There were now an incredible 225 flyable aircraft in the game and approximately 40 different campaigns. Loyal fans got the PE-2 add-on included for purchasing IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. Some flew during WWII, some were just prototypes or never left the drawing board, but IL-2 1946 put them in the air in three alternate reality campaigns.
This gave the campaign makers the opportunity to bring in new flyables and AI opponents like the MiG 9, Arado 234, Ta152, He 162, Ta 183, He 162, and the Heinkel HeL-113B. Britain and the US entered into a cease fire with the new government (Himmler was removed as well) while the Soviets continued the fight. Gameplay was basically identical to Forgotten Battles, but the big news maker was the way the series took the player beyond WWII reality, and into a postwar alternative history environment in which the Germans were successful in repulsing the western Allied assault at Normandy and the plot to kill Hitler actually succeeded. Two new linear scripted campaigns were built, one for the IL-10 and a Japanese Iwo Jima campaign. New AI machines included the Ki21, A5M Claude and B6N (replacement for the Kate). Purchasers got the PE-2/3 and Manchuria add-ons and campaigns which had been released separately, the Murmansk map (which many mission builders later used to create Battle of Britain scenarios) and Khalkin-Go, parts of Burma and the Soviet Far East, plus several new flyable aircraft including the IL-10, a new version of the A20 (C model), KI27, Ki43, J2M5 and N1K2. This title brought together all the elements of the previous releases – maps, aircraft, missions and campaigns – into a single comprehensive package standardized as one version (for easier online player matching), with some bonus new content. He was right, certainly in terms of the IL-2 original and much updated game engine coming to the end of its (official) development. Tom Cofield once again leapt bravely into dark waters predicting in 2006 that IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 “should be the final official chapter to the IL-2 series”. In this final article for our IL-2 retrospective, we look at the last chapter in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and what came afterwards – the unique collaboration with a group of modders, Team Daidalos.
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