Sim with best career mode?

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

That is certainly something we all hope to see in SoW. Although personally I didn't find the EAW campaigns too immersive either, mostly because the missions were extremely repetetive (more so than Il2's DCG) and the stupid "mission failure" assessment when you only managed to shoot down 18 of 24 bombers

I loved that one. I agree about the mission failure assesment.

As for the repetitive nature of the missions however, i think it's pretty accurate. There were certain planes for certain jobs and some gruppe/squads were also specializing in a certain field, so i guess it was that way for real pilots too. Plus, going against bombers mission after mission really gave you the immersive feeling of being just you and your wingmen against a continuous enemy onslaught, much like the real pilots would have felt after a while but without the combat fatigue and risk to life for us

As someone else noted, it was also nice to see that loadouts and even drop tanks were subject to stock limitations.

I also have very fond memories of Secret weapons of the luftwaffe and Red Baron (my first two prop sims on my first ever PC), as well as Red Baron II/3D. Part of what happened in RB/RB2 is not very pertinent to a WW2 scenario (the whole knights in the sky affair with duel invitations, personal paint schemes and so on, it might have existed briefly but was largely gone by late 1940), but it's true that the small details like ambulances, the newspaper headlines or the church bells ringing as makeshift air-raid sirens when battles were raging over a village (RB2 also had doppler shift for sound, even back then) were awesome. Not to mention the animated mission debrief in RB2.

I think that combining features from RB/RB2 and EAW and giving them a bit of a facelift would produce an amazing result.Especially the massed bomber formations of EAW, i once had an intercept mission where i also called up reinforcements to deal with the heavy escort and ended up with close to 200 planes on screen at the same time.