IL:1946 Video

[starbage1]

Even though it's an old game still fun to play

[huub vink]

The graphics are still very good for such an old game. But I think the missions which more or less kept repeating, made me abandon this game in the end.

Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it.

Huub

[stansdds]

I spent a lot of hours in Il 2: Pacific Fighters, then Il 2: 1946. The canned missions were "ok", but the series was best when flying in an online squadron. Much to the dismay of my wife, and one of the reasons I ceased participation with the series, I spent many Friday and Saturday nights flying. Starting around 9 PM my local time and flying for 3 or 4 hours. The advent of Scorched Earth Online War was a game changer. Now, each mission really counted and the squadron really needed every member to participate at a 100% attendance level. Near the end of my squadron flying days I ended up being the squadron's maintenance officer. Every week I would create and distribute new aircraft skins for the members, the new skins reflecting repaired damage and added mission and victory markings and sometimes a factory fresh skin to replace a crashed aircraft. It became all-consuming and I had to make a decision. Real life won the battle and I have not clicked the launch button since. Good memories and a whole bunch of mission tracks are still stored away.

[lgoncalv]

Very nice old game toghether with BoB Wings of Victory

[sixstrings5859]

Still run Il-2 '46 and have several installs of the modded sim . Missions,maps,effects,aircraft and more. Still has more life in it as well as CFS3.

[starbage1]

just so you know steam has IL-2 1946 with the 5 games in 1 for only 5 dollars. you can create missions or download them for free. There are a couple of campaigns and tons of ww2 aircraft from every theater except Africa.
Runs good in open gl for me all setting son high and there is config you can modify as well for the graphics still trying to get that to look good.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/15320/

[starbage1]

[sixstrings5859]

Beside CFS3 and all its expansions Il-2 '46 is my next favorite combat flight sim. To have both is great and comprehensive in covering WWII.Tons of mods are available for Il-2 '46 and a great future is still there for the both of them.