Yup - that's how I feel. CoD beats all past Battle of Britain sims, however, 1946 covers more fronts.

There's been a little talk of including CloD as one of the sims the WW's list as "official" squadron sims. But, too many of the members simply don't want to waste their time with CloD when IL-2:1946 (+/- mods), or RoF, or DCS BS/A10, or even FSX can give better multiplayer flight sim experience (whether in combat or not) than CloD does. Yes, CloD has better imagery than most previous sims, but it also comes with gremlins and bugs.

For us the sim is secondary to getting together and having a fun shared experience. That fun is absent when the sim's hardware requirements are too steep to allow everyone to play, the sim experiences random hard crashes, or when servers are unreachable. Can't tell you how many times we try to enjoy one of the new sims, only to get frustrated and say "Screw it, let's jump on HyperLobby and find some good co-op or MDS missions to fly." And for the next three hours or so we're all having fun.

That is why IL-2:1946 is still the bedrock multiplayer combat flight simulation of the 21st century.

Hey, this sounds awesome! I've only flown the DCS series for the last couple of years and won't buy CloD unless they fix it, but these improvements make me feel like firing up IL-2 again. Kudos to TD for a job well done

4.11 looks to be outstandin . . . still had been hoping for some new ships or repaints or something . . . oh well.