Intense and action packed. My full review of ‘Steel Birds’ for IL-2!

The IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series has a small but growing collection of paid Scripted Campaigns covering a variety of aircraft and battles. One major aircraft type has been left out so far and that’s the Fw190. But that is no more! Alexander =BlackSix= Timoshkov’s latest ‘Steel Birds’ campaign puts us into the thick of…

Six new campaigns hit the DCS World store

Single player pilots make up a large contingent of the DCS World user community and tonight many of you may rejoice as the campaign side of the DCS World store has been updated with six new campaign experiences covering a wide range of aircraft and interest areas. One of the campaigns even comes with its…

Baltic Dragon teases trio of new DCS campaigns

DCS World mission and campaign maker Baltic Dragon, well known for his portfolio of top notch campaigns, is teasing an ambitious plan for some new content to come next year (and beyond). Folks who enjoy single player content might want to keep an eye out on what’s being planned here because it sounds great! Three…

Need more Tank Crew single player? Check out these 140 missions

IL-2: Great Battles Series community member TIGRE88 is very much into making missions for Tank Crew, the series’ offshoot into armored warfare. His mission pack has grown to the hefty size of 140 missions making ample use of the armor from Tank Crew to put single players into all kinds of different tank scenarios. Let’s…

Hell Hawks Over the Bulge IL-2 campaign review

The lesser known stories of WWII have always interested me. The exploits of fighter groups in the 8th Air Force dominate the history books and the role of the P-47 in keeping the Luftwaffe at bay is a well covered subject. Less well known is the role of the 9th Air Force whose efforts to…

IL-2 ‘DLC Madness’ sale is on

From September 1st to 8th you can take advantage of the ‘DLC Madness’ sale with the developers of IL-2: Great Battles offering some terrific sale prices for some of the add-on packages for the series including some relatively recent aircraft additions. Let’s have a look! Campaigns and collector planes This new sale is focused on…

IL-2 50% off promo codes take off today

If you were looking to add something to your IL-2: Great Battles Hangar, now may be the right time as the team is offering 50% off discount codes for fans of the series. Here’s how you get your code and what you can apply it to. Half-off most items in the IL-2 store According to…

IL-2 official poll asks about which Scripted Campaign you want next

An official poll started by 1CGS developer BlackSix asks which Great Battles Scripted Campaign you want next with a choice between two possible campaigns that they are starting to develop now that Ice Ring is in the finishing stages and is set to be released within the next few weeks. Fighter versus fighter-bomber over Kuban…

IL-2 ‘Ice Ring’ Scripted Campaign coming this Summer

1CGS premier scripted campaign builder Alex =BlackSix= Timoshkov has been busy building a new campaign for the IL-2: Great Battles Series and with today’s announcement we now have a third campaign that forms a kind of trilogy on the Battle of Stalingrad. Ice Ring is all about the aerial operations performed by IL-2’s during December…

Mission one of the Epsom Campaign for DCS: Spitfire IX

Flying warbirds in DCS World is an interesting experience for me as I had purposely separated the modern jets from the warbirds infavour of IL-2: Great Battles Series. Now with both WWII experiences now available to me it’s been a fun journey adapting to a sim that I know so well but with a subject…