I really want to enjoy this game, but it's hard when I keep dying so much. I can't build up any character when they are dying all the time. Is there no way to replay a mission when you die instead of just accepting the results every time?

The game is about following the war day-by-day, so in the original there was no option to go back in time and retry a mission you were unsuccessful in, as this wasn't realistic.

In Wings Remastered Edition we added the ability to restore your save game. It saves every 5 missions, so you have the chance to retry if you do die.

I wouldn't mind the permadeath aspect so much if nearly every dogfight mission wasn't a death trap. The combination of near useless friendly AI wingmen and enemies that eat up more bullets then the terminator before they go down makes death a near certainty every time.

The constant death of pilots really kills game immersion because I can never get attatched to the character I'm playing. It also totally cancels out the rpg elements.

What a shame. I love WW1 air combat and I really wanted to like this game, but it just didn't work out. Wings of Glory is still the supreme champion of the genre.

Old thread but maybe other will find this hint useful.

I don't like such save game system. From some point it was just annoying. So every time my plane was shot down or mission failed (especially bombing mission) then I hit Alt+F4 so Windows system just closed game's window. After restart of the game I was able to repeat failed mission.