Suggested Plane List for Great Battles

[PaperPilot]

15 hours ago, jokash said:

To me Il2 GB is still fresh cause i only got into it seriously 2 years ago.As far as I'm concerned i wouldn't need any beter graphics than this.Just expansion into more and more territory like early war and Pacific and North Africa and France and Battle of Britain and Defense of the Reich and Italy and Crete and Norway and maybe Spanish civil war and China-Japan conflict.And features like aircraft carriers and night fighter radar.And maybe some infantry on the ground to strafe.Is that too much to ask?

I'm not particularly hoping for any more modules. Just aircraft that can fill in the gaps here and there (I tried to make a list but I couldn't keep it short enough). Just to help polish the final product.

[Enceladus828]

On 4/26/2026 at 4:18 AM, jokash said:

Just expansion into more and more territory like early war and Pacific and North Africa and France and Battle of Britain and Defense of the Reich and Italy and Crete and Norway and maybe Spanish civil war and China-Japan conflict.And features like aircraft carriers and night fighter radar.And maybe some infantry on the ground to strafe. Is that too much to ask?

Apart from some bombers and a couple of fighters, IL-2 GBs is very much done. The primary effort is focused on the Korea engine. Unless 3rd party teams get together to add more maps or planes then what we have for GBs right now looks to be it.

[jokash]

Yeah someone also could have said that few months ago, but look we getting 6 new planes,4 of them being twin engined.

[PaperPilot]

12 hours ago, jokash said:

Yeah someone also could have said that few months ago, but look we getting 6 new planes,4 of them being twin engined.

That is true. I share your hope for more aircraft like the Bf-110 F-2, the Ju-87 B-2, the IL-4 and the SB-2. There seems to be a deficit in 1941-42 Eastern Front aircraft, in comparison to the aircraft from later years. So much is missing for Battle of Moscow, and I presume for  Odessa and Leningrad too. But whether we will get it remains to be seen.

Edited April 28 by PaperPilot

[Enceladus828]

On 4/27/2026 at 10:52 AM, jokash said:

Yeah someone also could have said that few months ago, but look we getting 6 new planes,4 of them being twin engined.

Dude, adding another map or a flyable bomber isn’t some trivial thing, the Odessa map to my knowledge has been in the works for 10 years, maybe longer, and the Leningrad map has been in the works for 8 years. No new maps are coming unless people with great dedication and commitment get together to make one.

Just because there has been a means available to make 4 new bombers doesn’t mean we’ll get a host of new planes after. As someone stated, let’s just be glad that we are getting 6 new planes for a game at the very end of its life instead of coveting more content that we’re more likely at this point to get in the Korea engine.

 

Edited April 29 by Enceladus828

[GiftGruen]

Well. Hope dies last.

This helps while you wildly roll and scissor in a FW190, having some Spits at your tail.

Maybe it helps also regarding this topic here. Odds are likewise.

[Catch]

It's game over guys. It's finished, kaput. Comprende? Just get used to it. Forget about hope. Hearing dies last. Well, so they say if I heard it right.

[PaperPilot]

It was probably a mistake setting this thread up. Sorry everyone for beating a dead horse. 

Edited April 29 by PaperPilot

[PaperPilot]

On 4/29/2026 at 10:14 AM, Catch said:

It's game over guys. It's finished, kaput. Comprende? Just get used to it. Forget about hope. Hearing dies last. Well, so they say if I heard it right.

Enigma said two or so years ago in one of his videos of 2026 that work will likely continue on Great Battles for the forseeable future (2:10-2:14), as long as there is interest, which I think there will be. 

 

Edited May 2 by PaperPilot

[Catch]

Hmm I see. I don't know where you got the idea I said GB was game over, finished or kaput. Anyone who says otherwise is guilty of salacious lies and defamation of my excellent reputation within flight sim circles and the Vintage Lawnmower Appreciation Society. Further to this, the members of the Oceanic Morris Dancing Club have always said I am of good character with sound morals. In short, a stout fellow of good bearing with a flawless coordinated dancing technique. Need I say more? I think not.

[PaperPilot]

I think the game really needs some Soviet bombers. 

• IL-4
• SB-2
• TB-3
• Tu-2
• Pe-2 Model 1943
• Pe-2 Model 1944
• Pe-3Bis
• Yer-2

I know I keep repeating myself, but I want to keep this thread going or else it will get shut down. 

[Catch]

21 minutes ago, PaperPilot said:

I know I keep repeating myself

Don't worry about it. Relax. At least you're not as bad as Jack Fraser was. He was insufferable.

[Enceladus828]

On 5/2/2026 at 5:55 PM, Catch said:

Hmm I see. I don't know where you got the idea I said GB was game over, finished or kaput.

I don't think it was ever stated that there will never ever be anymore planes added to the game. What has been stated is that we're only getting 6 new planes for GBs this year and all future planes -- and maps, possibly the Channel Map from Rise of Flight -- will have to be done by 3rd party teams. Currently the G.50 and B-239 are in the works with an unknown ETA but certainly not in 2026. Nothing has been abandoned for the game it's just the primary focus is on the Korea engine.

Long story short if we want more planes than the 8 previously mentioned ones it's best to get in touch with 3rd party teams.

[PaperPilot]

On 5/11/2026 at 11:06 AM, Catch said:

Don't worry about it. Relax. At least you're not as bad as Jack Fraser was. He was insufferable.

Love your humour. 

[Mike2945]

Although you'd have to accept the inferior graphics of the older game engine, sounds to me like you should be heading for a heavily modded IL2-1946 (specifically the BAT pack) - which would include modules for all the conflicts you mention (Spanish Civil War,Chinese-Japanese war, Korea, Vietnam and every theatre of WW2 and a host of aircraft too long to mention.

[PaperPilot]

On 5/12/2026 at 10:09 AM, Enceladus828 said:

I don't think it was ever stated that there will never ever be anymore planes added to the game. What has been stated is that we're only getting 6 new planes for GBs this year and all future planes -- and maps, possibly the Channel Map from Rise of Flight -- will have to be done by 3rd party teams. Currently the G.50 and B-239 are in the works with an unknown ETA but certainly not in 2026. Nothing has been abandoned for the game it's just the primary focus is on the Korea engine.

Long story short if we want more planes than the 8 previously mentioned ones it's best to get in touch with 3rd party teams.

I think the Ju-87 B-2 for 1941 to early 1942 operations should be seen as non-negotiable. Battle of Moscow, Odessa 1941 and Leningrad 1941-42 needs a chronologically accurate version of the Stuka available to fly in AQMB and pilot career mode. They could also make very interesting dive-bombing operations in the days of Operation Barbarossa and Operation Typhoon around Moscow.