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[kestrel79]

I like the Russian Front. It's what originally drew me into IL2. Learning about planes, battles, and dogfights we just simply don't learn about in school here in the US was facinating.

Plus was there any Lend Lease planes used in Battle for Moscow era? I know that's how a few US planes made it into IL2. P-40, P-39.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Bring on BoM, just leave out the TIE fighters we had in original IL-2 series

[BlackSix]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

Bring on BoM, just leave out the TIE fighters we had in original IL-2 series

TIE Fighter! I love it)
We could make the world's best space simulator, if Lucasfilm had sold a license))) Yes, and you would have great difficulty with the launch of ion engines)

Joke

[Frequent_Flyer]

The VVS aircraft as depicted by Oleg in Il-2 were not historacly accurate. The LaGG-3 ,Yak and MiGG were infamous for leaking great quanities of oil, constantly over heating to the point of combustion. Causing very poor performance from the aircraft. The labor was vastly unskilled the materials were of poor quality, in fact the windscreens and canopies " yellowed " so profoundly visibility was a problem. Exhaust fumes routinely filled the cockpit along with the engines runnig so hot, many pilots had to open the canopy in flight to tolerate the environment within their cockpit.No radio communications, and poorly refined aviation fuel,futher degrading performance. . Since the negative -G induced engine cut is modeled in BOB , I assume the above mentioned would be modelled to some extent in BOM. this will demonstrate histoical fidelity.

Seeing how Il-2 never adaquately addressed the PTO, ETO nor Med., I would have preferred any of these three to the Eastern Front.