For Any Concerned re IL2 SAS

[Gubi]

To intense historical wargamers of all stripes...Over at our historical, avid and incredibly accurate and detailed and obsessive aircraft SIM site SAS (Special Aircraft Service) IL-2 Sturmovik; https://www.sas1946.com/main/, the founder, Cirx, bit the big one today:..
Interesting.

Cheers & Prost,

Gubi

 

[mTk]

I had no idea who you were talking about so did a little research.
There is a lot more to say about him, but this is more on point.
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"In 2001, the acclaimed and award winning simulation game, IL2, was released by Madox Games from Russia. Later that decade, van Wyk de Vries conducted some research to help improve subsequent versions of this game. He did this by creating photographic records of the WW2 era planes currently in the inventory of the Johannesburg based South African Museum of Military History. This in turn led him to the expanded and detailed re-researching and recompiling of the restoration files for some of the German Planes in the collection. In 2008 he became involved in the unauthorized modification of the game along with several white hat hackers, 3D artists and military history enthusiasts. Later that year he started an online platform, sas1946.com, for use in collaboration and project management. This website subsequently became the most successful of its genre in history, and gave rise to the release of several packs of mods like "Dark Blue World" and "BAT". The former being mentioned by PC Gamer magazine as in their list of top ten battlefield simulation games of all time." Wiki

 

[Gubi]

Thank you for the excellent intro, mTk.
Outside of John Tiller's Campaign Series (including earlier Battleground & the modern WDS transformation), Combat Mission 1 & 2 Series...outside and alongside them...this present day, old used up geezer iteration of my wargamer persona, still includes IL2 1946 too.
My old DBW (quote from mTk above: "Dark Blue World") comes in at ~200Gb.
A long history of international prop aircraft gaming lies behind me...fondly recalled too.

Cheers & Prost Gentlemen
Luv the atmosphere here

[eek...I'm a poet and don't know it. Sheesh]

 

[Gubi]

Addenda:

Though I am a retired and used up admin...Last Sunday's Flying Ass Clown (SAS~FAC

) session was dedicated to CirX (Johannesburg).
SAS~Storebror (Mike [Hamburg]) did a good job of organizing this.
Trying to organize the Clowns into doing anything, is like trying to herd cats.

The honors: #1 KT (Pedang), #2 PvF (Hartford), #3 Skylla (Munich), #4 Loku (Warsaw).

Former #2 (now #1) site editor (Storebror) took on the task. Lurking in the backgound are the rest of the Clowns, herded, somewhat, by BB (St. Augustine) and Knoch (Dresden). They're all in P-51As, dressed in South African skins.

So...the Send Off:

Cheers & Prost