Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943, Review at Out of Eight

Another great review by James Allen.

His latest review of "Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943" is up at his site "Out of Eight PC Game Reviews".

Theatre of War 2 is a game that improves nothing from the original and actually turns out worse.

Theatre of War was one of many games I wanted to try sometime, but I'm afraid it's off the list permanently.

Moving on.

Cheers,

Eurofighter simulator for the Italian Air Force

According to the latest issue of Training and Simulation Journal, the Italian Air Force has received its first Eurofighter training simulator.

Amenities include replica of the aircraft cockpit, motion and sensor simulator systems, a synthetic visualization system with 13 projection channels illuminating a spherical dome with a 360 degree field of view in daylight plus forward-looking infra-red and night vision goggle scenarios.

Yeah, very cool ... but I bet you get extremely low FPS near cities ... :)

Picture from Alenia Aeronautica, likely not the simulator delivered to the Italian Air Force. Used without authorization but without monetary gain.

Ok, back to our HOTAS ... :(

Cheers,

ArmA 2, Shipping Now within the US

ArmA 2 boxes are being shipped around the US!

• ArmA 2 at GoGamer.com, shipping now. $49.90
  

• ArmA 2 at NWS Online Gaming Store, starts shipping tomorrow. $39.99

And if you don't want to wait for the mailman, there is off course ArmA2 at Steam, available June 26th.

Cheers,

UPDATE: The price of ArmA 2 from NWS Online Gaming Store has increased up to $39.99

DCS Black Shark: Tactics Primer

The "Tactics Primer" series has been a very popular one.

I have consolidated it for a more convenient read and it can be found at the "Real and Simulated Wars-Companion Website".

Please follow this link to read it.


More stuff regarding attack helicopter tactics is coming soon. Make sure to check it out!

Cheers,

An M3/M1 Hunter-Killer Plt in a Hasty Attack: Learning to Punch with the Fingers Spread

The AAR that I started here (split in several parts), is now consolidated in the
"Real and Simulated Wars-Companion Website".

Please follow this link to the entire AAR.

Cheers,

A Companion Website for the Real and Simulated Wars Blog

This blog had an unprecedented amount of visitors during the past two months. Thank you so much for visiting!

There are several topics in this blog that have been more popular. Unfortunately, due to the format constrains of blogs, they have to be spread in several posts. This forces the reader to go back and forth for each part of the topic. For example, the DCS Black Shark Tactics Primer: written in several entries, the entries disappear from the most recent list. It's a mess.

I think those popular topics are better off in a more friendly format, like a small website.


So, during the next few months I will be experiment with a companion website for this blog. In this companion website you can read these topics without the hassle of navigating through this blog.

Presenting, the "Real and Simulated Wars-Companion Website".

It's small, experimental and graphically unpretentious. You will have to excuse the lack of flashy stuff there.

I hope you like it and please comment if you have suggestions. I really appreciate your feedback.

Cheers,

America's Army 3: Overwhelmed Servers, Underwhelmed Newbie

America's Army 3 has been released yesterday.

I downloaded and installed it late at night yesterday. Then I got to register an account and create a soldier character. All this data gets sent to a server somewhere, I think it's called an authentication server. Then I went into training and afterward lost all my achievements , I don't know why.

Although I couldn't get past two training sessions, I like it and it looks like the most fun lies ahead.

Graphically, the game is appealing and runs at decent frame rates in my aging system. Funny enough, entering my data the interface was a lag-fest. After I quit the game, it took like half a minute for my mouse to respond again. They say the servers were overwhelmed by traffic last night. Maybe this game communicates with those servers a tad too much.

I'm afraid I will leave this one for the future.

Cheers,

Combat Mission Shock Force: British Module Featured at "Rock, Paper, Shotgun"

The guys at "Rock, Paper, Shotgun" have published an after action report of "Combat Mission Shock Force: British Module".

I like the guys of RPS. They write very concise and full of humor articles. This after action report was no exception.

If the RPS guys got a review copy, does this mean that the module is near release?

Going through the article, I remembered one of the things I didn't like about Combat Mission Shock Force: scenarios are almost always a cake walk. Look how well the author of the AAR did. Sure, he got some men down, but have you seen the Syrian casualties? Is not only the abysmal casualty figures, is also about the silly ways virtual soldiers get killed. Like walking right into a kill zone, with the corpses of their comrades in plain sight.

I wouldn't know where to point regarding which is the critical thing missing or wrongly modeled in CMSF. Maybe is a combination of several things.

I am under the impression that the grogs waiting for the new CMx2 Normandy game are in for some utter disappointment.

Cheers,

Horse and Musket: Volume I, Two Articles at Wargamer.com

Well, if these two articles don't get your 18th century wargaming juices flowing, nothing will ...

William Trotter, prolific writer, historian and wargamer, has written two wonderful pieces for Wargamer.com:

Historical Article: The Seven Years War

After Action Review: Horse and Musket Vol I

Cheers,

Horse and Musket: Volume I Released

This may be the best computer war game out there for the age of Frederick the Great.
I have very fond memories playing the previous version, "The Prussian War Machine".

A new revamped war game by Boku Strategy Games, is now available from Matrix Games.

Cheers,