What are the Good WWII Flight sims?

Mush Martin · 09-05-07, 08:43 PM

As the thread title suggests.

What are the Good WWII Flight sims?

Hoping to find P-51D,F4U,P-38,Spitfire,FW190,ME262
more or less in that priority.

TteFAboB · 09-05-07, 09:15 PM

Il2 1946 has all those planes, with the different versions, and probably everything else, or almost, including some conceptual crap that you may find fun to toy with.

It doesn't have a good vanilla campaign though, no default campaign will ever put enough units in the air, or in the ground, even if you have a super-computer that can handle dozens of them. But there's a bunch of user-created missions, user-created campaigns and some forms of dynamic campaigns out there. And you can always use the mission editor to satisfy yourself, or the quick mission builder that will start you, and the enemy, already in the air, ready to rumble.

Although the game is old the graphics are nice, and of course, it's a "realistic" kind of sim.

Heibges · 09-05-07, 10:02 PM

IL2 1946 is pretty much the only game in town right now, especially if you like multiplayer, or am I wrong about this?

Snodrvr · 09-05-07, 10:26 PM

Nope, your right Heigbes, as far as WW2 Flight Sims go Il2 1946 is pretty much your best bet, Huge selection of aircraft (all you've listed are there with various models and loadouts availible), and A large number of targets both ground and naval. I should warn you though, The P-51 in game has a pretty steep learning curve. Your going to spend a lot of time spinning and stalling learning how to handle it.

There may be some life left in Combat Flight Sim 3 , but I wouldn't know where that crowd hangs out.

Officerpuppy · 09-05-07, 10:31 PM

I suggest B17: The Mighty Eighth
http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/b...th/review.html

It's quite a unique experience and you'll be very satisfied once you complete your first sucessful bombing run since it takes some pratice to figure out the controls for the bombadier. Don't be surprised if you develop some attachement to your crews either, it's great to see a guy survive three bombing runs or barely making it home alive only to fly another day after he gets cleared from the doc.

And if memory serves me well you can hop into an escort fighter or even the Germans and test your luck up against a formation of B-17's. And with the proper tools which can be found on some fansites you can create your own nose art and paint your plane as well.
You can try the game free for 30 min from here:

http://trygames.com/game/aff=trygame...177a32f609d79d

d@rk51d3 · 09-05-07, 10:39 PM

IL2-1946 is my current choice. (got it cheap in the bargain bin too

)

Now I just need to ditch my cruddy futuretronics stick and get something decent.

CptSimFreak · 09-05-07, 11:01 PM

IL2 1946 would be best online and offline flight sim. If you want to try MMP then there is Aces High by HitechCreations. IIRC there is a free two weeks trial.

TarJak · 09-06-07, 02:09 AM

European Air War is not bad for gameplay and for sticking huge numbers of aircraft into the air, but a bit dated and the campaign missions do start to get a bit repetitive. There were some great free mods ala GWX for it as well with Battle of Britain, Pacific and Mediterranean theatres covered for variation when you get bored.

IL2 1946 is a must have from a graphics perspective though.

BoB2 is as buggy as it's predeccessor and I wouldn't bother with it apart from some nice features when it works.

Camaero · 09-06-07, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Officerpuppy

I suggest B17: The Mighty Eighth
http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/b...th/review.html

It's quite a unique experience and you'll be very satisfied once you complete your first sucessful bombing run since it takes some pratice to figure out the controls for the bombadier. Don't be surprised if you develop some attachement to your crews either, it's great to see a guy survive three bombing runs or barely making it home alive only to fly another day after he gets cleared from the doc.

And if memory serves me well you can hop into an escort fighter or even the Germans and test your luck up against a formation of B-17's. And with the proper tools which can be found on some fansites you can create your own nose art and paint your plane as well.
You can try the game free for 30 min from here:

http://trygames.com/game/aff=trygame...177a32f609d79d

Awesome game. Beery has a great mod for this as well if you can still find it. I have it somewhere... B-17 does have some issues that bother me though... First, the AI likes to blow up the engines by overheating them, especially in a landing pattern. This can cause you to not make it back home when otherwise you should, even though your plane is very badly shot up. The game is still a blast though.

IL21946 is impossible to beat however... (Although it does lack that beautiful B17 as a flyable plane.)

d@rk51d3 · 09-06-07, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TarJak

European Air War is not bad for gameplay and for sticking huge numbers of aircraft into the air, but a bit dated and the campaign missions do start to get a bit repetitive.

Ahhhhh, EAW was great, and can be picked up for about $10 too.

HunterICX · 09-06-07, 04:50 AM

IL1946 is a good game to play all different roles in Air warfare.
it has many planes to choose out from. the game is stable as a brick house, never had any issues with it

so my suggestion is get the IL2 1946 DVD version
(so you have all the IL2 games in one Installation)

but Mush martin

we have a special flight sim section if you scroll down a bit you see Helo/Flight sim section.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=216

there is a lot of info to be found there

(I will get thread moved to the right section)

ReallyDedPoet · 09-06-07, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HunterICX

but Mush martin

we have a special flight sim section if you scroll down a bit you see Helo/Flight sim section.

Yeah, I mentioned that to him as well, takes him awhile though

@ Snodrvr, Welcome to SUBSIM

RDP

seafarer · 09-06-07, 07:37 AM

My vote is for Jane's WWII Fighters - I still love that game (and it even runs fine under Vista - shocker, since Janes USAF is fubar'd with Vista).

ReallyDedPoet · 09-06-07, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seafarer

My vote is for Jane's WWII Fighters - I still love that game (and it even runs fine under Vista - shocker, since Janes USAF is fubar'd with Vista).

Great game

Still have it as well.

RDP

Letum · 09-06-07, 07:50 AM

Forget MS Combat flightsim 3.

IL2 1946 is the best you can buy. *Especialy* for online play.

P51: Check!

F4U: Check!

P-38: Check!

Spitfire: Check!

FW-190: Check!

Me262: Check!

Also:
(FLYABLE RED PLANES )
A_20G
B_25J1
BEAU21
BI_1
F2A2
F2A_B339
F4F3
F4F4
F4F_FM2
F4U1A
F4U1C
F4U1D
F4UCORSAIR1
F4UCORSAIR2
F4UCORSAIR4
F6F3
F6F5
HurricaneMkIIb
HurricaneMkIIc
HurricaneMkIIbMod
I_153_M62
I_153P
I_16TYPE18
I_16TYPE24
I_16TYPE24DRONE
I_185M71
I_185M82A
IL_2_1940Early
IL_2_1940Late
IL_2_1941Early
IL_2_1941Late
IL_2I
IL_2MEarly
IL_2MLate
IL_2Type3
IL_2Type3M
IL_2T
LA_5
LA_5F
LA_5FN
LA_7
LA_7B20
LAGG_3SERIES4
LAGG_3SERIES29
LAGG_3SERIES35
LAGG_3SERIES66
LAGG_3IT
MIG_3EARLY
MIG_3SHVAK
MIG_3AM38
MIG_3U
MIG_3UB
MIG_3UD
MOSQUITO6
P_38J
P_38L
P_38LLate
P_39D1
P_39D2
P_39N
P_39Q1
P_39Q10
P_400
P_40E
P_40EM105
P_40M
P_40SUKAISVOLOCHHAWKA2 ( Hawk-81A2 )
P_40SUKAISVOLOCHB ( P-40B )
P_40SUKAISVOLOCHC ( P-40C )
P_40SUKAISVOLOCH2A ( Kittyhawk Mk. IIa )
P_40SUKAISVOLOCH2B ( Kittyhawk Mk. IIb )
P_47D
P_47D10
P_47D22
P_47D27
P_51B
P_51C
P_51CM ( Mustang Mk. III )
P_51D5NT
P_51D20NA
P_63C
P_80A
PE_2SERIES1
PE_2SERIES84
PE_2SERIES110
PE_2SERIES359
PE_3SERIES1
PE_3BIS
SBD3
SBD5
SEAFIRE3
SEAFIRE3F
SPITFIRE5B
SPITFIRE5C2
SPITFIRE5C4
SPITFIRE5BCLP
SPITFIRE5BLF
SPITFIRE5BLFCLP
SPITFIRE8
SPITFIRE8CLP
SPITFIRE9C
SPITFIRE9CCLP
SPITFIRE9E
SPITFIRE9ECLP
SPITFIRE9EHF
SPITFIRE925LBS
TB_3_4M_17
TB_3_4M_34R
TB_3_4M_34R_SPB
TEMPEST5
YAK_1
YAK_1B
YAK_3
YAK_3P
YAK_7A
YAK_7B
YAK_7BPF
YAK_9
YAK_9B
YAK_9D
YAK_9K
YAK_9M
YAK_9T
YAK_9U
YAK_9UT

(AI ONLY RED PLANES)
B_17D
B_17E
B_17F
B_17G
B_24J100
B_25C25
B_25G1
B_25H1
B_29
BLENHEIM4
C_47
G_11
IL_4_DB3B
IL_4_DB3M
IL_4_DB3T
IL_4_DB3F
IL_4_IL4
LI_2
MBR_2AM34
MOSQUITO4
PBN1
PE_8
R_10
SB_2M100A
SB_2M103
SU_2
TBF1
TBF1C
TBM3
TBM3AVENGER3
TU_2S
U_2VS

(FLYABLE BLUE PLANES )
A6M2
A6M2_21
A6M2_N
A6M3
A6M5
A6M5A
A6M5B
A6M5C
A6M7_62
A6M7_63
BF_109E4
BF_109E4B
BF_109E7
BF_109E7NZ
BF_109F2
BF_109F4
BF_109G2
BF_109G6
BF_109G6Late
BF_109G6AS
BF_109G10
BF_109G14
BF_109K4
BF_109K4C3
BF_109Z
BF_110G2
CR_42
D3A1
DO_335A0
F2A_B239
FW_190A4
FW_190A5
FW_190A6
FW_190A8
FW_190A8MSTL
FW_190A9
FW_190D9
FW_190D9LATE
FW_190F8
TA_152H1
G50
GLADIATOR1J8A
G4M1_11
GO_229A1
HE_111H2
HE_111H6
HE_162A2
HurricaneMkIa
IAR_80
IAR_81A
IAR_80C
J2M3
JU_87B2
JU_87D3
JU_87D5
JU_87G1
KI_43_IA
KI_43_IB
KI_43_IC
KI_61_IKO
KI_61_IHEI
KI_61_IOTSU
KI_84_IA
KI_84_IB
KI_84_IC
KI_100_IKO
MC_200_3
MC_202_3
MC_202_7
MC_202_12
MC_205_1
MC_205_3
ME_163B1A
ME_262A1A
ME_262A1AU4
ME_262A2A
P_11C

(AI ONLY BLUE PLANES )
AR_196A3
B5N2
BF_110C4
BF_110C4B
BLENHEIM1
FI_156
FW_189A2
FW_200C3U4
GLADIATOR
G4M2E
H8K1
HE_111Z
HS_129B2
HS_129B3Wa
J2M5
JU_52_3MG4E
JU_52_3MG5E
JU_88A4
JU_88MSTL
KI_43_II
KI_43_IIKAI
KI_46_OTSU
KI_46_RECCE
KI_46_OTSUHEI
L2D
ME_210CA1
ME_210CA1ZSTR
ME_321
ME_323
MC_200_1
MC_200_7
MC_200_7FB
MC_202
MS406
MS410
MSMORKO
MXY_7
N1K1J
N1K1JA
P_36A3
P_36A4

New Flyable Planes:

Douglas A-20C, 1941
Ilyushin Il-10, 1945
Nakajima Ki-27 Ko, 1938
Nakajima Ki-27 Otsu, 1938
Nakajima Ki-43-II, 1942
Nakajima Ki-43-II Kai, 1943
Mitsubishi J2M5, 1944
Kawanishi N1K2-Ja, 1944
'46:
Bereznyak-Isaev BI-6
Lavochkin LaGG-3R
Lavochkin La-7R
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 Prototype
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9FS
Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 (MiG-13)
Yakovlev Yak-3 VK-107A
Yakovlev Yak-3R
Yakovlev Yak-15
Arado Ar-234B Blitz
Dornier Do-335V-13
Heinkel He-L-IIIB-2 Lerche
Heinkel He-162B
Heinkel He-162C
Messerschmitt Me-262HG-II
Tank Ta-152C
Tank Ta-183

09-05-07, 08:43 PM	#1
Mush Martin Eternal Patrol Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4,398 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	What are the Good WWII Flight sims? As the thread title suggests. What are the Good WWII Flight sims? Hoping to find P-51D,F4U,P-38,Spitfire,FW190,ME262 more or less in that priority. __________________ RIP Mush Tutorial

09-05-07, 09:15 PM	#2
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Il2 1946 has all those planes, with the different versions, and probably everything else, or almost, including some conceptual crap that you may find fun to toy with. It doesn't have a good vanilla campaign though, no default campaign will ever put enough units in the air, or in the ground, even if you have a super-computer that can handle dozens of them. But there's a bunch of user-created missions, user-created campaigns and some forms of dynamic campaigns out there. And you can always use the mission editor to satisfy yourself, or the quick mission builder that will start you, and the enemy, already in the air, ready to rumble. Although the game is old the graphics are nice, and of course, it's a "realistic" kind of sim. __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand

09-05-07, 10:02 PM	#3
Heibges Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Francisco, California Posts: 1,633 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	IL2 1946 is pretty much the only game in town right now, especially if you like multiplayer, or am I wrong about this? __________________ U.Kdt.Hdb B. I. 28) This possibility of using the hydrophone to help in detecting surface ships should, however, be restricted to those cases where the submarine is unavoidably compelled to stay below the surface. http://www.hackworth.com/

09-05-07, 10:31 PM	#5
Officerpuppy Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mansfield, TX Posts: 213 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I suggest B17: The Mighty Eighth http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/b...th/review.html It's quite a unique experience and you'll be very satisfied once you complete your first sucessful bombing run since it takes some pratice to figure out the controls for the bombadier. Don't be surprised if you develop some attachement to your crews either, it's great to see a guy survive three bombing runs or barely making it home alive only to fly another day after he gets cleared from the doc. And if memory serves me well you can hop into an escort fighter or even the Germans and test your luck up against a formation of B-17's. And with the proper tools which can be found on some fansites you can create your own nose art and paint your plane as well. You can try the game free for 30 min from here: http://trygames.com/game/aff=trygame...177a32f609d79d Last edited by Officerpuppy; 09-05-07 at 11:45 PM.

09-06-07, 04:50 AM	#11
HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	IL1946 is a good game to play all different roles in Air warfare. it has many planes to choose out from. the game is stable as a brick house, never had any issues with it so my suggestion is get the IL2 1946 DVD version (so you have all the IL2 games in one Installation) but Mush martin we have a special flight sim section if you scroll down a bit you see Helo/Flight sim section. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=216 there is a lot of info to be found there (I will get thread moved to the right section) __________________

09-05-07, 10:26 PM	#4
Snodrvr Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 6 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Nope, your right Heigbes, as far as WW2 Flight Sims go Il2 1946 is pretty much your best bet, Huge selection of aircraft (all you've listed are there with various models and loadouts availible), and A large number of targets both ground and naval. I should warn you though, The P-51 in game has a pretty steep learning curve. Your going to spend a lot of time spinning and stalling learning how to handle it. There may be some life left in Combat Flight Sim 3 , but I wouldn't know where that crowd hangs out.

09-05-07, 10:39 PM	#6
d@rk51d3 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,917 Downloads: 193 Uploads: 0	IL2-1946 is my current choice. (got it cheap in the bargain bin too ) Now I just need to ditch my cruddy futuretronics stick and get something decent.

09-05-07, 11:01 PM	#7
CptSimFreak Frogman Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 291 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	IL2 1946 would be best online and offline flight sim. If you want to try MMP then there is Aces High by HitechCreations. IIRC there is a free two weeks trial.

09-06-07, 02:09 AM	#8
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	European Air War is not bad for gameplay and for sticking huge numbers of aircraft into the air, but a bit dated and the campaign missions do start to get a bit repetitive. There were some great free mods ala GWX for it as well with Battle of Britain, Pacific and Mediterranean theatres covered for variation when you get bored. IL2 1946 is a must have from a graphics perspective though. BoB2 is as buggy as it's predeccessor and I wouldn't bother with it apart from some nice features when it works.

09-06-07, 07:37 AM	#13
seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	My vote is for Jane's WWII Fighters - I still love that game (and it even runs fine under Vista - shocker, since Janes USAF is fubar'd with Vista).

09-06-07, 07:50 AM	#15
Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Forget MS Combat flightsim 3. IL2 1946 is the best you can buy. Especialy for online play. P51: Check! F4U: Check! P-38: Check! Spitfire: Check! FW-190: Check! Me262: Check! Also: (FLYABLE RED PLANES ) A_20G B_25J1 BEAU21 BI_1 F2A2 F2A_B339 F4F3 F4F4 F4F_FM2 F4U1A F4U1C F4U1D F4UCORSAIR1 F4UCORSAIR2 F4UCORSAIR4 F6F3 F6F5 HurricaneMkIIb HurricaneMkIIc HurricaneMkIIbMod I_153_M62 I_153P I_16TYPE18 I_16TYPE24 I_16TYPE24DRONE I_185M71 I_185M82A IL_2_1940Early IL_2_1940Late IL_2_1941Early IL_2_1941Late IL_2I IL_2MEarly IL_2MLate IL_2Type3 IL_2Type3M IL_2T LA_5 LA_5F LA_5FN LA_7 LA_7B20 LAGG_3SERIES4 LAGG_3SERIES29 LAGG_3SERIES35 LAGG_3SERIES66 LAGG_3IT MIG_3EARLY MIG_3SHVAK MIG_3AM38 MIG_3U MIG_3UB MIG_3UD MOSQUITO6 P_38J P_38L P_38LLate P_39D1 P_39D2 P_39N P_39Q1 P_39Q10 P_400 P_40E P_40EM105 P_40M P_40SUKAISVOLOCHHAWKA2 ( Hawk-81A2 ) P_40SUKAISVOLOCHB ( P-40B ) P_40SUKAISVOLOCHC ( P-40C ) P_40SUKAISVOLOCH2A ( Kittyhawk Mk. IIa ) P_40SUKAISVOLOCH2B ( Kittyhawk Mk. IIb ) P_47D P_47D10 P_47D22 P_47D27 P_51B P_51C P_51CM ( Mustang Mk. III ) P_51D5NT P_51D20NA P_63C P_80A PE_2SERIES1 PE_2SERIES84 PE_2SERIES110 PE_2SERIES359 PE_3SERIES1 PE_3BIS SBD3 SBD5 SEAFIRE3 SEAFIRE3F SPITFIRE5B SPITFIRE5C2 SPITFIRE5C4 SPITFIRE5BCLP SPITFIRE5BLF SPITFIRE5BLFCLP SPITFIRE8 SPITFIRE8CLP SPITFIRE9C SPITFIRE9CCLP SPITFIRE9E SPITFIRE9ECLP SPITFIRE9EHF SPITFIRE925LBS TB_3_4M_17 TB_3_4M_34R TB_3_4M_34R_SPB TEMPEST5 YAK_1 YAK_1B YAK_3 YAK_3P YAK_7A YAK_7B YAK_7BPF YAK_9 YAK_9B YAK_9D YAK_9K YAK_9M YAK_9T YAK_9U YAK_9UT (AI ONLY RED PLANES) B_17D B_17E B_17F B_17G B_24J100 B_25C25 B_25G1 B_25H1 B_29 BLENHEIM4 C_47 G_11 IL_4_DB3B IL_4_DB3M IL_4_DB3T IL_4_DB3F IL_4_IL4 LI_2 MBR_2AM34 MOSQUITO4 PBN1 PE_8 R_10 SB_2M100A SB_2M103 SU_2 TBF1 TBF1C TBM3 TBM3AVENGER3 TU_2S U_2VS (FLYABLE BLUE PLANES ) A6M2 A6M2_21 A6M2_N A6M3 A6M5 A6M5A A6M5B A6M5C A6M7_62 A6M7_63 BF_109E4 BF_109E4B BF_109E7 BF_109E7NZ BF_109F2 BF_109F4 BF_109G2 BF_109G6 BF_109G6Late BF_109G6AS BF_109G10 BF_109G14 BF_109K4 BF_109K4C3 BF_109Z BF_110G2 CR_42 D3A1 DO_335A0 F2A_B239 FW_190A4 FW_190A5 FW_190A6 FW_190A8 FW_190A8MSTL FW_190A9 FW_190D9 FW_190D9LATE FW_190F8 TA_152H1 G50 GLADIATOR1J8A G4M1_11 GO_229A1 HE_111H2 HE_111H6 HE_162A2 HurricaneMkIa IAR_80 IAR_81A IAR_80C J2M3 JU_87B2 JU_87D3 JU_87D5 JU_87G1 KI_43_IA KI_43_IB KI_43_IC KI_61_IKO KI_61_IHEI KI_61_IOTSU KI_84_IA KI_84_IB KI_84_IC KI_100_IKO MC_200_3 MC_202_3 MC_202_7 MC_202_12 MC_205_1 MC_205_3 ME_163B1A ME_262A1A ME_262A1AU4 ME_262A2A P_11C (AI ONLY BLUE PLANES ) AR_196A3 B5N2 BF_110C4 BF_110C4B BLENHEIM1 FI_156 FW_189A2 FW_200C3U4 GLADIATOR G4M2E H8K1 HE_111Z HS_129B2 HS_129B3Wa J2M5 JU_52_3MG4E JU_52_3MG5E JU_88A4 JU_88MSTL KI_43_II KI_43_IIKAI KI_46_OTSU KI_46_RECCE KI_46_OTSUHEI L2D ME_210CA1 ME_210CA1ZSTR ME_321 ME_323 MC_200_1 MC_200_7 MC_200_7FB MC_202 MS406 MS410 MSMORKO MXY_7 N1K1J N1K1JA P_36A3 P_36A4 New Flyable Planes: Douglas A-20C, 1941 Ilyushin Il-10, 1945 Nakajima Ki-27 Ko, 1938 Nakajima Ki-27 Otsu, 1938 Nakajima Ki-43-II, 1942 Nakajima Ki-43-II Kai, 1943 Mitsubishi J2M5, 1944 Kawanishi N1K2-Ja, 1944 '46: Bereznyak-Isaev BI-6 Lavochkin LaGG-3R Lavochkin La-7R Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 Prototype Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9FS Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 (MiG-13) Yakovlev Yak-3 VK-107A Yakovlev Yak-3R Yakovlev Yak-15 Arado Ar-234B Blitz Dornier Do-335V-13 Heinkel He-L-IIIB-2 Lerche Heinkel He-162B Heinkel He-162C Messerschmitt Me-262HG-II Tank Ta-152C Tank Ta-183 __________________