Modern Equivalent of LucasArts Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe?

[Gusington]

Are the ground attack Bf110 missions fun in BoB? Are you guys fans of BoB overall?

[MengJiao]

Are the ground attack Bf110 missions fun in BoB? Are you guys fans of BoB overall?

  I played it years ago.  You can fly the 110 in CLOD AND (eventually) in Battle of Moscow.  Where I will be flying the P-40 (eventually).

[BanzaiCat]

Man, I loved SWOTL. I liked playing the Gotha 229 against B-17 bombers. Such fun!

Also really enjoyed LucasArt's Battle of Britain game (Their Finest Hour).

[Gusington]

LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA

[BanzaiCat]

GOTHA GOTHA GOTHA GOTHA

[Gusington]

 :'(

[BanzaiCat]

[JasonPratt]

Ahem.

B-17 the Mighty Eighth, one of the last aircraft sims from Micropose, is the closest game I can think of to SWotL.

Dynamic bombing campaign using B-17 groups, flying with a crew? Check.

Able to fly a German jet against an Allied bombing campaign? Check. (No really weird jets, but the 262 is there, and as meticulously detailed as any of the other playable planes.)

One of the Grogs was even trying to run a Mighty 8th campaign renaming the crewmembers after various Grog members, a month or two ago.

Now, I have to relate here that I never got as much into it as SwotL because its initial release was buggy in some problematic ways. How well has it been fan-patched and/or modded up since then? No idea.

[JasonPratt]

Mighty 8th is available on Steam here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/328900/

It reportedly runs fine (for whatever values count as "fine" for this game) on Win 8.1

I'm almost certain my current copy comes from GoG, but my office browser now hates GoG so I can't search there.

[Father Ted]

In the unfortunate absence of a SWOTL for the twenty-tens, I think your best bet is IL2:1946.  BoB II is old and po-faced, whereas CloD is new and po-faced, and both have a limited plane-set.  Il2 '46 is also pretty old, but does have a host of weird and wacky planes to try.  There are also a host of missions and careers to try, courtesy of the still-large community.

[BanzaiCat]

No really weird jets

Whoa, slow your roll, brah. The 229 is not a 'weird jet.' It is destruction, vengeance, cannon shells, and jet thrust encased in a thick, flying-wing-candy shell of bomber-flaming sex power.

[Staggerwing]

Mighty 8th is available on Steam here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/328900/

It reportedly runs fine (for whatever values count as "fine" for this game) on Win 8.1

I'm almost certain my current copy comes from GoG, but my office browser now hates GoG so I can't search there.

I forgot all about Mighty 8th! Thanks Jason. You can ( and I did) get it at GOG as well for $5.99

(Caveat to Gus: it is 15 years old though.)

[jomni]

No really weird jets

Whoa, slow your roll, brah. The 229 is not a 'weird jet.' It destruction, vengeance, cannon shells, and jet thrust encased in a thick, flying-wing-candy shell of bomber-flaming sex power.

The US copied the design.

[Staggerwing]

The US copied the design.

Well, it certainly played a part in the development of the B-2:

Engineers of the Northrop-Grumman Corporation had long been interested in the Ho 229, and several of them visited the Smithsonian Museum's facility in Silver Hill, Maryland in the early 1980s to study the V3 airframe, in the context of developing the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit. A team of engineers from Northrop-Grumman ran electromagnetic tests on the V3's multilayer wooden center-section nose cones. The cones are 19 mm (0.75 in) thick and made from thin sheets of veneer. The team concluded that there was indeed some form of conducting element in the glue, as the radar signal attenuated considerably as it passed through the cone.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229#Stealth_technology

[Gusington]

Hmm IL21946 or the Mighty 8th?

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