WB doesn't suck, it's damn good. AW was good, but wb was better. Aces High is the best to date. All of them could cause you to get caught up in the moment, trick your body into an adrenal reaction and forget that you're not a soldier in the 1940s sky. We'll call it factor X. I've bought every IL2 game thus far and they don't deliver on that level. From what I've seen the IL2 series atracts the minutia and trivia fixated nerds, people who emulate ss units etc. But as you may have noticed the real-deal sheep sheering sons of *****es spend their time culling and tutoring in the skies of AH.
This post of mine is going to draw a lot of heat because IL2 fanbois are the type who spend a lot of time lurking, answering "name this" posts and whining on the intardnet. Whereas AH,WB,AW types utilize the intardnet largely for porn, hooking up with lonely women and playing AH.