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    Rise of Flight - 4th mission

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    By 33LIMA, Rise of Flight - 4th mission
    Stachel learns to follow, as well as to lead!     My next PWCG/RoF mission for Jasta Boelcke is something different - balloon defense. In Germany's First Air Force, Peter Kilduff - better known for his Red Baron biographies - devotes a chapter to the work of the crews of German observation balloons. Being tethered close to the front, attack from the air wasn't the only deadly danger they faced, as related by Leutnant der Reserve Peter Rieper:   "We were constantly bombarded, this time by

    Rise of Flight - a red letter day

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    By 33LIMA, Rise of Flight - a red letter day
    Richard Stachel's quest for glory continues, apace!     It's been a long time since I kept up with the mission reports all the way through a campaign. But I think I'll make an exception and follow my PWCG/RoF career flying as Richard Stachel for Jasta Boelcke; in between such other reports that take my fancy.   Will Richard beat his more famous brother Bruno to the Blue Max? If you want to find out, read on - and watch out for further installments!   Here's the PWCG briefing for my thir

    Rise of Flight revisited

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    By 33LIMA, Rise of Flight revisited
    Back to the front with 1C/777's World War 1 air combat sim!     'Is Rise of Flight dead?' is a question that's been asked online, of late. There have been no new planes or updates for some time, while the developers have been concentrating on other products. By my definition - for whatever that's worth  - a game's dead, not when the developers lose interest, but when people cease to play and enjoy it. I had ceased, mostly, despite buying a good many individual planes, like the Pfalz D.XII..

    Iron Front - sniper!

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    By 33LIMA, Iron Front - sniper!
    Hunting an enemy commander in Normandy!     In between my efforts at practicing section tactics as I knew them in Iron Front, I decided to interleave this more serious business with some light relief. As in, playing some 'regular' missions. Preferably ones which don't over-tax my as-yet-still-developing skills in team command. First choice was to re-start my effort at the German campaign, set on the Eastern Front at the time of the great Soviet summer offensive of 1944, which took the Red A

    Fire and movement!

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    By 33LIMA, Fire and movement!
    Real-world infantry tactics in the Arma2-based Iron Front: Liberation 1944   Hey, you! Get down off that effing skyline!   Section attacks - ask anyone who's had even basic infantry training, and they will tell you it's the point all the training comes together - the weapon handling and marksmanship, camouflage and concealment, tactical movement, formations, field signals, target indication, fire control orders and all the rest of it. Since at least the time of the Romans, whose legionari

    CombatACE Interview with Bitchin' Betty

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    By Skyviper, CombatACE Interview with Bitchin' Betty
    CombatACE Interview with Leslie "Bitchin' Betty" Shook   Pull up! Pull up! is a command many of us may be familiar with while using Strike Fighters or DCS simulators. But there are some here at CombatACE who may have heard the real thing. That automated voice is usually referred to as Bitchin' Betty. There are; however, several variants of the automated warning voice. Some call it Barking Bob, Naging Nora, and a few refer to the voice as Sonya, as in gets on ya nerves. Our spotli

    Hunting HMS Edinburgh

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    By 33LIMA, Hunting HMS Edinburgh
    Another Atlantic Fleet battle in Arctic waters!       I have always been something of a fan of the big German destroyers of World War 2, ever since assembling tiny 1/1200 plastic kits of some of them in the early 1960s. These were made by Eagle, part a themed series representing the ships involved in the First and Second Battles of Narvik in April and June 1940. Like this one, of a Leberecht Maas class...or is it Erich Giese?     Maas wasn't actually at Narvik, having been sunk in a dis

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