Simulation & wargame news
By Tim Stone on December 28th, 2012.
The walls of the FP office are plastered with pictures of iconic war machines. When I yaw left I see the elegant elliptical wings of a Supermarine Spitball, the slab prow of a Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiepin, the yawning bomb-bay of an Avro Lankystreakofpiss. When I yaw right I see swarms of side-slipping Sopwith Camelots, HMS Hoodie steaming at full speed towards the Denholmelliot Strait, a sharkmouthed McDonnell Dougal F-4 Phantompregnancy splashing napalm onto a bunker-riddled Vietnamese hellside. Read the rest of this entry »
Achtung Panzer: Operation Star, Austin Meyer, Conflict of Heroes, demo, Graviteam, Paradox, The Flare Path, X-Plane.
Simulation & wargame news
By Tim Stone on June 8th, 2012.
In an effort to weed-out oiks, riff-raff, rotters, fakes, frauds, bounders, curs and cads from Flare Path’s readership, from this week onwards only individuals able to answer ‘yes’ to one of the following questions – Do you rush outside and start scanning the sky on hearing an unusually throaty aero engine? Is your contentment reservoir refilled by the whistling of distant trains? Have you named your children after obscure WW2 Royal Navy minesweepers? Does your ‘If I Ever Won The Lottery’ list begin 1) Quit job. 2) Buy vast rural estate. 3) Purchase Panther tank? – will be able to see the ‘Read the rest of this entry’ link lurking under intros like this one. Read the rest of this entry »
Achtung Panzer, DCS: Combined Arms, Eagle Dynamics, Graviteam, Nomonhan, The Flare Path.
Brass monkey business
By Tim Stone on December 6th, 2011.
Did you know that by counting the number of ‘R’s in a cold person’s ‘BRRRRRRRRRR!’ you can tell the temperature of their surroundings? My ‘BRRRRRRRRRR!’ for instance, indicates my room is currently -10C. Why is it so fffffffffflippin (it also works with ‘f’s) cold? I blame greedy British energy companies and the bitter Siberian wind that has been gusting from my monitor all week. Stick a scarf round your throat and a vodka down your neck (or vice versa) and you’ll be ready to hear Wot I Think of Graviteam’s latest Eastern Front wargame. Read the rest of this entry »
Achtung Panzer: Operation Star, feature, Graviteam, wargame, wot i think.
By John Walker on December 5th, 2011.
Mr Timothy Stone, in his superb regular column The Flare Path, has been keeping an eye on Steel Armour: Blaze Of War. In fact, he’s interviewed the team behind it. And today there’s a new trailer for the ultro-realistic tank sim.
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Graviteam, RTS, Steel Armor: Blaze of War, Tanks, trailer.
By Tim Stone on July 10th, 2010.
If you’ve got a 50-ton M60A1 Patton tank parked on your drive, Ukrainian developers Graviteam
would like to talk to you. The team responsible for the best WW2 tank sim since Panzer Elite and finest WW2 tactical wargame since Combat Mission: Afrika Korps have just put out a request on the SimHQ forums for detailed interior pictures. It seems the lads and lasses from Kharkov are in the process of building us a post-Panzer, pre-Abrams armour sim. Read the rest of this entry »
Achtung Panzer, Graviteam, M60A1, Patton, steel-fury, tank simulation.
By Tim Stone on August 2nd, 2009.
The makers of my favourite simulation of 2008 may, fingers-crossed, be about to unleash my favourite wargame of 2009. The demo of ЛИНИЯ ФРОНТА: БИТВА ЗА ХАРЬКОВ is disappointingly nocturnal and only available in Russian right now, but I reckon there’s enough Close Combat-calibre tactical action and Combat Mission: Campaigns-style meta-game discernible, to warrant incautious optimism. Read the rest of this entry »
demo, free, Front Roads, Graviteam, Kharkov 1943, wargame.
