CombatACE Spotlight Special Featuring: Wrench   Wrench has been a member here at CombatACE since November of 2004. It's come to my attention that he deserves a little time in the spotlight. He has created or helped with over 300 mods that have accumulated roughly 60,000 downloads!   “CA is just a great place. For the most part, everyone gets along and respects one another… I think the people here are just as they are in real life; and THAT's the best thing.” -Wrench                         

An Interview With SidDogg   SidDogg's Favorite Quote: - "May God have mercy on my enemies. Because I won't..." --- Patton   Hello everyone! This week I had the wonderful privilege of interviewing a long time member and mod author, SidDogg, who very kindly agreed to do an interview with us. Thank you, SidDogg.   So, can you tell us a little about yourself? Well, for those who know what it is, I'm from South Tacoma. Born and raised most of my years as a kid. Been in the U.S. Navy for 8 y

The UH-60 Black Hawk, developed by Sikorsky, is a utility tactical transport helicopter, is a four bladed, twin-engine, and non-retractable landing gear. Exclusively for Flight Simulator X Acceleration. Required Reality-XP GNS 530 (If you want GPS, you MUST have the Reality XP gauges - they mentioned on their Facebook page that they will eventually offer a variant with the default GPS). However, further checks with Cera has revealed that it will work without that GPS, but lose that function. A

DCS AUTUMN SALE From 20 to 29 September 2013, Eagle Dynamics will have a 60% off Autumn sale for the following DCS products: DCS: Mi-8MTV2 Magnificent Eight, Pre-Purchase Beta. $49.99 now $19.99 DCS: UH-1H Huey, Pre-Purchase Beta. $49.99 now $19.99 Lock On: Flaming Cliffs 3. $49.99 now $19.99 DCS: A-10C Warthog. $39.99 now $15.99 DCS: Black Shark 2. $39.99 now $15.99 DCS: P-51D Mustang. $39.99 now $15.99 DCS: Combined Arms. $29.99 now $11.99 DCS: Black Shark 2 Upgrade. $29.99 now $11.99 A-10A:

For those of you who didn't buy during Alpha or Beta phases (when it was discounted), Arma 3 is now out. Available at http://store.steampowered.com/app/107410/   The SP campaign isn't in yet, they'll be releasing it as free DLC later in 3 parts. However, full MP, both new islands, and single scenarios for single player are in with all the units.   Seeing as the campaigns are historically the buggiest and weakest part of every release since Arma 1 (OFP's were actually good), I'm glad they're

In an exciting announcement CombatACE is proud to introduce our new theme music. More on that in a moment.   In a heated debate this morning over stale donuts and wrongful coffee we had a discussion about the ads on our site and ad blocker extensions or plugins. We learned a tremendous amount from our time this morning and our discussion brought in experts and viewpoints for both the pros and cons of ad blocking software. Our focus group enlisted the past experiences from ARS Technica who like

Fighting World War One in the air, IL-2 style Dark Blue World 1916 This is intended to be the first in a short series of mission reports, designed to showcase a new kid on the World War One airwar block - IL-2 Dark Blue World (DBW) 1916. This 'mod within a mod', as the title suggests, adds a 'Great War' experience to that long-running and still popular WW2 classic, IL-2. It's is not new, but it has been recently updated and expanded, to the point where it's now a serious contender for any WW