Sim Community Observer
By Ed Reddy

Article Type: Simulation Community
Article Date: September 28 to October 4, 2002

Headlines:     - COMBATSIM.COM: Carl Norman leaves Ubi Soft.     - Lo-Mac: New Campaign details announced     - .90 Beta update for Battle Of Britain & Artwork Mod Pack     - Graphsim is developing a new F/A-18 Hornet sim     - A/G AI in SP3 and RP5: How do they stack up?     - Tournament for Austerlitz: Napoleon’s Greatest Victory     - What Should Happen With F4Freeware.Net?

Media Sites:

• COMBATSIM.COM
  
• Frugals World of Simulations
  
• Migman
  
• SimHQ
  
• Subsim
  
• Wargamer

Game- and Hardware-Specific Sites:

• Aces High
  
• America's Army
  
• Combat Flight Simulator 2 & 3
  
• CFS Pilots
  
• Day of Defeat
  
• F4 Unified Team
  
• Falcon IV / V
  
• Fighter Ace
  
• Flanker
  
• Fighter Squadron: SDOE
  
• IL-2 Sturmovik
  
• LO:MAC
  
• Operation Flashpoint
  
• WarBirds
  
• WWII Online
  
• Flight-sim Usenet
  
• Hardware

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COMBATSIM.COM

• URL: http://www.combatsim.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Game News:
    
    
    
    • Prisoner Of War Ships
      
    • New Screens: World Airliners
      
    • IL-2 Add-On Operation Barbarossa
      
    • Carl Norman Leaves Ubi Soft
      
    • New Screens: Lock On Modern Air Combat
      
    • Forgotten Battles Development Update
      
    • Airborne Assault Patch 2 with MapMaker
      
    • Jaleco Unveils New Name and Focus
      
    
    
    
  • Military News:
    
    
    
    • United Defense Receives Mk 41 VLS Contract
      
    • Cracked Turbine Blade Responsible For F-16 Crash
      
    • Lockheed Martin Engineers Receive JSF Design Award
      
    • First Fire Scout In Full Production Configuration
      
    • Saudia Arabia to purchase Typhoon
      
    • Harrier GR7A Makes First Flight
      
    • BAE Systems Awarded FOAS C4ISTAR Contract
      
    • UK MOD Announcement On F-35 JSF And Future Carrier
      
    • Testing Milestone for MH-60R Helicopter
      
    • DASS Testing For Eurofighter Typhoon Successful
      
    
    
    
  • Articles:
    
    
    
    • Making of an Aces High Scenario, Part 2
      
    • Strategic Command: European Theater
      
    • The Planes of CFS3, Part. 1
      
    
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Preview: CFS3: Battle for Europe
    
  
  

Frugals World of Simulations

• URL: http://www.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Falcon 4
    
    
    
    • Shoot -- voice-commands for games
      
    • To F4UT betatesters.....
      
    • Poll: IMPORTANT - READ: What Should Happen With F4Freeware.Net?
      
    • Poll: Netherlands must choose replacement for the F-16
      
    • Poll: Which Fighter Scares you Most?
      
    • Poll: How Many of you here are actually military pilots pilots?
      
    
    
    
  • Falcon V
    
    
    
    • Falcon 5.0 cancelled?
      
    • Dusty shut up.
      
    
    
    
    
  • Rowan's BoB
    
    
    
    • BDG BoB v0.90 is out..
      
    
    
  
  

MigMan

• URL: http://www.migman.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Eurofighter Typhoon - Operation Icebreaker
    
  
  

SimHQ

• URL: http://www.simhq.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • How to be successful in air combat
    
  • Secondary flight controls
    
  • Screenshots of Vietnam Med Vac: 1 2 & 3
    
  
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • First production F-16 rudder pedals at RealSimulator.com
    
  • Video for Midway
    
  • The Online Warfare Pact
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  
  • World and Current Events
    
    
    
    • Rumsfeld - "Bush 'Like Churchill'"
    
    
    
    
    
  • Battle of Britain
    
    
    
    • Here's what happened (Continued)
    
    
    
    
    
  • Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs. Hokum
    
    
    
    • MP game on.
    
    
    
    
    
  • European Air War
    
    
    
    • Customising New Guinea
    
    
    
    
    
  • IL-2
    
    
    
    • in real history, the mustang is a turn fighter or ...?
      
    • Oleg!!!...More crap planes please!
      
    • FW190 improved visibility in Forgotten Battles?
      
    
    
  
  

Subsim.com

• URL: http://www.subsim.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Introducing: Midway
  
  
  
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • FAST SHIPS IN HARM'S WAY
    
  • WHY MONITOR MATTERS
    
  • K-19 HISTORY
    
  • TOONS BY TORPLEXED!
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Silent Hunter II
    
    
    
    • Stable MP for Silent Hunter II -- READ THIS
      
    • Describe SH2 In One World
    
    
    
    
    
  • Sub Command
    
    
    
    • SNLE Le Triomphant........Modelled.....first looks
    
    
    
    
  
  

Wargamer.com

• URL: http://www.wargamer.com
  
  
• Contests:
  
  
  
  • Scenario Design Contest
  
  
  • The Sudden Strike II: Fall Wardrobe Enhancement
  
  
  
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Lock 'N Load Demo Released
    
  • Ultimate Trainz Collection Announced
    
  • EVE Online to Add 10,000 Additional Beta Testers
    
  • EVE Online Slips to 2003
    
  • Great Battles Tournament Enters Semi-Finals
    
  • Real War - Rogue States Ships
    
  • Codemasters Ships Prisoner of War
    
  • 10/2 - This Day in Napoleonic History
    
  • ZenoGames Releases Battle Grid
    
  • 1st All-World Austerlitz Tourney Announced
    
  
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Interview: Ron Dockal for The Anglo-German War 39-45
    
  • Hardware Review: Mousepad Faceoff
    
  • Interview: Cossacks: Back to War
    
  • PC Game Preview: Hitman 2
    
  • Screenshots Feature: Soldiers of Empires
    
  • Press Releases: Naval Simulations 1: Jutland
    
  • PC Game Preview: Neocron
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • On the Silver Screen...
    
    
    • Desert Storm V2.0
    
    
    
    
  
  

Game-Specific Sites

Combat Flight Simulator 2 & 3

• URL: CFS2: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs2/
  
• URL: CFS3: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/
  
  
• New from Flightsim.com
  
  
  
  • CFS2 Consolidated B-24 Liberator Fix
    
  • CFS2 Consolidated B-24 Liberator
    
  • CFS2 USN HA(L)-3 Seawolf's UH-1C Helicopter
    
  
  

CFS Pilots

• URL: http://www.cfspilots.50megs.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • UPDATED Berlin 1944-45 Campaign
    
  • NEW Tracks for IL-2 1.2 by Viking1 and Ralf Rothe
    
  • NEW IL2 Skins from JerseyD
    
  
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Gazette Issue 168 WTC Tribute - Screenshots from FS2002, CFS and IL2 Sturmovik
  
  
  • Gazette Issue 167 ** The Lost P-36 ** Superb Shots ** Horsey Tales
  
  
  
  
  
• Links
  
  
  
  • Offical sites, fan sites, skins and a whole lot more for CFS1/2 and IL2
    
  
  

Day of Defeat

• URL: http://www.dayofdefeatmod.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General
    
    
    
    • Day of Defeat Beta 4.0 Information
      
    • Kar & Garand laming
      
    • Why not raise the gun when aiming at enemy, not on trigger pull
      
    • What would happen if you jumped and shot...
      
    
    
    
  • Beta 4.0 suggestions/ideas
    
    
    
    • Waldo and I would like to hear your ideas for improving Gameplay on Beach maps
      
    
    
    
  • Mapping
    
    
    
    • dod_deju (formerly dod_paris) new shots
      
    • DoD_Stuka, modest repimp
      
    • Anyone interested in a mapping model and prefab collection for DoD?
      
      
    
    
  
  

F4 Unified Team

• URL: http://f4ut.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • SP3 vs RP5 A-G AI
  
  
  
  

Falcon IV / V

• Community Sites:
  
  
  
  • E-Razor's E-Team
  
  
  
  
• No news to report this week. Check back next week!
  

Flanker

• URL: http://www.flanker2.com
  
  
• No news to report this week. Check back next week!
  

FS:SDOE Information Center

• URL: http://www.fightersquadron.com/index.php3
  
  
• No news to report this week. Site message board are down.
  

IL-2 Sturmovik

• URL: http://www.il2sturmovik.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Interview with Ilya 'Luthier' Shevchenko
    
  • Forgotten Battles Development Update
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General
    
    
    
    • Are you ready for some football?
    
    
    
    
    
  • Oleg's Ready Room
    
    
    
    • P-51 x 109/190
      
    • Open letter to Oleg
      
    • Development update 27.09
      
    • Oleg, Please Review FW190 Cockpit One Last Time
      
    • Focke-Wulf 190
      
    • Spit XIV vs P51
      
    • 
      
    
    
    
  • Pilot's Lounge
    
    
    
    • Word Assocation Game
    
    
    • Ak-47 vs M-16 Which is the better?
      
    
    
  
  
  
• Downloads:
  
  
  
  • Paint Schemes
  
  
  
  

LO:MAC

• URL: http://www.lo-mac.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Night Cockpit
    
  • New Interface Shots
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • My Appreciation
    
  • New Campaign details announced
    
  • Carl's Depature from Ubi Soft
    
  • MAC Developers PLEASE Read this Wish
    
  
  

Operation Flashpoint

• URL: http://www.flashpoint1985.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • What would you like to see in ofp2
    
    
    • Ofp is dead?
      
    
    
    
  • Addons & Mods:
    
    
    
    • Gfx707's bunker pack 5
    
    
    • Landing Ship, Dock
    
    
    
  • Off Topic
    
    
    
    • Mid east
    
    
    • Official ofp stuntman thread
      
    • Killing sadam
      
    • Internet luvvin
      
    • The culture that rules the world!
      
    
    
    
  
  

Massively Multiplayer

Aces High

• URL: http://www.hitechcreations.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • New Terrain Editor Release
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • Midway Registration
  
  
  • Aces High Bounty Hunters.
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • P51 Runners...
      
    • I'll show you mine if you show me yours !
      
    • Historical Gameplay :rolleyes:
      
    
    
  • Aircraft/Vehicles:
    
    
    
    • P47, P51, P38...the German view......
      
    • AH Spitfire Mk V vs AH 190 A5
      
    
    
  • The O' Club
    
    
    
    • Alternatives to buying a Deer hunting license
      
    • WW2OL Revisited
      
    • 'Idiot Cards' for the US military...
      
    • Welllll GOooooood
      
    
    
    
  
  

America's Army

• URL: http://www.americasarmy.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • SITREP - New Update
    
  • Bomb
    
  • AA:O on CD
    
  
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • NEW MAPS!
      
    • Teammates say the craziest things!
      
    • Update From Dev Team
      
    
    
    
  • Strategies and Tactics
    
    
    
    • POST NAMES OF TKers and RAMBOS HERE
    
    
    
    
    
  • R&R
    
    
    
    • The Official and Authentic Guide to Running
    
    
    • THE OFFICIAL BUMP THREAD
      
    • Understanding Bible Prophecy
      
    • ONE WORD STORY!
      
    
    
  
  

Fighter Ace

• URL: http://fighterace.vr1.com/
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • VR1 Entertainment is now Jaleco Entertainment
    
  
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • 10/4/2002 Fox Hunt!! Between 5pm - 8pm PDT and 8pm - 11pm EST
    
  • 10/5/2002 PPP ( Pin Point Parachuting) 12 Noon Pacific, 3 Pm Eastern
    
  • 10/5/2002 Kings Of The Sky (KOTS) 4 Pm Pacific, 7 Pm Eastern
    
  • 10/6/2002 Canyon Races!! 3pm PDT
    
  
  

WarBirds

• URL: http://www.totalsims.com
  
  
• All Warbirds (II & III):
  
  
  
  • October 2002 Calendar
  
  
  
  

WWII Online

• URL: Playnet Site 1
  
• URL: Playnet Site 2
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Achtung!
    
  • 1.7 open beta to be released tonight
    
  • Does your internet connection feel slow today?
    
  • Allied High Command restructures the AHC Navy
    
  • McCullys altitude maps and recon for WWII Online
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • The Barracks:
    
    
    
    • Commemorative First Anniversary Map
      
    • Welcome UK players - Come check out the Allied community!
      
    • To a True Soldier - >S> Carrot
      
    • GMT based players, US time zone don’t matter a 24/7 squad (BKB) needs you!
      
    
    
  • The Harbour:
    
    
    
    • Allied Naval Operations - The Real Story
      
    • Photo Gallery For The New Forums--Surface
      
    • Photo Gallery For The New Forums--Submarines
      
    • Photo Gallery For The New Forums--Naval Aviation
      
    
    
  • The Hangar:
    
    
    
    • JG53 is seeking dedicated new recruits to fly the Bf 110, He 111 and the Ju 87
      
    • 111 th RAF Air Squadron (BKB's Air Branch a 24/7 squad)is looking for members
      
    • 17th BG - All Squadrons Now Recruiting - Escort & Bomber Pilots/Crew Wanted
      
    • The most importan part of the war: Aerial Reconnaissance Missions
      
    
    
  • The Motor Pool:
    
    
    
    • CRS: Vehicle Damage Value (fishing for yellow)
      
    • Why is CRS so wiling to Lose all Their dedicated "tankers"
      
    • So CRS, when are we going to fight against the real brit army?
      
    
    
  
  

Usenet

Flight-sim Usenet

• URL: Click Here
  
  
• Discussions:
  
  
  
  • OT-OT- IRAQ/Bin Laden paranoia
    
  • Why Consoles are Killing Sims (for now)
    
  
  

Controllers

Cougar World

• URL: http://cougar.frugalsworld.com/
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Covers For your Cougars!!!
  
  
  
  
  
• Cougar Hardware / Firmware Issues:
  
  
  
  • Upgrade to Cougar HS kit available
  
  
  • *Mods and Tweaks*
    
  
  

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