There are a couple of new Battle of Britain flight sims that have just been released, and Im wondering if anyone has tried them yet. Ones is History Channel: Battle of Britain and the other is a Combat Flight Simulator 3 expansion: 1940 Battle of Britain. There is going to be a Battle of Britain expansion of IL-2 Forgoten Battles released in 2005, that should be really good. My favorite flight sim is still Rowans Battle of Britain which is about 3 years old now, but has good graphics and very realistic gameplay. The enemy is not generated out of nowhere, but always has a position. So if you see an enemy fly off in the distance, you will eventually catch them in your fighter, and you can follow them all the way back to there base with the unlimited fuel setting.
By: trumper - 18th January 2004 at 16:29
http://www.il2sturmovik.com/ info on Olegs new B o B released in 2005.
Rowans B o B DOES run on XP,it may need patching http://www.bob-ma.org/
Have a look on here as well http://oldsite.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards/bbs/ultimatebb.php?ubb=forum;f=40
Good luck:)
By: DazDaMan - 18th January 2004 at 13:35
I bought FOURcopies of Rowan’s Battle of Britain, installed it, and couldn’t get the sonofab!tch to work at all!
Each time I just took it back and asked for an exchange and, eventually, a feckin’ refund!
😡 😡 😡
Pretty much given up on PC-based games now!
By: mixtec - 18th January 2004 at 07:16
Originally posted by RobAnt
Rowan’s BofB won’t run on XP. So I’ve got it, but never been able to get it to work. It is true, however, that although I do have an ME installed PC, I’ve never bothered to load it. My guess is it will work quite well on a lowish spec machine!
Im inclined to agree that it will run best on a low spec comp. I first ran it on a 800 mhz duron with onboard graphic memory and had no problem whatsoever. Now with my 1.6 mhz Athlon and 128 mb radeon 9000 it runs a bit quirky, but still not what I would call buggy.
Bradburger- Thanks for that Rowans BoB update site.
By: RobAnt - 17th January 2004 at 23:39
Rowan’s BofB won’t run on XP. So I’ve got it, but never been able to get it to work. It is true, however, that although I do have an ME installed PC, I’ve never bothered to load it. My guess is it will work quite well on a lowish spec machine!
CFS3 works okay for me (cant comment on accuracy of any sim) in local mode, but multiplayer will never kick in properly.
IL2-FB does exactly what it says on the in. Bought if after viewing a recommendation here, and I have no problems whatsoever.
Even managed to download the IL2-FBs massive 130-odd mb patch (that is a bit big, you have to admit, and a total nono if you don’t have an hour+ to spare on a 512kb broadband connection).
By: Snapper - 17th January 2004 at 23:25
I couldn’t get BoB to do anything. Just didn’t want to work. And my PC runs CFS3, all 3 Medal of Honor games and Vietcong with no problems at all. IL2 ran great too – but I couldn’t get into it (my failing, not the games). I personally like VFS2 the most, and have downnloaded some excellent add-ons from www.simviation.com.
By: MarkG - 17th January 2004 at 22:57
I agree with Damien 100% on this. I bought Rowan’s BoB and NEVER managed to play more than about 30 seconds of a mission before it crashed back to the desktop or froze the PC. I got the exact same results on 2 entirely different computers – different hardware spec., different OS, they were even different colours.
It’s was such a pile of cr@p and annoyed me so much that I didn’t even bother expending the effort to take it back to the shop, I threw it in the bin and tried to forget this bug-riddled junk ever existed.:mad:
Must admit though, I still have a great big soft spot for European Air War. It’s a bit long in the tooth now, but I had great fun playing it.:)
By: Bradburger - 17th January 2004 at 21:00
Well out of the box most people would probably agree with Damien.
However as Rowan are no longer, the source code for it and Mig Alley are now in the hands the BOB community and apparently they have done wonders fixing all the bugs and improving the it and also bringing the graphics and FM’s up to date.
Whilst I don’t have either of these sims, I’ve seen what they’ve done so far and it looks impressive.
Go here to check for the latest updates:
Cheers
Paul
By: Bluebird Mike - 17th January 2004 at 19:01
I still love old ‘Fighter Squadron’, though you need to have the VAST number of patches, plane packs, additional aircraft etc etc that have been made available by fans online to get the most out of it.
By: Moggy C - 17th January 2004 at 18:12
I was given the CFS3 expansion.
It’s a pile of poo.
Example 1) Second mission – get a damaged Hurricane (wooden 2-blader) back from France to England.
Result? Shot down by the flak around a V1 launch site near Dunkerque. (This is May 1940)
Example 2) First Campaign mission allocated by computer. Take 2-blade Hurri from the UK and strafe the beach defenses in Normandy (This is May 1940)
Result? Forget it. Uninstall programme.
Pity the in-cockpit Merlin noises are great. But on my machine CFS3 even with the patch, is still a nasty, juddering, bug-ridden shambles.
I’ll wait for the IL2 expansion methinks.
Moggy
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