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    IL-2+CUP - stock Soviet fighter

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    By 33LIMA, IL-2+CUP - stock Soviet fighter
    Flying a vanilla campaign in the classic WW2 sim's latest mod!   You can say what you like about the newest addition to the Il-2 line, Battle of Stalingrad (BoS) - and many of us do just that! But one thing it has done for me, is stimulate my interest in its predecessor's original, Eastern Front campaigns. No mean achievement, that, for until relatively recently, I'd regarded Il-2 as mainly offering planes I didn't especially want to fly, in places I didn't especially want to fly them, to ad

    Wargame: European Escalation

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    By 33LIMA, Wargame: European Escalation
    Fighting a Cold War gone hot with Eugen Systems' classic PC wargame!     Once upon a time, in a world before PCs...   Although never a really serious player, back in the days before home PCs, I'd long been interested in wargames with miniatures - not the boardgame variety, as the model-making or collecting aspect was important to me, too. I still have the 1/300 scale metal WW2 AFVs and basic little rulebook I bought back in the 1970s. In the late 1980s I dabbled with the Cold War era and

    SABOW - M60 day attack!

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    By 33LIMA, SABOW - M60 day attack!
    An uncertain turn of events in a later round in my Iran-Iraq War campaign!   My first M60 campaign in SABOW is proving to be something of a roller-coaster ride. And an expensive one! Back in daylight after the opening mission during the hours of darkness, we seemed to be doing quite well in mission #2, playing our part in the Iranian counter-offensive against the invading Iraqis. The culmination of my plans in that mission was a combined tank-infantry attack on a Iranian defended locality. W

    SABOW - M60 night attack

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    By 33LIMA, SABOW - M60 night attack
    On campaign in the classic US Main Battle Tank!     Having throughly enjoyed fighting in SABOW's Iran-Iraq War campaign in a T-62, I decided it was time to swap sides and have a crack with the M60A1, fighting now for the Iranians. The latest (May 2015) patch adds some graphical and other improvements, including some new training missions. Such is SABOW's considerable and admirable depth as both tanksim and tactical wargame, I'm still a relative novice and in particular, have had little 'tre

    IL-2+CUP - Flying Tigers

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    By 33LIMA, IL-2+CUP - Flying Tigers
    To war in the China-Burma-India theatre with the American Volunteer Group!   There can be few more famous flying units in the Second World War than the group of volunteer fighter pilots recruited in 1941 by retired US Army Captain Claire L. Chennault to help China turn the tables in the beleagured country's air war against the Japanese. Flying Curtiss P-40B Tomahawks diverted from planned deliveries to the RAF, the three squadrons of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) soon found themselves p

    Il-2+CUP - Spitfire Scramble

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    By 33LIMA, Il-2+CUP - Spitfire Scramble
    Some Battle of Britain action in Il-2's new supermod!   Well, I said I would and I did. After stooging around in the dark (in both senses of the expression!) with a few missions in a Lancaster campaign in the last IL-2 mission report, I decided that I would transfer back to Fighter Command, for my next campaign with the recently-released Community User Patch (CUP) for Il-2 1946. In fact I also turned the clock back, from the winter of 1941-1942 to the summer of 1940, famous for the Battle of

    SABOW - revenge of the Chieftains

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    By 33LIMA, SABOW - revenge of the Chieftains
    Swings and roundabouts...with tanks!   My first Iran-Iraq War campaign in Graviteam's rather excellent & recently-relaunched wargame/tanksim Steel Armor - Blaze of War (SABOW) had been a bit experimental, not least as I only discovered some quite useful aspects of the wagrame interface towards the end of my assigned eight turns. My final battle had been inconclusive, resulting in a drawn campaign overall. So I decided to replay it from the get go, rather than move on to the other availab

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