20 Single & 10 Multiplayer Missions, 5 New Maps,
and 129 Aircrafts!
IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles introduces a dynamic campaign. The dynamic
campaigns are automatically generated, and the player can select his or her
nation, squadron, and aircraft to fly. Players can also decide when they want to
join the war. After the completion of each mission, the results will be
processed and another mission will automatically be generated - and so on, until
the end of war. Results of one mission will carry on to the next and no two
missions will be the same.
During the campaigns, forces will advance or retreat, based on the history of
the battles. However, frontline movements can speed up or slow down in limited
degree. Additionally, resource tracking is present and objects destroyed in one
mission will stay destroyed in the next. Every destroyed plane, friendly or
hostile, reduces the number of planes of this type in the theatre, making their
appearance less likely. Destroyed trains and transport columns will affect
supply rate. If an ace is killed or captured, he will not appear in future
battles.
Squadron management will also play a key-role in the dynamic campaign system.
Every pilot has a name, photo (it is possible to replace the default photos) a
rank, medals, sorties and kills. Each pilot's skill level is defined by combat
experience. Pilots can be killed, captured, promoted, awarded or transferred.
Losses are replaced, but new pilots will likely have minimal combat experience.
Each squadron has a limited amount of combat ready planes, and if this number
drops below some point, the squadron will be short-handed.
Players may choose to play from any time of 1941 to 1945 and fly for either
Germany, Russia, Finland or Hungary.
The Forgotten Battles consists of:
- 20 single-player missions
- 10 multiplayer missions
- 5 new maps
- Dynamic campaigns that are working on all existing maps of IL-2 Sturmovik
and IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles
IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles includes from the original IL-2
Sturmovik game:
- All aircraft (including those released for free in add-ons)
- All maps
Includes:
- 30 new flyable aircraft
- 23 new AI-controlled aircraft
- New AI ground objects and vehicles for each new map area, with new 3D
building models
- Ranking and award system for Finnish and Hungarian pilots
- Selectable custom user-made skins in single play mode for players and all
AI aircraft
- All IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles aircraft available in Quick Mission
Builder, except seaplanes and gliders
- Improved flight dynamics
- More realistic AI scripting to create more realistic battles
- New engine management relating to radiators, superchargers and fuel
mixture control for different altitudes
- Online track recorder and editor
- A New system of single play track recording and editing
- Search lights and barrage balloons (including intercommunication with AA
artillery)
- New ships including the Russian battleship Marat, Russian cruisers Aurora
and Kirov and German cruiser Niobe (but not limited to)
- Play up to 32 players online in dogfight and in cooperative modes
(depending on your internet connection)
- IL-2 Sturmovik and IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles are not compatible
with each other when playing online
There are 5 new main gameplay maps:
- Gulf of Finland summer
- Gulf of Finland winter
- Hungary summer
- Hungary winter
- L'vov summer
Gulf of Finland maps include the large area that covers the cities of
Helsinki (capitol of Finland), Tallinn (capitol of Estonia), Leningrad (St.
Petersburg), the Finnish Gulf itself, Kronstadt island and other islands
fortifications, and the great lake Ladoga. The city of Helsinki and Leningrad
have been designed using old 1939-1940 maps and contain a number of unique and
well-know buildings and objects.
Both maps of the Finnish Gulf have been designed that to cover the historical
battles of 1941-1944 during the Russo-Finnish war.
The Hungarian winter and summer maps include the great lake Balaton and the
surrounding area around, including small part of Slovenia.
The L'vov map include the parts of Soviet Ukraine and small parts of Poland and
Slovakia.
Complete List of Aircrafts
Flyable
IL-2 Single seat early, IL-2 Single seat, IL-2 Single seat late, IL-2 Field
modification with rear gunner, IL-2M Type-2, IL-2 Type 3, IL-2 Type 3M, IL-2T,
IL-2I, I-16 type 18, I-16 type 24, LaGG-3, LaGG-3-IT, LaGG-3 Late, La-5FN,
MiG-3, MiG-3ud, MiG-3 AM-38, MiG-3 (2x12mm MGs), MiG-3 (2x20mm cannons), MiG-3U,
P-39N-1, P-39Q-1, P-39Q-10, Yak-1 Early, Yak-1B, Yak -7B, Yak-9, Yak-9D, Yak-9T,
Yak-9K, Yak-9U, Yak-3, BI-1, PZL P.11, Bf-109E-4, Bf-109E-4/B, Bf-109E-7/B,
Bf-109E-7/Z, Bf-109F-2, Bf-109F-4, Bf-109G-2, Bf-109G-6 Early, Bf-109G-6 Late,
Bf-109G-6/AS, FW-190A-4, FW-190A-5, FW-190A-8, Ju-87B-2,
AI
R-10, U-2 (Po-2), Li-2, MBR-2 seaplane, Pe-2 1st series, Pe-2 84 series, Pe-2
110 series, Pe-2 359 series, Pe-3, Pe-3bis, Pe-8, Tu-2s, He-111Z, Hs-129B-2,
Hs-129B-3/Wa, Ju-52, Ju-52 seaplane, Ju-88A-4, Fi-156 Storch, FW-189, Me-323,
Me-321, He-162A, IAR-80, IAR-81, Mc-202
In total with IL-2:FB and IL-2 installation you'll get 129 aircraft, at least
80 of which are flyable!
Controlling Multi-Engine Aircraft
- When flying a multi-engine aircraft, you have an option to control its
engines separately.
- You may choose the engines you wish to control using engine selection keys
found in the Controls menu.
- Your current engine controls (e.g. throttle, prop and mix positions,
radiator set-up, e.t.c.) apply only to the engine(s) you have selected.
- Note that if you enabled the Separate Engine Start key in the Difficulty
settings, you will not be allowed to start all of the engines
simultaneously, and have to select them for ignition one by one.
Advanced Engine Controls
The engine control routines have been reworked and expanded for the Forgotten
Battles; you now have more detailed control over your engines, with more
realistic feedback. However, some tasks (like engine start-up procedure) remain
simplified and usually performed with a single keystroke.
Throttle Control
Remains essentially the same it was prior to Forgotten Battles. Yet now you may
push it farther than Combat Power (100%) to force your engine into the War
Emergency Power (Emergency) mode (up to 110%). Note that there is no Power 110
keyboard shortcut, so you'll have to use Increase Engine Power control key
(keyboard + by default) to gain War Emergency Power (Emergency) when controlling
throttle with keyboard.
Emergency Power
A number of aircraft modeled in the game have special systems allowing an engine
to gain advanced performance over a short period of time (alike the notorious
nitrous oxide injection system). These systems vary the principle of operation,
but for all aircraft so equipped they may be engaged using the Boost (WEP)
On/Off control button:
- Special Emergency Power for aircraft such as FW-190A-8, FW-190A-9,
FW-190F-8 FW-190D-9 1944
- MW-50 (Water-Methanol injection) for aircraft such as FW-190D-9 1945,
Bf-109G6/AS, Bf-109G-14, Bf-109G-10 and Bf-109K-4
- GM-1 (High-altitude nitrous oxide injection system) for aircraft such as
Bf-109E-7/Z
- Water injection device for cooling down engine of P-47D-10 and P-47D-27 at
emergency power of engine.
Supercharger Control
- High-altitude engines are equipped with superchargers or turbochargers of
different design. While many of those are automatic, others have manual
control.
- In this case, you have to use "Supercharger Next Stage" and
"Supercharger Prev. Stage" to adjust the supercharger gear as the
flight altitude changes. Most of the chargers are 2-stage, and only require
one shift up of the gear when passing altitude at around 2500 meters.
- This function will not work for the planes, that had fully automatic pitch
or stages of superchargers (for Example Bf-109 or FW-190).
Mixture Control
Most of the engines allow the pilot to adjust mixture richness manually. While
the nominal position of this control (Auto Rich) should provide normal engine
operation in all flight configurations, some input may be required on high
altitude or when the engine has taken battle damage. It is common to use
increased (Full Rich) set-up during take-off or as a means of Emergency Power.
Radiator Control
New to Forgotten Battles is advanced radiator control. In Advanced Engine
Controls difficulty mode you now have 5 cowl or radiator flap positions to
provide more accurate control over it, plus, on the aircraft so equipped, you
may put the radiator flap in automatic mode.
Propeller Pitch Control
The way of controlling the Prop. Pitch and keys used remain the same as before
the Forgotten Battles, with the addition of Increase Prop. Pitch and Decrease
Prop. Pitch control keys for a more convenient and accurate propeller
control. However, the propeller governor routines has been reworked to
achieve a more detailed and accurate model, plus several governor mechanism
types were added.
Fixed Propeller
Some older airplanes found in the game (like TB-3) are equipped with simple
fixed pitch wooden propellers. Those, of course, have no automation or control,
and require no pilot input.
Variable Pitch Propeller
These propellers have variable airscrew blade incidence. In this case, Prop.
Pitch Control directly varies the airscrew blade pitch, and needs to be adjusted
constantly as the airplane speed changes. Note that setting the blades pitch too
low may result in engine over revving. Note that there was special equipment on
the Bf-109 (F, G and K series) and FW-190 fighters providing automatic propeller
control, however the pilot may input the changes of pitch and adjust blade
angles manually whenever he finds necessary.
Constant Speed Propeller
The most advanced, yet most common through the aircraft of the WWII era was the
Constant Speed Propeller. In this case, pilot uses the Prop. Control to set
desired engine RPM, while the propeller governor attempts to maintain the set
RPM.
Aeromechanical Screw
This type of airscrew uses balance of aero dynamical forces and propeller
inertia to maintain optimal blade incidence. Thus, it requires no input from the
pilot.
Propeller Feathering
Some propellers provide an option to 'feather' its blades that is to turn
the blades parallel the airflow to reduce the drag. That becomes essential when
an engine fails in-flight.
Magneto Control
Extinguisher Control
A number of aircraft, mostly large airships, had built-in fire extinguishers
in the engine compartment. On the aircraft so equipped, you may fire the
extinguishers on the selected engines using Fire Extinguisher control key.
However, this doesn't guarantee to put out the engine, and the extinguisher has
only a limited number of charges.
Level Bomber bombsights for multi-crewed aircraft of the Forggten Battles
The Forgotten Battles introduces the level bomber bombsights. With the
release there will be present Lotfe 3D bombsight of He-111H-2 and H-6 and OPB-1
optical bombsight for Soviet early war bombers, like TB-3.
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