IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Moscow free for limited time plus sale underway

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Flight sim developer 1C Game Studios has announced that they are doing a special give away by offering up Battle of Moscow for free and offering significant discounts on most other content. Here’s the deal.

Battle of Moscow for free, sales coming up

Commemorating V-E day’s 80th Anniversary, 1CGS is offering IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow for free for 48-hours between 9pm UTC May 7th till 9pm UTC May 9th (or 2pm PDT May 7th – 2pm PDT May 9th). A special button will appear during that time and you’ll be able to pick up the standard edition title for free.

A sale will also be on with 80% off on all Great Battles modules from May 6 to May 20. That includes Battle of Normandy and Bodenplatte, the Flying Circus series, campaigns and Collector Planes.

Learn more over here!

12 responses to “IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Moscow free for limited time plus sale underway”

  1. PaperPilot Avatar
    PaperPilot

    How nice of them to offer us Moscow for free. Unfortunately I feel that there aren’t enough aircraft available for Battle of Moscow Career and AQMB. A short list of aircraft I would really like to see for it are the Hs-123 A-1, Ju-87 B-2, DB-3, Pe-3Bis, and the SB-2. Don’t get me wrong though as I am happy with what we’ve got, and I am ecstatic that new heap of planes like the Bf-109 E-4, I-153, LaGG-3 Series 4, Yak-1 Series 23 are coming to Great Battles as it would enhance the game play by adding a more diverse set of planes.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      It’s a pretty diverse group considering what they were able to do at the time. Hurricane II in the mix plus the three others coming that you’ve cited is a decent collection.

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      1. PaperPilot Avatar
        PaperPilot

        You’re right. It is a good collection of planes. I just wish there were more bombers though, though I do appreciate the fact that longer aircraft take longer to build, and I know if they were ever to do more large planes for Great Battles that would be a waste of man power because in all honesty they do have to move on. I just wish we could see more CAS, heavy fighters and medium bombers in the game. But I understand it’s not going to happen. And that’s ok.

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  2. CanadaOne Avatar
    CanadaOne

    Battle of Moscow for free, not bad at all.

    And because your loyal readers are the very best and worst of the flightsim crowd, your first sentence has an error. ” . . . an special . . . “

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      Well spotted ☺️

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  3. Aapje Avatar
    Aapje

    The discount on Flying Circus Volume IV is huge compared to the previous sale, where it was only 25% off. The Ta 152 plane was 50% off for the last sale, and 80% is thus a lot more.

    The Gestapo Hunters campaign was 25% off during the last sale, so it is also a much bigger discount now.

    The Iron Wind campaign is so new that it hasn’t even seen a regular sale yet, so 80% off is an incredible deal.

    All other content has seen 75% discounts, so it isn’t a big extra discount, but it is still the biggest discount for that content.

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  4. Homeslice Avatar
    Homeslice

    This is fantastic! I picked up two campaigns and 3 Flying Circuses(Circui)? 🙂 I don’t think there was ever been this big of a deal before!!

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      I believe you’re right. We’ve seen deep discounts but not quite at the breadth on offer.

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      1. Aapje Avatar
        Aapje

        Both the size of the discount and the fact that even the newest modules are discounted, is a first.

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  5. Blue 5 Avatar
    Blue 5

    VE Day, celebrating the victory of democracies over genocidal totalitarian states invading their neighbours and killing tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers (their own and foe) to no end and no gain.

    BoM is on offer.

    Huh.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      It’s a complicated history of course. One that is continually reevaluated to be sure.

      We’ll try and keep it focused on the simming side. It’s a bit harder than back a few years ago of course.

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    2. Aapje Avatar
      Aapje

      VE Day, celebrating the victory of democracies over genocidal totalitarian states invading their neighbours

      In the European theater, most of the fighting was between two totalitarian states.

      to no end and no gain.

      This is also not true. Both Germany and Japan (and the USSR & the UK & France) were motivated by the belief that in a colonialist environment with relatively little international trade, only countries with significant access to resources within their own control, could survive. The goal of both countries was thus to conquer land with those resources, and they thus had an ‘end’.

      Hitler severely miscalculated how far he could go with regard to conquering smaller nations, and he triggered WW2 ahead of schedule and at a point before the planners considered Germany to be ready for a large war. Japan’s entrance into war with the US was deliberate and thus dumber.

      The fairly quick transition of the West to a post-colonial world order based on free trade, probably hastened quite a bit by WW2, was not something that was obvious at the time. It’s not really fair to judge the decisions of the time with knowledge that people back then didn’t have.

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