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Back To Page 5 Tail End Charlie is my next target. I slew the pointing cross to the right. Another push on the acquisition button, check the TVM for a good lock…and crosscheck the pipper lock on cross…and then I shoot again. Then I break right. From the missile view, you can see my […]
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Back To Page 4 Back to the action! We’re getting closer now…time to get our war faces on! “Enfield…Fence Check”! I tell my wingie to set up his aircraft for weapons delivery. Even though we’ve briefed it, I’ll tell him the game plan again (formation, attack type, roles, and egress). “Enfield, wedge right…shooter-cover…one, shooter…egress […]
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Back To Page 3 Tank Busting With Enfield Flight I chose to start the mission airborne…we begin in a typical travel formation. Because of the distance to the target, we’ll fly the initial legs at altitude. I use the communication option menu to tell my wingman to go line abreast. The communications menus have […]
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Back To Page 2 Mission Building For this preview, I’ll skip the “instant action” and Training missions…instead, I’ll begin as we would in real life…in mission planning. The mission planning function in LOMAC is a powerful tool, probably the best I have seen to date. You can go about mission planning in two ways…the Fast […]
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Back To Page 1 Options Settings My first stop is at the Options screen where I select the operating settings for my controllers and my graphics and sound cards. The Options functions are not finalized yet, and we can expect more features to be added to what I had to choose from. The rotary knob in the […]
Lock On: Modern Air Combat
by Andy Bush One thing’s for sure. When the ground commander wants close air support he usually doesn’t want to wait for it. Our A-10 unit provides that kind of rapid response by keeping some flights in an airborne holding pattern, particularly when the action is hot and heavy. Today is one of those days…which is why […]
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Back to Page 2 Sierra Sierra had a first look showing of their new FPS, Men of Valor: Vietnam. The opening of the promotional video starts with a Huey door gunner working over an enemy village. The chopper has to crash land due to the ground fire. It then shows the survivors working their way […]
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Back to Page 1 Ubi Soft (continued) Rainbow Six 3 has a new mission pack coming out. Athena Sword looks very nice as the graphics are being enhanced along with many new weapons, maps and modes of combat. There will be eight new maps for single and multiplayer. Some additional maps will be those from previous RB6 […]
E3Expo 2003 Friday’s Report
SimHQ heads to California to see what’s new in simulations at the year’s biggest show. Recap – Friday, May 16th Darim Systems We stopped by Darim Systems to see what their hydraulic motion base for sims was all about. Darim makes the base and different configurations can be added for either flight or racing sims. You can […]
Lock On: Modern Air Combat
As we get closer to LOMAC’s arrival, SimHQ (and our readers) asked some questions of Ubi Soft Entertainment and LOMAC’s Producer Matt Wagner. Questions from the SimHQ Staff Q: Will it support the 9x OS? A: Yes, Windows 98SE along with Windows ME are fine but we cannot promise support for Windows 95 (or below). We recommend Windows 2000 […]
Episode One: First Contact
World War III in 1985 – A Harpoon3 Battleset Diary by Mark “Boxer” Doran First Contact 3norway1.scn Date/Time: 14 September 1985 Size/Duration: + Location: Norway Playable sides: NATO Type: ASuW Briefing: This scenario starts one hour before the initialization of hostilities in Central Europe. A powerful Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet surface action group (SAG) and two large amphibious groups sailed […]
World War III in 1985 – A Harpoon3 Battleset Diary
by Mark “Boxer” Doran If you have read General Sir John Hackett’s World War III or Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising or perhaps Cauldron by Larry Bond and Pat Larkin then you will understand the premise for this Harpoon3 battleset. Figure 1 – Cracking good reads: each depicts a fictional Soviet assault on NATO. Ragnar Emsoy’s magnum opus for Harpoon3 World War […]