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Feature: Simulation & wargame blather
2014 wasn't exactly a bumper year for standalone flight sim releases. Apart from the flak-nibbled IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, and eccentric WWI curios like ILYA Muromets and Canvas Knights simulated clouds had simulated skies almost all to themselves. Fortunately the add-on sector was as vigorous and ambitious as ever. Today in The Flare Path I catch up with five top flight sim supplementers, all…
Feature: Simulation & wargame blather
Any reasonably competent sim dev can turn heads with a finely modelled Tiger tank, Vulcan bomber, or Schienenzeppelin railcar. It takes a rare talent to do the same with a vehicle so ubiquitous, so achingly ordinary, even a picture of it has the power to... power... to... ZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZ ZZZ ZZZ.
We flight simmers are gaming's reluctant hermits. We often go hours without seeing another polygonal personage. Sometimes we don't even have our own arms and legs for company. It's tough. Lonely. Thank heavens someone has finally sought to end the solitude. Not only is A2A Simulations' latest FSX adjunct - a Piper J-3 Cub - one of the most convincingly modelled sim steeds I've ever had…
