Steel Beasts ProPE - I'd Rather Have Tanks Than Being Just Lucky

In one of my favorite movie scenes of all times,  Sergeant Horvath and an unknown grenadier aim guns at point blank from each other just to find themselves out of ammo. Both throw their helmets at each other and in the end resort to their side weapons. This scene from Saving Private Ryan presents unrelenting violence that doesn't go away when weapons fail. On the opposite end, a very much debated account from the Sherman tank commander Lt. Gordon during Operation Goodwood (WWII) explains how his tank crew and a Tiger's tank crew shared a slit trench after bailing out during a particularly intense firefight. Just a few "suspicious looks" exchanged, Gordon explains (Tigers in Normandy, Wolfang Schneider, Stackpole Books [2011], page 141)

In this scenario, one of my tankers has been closer to the latter situation.

A Leopard tank crewed only by a driver (all the others dead) stops to let a column of Soviet infantry. Unable to engage the enemy, the driver just watches. The Soviets, lacking any major anti-tank assets drive by, probably thinking they are the luckiest men. An RPG would have sufficed to end the live of this driver.

The above happened in one single-player scenario I played recently. Many of you would find the situation a bit goofy, but I am an unabated manchild and it was a memorable gaming moment for me.

Arma 3 - Suppression, Bot Style, Now Available in Plain Vanilla Version

I know everybody is very excited about the upcoming Apex and Tanoa but just let me share my excitement about the complete rehaul of the "suppressive fire" command that a player can give to computer-controlled members of his squad.

Graviteam Tactics Mius Front - Armor Shock

Mius Front is one of the most underrated gems in the history of computer-based, serious tactical wargames. Yes, the interface has all those icons that you wish were different. But we all speak the same language when it comes to wargaming, I want to believe.

A short flight in the DCS SA342 Gazelle

For those of you who asked about how is to fly the DCS SA342 Gazelle, there you go. You start nice and composed. And by the end of your flight you end up asking what just happened.

Cheers,

Command Ops 2 - Race to the Meuse - Fire Support

With this Battle of the Bulge frenzy I'm into (thanks other-game-I-love), I have been playing this other game I love a lot too.

Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg - Tactical Phasing

I was testing a new Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg scenario when I recalled one concept from Robert Leonhard's Fighting by Minutes.

I shall name it "Stragglers Fest" because it features  just such troops taken from the scenario editor. In this early stage of the design, a light mortar (green icon group near the farmstead) has found a German patrol near the crossroad in the background.

Arma 3 - The SAMO Squad Action Menu Orders Offers an Interface to Command Suppressive Fire on the Enemy

I think that Arma 3's own menu to lay suppressive fire is somewhere (dev. branch?) but it is not showing up in my plain vanilla regular branch game.

That bright sun is where my hombres will shoot their suppressive rounds.

So, I tried the SAMO (Squad Action Menu Orders) mod and it works like a charm. Please note that this entry displays screenshots from an already modded game.

Command Modern Air and Naval Operations, Now Featuring Pier-Docking Operations

Command got a great new update which brings it up to version 1.11. This new update has some very unique and major features, including pier and docking operations.

In this article, I show how to add a new naval base (Naval Base Puerto Belgrano, Argentina) and how to add ships to it.

DCS SA-342M Gazelle

Brand new helicopter for DCS World 2.0 Alpha and DCS World 1.5 Open Beta.

Tigers on the Hunt Review

When a budding artist sings in the style of greatests,  he needs to add something of himself to the songs. Otherwise, it is just professional karaoke.