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    Il-2+CUP: Lancaster Tour of Duty

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    By 33LIMA, Il-2+CUP: Lancaster Tour of Duty
    First mission in a brand new campaign!     Apart from the occasional mission, I have never seriously tried flying bombers in Il-2. I'm quite fond of shooting them down...or trying to, at any rate. I have flown bombers in CFS3 using that sim's simplified bombing system and in B-17 II The Mighty Eighth, with its much superior facilities, including a decent simulation of the Norden bombsight.   However, having of late much enjoyed flying with Il-2's new Community User Patch (CUP), I decided

    Instant action - SABOW style

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    By 33LIMA, Instant action - SABOW style
    A small but satisfying battle of manoeuvre, in Steel Armor - Blaze of War!   Many sims give us a way of jumping straight into virtual battle with the minimum of preliminaries and Graviteam’s wargame-based tanksim is now no exception. The original release featured what the new version of SABOW has accurately re-labelled a ‘Battle Editor’.  This provides a fast way of choosing multiple parameters to set up platoon-to-company level armoured battles.  To this, the new release has added some ‘ins

    Steel Armor - Blaze of War

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    By 33LIMA, Steel Armor - Blaze of War
    No, sorry, not a review, just a link to my recent mission report, as it sort of developed into a more review-like thing. But rather than now move it here, I thought I should post a link. And it's an excuse to post some screenies and offer a few more observations.   The mission report/review thing is here.   This new release of SABOW has succeeded in getting me playing a sim that I had left in a drawer for over a year, deterred by the fact I wasn't massively a fan of either of the two playa

    Steel Armor - Blaze of War

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    By 33LIMA, Steel Armor - Blaze of War
    On campaign with the new release of Graviteam’s Cold War wargame/tanksim!   These days, Ukrainian developers Graviteam are famous principally for their PC wargames. These started life on World War 2’s Eastern Front as Achtung Panzer - Kharkov 1943 and morphed into the Graviteam Tactics series, ranging into other theatres and periods in the process. However, as many of us will know, Graviteam have also developed tanksims, not least one of my current favourites, Steel Fury – Kharkov 1942. Whil

    Catch that Tiger!

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    By 33LIMA, Catch that Tiger!
    An unusual new mission for WW2 tank sim Steel Fury!     You may have seen the Royal Armoured Corps Tank Museum's superb Tiger, tactical number 131, in the  recent movie 'Fury'. Here, the Tiger comes to grief after unwisely closing the range with a  group of advancing US Shermans, one of which puts a 76mm round into its rear (after a rather silly-looking 'tank dance'). Rather more interesting than the tank-laden but melodramatic, macho Holywood hokum of 'Fury' is what is known of the real sto

    Il-2 '46's new supermod!

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    By 33LIMA, Il-2 '46's new supermod!
    The Community User Patch (CUP) is now available, via SAS     There have been various flavours of mod for the venerable but still outstanding IL-2 1946. Now there's a new kid on the Il-2 block and you can read all about it on the Special Aircraft Service site, here.   This new mod brings together and builds on three of the best things to happen to Il-2 in recent years - the Dark Blue World mod (DBW), IMHO much the best Il-2 add-on for Single Player use; The Full Monty mod (TFM), which was

    Steel Fury - the stock campaign

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    By 33LIMA, Steel Fury - the stock campaign
    Refighting the Second Battle of Kharkov in Graviteam's classic WW2 tanksim!     Despite acquiring Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942 (SF) not long after release, I only started seriously playing the tanksim years later, when modders added more (especially later-war) AFVs and generally extended SF's scope beyond the Second Battle of Kharkov in early summer 1942. So I never got around to playing the stock SF campaigns…until recently, when I decided it was a shame not to give them a tryout, at least. S

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