Posts tagged “Combat Air Patrol 2”

In order to justify that tortured title and maintain the illusion that The Flare Path is primarily a simulations and wargames column, today's out-of-character love letter to a football game will follow a quick news round-up involving Harriers, Manx motorcycle combinations, Old West wheelslip, Interwar warship design, and American Civil War ambition.

Tagged with American Railroads, Combat Air Patrol 2, Football Tactics & Glory, Grand Tactician, Rule the Waves 2, The Flare Path, TT Isle of Man.

If it wasn't for a splendid organisation called Writers Bloc this column probably would have vanished years ago. Every week WB sends out thousands of specially tailored writing challenges in an attempt to keep its members ennui-free. This week my challenge was tripartite. I risk censure, and public humiliation in WB magazine, The Wordist, if today's Flare Path doesn't include... A) Previews of two Early…

Tagged with aerofly 2, Aerofly FS 2, Combat Air Patrol 2, The Flare Path.

The amateurs over at Wings, Wheels and Weaponry dot com arrange their sim and wargame news snippets chronologically. The weirdos at Khaki Gaming order theirs according to size. Here at Rock and Paper and Shotgun we do things as God and Samuel Johnson intended. Below the break (spoiler warning!) A reconnoitres for B, C is relieved by D, and F arrives to find all the…

Tagged with Atlantic Fleet, Battle of Britain 2: Wings of Victory, Combat Air Patrol 2, Combat Mission: Final Blitzkrieg, DCS: World, Desert War 1940-43, Farming Simulator 2015, GEFS Online, Lotus Simulator, Next Generation Flight Simulator, Order Of Battle: Pacific, Peleliu, The Flare Path, The Hunter, Theater of Operations: World at War, Tigers on the Hunt, VFAT, Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun.

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.

A flurry of local airshows and BoB commemorative events meant Spitfires and Hurricanes were regular visitors to my corner of Southern England this summer. Seeing six Messerschmitt maulers fly over in formation on September 15 really should have been my aviation highlight of the season, but that accolade actually goes to an encounter a few days earlier when, tramping along a Wiltshire footpath, I was repeatedly buzzed…

Tagged with Combat Air Patrol 2, DCS: World, Heroes of Normandie, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow, il-2 sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, iRacing, Pacific General, Steel Armor: Blaze of War, The Flare Path.

Swift sequels make The Flare Path uncomfortable. When I see a flight sim follow-up like Combat Air Patrol 2 set to arrive a mere 23 years after its predecessor, I find myself wondering how much genuinely new content will be included. Yes, the engine, feature set, and premise look totally different, and Sim155's commitment to dynamic campaigns and intermediate 'IL-2 level' realism sounds right up…

Tagged with Combat Air Patrol 2, Heroes of Normandie, Ironclads 2, Sim155, The Flare Path, Totem Games.