[Herr_Falke]

All right. I've spent the last week and a half looking into all the mods and different programs out there, and while I've been into flight sims since the days of EAW, to the Il2 Demo, to IL-2, to Forgotten Battles (with the last few years off) and have at least a more than basic understanding of things including past skinning other little Il2 contributions, I can't for the life of me figure all this mod stuff out. It's like a giant cluster "f" in my mind. That said, what I need is a clear recommendation for what to get to dress up the sim.

As far as my needs, I like and prefer historic. I'd like to see a choice of different engine and gun sounds, maybe a few smoke and tracer improvements. Also a better over all 'look' to the sim, ie., plane shine and so on. I'd also like to try 6DOF. I’m not to interested in all kind of new planes and so on, though little things like sliding canopies on the 109 and 190 would be good.

I'll be playing a lot off-line until I get my skills back up, then maybe, I'll be getting back with my old squadron (II Jg1) and doing some on-line flying too, probably with vanilla Il-2, so it would be nice to be able to switch between versions.

So, based on the above, and since I can't seem to be able to put all the pieces together by my self, what exactly should I get? (Once everything catches up with 4.10 and/or it's fix patch)

Thanks and S!