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Computer Gaming / Re: Combat Mission new for 202...

Last post by Gusington - Today at 09:14:21 AM

Space Lobsters?

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Computer Gaming / Re: Combat Mission new for 202...

Last post by Redwolf - Today at 08:50:45 AM

Yeah, the silence gets annoying.

What new products we had lately amounts to -what- 2 tanks in CMFB.

Hopefully the Cold War module is well underway.

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Computer Gaming / Re: DCS Discussion

Last post by Thomm - Today at 07:08:02 AM

That is a beautiful manual!

Can anybody guess which system/program they used for its creation?

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Computer Gaming / Re: Homeworld 3 Trailer

Last post by Grim.Reaper - Today at 02:49:21 AM

Today people who bought certain versions get access to the game, guess we will hear if turns out to be good.  Although past versions never stuck with me, considering jumping in just for a new shiny toy:)

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Computer Gaming / Re: Combat Mission new for 202...

Last post by Grim.Reaper - Today at 02:47:18 AM

Been a few months since it was hinted we would find out about something unexpected coming....

Just as long as it's not that Space Lobsters thing again...

At this point,  might be up for that game as long as something new from them:)

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GrogHeads Feedback / Re: Grogheads AAR! Second Fron...

Last post by Sir Slash - Yesterday at 09:58:33 PM

I enjoyed it as well. Thanks for the write-up. 

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Computer Gaming / Re: Combat Mission new for 202...

Last post by ArizonaTank - Yesterday at 09:43:03 PM

Been a few months since it was hinted we would find out about something unexpected coming....

Just as long as it's not that Space Lobsters thing again...

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Tabletop AARs / Re: Black Flag Fleet 1880

Last post by MengJiao - Yesterday at 08:21:39 PM

The Black Flag Army was the Chinese bandit force that triggered the war in Indochina between France and China in
1884.  They were operating as early as 1865.  What if the Black Flag Army had acquired German ships sooner than the rest of China and attacked the French Fleet in 1880 with the usual American mercenary cadres on the ships?

Frightening but vaguely possible.  After all, Thetis ended up as a hulk in New Caledonia.

So that didn't go well for the Black Flag Fleet.  About ten minutes into the action at ranges around 1500 yds,
One Black Flag ship blew up and the other two disengaged (they are faster than the French by 2-3 knots).
The problem is the French 10.8-inch gun -- very good.  I was wondering how this game would handle that.  It is probably slightly underrated since no French breechloaders in service blew up in this period unlike many other naval guns of the time, plus, of course, it was a reliable (for the time), accurate and powerful gun with a good explosive shell.  The game seems to show it as quite plausibly very lethal against the average ironclad of the time.

Oddly enough, last time I ran a China vs. France scenario, I used the Fighting Iron system, which theoretically covers this kind of battle -- but the French 10.8-inch BL is represented as a muzzleloader on most ships that carried it and it is lumped in with all guns between 9 and 11.9 inches which pretty much halves the lethality of the French 10.8-inch BL of the 1870s.

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Computer Gaming / Re: Combat Mission new for 202...

Last post by Grim.Reaper - Yesterday at 06:29:53 PM

Been a few months since it was hinted we would find out about something unexpected coming....

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Computer Gaming / Re: DCS Discussion

Last post by Redwolf - Yesterday at 06:26:15 PM

Wow...release actually is in two weeks for once!

I wish they released the manual in advance, e.g. about now.

Hit the ground running you know?

They did quite some time ago...all 782 pages of it.

https://f4.manuals.heatblur.se/print.html

Oh yes. I forgot.