Luftwaffe Commander

Luftwaffe Commander
Developer(s)	Eagle Interactive, R3M Infografica, REM 3D Models Bank
Publisher(s)	Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI)
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows PC
Release date(s)	1999
Genre(s)	Flight simulator
Mode(s)	Single player

Luftwaffe Commander is a Microsoft Windows-based World War 2 theme combat flight simulation created by Strategic Simulations, Inc. and released in 1999 but copyrighted in 1998.

Gameplay

It is both a single-player and multiplayer simulation, and the player enters a career as a Luftwaffe pilot on five fronts when playing in campaign mode, but first has to successfully train on a Heinkel biplane. The fronts featured in campaign mode are Spain, France, Britain, Russian Front and the Western Front. In single-player mode each campaign mission may be flown individually and each of the five fronts has ten missions. In the Air Combat mode or menu the player can choose to have a skirmish with himself, an A.I. wingman and other A.I. opponents of several dozen chosen enemy aircraft.

Flyable aircraft

Only Luftwaffe Aircraft can be used in Campaign or Single Player mode. In Multiplayer, Air Combat or Aircraft familiarization modes any of these flyable aircraft are available.^[1]

• Heinkel He-51 Nationalist Air Force (Spain),
• Messerschmitt Bf-109D Nationalist Air Force (Spain),
• Messerschmitt Bf-109E Luftwaffe,
• Messerschmitt Bf-109F Luftwaffe,
• Messerschmitt Bf-109G Luftwaffe,
• Messerschmitt Me-262 Luftwaffe,
• Polikarpov I-16 Republican Air Force (Spain),
• Supermarine Spitfire British,
• Bell Aircraft Corp. P-39 USSR,
• North American P-51 USA.

The flyable training aircraft is the Heinkel He 72 Luftwaffe.

Other A.I. aircraft featured in the simulation

• Republican Air Force (Spain)
  • Polikarpov I-15,
  • Tupolev SB,
  • Breguet 19
• Nationalist Air Force (Spain)
  • Heinkel He-59
• Luftwaffe (Germany)
  • Junkers Ju-87B,
  • Junkers Ju-52,
  • Junkers Ju-88A-4,
  • Folke-Wulf FW-190,
  • Arado Flugzeugwerke AR234 B-2,
  • Messerschmitt Bf-110c,
  • Messerschmitt Me-163,
  • Heinkel He-111H,
  • Dornier Do.17
• Belgium
  • Fairey Aviation Battle,
  • Fokker DXXI,
  • Brewster Aeronautical F2A-3,
  • FIAT SA CR 42
• Netherlands
  • Fokker G.1a
• France
  • Dewoitine D.520,
  • Morane-Saulnier MS 406,
  • Potez 630,
  • Dewoitine D.500
• Britain
  • Hawker Hurricane,
  • DeHavilland Mosquito,
  • Gloster Gladiator,
  • Bristol Blenheim,
  • Boulton Paul Defiant,
  • Hawker Tempest,
  • Bristol Beaufighter,
  • Lockheed Hudson,
  • Handley Page Hampden,
  • Westland Whirlwind,
  • Curtiss Tomahawk,
  • Short Brothers Short Sunderland
• U.S.S.R.
  • USSR State Industries Yak-9,
  • Tupolev SB,
  • Lavochkin La-5FN,
  • USSR State Industries Ilyushin Il-2,
  • USSR State Industries Petlyakov Pe-2,
  • USSR State Industries Mig-3
• U.S.A.
  • Lockheed P-38J,
  • Boeing B-17 Flying FortressF,
  • Republic Aviation Corp. P-47D,
  • Douglas A-26,
  • North American B-25J

References

1. Thomas, Chet. "Luftwaffe Commander Review". Retrieved 4 June 2013.