Back To Page 3 Background European Air War as its name says, was originally focused only on a short WWII period of war over England and the European Continent. It was meant to be a follow-up to MicroProse Software, Inc.’s successful 1942: Pacific Air War, to be named 1943: European Air War as a […]
Back To Page 2 Recent screenshots by EAW forum members in higher resolution… “Para Bellum’s” post of a bomber flight. The higher-resolution look of today’s game. Desert Air War screenshots taken by “Skylark”. Jan Tuma’s biplanes. Screen shot by “RAF_Dumoulin” (Dumo). “Flying Tiger’s” (Ade Kelly) Jolly Rogers in Pacific waters, and the in-progress Korean Air […]
Back To Page 1 EAW in Review There is a kind of “Retro” movement going on to revive and update old video games. The EAW community is far ahead of the curve on this, and the story of the community itself is at least as interesting as new game developments. SimHQ Forums was among […]
A SimHQ “Second Look” Series Feature by Guest Writers Wallace “Wudpecker” Wood and Mike “Sandbagger” Norris “Bed-check Charlie’s” biplane scares Sabres in Korea. Image by Ade Kelley. You would have thought the news was: “World War II is over!…again!” in the SimHQ Forum for European Air War. It was on Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 5:43 GMT. “Col. Gibbon” (John “Col. […]
Preview Screenshots – Set 3 Six new screenshots of the upcoming WWII flight sim from GMX
Back To Page 4 Mark: Besides yourself, who else has been involved in the development of Ostfront? Ian: Well the Kurland map was a joint effort between Jörg Wiedemann and myself. Jörg did the preparatory work in Adobe PhotoShop® and also researched the old village and town names that are, by and large, no longer in use. […]
Back To Page 3 Mark: Which campaigns will be available with Ostfront? Ian: Murmansk: Soviet Navy Fighter Soviet Navy Sturmoviks (uses Chaikas, Hurribombers, A-20 and P-47’s as well as IL-2) Soviet Army Fighter Soviet Army Sturmovik Soviet Recon (new career type) Royal Air Force 151 Wing Luftwaffe Bomber/Torpedobomber (new career type) Luftwaffe Stuka Luftwaffe Fighter Luftwaffe Zerstörer […]
Back To Page 2 Mark: Why is the Murmansk battle interesting? Ian: This one map covers four years of warfare from the German advance in the summer of 1941, through two years of stagnation, to the Soviet steamroller of 1944. We see the aircraft change from Chaikas to the latest Yaks and Focke-Wulfs. There is no […]
Back To Page 1 Mark: This will be the first time a Recon career will be available in Forgotten Battles. What can a player expect flying this career? Will successful recon missions have an effect on the campaign? Ian: The first thing is that the player can expect to fly alone or in a pair — no […]
A Conversation with Ian Boys by Guest Interviewer Mark “Raz” Long The Eastern Front of World War 2 was the largest air battle in the history of the world. Stretching across Russia from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea, it covered a land mass of nearly 1700 miles. The arenas of battle covered by IL-2 […]
Back To Page 8 On the topic of perhaps adding new 3D models that would allow for more diverse orders of battle: “Tamlin and others figured out how the 3D objects are read and it seems possible but nobody has made the effort to incorporate it in the old code. It’s just too big […]
Back To Page 7 The Future of EECH “With the open source I think that interest is the only limiting factor to improving EECH.” – Craigmire So far we’ve seen where we were and where we are; but where are we going? The modders most certainly aren’t done with EECH, and with the source […]
