Originally posted by BushWacker
Wow it's nice to see so many old AWers active! At our ages that is saying something! B-Man called me the other night and mentioned this forum so I thought I'd stop by. All the great flights, AW Cons and fun times started coming back. So what is the online flight sim to play these days?
Howdy, BushWacker!
It's an easy call: Aces High is the one to play.
Excellent flight model. The most ex-Air Warriors. A company built by two ex-AW players who know what is good in this genre. Good general action. Lots of people playing it. The place to be for scenarios.
I've also played WWIIOL, but I like that for its ground action, not its air combat. For air combat, it has a good flight model, nice looking terrain and clouds, but -- horrible visibility out of every airplane and a bad visibility model. It has low availability of planes, and you can't fly anything decent (not even any bombers) until you've played a lot in the worst planes. Fights have small numbers of particpants, and there are no scenarios.
I haven't played Warbirds or any of the others -- just read about them when checking into which air-combat sim to fly in. I remember concluding that Aces High was far and away the best and that a lot of the others were unrealistic, had few players, or (very importantly to me) had no scenarios.
