What are the Good WWII Flight sims?

[Mush Martin]

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]

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]

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

[Snodrvr]

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]

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]

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.

[Camaero]

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.)

[AVGWarhawk]

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

I still have this disc. Here is a game that I wish went a farther than it did. It is quite good but a nice updated graphics would be cool. Perhaps I will load it up again and play it. Any good mods out there for this game?