Campaigns as Axis?

[David603]

Originally Posted by wannabetheace

No u are big wrong,
US made the most evils than Russians,
Look, US bombers bombed and killed more civillians that Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined in German cities,
They are just civillians, and US now justifies thier bloody murder or holocaust.

So Stalin killing 20 million or so of his own civilian citizens doesn't count as a war crime? It was a massacre of at least 3 times the scale of what happened to the Jews in Europe under the Nazi's. Not to mention killing hundreds of thousands of German and Polish POWs.

The Russians treatment of captured personnel and civilians was far worse than anything the Germans did.

I agree that the US did commit war crimes by deliberate bombing German civilians, as did my own nation, the British. However the scale of what the these nations did is dwarfed by what Stalin did, so the point stands.

Originally Posted by guiltyspark

no , we had to bomb them twice with nuclear weapons before they surrendered

And we bombed military targets , it just so happened that they were in cities

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were selected as possible targets for atomic bombs because they did not contain any targets of military significance and could thus safely be left intact to test the full power of the atomic bomb. At least a third of the deaths were Korean and Chinese forced labourers, and military personnel made up substantially less than 1 per of the victims.

[guiltyspark]

Originally Posted by David603

So Stalin killing 20 million or so of his own civilian citizens doesn't count as a war crime? It was a massacre of at least 3 times the scale of what happened to the Jews in Europe under the Nazi's. Not to mention killing hundreds of thousands of German and Polish POWs.

The Russians treatment of captured personnel and civilians was far worse than anything the Germans did.

I agree that the US did commit war crimes by deliberate bombing German civilians, as did my own nation, the British. However the scale of what the these nations did is dwarfed by what Stalin did, so the point stands.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were selected as possible targets for atomic bombs because they did not contain any targets of military significance and could thus safely be left intact to test the full power of the atomic bomb. At least a third of the deaths were Korean and Chinese forced labourers, and military personnel made up substantially less than 1 per of the victims.

you are confused

they were selected ahead of the bombings to be untouched by other air raids so that the effects could be observed.

And they were indeed military targets , especially nagasaki which was a huge industrial port city that created many munitions and ordanance for the japanese war machine. mitsubishi steel works being one of them

as for the POW casualties , that is irrellevent , the japanese had POWs working all over japan as slave labor. It really makes no difference.

[gozorak]

Its impossible to know the outcome had the A bombs not been dropped but I think its safe to assume that Japan and the Japaneses people would have fared far worse had the war not ended when it did. Out of curiosity, I think I already know the answer to this..a big fat no. In the history of PC flight simulators has there ever been a game that simulated the Enola Gay's run over Hiroshima? Im asking in all seriousness. Not much action went on apart from the dropping of the bomb itself so something like that wouldnt have made for a great game mode I guess. I referenced a few posts back perhapt the most disgustingly innapropriate pc game that I can think of as far as historicaly based games go...JFK Reloaded. And I do from time to time go back to play becuase it is a fun challenge and the physics make for some hilarious motorcade carnage..

I think the only kind of person I would ever be ashamed to know that I enjoy a game like IL-2 would be an actual ww2 combat pilot veteran...there are not too many of those guys left but I wonder what they make of something like IL-2..would b interesting to know

[guiltyspark]

Originally Posted by gozorak

Its impossible to know the outcome had the A bombs not been dropped but I think its safe to assume that Japan and the Japaneses people would have fared far worse had the war not ended when it did. Out of curiosity, I think I already know the answer to this..a big fat no. In the history of PC flight simulators has there ever been a game that simulated the Enola Gay's run over Hiroshima? Im asking in all seriousness. I referenced a few posts back perhapt the most disgustingly innapropriate pc game that I can think of as far as historicaly based games go...JFK Reloaded. And I do from time to time go back to play becuase it is a fun challenge and the physics make for some hilarious motorcade carnage..

i have done it in IL2 with the AAA mod

Im sure similar things will be possible in future IL2 pc games

[Flanker15]

Axis campaigns are a staple for WW2 flight sims so the lack of one is a pretty huge loss. I would strongly suggest it be the first DLC addition.

[loopdreams]

Originally Posted by gozorak

Its impossible to know the outcome had the A bombs not been dropped but I think its safe to assume that Japan and the Japaneses people would have fared far worse had the war not ended when it did. Out of curiosity, I think I already know the answer to this..a big fat no. In the history of PC flight simulators has there ever been a game that simulated the Enola Gay's run over Hiroshima? Im asking in all seriousness. Not much action went on apart from the dropping of the bomb itself so something like that wouldnt have made for a great game mode I guess. I referenced a few posts back perhapt the most disgustingly innapropriate pc game that I can think of as far as historicaly based games go...JFK Reloaded. And I do from time to time go back to play becuase it is a fun challenge and the physics make for some hilarious motorcade carnage..

I think the only kind of person I would ever be ashamed to know that I enjoy a game like IL-2 would be an actual ww2 combat pilot veteran...there are not too many of those guys left but I wonder what they make of something like IL-2..would b interesting to know

I've met three blokes in my time who flew during the war. Some via radio controlled flying at events and one bloke who used to be a director of a firm I used to work for. They all seemed pleased that someone was interested in what they did and went through and in hearing their stories (my former boss was a Mosquito pilot and had some incredible and some quite awful stories). Also despite everything they still had the interest in flying that got them into it in the first place so I imagine that they would probably be quite fascinated by it all.