Flying Circus planes in my IL-2?

[lantern53]

I was just doing a Quick Mission and noticed that I could pick WWI planes as opponents...how long has that been available? I never noticed it before.

[MarderIV]

Been there for a very long time, much to my fondest amusement. There's nothing like making confetti of those planes with Mk108s. 

[Field-Ops]

All planes can be opponents regardless of if you own them or not. Ownership just means you can fly them. 

[MattS]

5 hours ago, MarderIV said:

Been there for a very long time, much to my fondest amusement. There's nothing like making confetti of those planes with Mk108s. 

 

Relaxing way to unwind after a tough day at work? ?

[Hanu]

1 hour ago, MattS said:

 

Relaxing way to unwind after a tough day at work? ?

 

Sure, but "helpless" opponents can be dangerous too! ? This bring to my mind my old comic strip I created from real event during old IL-2 '46 days... Language is bizarre Finnish, but the luckily the story is quite self-explanatory...

 

Hanu is relaxing after his work-week by shooting helpless bombers... However being too excited I almost "undershooted" the last one and managed to slow down under it... I had scored a few hits to engine and AI pilot had to do something to keep his crate in the air...

 

Last line of speech bubbles goes like "OH - FECK - ING - crap"

 

Edited June 4, 2020 by Hanu

[MarderIV]

2 hours ago, MattS said:

Relaxing way to unwind after a tough day at work?

[Rjel]

Doing these types of one sided dogfights was my favorite part of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat way back when. What if scenarios always fascinate me. I am so thankful that the BoX series was designed to interconnect each new segment with those that came before it. Not only has it allowed the what ifs we can dream up, it's allowed all the versions of the game to be kept up to date. I'm sure it's made the developers' lives more difficult by doing so, but as the end user I am the thankful benefactor of it.

[6./ZG26_Loke]

On 6/4/2020 at 1:27 PM, Hanu said:

 

Sure, but "helpless" opponents can be dangerous too! ? This bring to my mind my old comic strip I created from real event during old IL-2 '46 days... Language is bizarre Finnish, but the luckily the story is quite self-explanatory...

 

Hanu is relaxing after his work-week by shooting helpless bombers... However being too excited I almost "undershooted" the last one and managed to slow down under it... I had scored a few hits to engine and AI pilot had to do something to keep his crate in the air...

 

Last line of speech bubbles goes like "OH - FECK - ING - crap"

 

 

I made a small and a bit larger comic back then too.