Command Ops 2

A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Every four weeks or so I hang up a streamer of industrial strength fly paper in The Flare Path dunny and see what wargame and simulation news stories stick to it. Below is this month’s bag – 25 bite-size stories involving virtual vehicles and surrogate slaughter. If you wince when someone calls a locomotive a train, and…

Tagged with The Flare Path, A Painted Ocean, Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front, Black Day, Combat Mission: Fortress Italy, Command Ops 2, DCS World, Diesel Railcar Simulator, Field of Glory II, Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm, General Staff, Grand Prix Legends, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, Invasion Machine, LOTUS-Simulator, Peleliu, Post Scriptum, Rolling Line, Sea Power, The Berlin Wall, Winter War.

The best-known Operation Overlord games aren't necessarily the most interesting or the bravest Operation Overlord games. In today's Flare Path I mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings by spotlighting a clutch of D-Day diversions that dared to be different. Operation Overlord entertainments don't come more all-encompassing than Futura's 1992 folly, D-Day. The French devs spent three years coding an offering as multifaceted as…

Tagged with D-Day, D-Day at Omaha Beach, GI Combat, Officers, The Flare Path, Command Ops, Command Ops 2.

UBOOT, the Das Boot-inspired WW2 sub game with cutaway Type VIIs and fallible submariners, is going to be a few months late. Nudged onto a new course by Kickstarter backers accustomed to Silent Hunter-calibre realism, the Polish devs have spent the last nine months adding features, reworking visuals and poring over copies of Iron Coffins. New thinking means crewmen can now be cajoled in a…

Tagged with B-17 Queen of the Skies, Derail Valley, English Civil War, The Flare Path, UBOOT, Command Ops 2.

I remember the days when you could get a hundredweight of hand-picked sim and wargaming news delivered to your door by a man in a tailcoat and a velvet top hat for sixpence. Now look at us. You, peering into your digilink screen like a person who's dropped their monocle into a bowl of consommé. Me, stripped to the waist in a bomb-damaged Pat Garrett,…

Tagged with Campaign Marengo, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kuban, il-2 sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, John Tiller Software, Orbiter, The Flare Path, Wings Over Flanders Fields, Command Ops, Command Ops 2.

Alphabetia is a miserable disease. Like Malaria its symptoms come and go without warning. I realised I was having an attack early this morning in the shower. Usually, when it comes to lathering - apologies for the following mental image imposition - I'm a conventional head-to-toes sort of guy. Today's ankles-buttocks-chest sequence was a sure sign something was amiss.

Tagged with BMS, Combat Air Patrol 2, DCS: World, Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa, Falcon 4.0, feature, Gun Disassembly 2, HMS Marulken, IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad, IL-2: Cliffs of Dover, IL2 Battle of Stalingrad, Ironclads 2, Nuts!, Pike & Shot: Campaigns, Team Fusion, The Flare Path, The Seven Years War, Victory & Glory, Wings Over Flanders Fields, Afghanistan 11, Armoured Commander, Command Ops 2, War Thunder, World of Guns.

Five and a half of the following seven questions will be answered in today's column: * What happens when you pass a red signal in World of Subways 4? * Do wargame demos work? * Whatever happened to Command Ops? * Just how dreamy is the Assetto Corsa Dream Pack? * How much does my neighbour's ex-wife make an hour? * Was Glenn Miller's Norseman…

Tagged with Assetto Corsa, Combat Mission: Black Sea, demo, The Flare Path, World Of Subways, World of Subways 4, Command Ops, Command Ops 2.