Sim Community Observer
By Ed Reddy

Article Type: Simulation Community
Article Date: November 16 to November 22, 2002

Headlines:      Enigma: Rising Tide Recruiting A demo      Falcon 4: MP porttester BETA ready      NEW Sub Command patch V1.06      NWS: Fighting Steel Project v7.0 Released      F4UT: Balance Of Power Update      WWIIOL: Mac retail release news and more

Media Sites:

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

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
  
• GI Combat
  
• Operation Flashpoint
  
• WarBirds
  
• WWII Online
  
• Flight-sim Usenet
  
• Hardware

[ Missed Something? Check The Archives ]
[ Learn More About This Community Update Page ]

COMBATSIM.COM

• URL: http://www.combatsim.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Game News:
    
    
    
    • Thrustmaster, Ubisoft At The European Computer Flight Simulation Show
      
    • Enigma: Rising Tide Recruiting A demo
      
    • Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
      
    • Platoon Ships
      
    • NVidia Unveils GeForce FX
      
    • New Screens: IL-2 Forgotten Battles
      
    • New Screens: IGI 2
      
    • Raven Shield MP Demo
      
    • Battlefield 1942 Expansion Coming Soon
      
    
    
  • Military News:
    
    
    
    • F/A-22 Raptor Surpasses Another Key Flight Test Goal
      
    • F/A-18 with Active Aeroelastic Wing Completes First Flight
      
    • Raytheon Delivers Newest Patriot Missile
      
    • USS Oklahoma City Collides With Vessel
      
    
    
    
  • Articles:
    
    
    
    • Jane's Battles with the Luftwaffe
      
    • Lost Aircraft, Part 1
      
    • Prisoner of War
      
    • Strike Fighters: Project 1
      
    
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • making forums public?
    
  • Donnie or anybody else playing DD2?
    
  • Anybody Playing Strike Fighters?
    
  
  

Frugals World of Simulations

• URL: http://www.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Falcon 4
    
    
    
    • Poll: What is your age?
      
    • Poll: Second best sim?
      
    • Poll: How Many of you here are actually military pilots pilots
      
    • MP porttester BETA ready
      
      
    
    
    
  • Falcon V
    
    
    
    • Falcon V dream list
      
    
    
    
  • Pilots Bar
    
    
    
    • Thread Derailing Group
      
    • Great Day At The Show
      
    
    
    
  
  

MigMan

• URL: http://www.migman.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Westland Sikorsky controls
    
  • Campaign mode in Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3
    
  
  

SimHQ

• URL: http://www.simhq.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • European Flight Sim Convention
    
  • Web site for Söldner-Secret Wars update
    
  
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • SimHQ has an upcoming interview with Jim Richardson of NaturalPoint
    
  • Petlyakov Pe-2 in Action
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  
  • Community Hall
    
    
    
    • Most THRILLING thread ever
      
    • Every time a topic I start scrolls...
      
    
    
    
  • World and Current Events
    
    
    
    • Gun supplier ordered by jury to pay $1.2 ,000,000 to Widow
      
    
    
    
  • Battle of Britain
    
    
    
    • Here's what happened (Continued)
      
    
    
    
  • CFS 3
    
    
    
    • List what features CFS3 has that IL-2 does not
      
    • Patch Petition
      
      
    
    
    
  • Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs. Hokum
    
    
    
    • MP game on.
      
    
    
    
  • IL-2
    
    
    
    • Running Up the White Flag re: CFS3
      
    
    
  
  
  

Subsim.com

• URL: http://www.subsim.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Silent Hunter II
    
    
    
    • Stable MP for Silent Hunter II -- READ THIS
      
    • SH-2 Dynamic Single Mission Generator BETA Release!
      
    
    
    
  • Sub Command
    
    
    
    • Is the Shkval as good as they say???
      
    • NEW Sub Command patch V1.06
      
    
    
    
  • ENIGMA: Rising Tide
    
    
    
    • FEATURE REQUESTS
      
    • WWII Online?
      
    
    
  
  

Wargamer.com

• URL: http://www.wargamer.com
  
  
• Contests:
  
  
  
  • Newsletter G.I. Combat Contest
    
  • Games That Sell!" Contest/Survey
    
  • Scenario Design Contest
  
  
  
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Operation Flashpoint v1.90 Patches
    
  • Top Ten Selling PC Games - November 3 to November 9
    
  • Top 20 Selling PC Games for October
    
  • Activision Value to Distribute iEntertainment Network's Games
    
  • Warcraft III Marketing Effort In Movie Theaters
    
  • Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin v1.01 Patch Details
    
  • Patch for Armored Task Force Released
    
  • NWS: Fighting Steel Project v7.0 Released
    
  • Highland Warriors Demo Released
    
  • Asheron's Call 2 Beta Now in Europe
    
  • Complete News Coverage
    
  
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Historical Article: Sakamoto Ryoma - The Indispensable 'Nobody'
    
  • Board Game Review: Barbarossa: Army Group South, 1941
    
  • Strategy and Tactics Article: Platoon Strategy Guide
    
  • PC Game Review: Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe
    
  • Book Review: Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
    
  • Screenshots Feature: Shattered Galaxy v1.5
    
  
  

MilitaryGamer.com

• URL: http://www.militarygamer.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • At the Bar with Bis: If Scrooge Had Been a Wargamer
    
  • Airborne Assault AAR - Beach Assault - Assault on Juno Beach Pt II
    
  • EU2 Austria War Of The Spanish Succession : 1700 - 1708 - Part V
    
  • Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory - Review By Jim Cobb
    
  • Crucial Entertainment Limited - Eve Online: The Second Genesis
    
  • Asheron's Call 2 FAQ - 18 Screenshots & Info
    
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Combat Mission and Steelpanthers Present Stalingrad
    
  • Echelon: Wind Warriors Seven Screens And Game Info
    
  • 2 Brand New Screenshots From Söldner - Secret Wars
    
  • Codemasters Dragon Empires MMORPG - Screens - FAQ & Info
    
  
  

Game-Specific Sites

Combat Flight Simulator 2 & 3

• URL: CFS2: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs2/
  
• URL: CFS3: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/
  
• URL: CFS Insider: http://microsoftgamesinsider.com/CFSInsider
  
• New downloads from Flightsim.com
  
  
  
  • CFS3 Mission--A Raid On Worth
    
  • CFS3 Modified Default Missions
    
  • CFS3 SS Sign Nose Art
    
  • CFS3 Nazi Sign Nose Art
    
  • CFS3 P51D Glamorous Glen III
    
  • CFS2 Goldorak
    
  • CFS2 Scenery--Rescue Island West
    
  • FSUIPC.dll
    
  • CFS Scenery--Schwabmunchen
    
  
  

CFS Pilots

• URL: http://www.cfspilots.50megs.com
  
  
• CFS 3
  
  
  
  • CFSInsider release Mission Building Document
    
  
  
• IL-2
  
  
  
  • Two skins from new contributor Kolodziejski Dariusz
    
  • Five new soccer skins from JerseyD
    
  
  

Day of Defeat

• URL: http://www.dayofdefeatmod.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • The official SIGnature request thread
    
  • Place your bets: Which Aussie animal is going to attack Mr Orange?
    
  • Photoshop Thread - Joy
    
  • Accurize the MG42!!!!!!!
    
  • Waldo and I would like to hear your ideas for improving Gameplay on Beach maps
    
  • Deer hunting??
    
  
  

F4 Unified Team

• URL: http://f4ut.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • New F-18 in Navy suit
    
  • F-14A Screenshots
    
  • Balance Of Power Update
    
  • F-14 VF-31 Tomcatters
    
  
  

Falcon IV / V

• Community Sites:
  
  
  
  • E-Razor's E-Team
  
  
  
  
• Site no longer followed due to inactivity.
  

Flanker

• URL: http://www.flanker2.com
  
  
• Site no longer followed due to inactivity.
  

FS:SDOE Information Center

• URL: http://www.fightersquadron.com/index.php3
  
  
• Downloads:
  
  
  
  • Recon3's final Bristol F.2b skin!
    
  • New version of Bloch 152
    
  • SDOE Terrain mod Version1.4 released!
    
  • Explosion effect revamp
    
  
  

IL-2 Sturmovik

• URL: http://www.il2sturmovik.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Dev Update 15.11 - High resolution screens
    
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Best medium bomber of WWII?
    
  • Some interresting speed info about the Tempest!!!!
    
  • A new Go-229 update, WITH A SPECIAL TREAT!!!
    
  • Are you ready for some football?
    
  • Development update 21.11
    
  • PLEASE! ATTENTION! PLEASE COPY TO OTHERS!
    
  • Bf-109 Level Flight Acceleration...
    
  
  
  
• Downloads:
  
  
  
  • Paint Schemes
  
  
  
  

LO:MAC

• URL: http://www.lo-mac.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Wallpaper Section
    
  
  

GI Combat

• URL: http://www.gicombat.com
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • New Reviews - Previews - Interviews Page
    
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Holden, Mods and To Eric Young
    
  
  

Operation Flashpoint

• URL: http://www.flashpoint1985.com
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • General about 1.85 patch
      
    
    
    
  • Addons & Mods Complete:
    
    
    
    • Best add-ons list
      
    • Btr 70 for download!
      
    • *boom* m109 for download @ ofp.info
      
    • Ofp addon manager v0.9b released
      
    • Mf conquer the island
      
    • Proper release of the littlebirds
      
    
    
    
  • Off Topic
    
    
    
    • Mid east
      
    • Official ofp stuntman thread
      
    • Military Stupidity (reprise)
      
    • Guess the airplane!
      
    • The Forgotten Battles
      
    • Nato
      
    • Raven shield demo
      
    • Would you be willing to die for your country?
      
      
    
    
  
  

Massively Multiplayer

Aces High

• URL: http://www.hitechcreations.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • AH Convention
    
  
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • For all events including Snapshots, TOD, and more!
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • What's the one WWII era plane...
    
  • Who are you? (pics)
    
  • Bring the Ki.84-I Hayate "Frank" to Aces High
    
  • Arrogant Unnecessary B.S. in the MA
    
  • AH Spitfire Mk V vs AH 190 A5
    
  • Time for the Brewster?
    
  • "N. Korea claims nuke"
    
  • Death Penalty... yes or no?
    
  
  

America's Army

• URL: http://www.americasarmy.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • More AA:O Reviews!
    
  • SITREP v.1.4
    
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • 51 East invaded by suspected AimBot users.
      
    • Positive Karma: Outstanding Players
      
    
    
    
  • R&R
    
    
    
    • Your #1 Dream Girl
      
    • TWO WORD STORY.
      
    • Guess the movie quote!!
      
    • THE OFFICIAL BUMP THREAD
      
    
    
  
  

Fighter Ace

• URL: http://fighterace...vr1.com/
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • This weeks events!
    
  
  

WarBirds

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

WWII Online

• URL: Playnet Site 1
  
• URL: Playnet Site 2
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Walking In a Winter Wonderland
    
  • HQ sits down with Flea
    
  • Can't find your way around in game?
    
  • The return of prepay
    
  • Do you feel a need to change your game name?
    
  • Fade to Grey
    
  • Mac retail release news and more
    
  • New attition and news of the next patch
    
  • 20mm vs the Hurricane which will win?
    
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Off-Topic
    
    
    
    • What do you look like?
      
    • OMG Get it here now!!! WWIIOL Official Dancing Sig Thread... Get yours today!!!
      
    • Young Americans are Stupid, According to Poll
      
    • OFFICIAL HOT CHIX THREAD™ - Version 4.0 released!!!!
      
    
    
    
  • The Barracks:
    
    
    
    • Wuustwezel Just Got Smacked!!!
      
    • Killer told us to start arguing about garrison numbers , so let's start
      
    • Join "The Storm Troopers" apply at SGHQ.COM
      
    
    
  • The Harbour:
    
    
    
    • DOC, GOPHUR, Rats - Naval Gameplay Improves with these CPs. (New Pics Pg5)
      
    • It is Naval Tradition to keep this YELLOW folder on page 1.....
      
    • Photo Gallery For The New Forums--Surface
      
    
    
  • The Hangar:
    
    
    
    • JG53 is seeking dedicated new recruits to fly the Bf 110, He 111 and the Ju 87
      
    • The Bose Geschwader 26 is looking for new recruits!
      
    • Axis strategic level bomber group 1. KG "Beastie Boys" KGBB - looking for pilots
      
    
    
  • The Motor Pool:
    
    
    
    • Join->>> The Hated World Leaders @ www.THWL.net TODAY!!!
      
    • CRS: What are these guys doing to their Flak36's???
      
    • CRS Is time to adjust AT gun speeds?Good stuff in here CRS both sides agree
      
    
    
  
  

Usenet

Flight-sim Usenet

• URL: Click Here
  
  
• Discussions:
  
  
  
  • Hats off to the british
    
  • Colin 1 Dr OK 0....no show, cowardice predicted
    
  • CFS3 is crap - a review
    
  
  

Controllers

Cougar World

• URL: http://cougar.frugalsworld.com/
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Poll: How satisfied are you with your Cougar?
    
  • *Mods and Tweaks*
    
  • Upgrade to Cougar HS kit available
  
  
  • Any of you guys interested in this?
    
  • EvenStrain Gimbals Production
    
  
  

Click to join a forum discussion…

Past Updates

• Week Ending 2003/01/24
• Week Ending 2003/01/17
• Week Ending 2003/01/10
• Week Ending 2003/01/03
• Week Ending 2002/12/20
• Week Ending 2002/12/13
• Week Ending 2002/12/06
• Week Ending 2002/11/29
• Week Ending 2002/11/22
• Week Ending 2002/11/15
• Week Ending 2002/11/08
• Week Ending 2002/10/31
• Week Ending 2002/10/25
• Week Ending 2002/10/17
• Week Ending 2002/10/11
• Week Ending 2002/10/04
• Week Ending 2002/09/27
• Week Ending 2002/09/20

About This Page
Each week, COMBATSIM.COM visits the most active combat simulation community sites on the Internet. In this single report, published every Friday, we give you links to all the latest news, articles, forum discussions, links, downloads, events and contests.

Since these are just the early days of this report, we realize we have yet to include many fine fan sites. If you would like to see your (or someone else's) site on this list, please contact our News Editor.

Please keep in mind that the main criteria for inclusion on this page is that you have regularly updated material in the form of original articles, news, files (e.g., skins, maps, mods), or message boards. If your site is selected, we will visit it each week and find out what's new—you will not need to send us any info.

Please give us your feedback about this new service…