I'm with you about IL2. Yeah we all have to be careful of the hype, unfortunately I got caught up in it earlier this month, and I regretted it.Mike/All,
Do not buy Cliffs of Dover. It blows big time. Again, wildly over-hyped. The lads from IL2 did not do a great job on this one. I was really looking forward to this. (I fly a BF-109E or 109G-2 in IL2). Wanted to fly against the RAF in a better game. (Sorry guys, but my great uncle on my mothers side was Adolf Galland, one of Germany's highest scoring Aces. BTW, I am NOT him. I get shot down regularly.) If you check the gamesite forums you'll get the drift about it. A heavily upgraded IL2 is STILL the better game.
Jack B)
Back long ago (new to IL2) I was trying to create a full WW1 campaign which worked very well. The unfortunate thing was that there were very, very few Aeroplanes from WW1 in the main game package. I gave up on it because of the lack of WW1 plane textures, and models out there to install. It would have been a very cool thing to have taken the IL2 engine, and turn it into a WW1 sim.
Pretty sad to see that IL2 devs didn't even have WW1 on their radar... Now that would have been a cool sim.
Interesting to read that "my great uncle on my mothers side was Adolf Galland, one of Germany's highest scoring Aces" he is your great uncle.
Cheers.