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Developed by 1C: Maddox Games, Sturmovik: 1946 offers new campaigns, missions and aircraft, plus lots of new features. The game also includes all of the previous Il-2 series content, making a package of 229 flyable aircraft.
New to the game are 32 flyable fighters and bombers, including the Il-10 Sturmovik, the Mig-9 Jet fighter and the Arado Ar-234 Blitz bomber. There are also plenty of new maps of the Kiev region, a Manchuria region map focusing on the border between the USSR, China and Japanese-occupied Korea, a large bonus Burma map, and an online Khalkin Gol / Nomonhan map.
Nine new campaigns bring the game’s total to almost 200. Three of the new campaigns are based on an alternate history, focusing on the hypothetical battle between the Soviet Union and Germany in the year 1946 – the VVS and Luftwaffe now have access to advanced jet and rocket fighters.
1946 also introduces a range of new ground targets such as trenches and bunkers – a first for the series. There are also around 1000 new paint schemes for the new and existing planes.
The package also includes a host of bonus content, such as behind the scenes features, screenshots and videos from a never before seen Maddox game, Storm of War: Battle of Britain, and a detailed plane guide totalling over 450 pages of information.
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