Pass the ammo. And the ritalin, because I was not able to focus on one game ...
HPS's Guadalcanal is a 2D simulation of WWII naval combat. I'm messing around with the
Savo Island scenario and I needed to "see" how the area of operations would look like. "Seeing" meaning getting a better grasp of how big is the area and such other things you can't get from a 2D map.
So I launched my copy of
IL-2 1946 and took off to the virtual skies of the Pacific Ocean, right in between
Guadalcanal and
Florida islands. The aircraft of choice was an SBD-3 Dauntless, a fantastic naval dive bomber.
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| Despite its age, IL-2 can be quite atmospheric. Here is my 4 birds flight, slowly climbing over Guadalcanal, some 3 nm east of Cape Esperanza. |
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| Two Japanese destroyers are racing off north of Guadalcanal, but are caught in the lights of the early morning. |
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| Diving towards one of the Japanese destroyers. I don't know if self-sealing fuel tanks are modeled in the flight sim, but my aircraft didn't explode. |
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| An awful approach results in an awful drop. 3 bombs away. |
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| My 3 bombs miss the target. |
Cheers,
Did you see the recent semi-official patch for IL-2... Seamlessly supports TrackIR. Very impressive update
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ReplyDeleteYes! Haven't got a chance to download. Did you get it?
Cheers,
I did (from the SimHQ site) and got IL-2 from gog.com - which I think is probably the third time I've bought it (!). Forgotten Battles first, then on Steam and then gog (I find gog much easier to mod/fiddle with and more future proof than steam without the need for internet access to start playing, or DRM).
ReplyDeleteWorks fine on Windows 7-64bit (for me) and the patch installed painlessly. I think a previous mod also allowed TrackIR but I could never get it to reliably work - this seems to without a problem (and adds a few planes and so on).
Of course I can't actually fly the planes or hit anything, so it's back to FSX for me for some flight lessons !
Chris
Guadal looks an awful lot like another HPS game I have, War Over Vietnam...which is not neccessarily a bad thing. I like the HPS games but dang if they are not pricey.
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