Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY on IL2 Authorized Addons

[Erkki]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I think Grumman may have inadvertently done a great service to the historical understanding of WWII. By discouraging concentration on the easiest market - US 'planes that won the war', and instead forcing 1C:Maddox and later TD to look at a broader range of aircraft, they have effectively counteracted the 'Tom Hanks' factor that reduces the entire period to a simplistic morality tale. Of course 1C:Maddox were trying to run counter to this from the start, but the threat of legal action if they followed the Hollywood line helped keep them on their course.

A sim with no Grumman aircraft in it its a darned sight more realistic than one where only Grumman aircraft win.

+1

In a few other unnamed, old but still surprisingly popular, sims, the Grumman, North American and Republic aircraft can do pretty much anything they want. In one game the P-51 easily outturns the Zeke, and ripping wings off 190s takes about 5 hits. They market that game as the most realistic and the very most historically accurate PC flight simulation ever, still, with a monthly fee, and it sells.