Bomber flight sims
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Try looking at TK's Thirdwire sim games - Strike Fighters 2: Vietnam or the Europe. There are plenty of mods for these games that allow you to fly hefty bombers such as Vulcan; Bears; Victors; B52's; etc. They may not be totally realistic, but that's the nearest that I can find. For WWII, look for Combat Flight Sim 3, again it has a vast mod base.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17_Flying_Fortress:_The_Mighty_8th
Good game when it came out. Blooming hard as well!
I recall the graphics were amazing for the time.
I would look at War Thunder. Playing that in Real Battles or Simulator mode.
B17 Flying Fortress is on gog http://www.gog.com/game/b_17_flying_fortress_the_mighty_8th
Also IL2 1946, Rise of Flight, IL2 Cliffs of Dover.
Also IL2 1946, Rise of Flight, IL2 Cliffs of Dover.
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I've got a copy somewhere. I remember demanding my brother to buy it for me for xmas when it first came out.
I loved going to each gunner position and taking out the other B17's engines one by one, and then watch them go down. Tempted to buy it just to do that again.
War thunder (bomb thunder?) is free to play, and covers slightly pre-WW2 up to very early jets in the bombers, if that would interest you.
You'd start out without much in the way of bombers though, and if you want to keep it on the cheap you'd have to grind a little bit to unlock bombers, and then to unlock improvements to them.
If you're feeling flush you can purchase 'Golden Eagles' - one of the 2 in-game currencies, and spend them to unlock planes, and plane upgrades.
Flying in the 2 more realistic modes rather than 'arcade' should give you a more 'realistic' approach to combat and bombing, but you'd be very much limited to 'dumb' iron bombs, and chucking them at either small targets like individual tanks, or bigger stuff on certain maps like destroyers and battleships.
There is a good range of bombers however, especially on the Soviet tech tree. SU-2, IL-2, IL-4, AR-2 and the (in-game) infamous YER-2 are available.
Oh, and the mighty TB-3 has been available as a gift plane. I own it, in all its' glory.
You'd start out without much in the way of bombers though, and if you want to keep it on the cheap you'd have to grind a little bit to unlock bombers, and then to unlock improvements to them.
If you're feeling flush you can purchase 'Golden Eagles' - one of the 2 in-game currencies, and spend them to unlock planes, and plane upgrades.
Flying in the 2 more realistic modes rather than 'arcade' should give you a more 'realistic' approach to combat and bombing, but you'd be very much limited to 'dumb' iron bombs, and chucking them at either small targets like individual tanks, or bigger stuff on certain maps like destroyers and battleships.
There is a good range of bombers however, especially on the Soviet tech tree. SU-2, IL-2, IL-4, AR-2 and the (in-game) infamous YER-2 are available.
Oh, and the mighty TB-3 has been available as a gift plane. I own it, in all its' glory.
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http://www.thunder-works.com/news.htm this will be if it ever comes out - I've been checking up on this for years and years, I think it's over 10 years since I first found out a bout it
I had it no way would it be playable now!
I feared as much, never mind just another nostalgic game then.
I think there is more than one B17 game.
This one free to download written by Microprose in 1992
B17 Flying Fortressl
and the one mentioned in youtube above
B17 Flying Fortress The Mighty 8th by Atari in 2000 (which is the better one graphically)
http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-B17FF/b17-flying-fortress-the-mighty-8th £4.49
This one free to download written by Microprose in 1992
B17 Flying Fortressl
and the one mentioned in youtube above
B17 Flying Fortress The Mighty 8th by Atari in 2000 (which is the better one graphically)
http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-B17FF/b17-flying-fortress-the-mighty-8th £4.49