Posts tagged “Steel Beasts”

There was a nasty moment early on in my relationship with HMS when I thought me and Johan Nagel's latest weren't going to get on. In my first hour with the beta of this highly original turnless Hornblower-em-up I experienced five game-curtailing mutinies. Even on the lowest difficulty setting I couldn't make progress. Baffled disbelief was fast becoming sulky defeatism when the doubloon finally dropped. An…

Tagged with Every Single Soldier, HMS, interview, Johan Nagel, Steel Beasts, Steel Beasts Pro Personal Edition, The Flare Path, Wasteland Interactive.

A is for Another Automobilista. Automobilista, the sim that stormed to victory in the single-player portion of the inaugural Flare Path Grand Prix (a popularity contest for race sims) is to get a sequel in December and interestingly the sequel will rely on an engine last seen in Project CARS 2. As Reiza explained to www.racedepartment.com, the graphical prowess and “smooth as butter” fluency of…

Tagged with Airland, Armored Brigade, Armstrong Powerhouse, Assetto Corsa Competizione, Automobilista, Automobilista 2, Barbarroja, Cricket 19, DCS World 2, DCS: World, Dirt Rally 2, Falcon 4.0, Fantasy General 2, Field of Glory II, IL-2 Sturmovik, Japan 45, K2, Mount Everest, Ports of Call Classic, Reentry, Rule the Waves 2, Steel Beasts, Steel Beasts Pro Personal Edition, Steel Division 2, The Flare Path, Train Sim World, Wings Over Flanders Fields.

The man currently sipping a Koskenkorva and consulting his cue cards in the U/S Williams X-Jet The Flare Path uses as a dais is Ilja 'Zipuli' Varha. Our second 'atypical simmer', Ilja has very kindly agreed to talk about his journey from juvenile M1 Tank Platoon fan to 33-year-old brigade simulator officer in the Finnish Defence Forces. Whether your polygonal battle wagon of preference is a Steel…

Tagged with atypical simmer, interview, Steel Beasts, Steel Beasts Pro Personal Edition, The Flare Path.

In the alphabetical news round-up waiting like a pre-pounce puma beyond the break 'A' is more likely to be for 'airship' or 'angry house' than 'apple'. Stripy ungulates probably won't feature in the entry for 'Z' but simulated Bf 110s or Mitsubishi A5Ms might. If you've an eye for a shapely engine nacelle or a finely chiselled turret – if you've an interest in the…

Tagged with AGEOD, Alea Jacta Est, Armored Brigade, Cliffs of Dover, DCS: World, Fernbus Simulator, Gempei Kassen, HMS Marulken, outerra, Red Bull Air Race: The Game, simpleplanes, Steel Beasts, Steel Beasts Pro Personal Edition, Strategic Command 3, Strategic Command: WWII War in Europe, Team Fusion, The Flare Path, TML Studios, Train Simulator, Train Simulator 2016, Unity of Command 2, Zaccaria Pinball, Firefight, Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.

Meet Unimog, the Flare Path mouser. He owes his name to his love of clambering and off-piste adventure. Why, this very morning I spotted the little scamp nosing around inside the turret of a Steel Beasts Pro Personal Edition story, sharpening his claws on a free chunk of Combat Mission Fortress Italy: Gustav Line, and enjoying a nap atop the warm fuselage of an obscure…

Tagged with Combat Mission, demo, free games, Helicopter Simulator, Steel Beasts, The Flare Path.

A hopeless nostalgic, The Flare Path always finds year ends troubling. On one hand, The Past is about to get a little fatter; on the other, the extra girth means 1692 - FP's favourite year - is even more likely to get overlooked by historians. What's so special about 1692? That was the year Thomas J. Halthrope invented the Alliterating Alice, a donkey-powered 'worde gin'…

Tagged with Antietam, Assetto Corsa, Scourge of War: Gettysburg, Simulation, Steel Beasts, The Flare Path, wargame.

What's General Paulus' take on splendid recent releases like Achtung Panzer: Operation Star and Unity of Command? Does Genghis Khan play anything other than Mount & Blade? Does Oliver Cromwell still believe the lack of English Civil War wargames is the result of a fiendish Popish plot? In an effort to answer nagging questions like these The Flare Path has acquired a SpiritMaster IV ouija board. I'm…

Tagged with Combat Mission: Battle For Normandy, DCS:A-10C Warthog, Eagle Dynamics, Flaming Cliffs, Simulation, Steel Beasts, The Flare Path, wargame.