Back To Page 5 The tungsten-alloy 3BM44M rounds are deadly steel arrows. It does not cause a big explosion when it hits, like the HEAT rounds do. They use kinetic energy to burrow into armor and kill their targets. This one finished the enemy T-72 as well. “Kursk, beware the infantry to your front. […]
Back To Page 4 Sergei and Pavel punched knuckles over the 125mm gun’s autoloader, Sergei thinking for a moment of Dan Phinin, the American intelligence officer who had shared a previous adventure with them. He keyed his intercom.“Vadim, move up. Slowly.” I watched as Sergei began to move in. In the distance, the 210th Regiment was […]
Back To Page 3 They carried only a small number of the modern triple-charge 3BK29M rounds, but these were proof against even the most lethal opposition. Pavel snapped switches, and the 125mm smoothbore gun elevated to loading position, the autoloader whining through the shell selection. As it loaded and began to return to firing […]
Back To Page 2 An Mi-8 helicopter returned me to our base. I would loadout my MiG with rockets, and make the short flight south to the power plant. Sergei, carrying a squad of soldiers, led the 210th Regiment’s advance. Their T-72B started from the town, fording the river well away from the IRLF […]
Back To Page 1 The Commander waved me to a seat at the table, pouring tea as he did so. “Ah, my little falcon. Now that you have finished your washing up with the other ladies, I believe that you may help us with some more washing-up, better suited to your particular skills.” I […]
A Sacha Christmas Story by Cat Hello, my friends! As the Americans say, I wish to you the tidings of the season, “Happy Holidays,” yes? It is the Christmas season, in Russia as well as in the west, but of course our Christmas season really points to the day of January 7 by the calendar, thirteen days […]
Back To Page 3 Preaching to the Choir Every Elitist worthy of the name feels compelled to tell others the “right” way of things. Some have built huge, expensive libraries of technical manuals and historical references. Manufacturer blueprints of the P-47? Of course! How else to prove the rivet count on the default template […]
Back To Page 2 The “Realism” Settings (continued) Cockpit On: Elitists never, ever turn the cockpit off when flying. It’s “arcade” and makes it too easy to spot and track planes underneath your opponent. Flying doesn’t come naturally to me. I have a heck of a time keeping my little pixel plane going nose forward through the […]
Back To Page 1 Sometimes an Elitist will refer to themselves as “Purists”, but since I don’t like that label (and I’m the one writing this article), it’s stupid. Did I mention Elitists can sometimes be snobbish and somewhat arrogant? “I am a Settings Elitist.” There. I said it. But I’m still not going […]
Frank Humor by Frank “Dart” Giger If one reads Internet forums that deal with flight sims long enough, certain patterns emerge on how the “camps” of members form within the forum. While there are a lot of tribes within the population (The Chart Tribe, the Luftwaffe Tribe, The Ameritribe…), there are really three broad types […]
Back To Page 4 I took out a dock and supply facility cleanly with nape on the first pass. Then I turned around and plugged that boat anchored in the river with Zunis. On the pullout I was so low I had water spray on the canopy! The Furor and The Future YAP’s arrival […]
Back To Page 3 What It’s Like If you have WOV, you already know what YAP is like. Sorta. It’s similar to WOV, only much more so. All those new objects add up to a lot of eye candy. There are gorgeous temples and pagodas in nearly every town, and the citadel in Hue […]
