would be best... name recognition and all...
Regardless.. though and hopefully inspite of UBI .. this sim will take off.. Ihave already preordered my DD.. and I'll probably get the CE too.. but a little later. I just hope that the CP is decent enough to enable 1C to make some bread.. this sim has been in developement for too long for them to loose but so much to piracy..

I cant imagine that UBI will be able to use the initials CoD or refer to this software as anything other than Cliffs of Dover...given that Call of Duty is an EA game and well established by the CoD moniker. I hear lawyers lurking in the foyer already...

Someone at UBI must enjoy stepping on his own junk -

"IL2 Sturmovik - Seeds of Litigation:Copyright of Doom"

Glad its not my problem - the only thing I'm concerned with is being able to afford the new rig I'm going to need sooner rather than later

Bearcat any chance of a reference for the acronyms

BS - I think we all know this one, but DD, CE CP?

Direct Download, Collector's Edition, Copy Protection I think. :)

only two things count:

1. thanks to oleg n crew. a week ago you told us it would come and it has.

2. the main question has been answered*


get ready to play


*release?

That's nice, but we're talking about CoD here.