Posts tagged “Afghanistan 11”

A is for Altitudinous apogee. When Mudspike's major-domo heads for the edge of space the resulting write-ups are always worth reading. Chris Frishmuth's latest trip into the wild blue-black yonder involved X-Plane 11 and a $10 SpaceShipTwo recreation. Although the lightly modelled add-on doesn't animate SS2's ingenious pivoting wings - the premature activation of which caused the disintegration of VSS Enterprise in 2014 - the dev's…

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In all but one of the 32 airliner shootdown incidents listed on Wikipedia, the culprits have either owned up or been convincingly identified by subsequent investigations. Only in the case of Itavia Flight 870 does a shootdown remain veiled in mystery. Progetto Ustica, a free title from RIOT producer Ivan Venturi and games academic Mauro Salvador, sets out to remind and remember rather than lift…

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Patience Scullion's Patience Treasury (1942) might not be the most comprehensive collection of patience rules ever published but, for my money, it's the best. What sets the volume apart is the way it's structured. Miss Scullion curates with context and consumer in mind. There are chapters aimed at insomniacs, invalids, and expectant mothers. She lists game forms that play well on crowded trains, in prison…

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A is for Absence of Amiens wargames. Want to mark the Battle of Amiens centenary by recreating the dazzlingly successful Allied push on your PC? Good luck with that. Amazingly, no-one except the odd Open General and Panzer Corps modder seems to have deemed “the Black Day of the German Army” as scenario- or game-worthy. I can only assume that no dev has ever stumbled…

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