I've been hankering after a change of pace recently and so have been flying il2 1946 BAT 4.1.1. and I've been having a blast, it's a game with real soul and fun. I've just played through Poltava's (brilliant campaign designer)"Desperate Days 1939".
A campaign set in the early days (hours) of WW2 as Germany invades Poland. The thing that I love, that thing that gives it soul, is the amount of fairly unique early war Luftwaffe aircraft, like the Ju87A, the Hs-123, the HS-126 and the Ju86. Not to mention the Polish Air force, gull-winged PZL P.11c the Lublin R-XIII recce biplane, and the PZL P.23B "Karas" light bomber.
The story is pretty good and as a whole package is utterly brilliant (This is why I love flying!). Well worth the effort of reinstalling il2 1946 and adding BAT.
Here are a few screenshots...
My trusty P11c
Dogfighting with HS-123 Dive Bombers
Some much tougher opposition
An HS-126 Recce Flight
A Ju 86 - You'd need a medal to be the guy in the lower retractable gun position
Scoring a JU 87 in the opening hours of the war
A whole lot of fun and while BAT isn't great for multiplayer It is a superb single-player mod
BAT here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/board,264.0.html
Desperate Days here:
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php ... ils&id=907
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