Back To Page 1 In 1971, I was an adviser to the Arabs in Egypt. I was fresh from my first tour in Vietnam with the latest development of our beloved MiG-21, the model MF. It was a great improvement over the PFM model, having the new RP-22 radar with extended range and two more […]
A Strike Fighters: Project 1 Mission Story by Cat I seem to spend my life in terminals and hangars at various airfields, waiting for something. My friends, do you ever find that life often is a sort of waiting game? One waits…for what is next to come, and then it is come and gone, and again […]
Back To Page 3 What Makes a Good Mission? Good Briefings If the mission is designed for certain realism settings make sure you say so. I have written several missions that only make sense if played on full real — for example a night dogfight mission in 1940 where pilots are meant to use searchlights […]
Back To Page 2 What Makes a Good Mission? Interesting Tactical Problems There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a “fly there, bomb that, fight these” mission. However a whole campaign full of co-alt, equal numbers fighter merges can get a bit samey. So what else can we think of? One little-known trick is to use the […]
Back To Page 1 What Makes a Good Mission? Drama Drama is the hardest thing to describe because it is different for each of us. It is that little touch that makes a mission a bit special. For some it may simply be a cunningly designed port as you race your Heinkel torpedo bomber between […]
by Guest Writer Ian Boys Introduction This is not a users’ guide for the Full Mission Builder and it does assume basic familiarity with that tool. Instead it is a few thoughts on what makes a good mission and how I design missions. I hope that some mission designers will see a few new things and […]
by Chris “BeachAV8R” Frishmuth One thing about being a professional pilot is that just like the average aviation enthusiast we too suffer from “aircraft envy”. As I taxi out to the runway in my King Air or Citation, I often gaze longingly at Gulfstreams or Boeings and wonder what it would be like to fly one. […]
Back To Page 2 I am very impressed at how well the game looks in cockpit, especially when I fire up the original. The original game almost looks cartoonish in comparison to the updated version. There will be the inevitable comparisons between IL2 and BoB II when the game is released and I think […]
Back To Page 1 Phase two is considered to be the airfield attack phase of the battle; where the Luftwaffe concentrated its attacks on the airfields in Southern England in the hopes of both knocking the RAF out of the air. While the British gave as good as they got, in most cases better, […]
Back To Page 4 Overall Opinions and Recommendations Overall the preview copy (a late beta version) brings exactly what I expected. I have to admit there was little that surprised me since I played the game about two hours at E3 and I am an old hand at Battle of Britain. Former players of […]
Back To Page 3 The way the TIR works in BoB II is how it should work in all games and my advice to developers looking to implement 6DOF support is to pick up this game and see how the game works in cockpit. This view of my prey through the stuka’s dive bombing […]
by Tom “WKLINK” Cofield Introduction When I reviewed the original Battle of Britain, back in 1999, I stated that the title was almost a classic. In its original form it was very good, almost a classic in many ways. Graphically it was decent, the flight and damage models were above average and it had a […]
