Introductions please
 

thought I would say:
Hi I have been playing IL2 sturmovik since 2007, I was turned on to this fine WWII sim
When I broke my back. Was off work for 18 months. Happened at work.
Been playing ever since and love the new UP mods, and HSFX extreme mods.

Not liking the new Cliffs of Dover, not working good for my machine to many CTDs and Blue screens, this is the only game that does this on my machine.

Hi I have been playing il2 since 2002 offline and around 2005 I started flying online and joined JG52 around 2007 after discovering the delights of cockpit combat.

Since joining JG52 I have participated in USL and various online wars, while my dedication to the squad has been lacking due to RL I have made it my goal to bring it back to full capacity in time to join in the online wars.

So far I have been enjoying CloD immensely even with all it's bugs, however I am currently the only active JG52 member flying in CloD due to it's high spec requirements but I'm still hoping that the patches will enable more of my squad mates to join me in sorties around the channel.

I've been playing Sims now for quite a while. Below is a picture of a few of the tiles, missing from the picture are the Janes USNF-ATF and Longbow sims, MSFS, CFS1 and 3, and early sims like Secret Weapons of the LW, Cuck Yeagers Air Combat, Tornado and games like Elite

http://i1042.photobucket.com/albums/...Olympus068.jpg

I've been flying the Il2 series since Pacific fighters.

Since COD's release I've pretty much shelved everything else except for an occasional sortie in ROF or A10 Warthog.

Unfortunately I'm a bit like Sir Morris in my flying. Enthusiastic doesn't alway equate to skillfull!

Cheers!

Hi, I've been playing combat flight sims for 20 years or so. I fell in love with WW2 sims with European Air War. I got my self a force feedback stick at the same time, I was in heaven. I tried IL-2 Sturmovik when it first came out but my pc wouldn't run it (sound familiar?). IL-2 Pacific Fighters was when I really got hooked. With time my apatite for full real has grown. I'm now as happy as a pig in poop with COD. I now fly with Track IR and Saitek X52 j-stick and rudder pedals. I find I can no longer play IL-2 1946 as its like an arcade game compared to COD.
The future is bright thanks to IL-2 and the online flight sim community. ~S~:grin:

Hi, I'm 22 and I've been playing flightsims since I was 5 years old. Ever since my dad let me try Microprose's "Dogfight 80 years of aerial combat" from 1993 and Flight simulator 4 and eventually 95 I was hooked. Also played X-wing, Tie-Fighter and X-wing vs. Tie-Fighter, Strike Eagle III, Back to Baghdad, Falcon, 4 FS 98, 2000, 2004 and X. I also played Novalogic's Comanche 1, 2 and 3 + F-22 Lightning II. Later on I also played DID's Eurofighter 2000 and F-22 Air Dominance Fighter + F-22 Total Air War. Played CFS1, 2 and 3 and more recently I've also been playing IL-2 Sturmovik (2001) and kept playing it for 10 years. I bought all the official expansion packs (minus the pure mission-based ones). I also flew Lock:On flaming cliffs 1 & 2 + DCS blackshark, but even though the super-advanced high speed aircraft I missed the intense dogfights of WW1 and WW2. I currently play IL-2 Cliffs of Dover and Rise Of Flight. I get my quick thrills from RoF and my more serious realism fights from CloD.

In reality I work as an Airforce F-16 Crew-Chief and enjoy my time spent around real aircraft during the day time and sim aircraft at night :) There's a private plane club at the base where I can take my PPL once I gather the money and time for it, which I hope to do within the next year if my girlfriend supports the idea of throwing ca 14.000$ on it ;).

Nice to meet you all! :)

OK I'll bite.
Started with il2 in about 2001, and been with JG52 since about '04.Flown hundreds, maybe even thousands of online war missions, in VEF,VOW,CAD,AFW and many others over the years.
In all the time I flew il2, I never once flew cockpit off, through personal choice.Thats probably why I am such a poor shot...
Now fly RoF and CoD, but nowhere near the frequency I once did with il2.
Retired at 38, and now have time to enjoy life,and take the pish out of those that deserve it. ;)

hi my name is Alasdair Fisher im a scottish bloke that lives in N.W England for my sins. im thirty bloody seven ! and still carrying on like a kid with games :)

I started modding games back with CFS2 and have continued since mostly with racing simulators. im probally more of a modder than a gamer these days but the 2 fuel each other. i reckon iam a reasonably good artist out with modding too.

Iam a realistic guy, no religion and not too much poolitics here, but plenty of science where possible. ohh im hoplessly addicted to smokin' marjuana too. (a good thing)

Some of you may have me on your ignore lists which i would say isnt too fair, but each to there own. Regards that, iam a realistic guy as ive already stated and i will not cease to stand up or voice my opinions.

i love to play music & listen to music, used to play bass in a few bands. presently playing alot of slide guitar(blues) but listening wise as i am typing this iam listening to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmx0__-dxmM

Out with gaming activities wise for most of my life that simply involved snowboarding skateboarding, bmxing & being with women. Sports wise it has to come in the form of skillfull trickery, cant be doin with that boring nonsense. i still go abroad to the alps every year for snowboarding but thats abouts its for these days. Financial pressure increasing.

Gaming wise its quite eclectic, just like everything else. i do have a Ps3, did have a 360 till recently. but mainly the long term fascination comes from the simulation side. Eagle Dynamics are at the top of the ladder where flight is concerned and from that you can take that i do fly the awesome a-10 flying tank and the Ka-50. Unfortunatly ROF just isnt appealing to me much. Other genre i like are strategy games. DOW2, Starcraft2, All total war series etc etc.

@skoshi, thats an admirable collection. i stupidly flung CFS3 in the bin a few weeks ago or i would have been happy to give you it.

Well this was the first online WW2 'sim' (okay, it's really not a sim!) I played:

http://www.airattack-central.com/Air_Attack_Videos.php

Then I found IL2 and never looked back.

Currently, even though I have CloD, I just don't play it as I wait for Patches.

Il2:1946 has 5 different installs on my HD (HSFX/UP/etc,etc) and I will be playing that and Wings of Prey for years yet!

I hope CloD does make it through though as it looks great, but needs patching. However, I can wait as I have loads to play with for now!

Cheers, MP

Hi,

In and out of flight sims for years but never seriously. Been mainly Sub Siming as persona Hans Gruber since 2005 but fell out of love when UBI released SH5. Some talented moders have managed to make a reasonable game out of it but it still lacks the SH3 'appeal' alas.

Bought il2 to bide my patience till COD came out then plunged into a big PC upgrade, Track IR and Saitek 52 Pro. I'm lucky to have bought a Gigabyte GTX 480 Super OC with 1.5 GB VRam before the prices went up....it's due to this card that i'm having a great time with COD. Sure it needs a lot of optimisation work and an overhaul of the interface, sound and AI but it does have the makings of a classic.

I just wish they had gone with any other publisher than UBI and waited before releasing it. I feel 1C have now lost the opportunity to have made a lot of money on COD. But I'm sure we'll benefit from their continued support of their Russian client base.

I'll mainly be lurking here as I don't get on too well with authority.

Cheers, McFeckit

Aha! I like this forum...thanks mods.

Been playing Il-2 (almost) from the beginning...I got my first copy about eight months after release, and added to it over the years with all the great expansion packs that came out.
Eventually I bought 1946 as it was easier having everything on one disc.

Il-2 is the only sim I've really gotten heavily involved in, athough I like LOMAC and the DCS series as well.
Wishing Clod and the team all the best for the future.

PS-Skoshi, great pic!

Greetings! Dave here, 66 years young, pro photographer (too much fun to retire):cool:
Played flight sims since Microsoft Flight Sim on the Atari (top half of screen blue, bottom half green and grey rectangle for runway)

Didn't try on-line combat until a year ago when I installed WOP. Loving the on-line experience of Clod, even get the occasional kill :-D

-S-

Have been flying sims since Lucasarts Battle of Britain & Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe( boy...have we come a long ways)
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1.../101128_61.jpg
Discarded everything but a very modded IL-2 UP3.0 ,Rise of Flight & of course Cliffs of Dover,which I really do like ( maybe because of the amount of eye-candy) and which I think I'm only scratching the surface of....In high hopes it will only get bigger & better..Music while playing? 1940 BBC:Ray Noble,Ambrose, Jack Hylton et al & Korngold & Max Steiner Movie soundtrack...
Oh...I also paint a bit:

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...orslidebig.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ighSummer1.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...Bomberboys.jpg
( Semi relevant to the subject)
www.jamesdietz.com

WOW! You paint a LOT! They are incredible! True talent, Jamesdietz! Any hanging in the Museum of Flight? They should be... ( edit... Doh! Just checking your site now...... )

Anyway, about me... Ditto: since LucasArts, and I still remember the thrill of the kill even though the enemy was composed of 10 juddering blocks of pixels!

always needed to buy the latest sim release, but always 3 generations behind the hardware curve ( can't sneak anything passed the wife )
So online battles are usually (always) short and sweet( something to do with lag... ;) ... but immense fun...

Ww2 is definitely my preferred era, not into modern, I like to see who is killing me :)

So CoD and RoF are taking turns at the moment...

Isn't it nice in here?
Cheers

Hi guys and Salute everybody in this forum
My name is George -Skouras-
Im from Greece and i live in Athens [32 YEARS OLD] i'm an Ichthyologist
im flying simulations over 12 years now and all the classics one
Open Falcon
FF5
il2
DCS
FSX
ROF
bob2
and many others that i can't remember right now in the past
glad to be a member in this forum as i found that many virtual pilots here was very helpful..
once again -S-


PS. NICE PAINTS MATE :-P

Superb work Jamesdietz. Iam near sure I have before see your works somewhere in internet.

Skouras,

Do you happen to know Stergios, of Icarus fame, and also a flight simmer? He gets out of the Greek army this month.

I'm 67 years young, was a photographer in the US Navy, and don't paint. But, I did use to own/fly a Libelle glider.

binky9

hi mate
no personally
only as a name and his work
what a great job to be a photographer for the US
You must be seen so much action:grin:

Well this is a bit different!

Ok, I'm old enough to have seen the film 'Battle of Britain' when it was released; my Dad took me to the pictures to see it.
He also took the whole family to Woodford Airshow every year (home of the Lancaster and Vulcan), and bought me one Airfix kit per week, plus big ones at Christmas.

I used to love reading Biggles and anything I could get my hands on connected with wartime aviation.

For a time, the aviation fixation took a back seat in favour of girls, motorbikes, girls, playing guitar in bands, girls, and forging some sort of career and home life.

Then I bought a Super Nintendo for a laugh, then a playstation and any flight related game, then was given the original CFS and IL2 by a friend at the start of the century. Played them on an ancient steam driven laptop.

Currently have all the IL2 series, FSX plus a few ridiculously expensive add-ons, DCS A-10, Rise of Flight ICE, but also enjoy beating my kid brother up online with Streetfighter IV, bit of Crysis and Theatre of War.

But once Cliffs is ironed out a bit, I have a feeling that all the above will get used less and less. :)

The only action I saw was not in the line of duty.;)

binky9

my turn then

i'm from Portugal, just made 36, and received the visit from our 'friends' of the FMI for birthday present, oh well.

my father was a pilot of Douglas C-47, the famous skytrain, during the colonial war spanning 1961-1974 (basically when Africa ex-colonies Angola, Guiné-Bissau and Mozambique got their independence from Portugal). all that is over and today we're happily trade partners. i've had this crush for flying things since i remember.

my first sim experience was 'Spitfire 40' on zx spectrum, followed by 'ace combat', 'fighter pilot' and any other i don't remember anymore... good spectrum times. then i got my first 286 PC and went into LHX helicopter sim, 'F-29 Retaliator', first A-10 sim, and some random experiences with other stuff friends were playing. from there on was a big gap as i didn't have a capable PC anymore, but with later upgrade the first IL-2 finally got me back into sims; also went with Forgotten Battles but dropped it when i got less time as i was finishing my Mechanical Engineering degree and had quite tumultuous relationships, but later got back with 1946 which introduced me to online play. off-line campaign has always been a favorite especially on the channel maps.

ever since i've been waiting (forever) for CoD (wasn't it Storm of War?) and had such high expectations for it, of course i'm somewhat bugged with its present state, but i haven't lost faith the most pressing issues will be ironed out.

although i have the feeling that they're gonna pull a 'forgotten battles' on us again, i.e. they'll release a new one in 1 and half year or so, without most bugs and with enhancements that were supposed to be on CoD, leaving this one on a middle ground.

I'm a no longer active private pilot, looking for the rush that I miss from piloting days...plus I enjoy shooting things:grin:

Started flightsimming on the C64 with Microprose Gunship way back in the 1980s. Never stopped since.

Microprose Gunship :grin:
Good old times

+1

Oh and I am 57, I work in an antique automobile museum, and even though I'm from the US, my favorite cars are British and Italian (we race a Triumph TR3 and a Lotus 11 LeMans) and I've been doing this flight sim stuff for all of 11 years.

And I give this version of the Pilot's Lounge two months before the plug gets pulled.

IBTL!

Flying sine TFH and even before that with "Thomahawk" on my spectrum 48k.

Brought and played prob every WW1 and WW2 sim released in the last 25 years.

Been in 3 online sqds, ran one of my own, played IL2 since release and loved every second.

Love and hate COD in the same amounts. :)

Trollerreported
I give you and el 2 weeks before your negativity
On these forums is unplugged.

Chill out Mastiff.

Are you totally against anyone having a bit of fun?

It would seem so.

Hello, I'm unreasonable, another old git. (50-something, I forget).

I did not play PC games until about 1987 because I had a life.

Then I had no life, but lots of RPGs, flight-sims etc, which was much better.

Now all the RPGs are horrible console ports and the flight-sims are broken.

I would kill myself if I did not live in Bangkok!

Oh wow, that's amazing! Why are you wasting your time on a message board with talent like that??

Edit: Just saw your link. Absolutely stunning work.

i use anonimity of forums to be myself which you cant in hipocrit real life

raaaid gets it.

:grin:

yes the ones who got the UBI$oft pilot lounge closed, soon you won't be here to tell about it.

you mean porn magazines?

Porn Magazines!!?? talk about dating yourself! :)

hey, I have my standards ;)

Played CFS1 then Started Playing il2 in 2001 & started skinning in 2002 & did so for 5 years, Have been in DEY, KSS & RAF23/33 Squads, i also have CLOD but i am waiting for it to be sorted out before i get into it.

I still have quite a few of your skins in my IL2 installs.

Thanks!

Hello, I made a skin for Cartrix once. I won a tee shirt. I'm sort of a big deal.

READ THE RULES MR. IMPORTANT!!!

I have an IL2 t-shirt and a forgoten battles coffee mug, do you? Hmmmmm?

I was a moderator, I don't need to read the rules. Cartix gave me complete control of stuff. I also know Smoke Jaguar.

I wonder if cartrix still works for UBI?

By the way your posts will be deleted and you will be banned soon.

It's not you though, it's just the system man.

Hmmm......another introduction, from sunny and fry-an-egg-on-the-hood-of-your-car-hot Florida.

I 've started with Microprose's Gunship as well, after that lot's of Microprose stuff, last one I enjoyed most was European Air War, no clue how to make my copy run in win7 64bit.
After EAW there was for a very long time nothing until I finally (last year actually) discovered IL2 1946, I just had to get back to flying again and boy is that an awesome sim.
Then bought RoF, since I always missed the good old days of Red Baron as well, very nice game, but honestly I do enjoy the way of flying in CoD more, even though the game still needs a lot, I just like the way the planes handle (fighters) plus the battle of britain always held a certain appeal to me.

The Spitfire is imho the most beautiful fighter ever, though flying wise I like sitting in an Me 109 more.

Nice to meet you all :-D

Sorry el, dawgz I some time read my own
emotions or "feeling" into other people post.
I really should not do that, now back to the
original program please.

Least your not claiming to see halos around people.

You seem to be impressive forum poster! May I please hump your leg?

Cheers m8 ,its good to know some people still have my work in there installs. I have been looking into skinning for CLOD.

+1 on that here as well. Brilliant work.
El screams like a little girl if you use the wrong markings too.

Hi guys! I'm another old simmer in my fifties who used to play the whole Falcon series. They were great and got me into simulators (you learned to live with the bugs).

I've been playing IL-2 since the Forgotten Battles and enjoyed that series even more, because it replayed our history. Moreover, reading the memoirs of aces from all sides and all theaters of the WW2 (Emelianenko, Sakai, Boyington, Clostermann, Stanford-Tuck, Johnson, Wellum, Luukkanen, Wind, Rall and Lipfert to name a few) and then playing those aerial combats in the sim was simply fascinating.

I'm now trying to learn the CEM whenever I do have time to play the sim. The fighters are easy, but fighting is difficult with temperature effects on. The bombers are a nightmare! Although I've followed the development of the CoD in these forums for years, I haven't contributed much (sorry). I've found the tips in the various threads quite useful. Thank you all, keep them coming!

In my rig the CoD runs very smooth with practically everything maxed (grass off). No stutters to speak of. I've never experienced any CTDs nor blue screens either.:-D

Ubi flew me out to Red Storm Studios to preview a game. I'm a bigger deal :-P

Owned iL2 since '01, bought the sim for the FW 190. :cool:

One thing I learned was to survive you need thick skin, that and better to leave the soap where it lies. ;-)

Yup, when one traipses into the public shower...it's all about?
Altitude, Airspeed....and Egress....:cool:

Ever heard of soap on a rope?

Yes, another dreaded BlitzPig i am.
Been with IL-2 since it's release and if you don't know who i am it's due to my clandestine operations. Makes it easier to sneak up on people and shred their rudder...
Been creating discreet havoc with other BPs since before most of you were in amoeba state...
I'm old and wise but i'm so old i forget i am wise...

So, fneb.

And by the way, i would much rather hol....oh, look! a hydraulic pump!

Hi all, I've been playing IL2 sturmovik 1946 for only a couple of months, and I love it!! It's only my second sim., FSX was my first but I don't bother with it anymore.
I recently started playing '46 online with Hyperlobby, and I'm enjoying it even though I'm a Newb with no skill.
And after reading the above posts, I feel like I'm the youngest person on the forum. :-)

Hi, I'm 92 years old and been playing Farming sims on Facebook since 2001. I did a google on "clod" and found this site and discovered this game has cows. The rest, as they say, is naval history.

hahahahahahahaha :grin:

hi there, 1.JaVA_Sharp checking in. Discovered Il2 back in '01 although I had been simming before that Aces over Europe the Janes stuff the Microprose stuff, European Airwar and so on. Since I had an idea what an il2 actually was it satisfied my curiosity about The Eastern Front immensly. I was 25 back then and all of a sudden ten years have gone by.....