I can see Fozza being the mid-air cannon fodder.
Oh and apparently IL-2 1946 contains every IL-2 game, expansion and patch (apart from the few patches after its release) in one DVD disc game, all together in one install.
Wow that's Less than £12 on Amazon.
If people are serious about this then I will get it.
What joystick is worth buying for it?
I don't think the Spitfire was ever in IL-2, but I could be wrong as I never had all the expansions. I believe the did add the Hurricane at some point though.
It was a Russian WWII flight sim though, and that seemed to make it better in a way as everyone would pick a different random flying machine to go to battle in, as no one had a clue what was good and what wasn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IL-2_Sturmovik_(game)#Allies
Anything listed is flyable. It's more interesting flying obscure Russian things usually though. I used to love doing torpedo runs in an IL-2.