This new series of "Shturmovik" (Stalingrad, Moscow, Kuban) is worth every penny... It is historical accurate and nice helper" let the Novice-Pilot a good chance to to gain success. It is not so frustrating like in DCS. And if you like tanks, there is a complete simulation available about Kursk (Prochorovka), the biggest Tank-battle of all time... and a new simulation about WWI...
I like the "Airacobra". Well, in reality she was not that winner, but in the USSR some of the best soviet acves flow it, like Alexander Pokryschkin. Rechkalov, the Glinka-Brothers... She is a stable aircraft as long as you not want to climp rapid and fly it in a stall. She is underpowered for that and above 4.500 Meters... the engine is without supercharger. This one is a P-39L-1
The Curtiss P-40E "Warhawk". another american design widerly used in WWII from a lot of Air Forces around the world used in the USSR first in the battle of Moscow, November/December 1941.
The landscape is nice... and realistic. I was years ago in Krasnodar, Anapa and in Novorossisk.
The P-40E was not favored by the soviet pilots. She is clearly no opponent for the Bf 109F and it is dangerous against the Bf-109G. But let us be fair, she is is solid and stable, flies well and not so bad at ground level.
The Supermarine "Spitfire" Mk. V saw limited service with the USSR in 1943. The Royal Air Force replaced them in 1943 with the Mk. VIII and IX. To this time she was inferior to the latest Me 109 and the Focke Wulf Fw 190. They gave the russians some used surplus aircraft from North Africa and home. The Spitfire was not a winner under the harsh conditions of south russia in Sommer. She was often enough mistaken as a "Me 109" and some are brought down by the own troops.
In Mid 1944 Mk. IX came to the USSR, but never in bigger numbers, but here in the Sim you have "only" this one, the Mk. V
Well, this is a war simulation and some guys didn´t like this. I respect them, but in my eyes "computer pilots", "tank drivers" and "soldiers" know in my eyes more about war, about history. I see this not as Baller game, but as a historically accurate replica, which makes us, the happy of the post-war part of what is happening ... In my family over generations served for Germany and in WWII where killed in Stalingrad, North Africa, at the last fighting bevore Berlin at the Seelow heights ... I was in the NVA 1988/89 (GDR) in the eye of the revolution in Germany (not easy) another brother of my father was in Indochina and Algeria with the french foreign Legion and I am meanwhile a hobby military historian, not to glorify it, but to grasp what is going on and act against the recent anti-Russian sounds that have again reached threatening proportions.
