Hi all,
Are the tank games available offline and how do you get started with them?

Wrong section, brother. This section is for a WWII air combat simulator, not tanks.

Perhaps he means IL2 BoS, BoM, still wrong section though!

Maybe. I don't know much about those.

Jodel scroll down a bit there's am Armor Sims forum here

Just been looking at YooToob and there appears to be a selection of tank missions on Il2 BoS. I don't have that...but there also appears to be a tank game under test for IL2-sturmovik

look in the armor sims page,,there's Panzer Elite and a few others,,,Driving a tank sim that's in a flight sim is a waste,,check it out here https://www.gog.com/game/panzer_elite_se

Yes, tanks in a flightsim are going to be a very basic business, compared to a dedicated tanksim, and with mods, good ol' Panzer Elite is still one of the best tanksims available...


(PE+Britpack'44-x mod in development - Churchill IV in Hill 226 scenario)




(both pics, PE+Ostpak Redux mod)

I find in flightsims, blowing up tanks and sundry other military vehicles is fun enough...


(Il-2 '46+CUP mod, QMB mission - Hs129 attacking Stalin Organs)

Other offline tank sims worth trying include two from Graviteam:

Cold War era - Steel Armor Blaze of War (SABOW):



WW2 - Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942:

Or if you prefer a wargame with tanks and other types of units, with DLC covering WW2 and after and different theatres, there's Graviteam Tactics series:

...or, if you prefer a 'soldier sim'...



...which has a limited tanksim element, in the style of Operation Flashpoint, there's Iron Front: Liberation 1944...





...or indeed the ARMA2-3 series.