Campaign can only be flown on Russian side?

[Teapot]

Am I missing something, or can the campaign only be flown as a Russian pilot?

[ST_ami7b5]

You will unlock German side after few missions.

[Finkeren]

There are (IIRC) 4 'tutorial missions' that you're forced to do first. They take like 10 mins total, then you're free to go on flying any mission you like.

[Teapot]

Ok, thanks for that ! Here goes then!

[Finkeren]

Just a word of caution if you haven't played the campaign before: Don't expect too much.

 

There is very little historical framework around the missions, no squad to be part of and no pilots to follow. It is really less of a proper campaign and more of a highly advanced random mission generator.

 

Understand that and you won't be disappointed and can enjoy the campaign for what it actually is. The missions can seem a little bland and under-populated at first, but they improve in scope and details as your pilot level rises (for me the missions really started to become interesting as I reached lvl 4 (which will happen quite fast)

 

The individual flights are never bigger than 6 aircraft, but often times you'll meet other flights that just happen to be around and once in a while some fairly big fights of maybe 20 - 25 aircraft can develop. Once you get access to the ground support missions the ground war really comes alive with 50-100 ground units in the target area alone.

 

You can have good fun with the campaign as long as you don't expect a detailed historical campaign or a career mode.

Edited May 7, 2015 by Finkeren