Sim Community Observer
By Ed Reddy

Article Type: Simulation Community
Article Date: December 1 to December 06, 2002

Headlines:      Aces High Championship Shootout      Fighter Ace 3.5      Amazing AC-130H Spectre footage      Koralle 1.0 Silent Hunter2/Destroyer Command Scenario Editor      Lock On: Modern Air Combat Movies

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
  
• Fighter Ace
  
• Flanker
  
• Fighter Squadron: SDOE
  
• IL-2 Sturmovik
  
• LO:MAC
  
• GI Combat
  
• Operation Flashpoint
  
• WarBirds
  
• WWII Online
  
• Flight-sim Usenet
  
• Hardware

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COMBATSIM.COM

• URL: http://www.combatsim.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Game News:
    
    
    
    • Return to Castle Wolfenstein Patch v1.41
      
    • Lock On: Modern Air Combat Movies
      
    • New Screens: Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
      
    • New Screens: Battlefield 1942 Road to Rome
      
    • Napoleonic Battles 3: Campaign Wagram
      
    • Naval Campaigns 2: Tsushima
      
    • Panzer Campaigns 7: Kursk '43
      
    • Uncommon Valor Patch
      
    • CFS3 Add-on
      
    • Battlefield 1942 1.2 Patch Released
      
    • Platoon Patch v1.12
      
    
    
  • Military News:
    
    
    
    • A-10 Crash Kills Pilot
      
    • Global Hawk Readied For '03 Demonstration
      
    • WWII Sub Commander and Author Dies at 84
      
    • Raptor Program On Track Despite Challenges
      
    • CC-130J Completes USAF Austere Field Landing Tests
      
    • Raytheon Awarded SEASPARROW Missile Production Contract
      
    • U.S. Marine Corps Awards BAE M777 Howitzer Contract
      
    • USS Oklahoma City Commander Relieved
      
    • Raytheon Receives Continues SEA RAM Development
      
    • Electrical Failure Challenges U-2 Pilots' Skills
      
    • Lockheed Martin delivers last DIOT&E Raptor
      
    • HAVE LITE Missile Demonstrates Long-Range Strike Capability
      
    
    
    
  • Articles:
    
    
    
    • Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
      
    • Sudden Strike II
      
    • EXCLUSIVE! Oleg Maddox on Forgotten Battles
      
    
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Sound Off for Headcount!
    
  
  

Frugals World of Simulations

• URL: http://www.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Dambusters Review
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Falcon 4
    
    
    
    • Hi...Why are the grapichs so outdated?
      
    • US - Iraq conflict about oil?
      
    • SP3-The Total Install
      
      
    
    
    
  • Falcon V
    
    
    
    • Falcon V dream list
      
    
    
    
  • Lock On Modern Air Combat
    
    
    
    • A flightsim is more then graphics alone
      
    
    
    
    
  • Pilots Bar
    
    
    
    • *clink* *clink* Bars Open early
      
    
    
  
  

MigMan

• URL: http://www.migman.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Pearl Harbor
    

SimHQ

• URL: http://www.simhq.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Member Music: BFM (I Got Us Killed Again)
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Every time a topic I start scrolls...
    
  • Here's what happened (Continued)
    
  • Patch Petition
    
  • MP game on.
    
  • Possible hot topic...regiments and custom stuff in OFFLINE play..
    
  
  
  

Subsim.com

• URL: http://www.subsim.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Game:
    
    
    
    • Red Octopus SC Campaign
      
    • KORALLE 1.0 SH2/DC SCENARIO EDITOR
      
    • NED BEACH 1918 - 2002
      
      
    
    
  • Military:
    
    
    
    • U.S. destroyer docks in China
      
    • Submarine trips ahoy
      
    • Japan Sends Ships to Aid Terror War
      
    • Sea-based Ballistic Missile Defense Test Successful
      
    • Spain Sends Submarine to Site of Sunken Tanker
      
    • U.S. to deploy Aegis destroyer to guard Israel from Iraqi Scuds
      
    • Navy to limit sonar thought to hurt whales
      
    • Jets in alert at submarine base
      
    • EB marks a milestone in Virginia class sub building
      
    
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Silent Hunter II
    
    
    
    • The Holy Grail! - Scenario Editor Screenie
      
    
    
    
  
  

Wargamer.com

• URL: http://www.wargamer.com
  
  
• Contests:
  
  
  
  • Newsletter G.I. Combat Contest
    
  • Games That Sell!" Contest/Survey
    
  • Scenario Design Contest
  
  
  
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Tower Games Launches Online Wargames
    
  • THQ Plans to Bring Warhammer 40,000 to PC
    
  • MMORPG Purge to Open New Beta Testing Phase
    
  • Warrior Kings: Battles Movie
    
  • Strength and Honor from MagiTech Details
    
  • Highland Warriors Slips into March
    
  • World War II: Frontline Dropped by Codemasters?
    
  • Activision and Stainless Steel Studios Team Up
    
  • Shattered Galaxy v1.5 Patch Released
    
  • Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood Patch v1.1
    
  • Complete News Coverage
    
  
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Book Review: Order of Battle: Allied Ground Forces of Operation Desert Storm
    
  • Strategy and Tactics Article: National Strategies for Major Nations in Hearts of Iron
    
  • Interview: Close Combat Mod Roundtable
    
  • Featured Download: Russo-German War Manual v1.6
    
  • Press Releases: HPS Sims Announces Kursk '43, Tsushima, Campaign Wagram
    
  • PC Game Review: Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
    
  • Paper & Pen RPG Games: Game Master's Collection
    
  
  

MilitaryGamer.com

• URL: http://www.militarygamer.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Hearts Of Iron AAR - The Official History of the UK in the Second World War - Pt III
    
  • Ostpak - Guides To Modding - Panzer Elite - Part I By Bob R
    
  • Review - Combat Mission II - Barbarossa To Berlin By Tim Catherall
    
  • Hearts Of Iron AAR - The Official History of the UK in the Second World War - Pt II
    
  • JoWood Games & Wings Simulations - Söldner Developer Diary
    
  
  
• MGO's latest news (updated daily)
  

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 Movie--Spitfire Over The Alps
    
  • CFS3 Fighter/Bomber Custom Reticle
    
  • FS2002 XML Gauge Eye Candy
    
  • FS2002 Fairey Flycatcher
    
  • FS2002 McDonnell Douglas CF-18B Hornet
    
  • FS2002 Nord 2501 Noratlas ETOM 88
    
    
  
  

CFS Pilots

• URL: http://www.cfspilots.50megs.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • JG54 705K Video
    
  • Birmingham Sim Show - Report with pics
    
  • Must See!! CHN IL-2 Unofficial Promo Video
    
  • CFS3 Configuration Tips - How you can help
    
    
  
  
  
• Articles and Features:
  
  
  
  • IL2: NEW HE-111 Templates
    
  • IL2: 4 new HE-111 Sports Skins
    
  • CFS3: Updated: Europa2 Campaign
    
  • CFS3: New Airfields,Manston, Interlaken. West Freugh, Corte from JustFlight
    
  • Gazette 177 * Special Edition
    
  
  

Day of Defeat

• URL: http://www.dayofdefeatmod.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • DoD Petition for WCG/CPL
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Who wpould like to be able to rest rifles on ledges for stability?
    
  • The Great Domo-Gauser War has begun
    
  • Official map Ideas thread
    
  • The official SIGnature request thread
    
  • Blood Petiton
    
  • Mer Svenskar tack!
    
  
  

F4 Unified Team

• URL: http://f4ut.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • LOMAC -- The Movie
    
  • USS Iowa Class Battleship
    
  
  

Falcon IV / V

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

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Flanker

• URL: http://www.flanker2.com
  
  
• Flanker 2 discussions has moved to the Lock-On: Modern Air Combat Forums.
  

FS:SDOE Information Center

• URL: http://www.fightersquadron.com/index.php3
  
  
• Downloads:
  
  
  
  • Hi-res Spitfire IA and VB
    
  • Updated RAF Squadrons
    
  
  

IL-2 Sturmovik

• URL: http://www.il2sturmovik.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • What would YOU want us to model?
    
  • Are you ready for some football?
    
  • Something to add...
    
  • PLEASE! ATTENTION! PLEASE COPY TO OTHERS!
    
  • Russian planes are too good
    
  • Word Assocation Game
    
  • Mornington Crescent
    
  
  
  
• Downloads:
  
  
  
  • Paint Schemes
  
  
  
  

LO:MAC

• URL: http://www.lo-mac.com
  
  
• Nothing new to report this week.
  

GI Combat

• URL: http://www.gicombat.com
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • G I Combat Guide to Building Your Own Operations/Campaigns
    
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Just got the game
    
  • United states....why?
    
  
  

Operation Flashpoint

• URL: http://www.flashpoint1985.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • New Discussion
    
    
    
    • Vbs site updated
      
    
    
    
  • General:
    
    
    
    • Support for polish ofp players needed
      
    • 1.90 bug list
      
    
    
    
  • Addons & Mods Complete:
    
    
    
    • Seb nam pack 2 out!
      
    • Uscm mod weapon pack 1
      
    • Maya OFP character animation kit
      
    • Dynamic range for v 1.90
      
    • Project 1232.2 zubr
      
    • Mf conquer the island
      
    • A-6e intruder bomber public beta
      
      
    • Complete Addons & Mods listing. Updates and mods added daily!
      
    
    
    
  • Addons & Mods: Work in Progress
    
    
    
    • Finnish defence forces
      
    
    
    
    
  • Off Topic:
    
    
    
    • Mid east
      
    • Military Stupidity (reprise)
      
    • Women soldiers?
      
    
    
  
  

Massively Multiplayer

Aces High

• URL: http://www.hitechcreations.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Aces High Championship Shootout
    
  
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • For all events including Snapshots, TOD, and more!
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Bring the Ki.84-I Hayate "Frank" to Aces High
    
  • On Suicide bombing.
    
  • true FW190 rollrate
    
  • Simple request to HTC
    
  • How many here believe in evolution?
    
  
  

America's Army

• URL: http://www.americasarmy.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • Teammates say the craziest things!
      
    • Positive Karma: Outstanding Players
      
    • Player and server stats available
      
    • who is in your opinion the best player at the moment
      
    
    
  • Strategies and Tactics
    
    
    
    • MORE GUNS!!!
      
    
    
  • R&R
    
    
    
    • THE OFFICIAL BUMP THREAD
      
    • The mindless thread!
      
    • TWO WORD STORY.
      
    • My Online Player List
      
    • It's "Be Like ric Day" is now officially over, but come back next year
      
    • The Official and Authentic Guide to Running
      
    
    
  
  

Fighter Ace

• URL: http://fighterace...vr1.com/
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Fighter Ace™ 3.5
    
  • Server Outage
    
  • Problems after Upgrading
    
  
  
  
• 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:
  
  
  
  • v1.7.2 Released
    
  • Want to be in the movies?
    
  • Feeling the Apple bite? New patch this week.
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Off-Topic
    
    
    
    • *The Official RATCAM thread* (Updated 12/5/02)
      
    • OMG Get it here now!!! WWIIOL Official Dancing Sig Thread... Get yours today!!!
      
    • A big FU from the people of a country we saved......
      
    • OFFICIAL HOT CHIX THREAD™ - Version 4.0 released!!!!
      
    • Amazeing AC-130H Spectre footage (NOW SMALLER FILE!)
      
    • What do you look like?
      
    
    
    
  • The Barracks:
    
    
    
    • Join TOT today
      
    • New infantry unit RADIO OPERATOR & Tactical Command Unit, wish list added (pics)
      
    • Join "The Storm Troopers" apply at SGHQ.COM
      
    
    
  • The Harbour:
    
    
    
    • It is Naval Tradition to keep this YELLOW folder on page 1.....
      
    • DOC, GOPHUR, Rats - Naval Gameplay Improves with these CPs. (New Pics Pg5)
      
    
    
  • The Hangar:
    
    
    
    • JG53 is seeking dedicated new recruits to fly the Bf 110, He 111 and the Ju 87
      
    • 20mm...perhaps not the weapon we think it is (read page5)
      
    • KG(J) 54 (ToT) looking for dedicated pilots in the south.
      
    • 111 th RAF Air Squadron (BKB's Air Branch a 24/7 squad)is looking for members
      
    
    
  • The Motor Pool:
    
    
    
    • CRS: What are these guys doing to their Flak36's???
      
    • BKB a large active 24/7 squad is looking for active Tankers
      
    • CRS: Increase 88 loadout.
      
    
    
  
  

Usenet

Flight-sim Usenet

• URL: Click Here
  
  
• Discussions:
  
  
  
  • L'Acrobat is my hero....Woo Hoo for him, such logic....
    
  • OT: You do The Math
    
  • OT: Payback for the USS Cole
    
  
  

Controllers

Cougar World

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

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