Here you find all the French/Vichy OOBs:

http://france1940.free.fr/

With the Sochi Olympics, I could understand a little bit of delay. I'm wondering if TD are various talented and appreciated developers that are actually in different parts of Russia as well as local countries. That being said, I hope they have not been caught up in current events and that they are all doing well.

TD is volunteer team made up of members who are located globally although I would guess at least a fair number live in central or northerly climates and may have been busy watching the olympics. I know I was!

Canadian Hockey... woo! :D

And yes, given the events in several countries, I would hope that things are well with everyone.

Now its back to normal

Vive les canadiens de Mmmmontrrrrrééééééééééaaaaaaaaalllllllll lll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More seriously ... i use Windows 8.1 .... and i can t play anymore whit il2, any help or patch will be good :|

Tks

The Sochi olympics were great. They rather remind me of the 1936 olympics. History repeats itself, eh?

IL2 1946 works perfectly well in Win 8.1

Instal the game to eg:

C:\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946

and not into the

C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946

Also

In the Windows compatibility settings enable "Run this Program as an Administrator"

I was just unpleasantly reminded that the armor glass in the cockpit of the Hurricane MkIIb isn't modeled.

Either that, or the Luftwaffe is disguising its 30 mm cannons as Mg 15. :(

Yet another sniper-like headshot through the front cockpit by a "rookie" bomber gunner. This time from 150 meters by the top rear gunner of a Ju-88A-4, a plane noted for its heavy and highly effective defensive armament (not). Just another reminder why bomber intercept missions suck in IL2.

Was that armour glass new with that model of Hurricane, or did they have it in the BoB, and the Spitfires too, as I have always believed?

While the earliest production versions of the Spitfire and Hurricane were built without armor glass, and there were some troubles getting it retrofitted when the war started, by summer of 1940 all RAF fighters had armor glass windscreens.

I'm not sure of the exact thickness, but it was between 3-4" (75-100 mm) and mounted at an angle both to conform with the cockpit shape and to further improve bullet resistance.

While WW2-era armor glass wasn't nearly as effective as modern varieties, in sufficient thicknesses it could stop a rifle caliber bullet, as shown here:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/Scan0195.jpg

Against anything heavier, however, armor glass was pretty well useless even at extreme ranges.

FWIW, the Luftwaffe also had and used armor glass. This picture gives a sense of the thickness:

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...kmlqUnR_RNzchg

According to Capt. Eric Brown, late war German armor glass wasn't as well manufactured and had a slight tint to it.

Interesting.

Was it taken out of lend-lease aircraft, either on arrival or before, or is it just bogus that Forgotten Battles Hurricanes don't have it?