Call me weird but . . .

[planespotter]

hmmm, you know i always do get the italian and hungarian flags confused!



just joking signore, but really, do you seriously think people bought IL2 to fly the TB-3? the IL2 itself was the drawcard, and it was the novelty of the conflict itself that the game modelled that drew people in (air war on the eastern front) not the fact they could fly a Soviet biplane against an Me 109. How much of that do you see on the online servers?

as people got bored with the central elements of the game they experimented with the weirdo aircraft, which helps longevity but is not the reason people bought the game in the first place (maybe we should do another poll...).

and the franchise has succeeded to live so long exactly because it went mainstream and modelled Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-51s, Zeroes, Avengers etc not because it gave us the PZL P.11 and Polikarpov I-16!

my goodness we are still waiting for a Spitfire 1a/b for an IL2 game, so that in itself will be a novelty for SOW.

and yes, the Battle has been done before, in its conventional form, a number of times, most recently in the fantastic Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory from Shockwave.

but that doesnt make it any less engaging to strap on a Spitfire 1b and fly into a massed formation of Heinkels, 109e's and 110's and duke it out. and you just know Oleg is going to do it better than anyone else has ever done it before so it will be worth it.

if he ever stops piddling around with the positioning of the struts on the Feisler Storch (a critical player in the Battle of Britain) and gets back to the Spits, Hurris and Emils...

Of course, I may be out of line.