Which should i get for the campaign?

[uglyDwarf]

Battle for Moscow or Battle for Kuban?
Personally i would go for Moscow, because i love the snowy map.

How are the campaigns, i read that they're better then the main game campaign, more scripted and so on.

[Ribbon]

They all have career (campaign) so if you prefer Moscow...go for it!

[Goffik]

Originally posted by Ribbon:

They all have career (campaign) so if you prefer Moscow...go for it!

I think he's asking about the scripted campaigns, not the career mode.

I can't really help since I haven't bothered with any campaigns. I only play career mode or a PWCG career.

But you're right, the campaigns are sets of scripted missions so will have some kind of theme, definite events, and a specific aim. The career missions are all randomly generated so you could get anything, including missions where you fly around and find no enemy at all. (ie, like real life.)

So it's about what kind of gameplay you want really... structured with definite action involved, or less structured but a more "realistic" depiction of the day to day life of a pilot.

[Magnus Aurelius, Bright Lord]

Scripted Campaigns are the best. Career is often dull in my opinion. Scripted Campaign are very cheap right now, I recommend all of them (provided you have the required planes to fly them).

You can also get free scripted campaign on their website from the community.

[uglyDwarf]

Originally posted by Hobotango:

Scripted Campaigns are the best. Career is often dull in my opinion. Scripted Campaign are very cheap right now, I recommend all of them (provided you have the required planes to fly them).

You can also get free scripted campaign on their website from the community.

Sounds nice,i bought Battle for Moscow, it's the only thing i own besides the main game.
The only scripted campaign i found on steam was the "blazing steppe" but it doesn't really looks that interesting to me.

[Magnus Aurelius, Bright Lord]

Ah I see what you meant now..

Battle of Moscow is an entire different game.
All "Battle of..." are main games on their own. You dont need Stalingrad to get them, unless you buy it on Steam ; Battle of Stalingrad, Moscow, Kuban, Bodenplatte and Normandy (coming soon).

Then you have the campaign, which are all the "Scripted Campaign".

[TasteDasRainbow]

Yeah, expanding on what Hobo said, one thing a lot of people don't notice is that there are 3 'types' of campaign. Main 'Campaign' mode, where you fly generic missions day after day until a regions air campaign is finished, alternate expansion main campaigns, where you fly generic missions with different planes, missions, and region accurate to the expansion, and 'Scripted Campaign', where you fly a preset set of missions for a historical operation.

Each 'alternate expansion', like battle of Moscow, usually has a main campaign and a scripted campaign, although it's important to read the description to see. For instance I believe Battle of Kuban includes the Sea Dragon scripted campaign.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

don't forget that there's loads of great free campaigns on the official forums as well.

[uglyDwarf]

Originally posted by FREE HK -OrLoK-:

don't forget that there's loads of great free campaigns on the official forums as well.

Yeah, after Hobotango mentioned the homepage and the scripted campaigns i had a look at it

[Magnus Aurelius, Bright Lord]

Originally posted by TasteDasRainbow:

I believe Battle of Kuban includes the Sea Dragon scripted campaign.

Yeah I think so too and it was my favorite Scripted Campaign of them all. Simply because you get to fly the famous IL-2 Sturmovik.

That was before the AI got a serious revamped as fighting against the AI was dull ( they only went in circle, always). So with Sea Dragon, you didnt bother fighting aircraft, instead, you were the prey while hunting down gound troops, ships and artillery. All of this while the Germans were on their big retreat.

Anyway the AI is now very good and I bought all scripted campaigns I had the planes for, for 10$ ( I think it was 4 in total) which is a very good deal.

Scripted campaign are much better because they are, you guessed it, scripted. So there's never a dull moment unless its the first mission or if you dont like flying a long time before getting to battle.

[TasteDasRainbow]

Originally posted by Hobotango:

Originally posted by TasteDasRainbow:

I believe Battle of Kuban includes the Sea Dragon scripted campaign.

Yeah I think so too and it was my favorite Scripted Campaign of them all. Simply because you get to fly the famous IL-2 Sturmovik.

That was before the AI got a serious revamped as fighting against the AI was dull ( they only went in circle, always). So with Sea Dragon, you didnt bother fighting aircraft, instead, you were the prey while hunting down gound troops, ships and artillery. All of this while the Germans were on their big retreat.

Anyway the AI is now very good and I bought all scripted campaigns I had the planes for, for 10$ ( I think it was 4 in total) which is a very good deal.

Scripted campaign are much better because they are, you guessed it, scripted. So there's never a dull moment unless its the first mission or if you dont like flying a long time before getting to battle.

Definitely agree, mid-war is some of the most interesting tech in my experience. I'm rerunning the SD campaign again now just because of how good some of the planes are.

That's also a pretty solid deal for that content, I'm hoping to get Bodenplatte/Normandy soon when they become more finished and get some decent sales on.

[Magnus Aurelius, Bright Lord]

Yeah Im excited for Normandy, but also, I cant wait for them to decide to go to the Pacific !