At 04.15am on 22nd June 1941 German bombers attacked Soviet airfields with devastating effect and the invasion of Russia, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, had begun. After four years of bitter fighting that included infamous battles like Kursk and Stalingrad, the Russians arrived at Berlin. Now you can join the Luftwaffe in this grueling campaign for IL2 Sturmovik and Forgotten Battles and take part in hundreds of historically accurate missions that take you from the heady victories in the Kuban Peninsula, through the bitter winters and finally to fight for your very existence at the gates of your capital. Features: * Choose to fly the campaign in an Me 109 or Fw 190 with over 60 custom aircraft repaints included for flying in co-op mode. * Fly 390 missions from the campaign in single-player mode You can also take part in an extra 28 Luftwaffe or 34 Russian VVD missions, plus there are another 20 available in multiplayer mode for online flyers. * Tackle the enemy head to head in the air or mount ground-attacks against authentic targets in multiplayer mode for online flyers with missions designed for up to 16 players! Campaign mode * Fly historically based missions as you battle from June 22nd 1941 until May 7th 1945 that is from the beginning of "Unternehmen Barbarossa" to the cease-fire and the ending of WWII. Receive awards, promotions and build up a career. * 230 missions playable as either a Bf109-pilot (JG 52) or as Fw190-pilot (JG 52). * Missions include fighter-bomber, fighter, intercept and escort. * Aircraft: Bf109, Fw190, La-5FN, P-39, I-16, Yak1b, LAGG-3 and MiG-3U. Single Player Missions * In addition you undertake missions in a player-preferred order with random access of each mission. No order of events has to be followed. * 28 missions flying for German Luftwaffe * 34 missions flying for Russian VVD * A total of 390 missions of the campaign are playable in this mode as well. * Missions include fighter-bomber, fighter, intercept and escort. * Aircraft: Bf109, Fw190, La-5FN, P-39, I-16, Yak1b, LAGG-3 and MiG-3U. Co-op missions * In this multiplayer mode, playable online or via LAN, up to 16 human players (usually 8 per side) can play each mission. Playing them with less human players the remaining "slots" are filled with computer driven AI aircraft, so that game play doesn't differ much whether there are 2 or 16 human players. * The package includes 20 missions flying for either the Russians or Germans. Dogfight maps * Dogfight is a multiplayer mode, playable online or via LAN. Unlike 'Co-op' mode there are no missions – each player fights on his own against all other players. * The package includes 5 fictional maps as follows: - Dogfight map summer with all aircraft available - Dogfight map winter with all aircraft available - Dogfight map winter with P-11 and I-16 aircrafts - Moscow winter with all aircraft available - Crimea with all aircraft available Plus the following historical dogfight maps * Smolensk 1941 - Moscow Winter 1941 - Moscow Summer 1941 * Stalingrad Summer 1942 - Stalingrad Winter 1942 - Crimea 1942 - Crimea 1944 - Kuban 1942 - Kuban 1944 - Kursk 1943 - Prokhorovka 1943 MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: This product requires a full licensed version of IL2 Sturmovik, or Forgotten Battles to operate. Single Player PC Pentium II-400 128 Mb RAM Windows 95/98/ME/XP 50 Mb Hard drive space CD-ROM drive Sound card 3D Accelerator with 16 Mb RAM (Voodoo3 or equivalent) The latest official Patch Version 1.1 is required to run this campaign (included on CD-ROM). Multiplayer - as single player plus: PC Pentium III-600 or faster 256 Mb or more RAM 3D graphics card with 32Mb RAM or more.