It’s another big day for 1CGS and the IL-2: Great Battles Series as patch 3.005 releases bringing with it the FW190A-8 for IL-2: Battle of Bodenplatte and two new entries into the series: Tank Crew and Flying Circus. New A-8 packs a punch The first of two FW190 releases for Bodenplatte is here with the…
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Flying with the Sea Dragons
In all of the rush to find out just what the new Career mode was all about, many may have forgotten about the Sea Dragons campaign that shipped with IL-2: Battle of Kuban’s 3.001 patch. If you have forgotten about it, this is a reminder to check it out. If you like mud moving and…
Restored IL-2 flies at MAKS 2017 airshow
Of 36,183 Ilyushin IL-2s built during World War II, very few survive to this day and two have been restored to flying condition. The second IL-2 to be restored to flying condition is now flying in Russia and IL-2 the flight sim even got a small mention in the coverage! Returned to flight Some warbirds…
IL-2 patch 2.010 arrives!
1CGS released IL-2 patch 2.010 today bringing with it another round of fixes, updates, and a new plane for Battle of Kuban early access. This time its none other than the IL-2 Model 1943! Model 1943 IL-2 variant comes with interesting features This version of the IL-2 comes with some interesting features and they range…
The history of the IL-2
The aircraft that inspired the creation of one flight simulator which lead to a sequel probably has some significance to it. The Ilyushin IL-2, numbering over 36,000 aircraft produced, is the most widely produced combat aircraft and the second most produced aircraft of all time (the Cessna 172 comes in first at 43,000). Popular defense…
Yak-1B, Ju 52 closer to completion
IL-2 Developer Diary updates have returned with greater frequency and this week Han was able to update us on the progress being made on the Yak-1B and the Ju-52. As we already know, the Yak-1B is a Series 127 aircraft and that comes with certain refinements to the Yak-1 design. Han fills us in by…
What would we fly over the Pacific?
Battle of Kuban is slated to arrive in December of 2017 with the earliest aircraft from the early access period arriving sometime before the end of this year. But that doesn’t mean we can’t look ahead to future battles in the series. In a fairly definitive statement, the team at 1CGS is set to complete…
On flight model controversies
The great flight model debate is something that has been going on since I started following online communities that involved flight simulators. If its a simulator of some kind then you can bet there is a multi-page debate about it somewhere. On the face of it, a good debate on the relative merits of an…
Combined arms in IL-2 is really cool
Over a year ago, 1CGS released a patch for IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad that enabled player controllable tank warfare in the game. Tanks, in a flight simulator is just something that hasn’t really been done very much. DCS has Combined Arms and War Thunder has an armored tank mode. I have no experience with the…
Flying over the Pacific
It is clear from recent updates from the IL-2 dev team that after the Battle of Kuban is complete, the 1CGS team will be working on bringing us at least a couple of battles from the Pacific. The timeline on this puts IL-2: Battle of Kuban as complete in December of 2017 and Battle of…
Stormbirds 