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Gotta agree with Vegas, thanks for the time Ghostdog, and you too MJ. Best sim site on the web. (Betcha didnt think it'd be this much work, eh MJ? :D )

This is an excellent infantry combat sim. I dont think a computer game has come as close as this to what we hope for in a simulation. With the latest patch(?), 2.0.0a, I guess you call it, any bugs I had disapeered. I love the sandstorm map. I havent had a chance to play with my gaming group, MGG, yet, but they are getting heavily into this one. As soon as the links for the reviews are fixed, Ill read your review Fates. Thanks for taking the time to do them.

Amen brother, feel the same way...

Cretin, almost any funny comment can be linked to something serious. Chief was just tryin to pass on a joke is all. He wasnt trying to be disrespectful to ACTUAL accident victims. I would have never made any connection to actual wrecks and deaths if you hadnt said something. I took his joke for what it was. Not tryin to flame ya pal, just my observation. Actually Dagger, I recognize that broom...MY ex-wife was flyin on it when she left me. I gave her a "boost" out the door, hehe.

Like the sig cretin, warms the heart... Im talkin about the bottom one... God I love this country. :)

No rest for the wicked... *Snaps whip over jeffs' head as drummer beats out slow tatoo while sweaty, half naked men row...* :D

Ive played a LOT of IL2. got the hang of landing down pretty well. But I didnt study as carefully as I should have in this game when I got it. My first flight and first pass, dont know squat about an ILS system, come in too fast even for a jet, decide at last second to go around, raise flaps and hit the burner. This time I come in, not as fast though still too much, but using airbrake and full flaps. I touch down waaaaay too far down the strip, still coulda made it but didnt deploy chute and forgot where wheelbrake toggle was, lol. Wound up in the cow pasture at end of runway front wheel half buried. Decided to open canopy for fresh air to let bad smell in pants disipate. Next time I read the manual and have keycard handy, lol. Of course, any landing you can walk away from...

VSD, I got a similar effect when I took off in the A10. I retracted gear and flaps, trying to stay low as a strela launcher was nearby. Before I cleared the runway, I looked to the left watching for missiles. Well, that was enough time for me to slightly dip, and sure enough, I wound up scraping and sparking down the remainder of the runway till I finally came to a stop. pretty cool effect I agree.

Being a 56K'r, Im bandwidth challenged and their website is all flash and takes forever to load. Spend 10 minutes waiting for the main page to open, only to have to go thru more pages that are flash. Worst website Ive ever seen for accessability. Was hoping to find their forums. Can someone give me a link to them? Appreciate it... Any word of an upcoming patch? I still have some minor glitches on occasion.

Fates, Im on 56K so I havent tried the demo, thats a big file. Thanks for the link though, I added it to my favorites. But that's why I was asking opinions. I did hear somewhere in a review in the past, that the reviewer thought the game wasnt really a sim. However, to hear AK's response, it might be afterall. Even if it is arcadish, it still might be fun. Anything Naval I like and am interested in. I would love to try the demo, I suppose I could just leave it on all night. I wonder how long it would take?

Dont you mean Silent Hunter 3? Either way, this looks very nice. I have SH2 and its a lot of fun. Enjoyed the view of many a transport taking the dive to Davy Jones locker, heading for the deep six. Arrrrrrrrrr....

A nuke ASROC and you wouldnt have to worry about all that plotting. There's a BIG margin for error built in there ya know... :D Actually, this game looks pretty good, though I get the impression its more of a naval BF1942 and not really a sim. Am I wrong here?

I saw this thread in the Lomac forum. I agree with some of the peoples' comments that sales and money will be what motivate UbiSoft to make an addon for Lomac. However, letting Ubi know our desire for more of this excellent sim cant hurt. I'd love to see the F-14, F-18, Tornado, Mirage, and a US carrier, not to mention some more maps or area of Operations. I signed it.

I saw this in another forum and signed it then. The Russians were my cold war adversaries but I always respected them. If this company would do this for the sake of advertising and dollars to them, how long before we see pictures of our own soldiers defaced in this way for money?

I agree Cretin. One of the key reasons for having the F-14 was the long range anti-ship missiles the Soviets fielded loaded on Badgers, Bears, etc. The Tomcat, coupled with the E-2C and the Pheonix, had the speed and range to quickly engage these deadly adversaries before they could shoot. This 3 sided "system" gave the CV a capable front line defence. A couple of Kitchens in the side of a CV would have seriously affected its combat capability. Most of us have seen what a single lucky shot did to the Forrestal, now imagine a large missile like the kitchen. I find it incredable that people are so short-sighted as to think that with the fall of the Soviet Union, the missile threat is seriously diminished. The Persian Gulf is awash in these missiles as are a far more likely threat, the Chinese and North Koreans. Whether these missiles are launched from land or air, they have a long reach that can only be defendedagainst by a long range aircraft and missile system like the Pheonix. Using the Hornet/AMRAAM combo with mid-air refueling is at best a stopgap that endangers our sailors and airman. The Navy performed it missions in Vietnam better than anyone else because their aircrews, unlike the Air Force, were specialized. A fighter pilot did his thing, the ground attack community did theirs, and so on. A pilot that has to know two jobs will never be quite as skilled at both as two pilots each trained in their specialty. I fear this is a lesson our military will have to learn again the hard way... PS. After all that, let me say, I sure hope they add some aircraft to this sim. I would love to see both the Tomcat and Hornet, a US CV, a British Tornado, A French Mirage, and the Euro-Fighter EF2000.

This is an excerpt from the book, "Guadalcanal" by Irving Werstien. I just finished reading it. It finished with these lines... "On Oct. 27th, 1947, a Japanese soldier dressed in a ragged uniform, his hair grown to his waist, emerged from a Guadalcanal cave. This strange creature entered a Solomon Island constabulary post and surrendered. He enquired about the war, for he did not know it was over. Then, in a voice cracked from disuse, he asked, "Where are the American Marines?" When told they had departed five years before, he sighed and said, "It was no disgrace to be beaten by such men." Semper Fidelis...

Staffen, I got a feeling you already know the answers pal. Take it from an old fart whose been around...I think you'll do just fine.

My pal gave me this Christmas card, hehe... -reboot- What you do when yur done scritchin yer feets. -hardware-Nuts, bolts, nails, screws, etc. -server-Thet feller what doles out the bains. -spread sheet-One way of fertilizin' a field. -point and click-What happens when yur dang gun misfires. -cell phone-What you use to make your one call from jail. -3.5inch floppy-The droppin of a really small cow. -microchip-That same droppin after its been settin in the sun fer a spell. -hard drive-A truck with two flat tires, stripped gears, and a burnt out clutch. Hmmm, I wonder what else we can add, hehe... :D

Im 46 years old fellas. When I was 16, I used to walk out to the desert near where I lived in Tucson to shoot my wepons. I often walked back to the 7/11 with my .45 on my hip and my winchester over my sholder to get a soda and no one ever said anything including the cops. That was back in 1972-4 when guns werent such an issue. Now if I tried that here in Calif. I'd probably be arrested on the spot for some stupid trumped up malarky. Freedom aint what it used to be young people. Ive seen a LOT of change in 25 years. Speak up before you lose what you got left...

All Im gonna say is...you guys all suck.... :( Maybe next year. HEY! It is next year!

Ya know, I always wondered what LMAO meant, and now I know...I...I...feel so...used... oh well, TTFN... :D

Maybe you two guys are post menapausalhypoallergenicspacetimecontiuumtorsotwins... :D

Dagger, I think this game is more like BF1942 and MOH, kind of a run and gun game. The games you mentioned are more tactical type "combat sims". I think it does have a bit more of a "tactical tone" to it so to speak than BF1942 and MOH, but that could be more a function of its atmosphere and cinematics getting you "in the game and psyched". I really enjoyed the demos but I wouldnt had bought it simply because I already have several run and guns, BF1942, and UT. A freind bought me the game for Christmas and I will say I have enjoyed the game a LOT. The single player campaigns are the best I have seen bar none. Its like me, pcpilot, alongside some old movie great starring in my own war film. The MP part is of the same high caliber as BF1942 with some nice different game types. But it doesnt do as much for me as the SP part of the game. Like I said, I wouldnt have bought it for more run and gun. Unlike BF1942, there isnt a quick battle generator, you have to play one of the missions unlocked from the campaign, read rerun here. There wasnt any mission editor released with it though I understand some SDK tools were released. Also, except for some apparently minor bugs, it has run flawlessly 98% of the time right out of the box unpatched. All in all, the game is excellent, is very engrossing, and a LOT of fun. And yet I still find myself debating the nessesity for another $50 run and gun. Im having a hard time understanding all the excitement, the game is hardly more than a slightly new twist on an old theme. Im an old money pincher. Lived thru a lot of lean times. I expect to get every pennys' worth when I buy something. If a prospective purchase doesnt quite meet all my criteria, I pass on it. My bottom line? As good as this game is, I still woulda passed on it. Dont mean to rain on anyones parade, just my honest opinion. If you dont have a run and gun, this is the first one I would recommend to you.

Hmmm, well, I guess Ill wait for the patch then. I sure hate having to go thru the campaign a 4th time if I have to reinstall. <_< Speaking of campaign, I did what you did Fates and went to a harder setting this last time around, and MAN! its a bear! You even THINK about sticking your head around a corner and POW! right in the kisser, hehe. I agree Jeff. When you think about what these men went thru it can bring you to tears. I have the book Enemy at the Gates, the true story of Stalingrad, and words are inadequate to describe that battle. 2 million dead Russians, many killed by thier own commisars. An elite 250,000 man German army that marched into Stalingrad, only 90,000 survive to surrender. And only 5,000 come back home to thier Germany, the last, 10 years after the war was over. And that was only one battle in a horrifc all or nothing war...

I have gotten to the train station at Red Square. When I run up the steps, the game stops and the following error message is displayed... "insufficient free disk space. please free at leats 5mb of freespace on game drive." I first got this error message after I had to redo my harddrive. I tried to save the "save" folder from the COD directory so I wouldnt have to redo the campaign I was on. Well, it didnt work. As soon as I tried to reload my campaign after I had redone the HDD, I'd get this message. I thought, ok, fine! Ill just start allover again. So I deleted the old folder and started a new campaign. It ran fine until now at the red square train station where I get the SAME error message. I still have 7 gig free on my "game drive". Whats this thing talking about? I tried to access the forums for COD but there was little to nothing that looked like my problem there. So thought I would fly my question here to see what happens.