Train and tram sim tidbits
Thanks to a gifted layout artisan called Rinston, owners of railway modelling sim Rolling Line can now drive Lilliputian locos around a stylised recreation of Half-Life 2’s City 17.
Category Sims
Unfussy fun: Old School Rally stirs dust and memories
Hmm. Not many of the 87 jpegs in my Old School Rally screenshots folder convey just how much fun I was having with Frozen Lake Games’ Early Accessible memory stirrer yesterday evening. I blame the fact that I was concentrating…
Shallow as a teaspoon
I spent yesterday evening contentedly mauling marus, raking Rufes, and dodging depth charges. The fact that I opted to patrol the Pacific in a familiar Crash Dive 2 Gato, rather than a brand new Silent Depth 2 one, speaks volumes…
Early Access Silent Depth 2: Pacific is less than two hours away
If MicroProse make their deadline, tomorrow’s THC post – and possibly Thursday’s too – will consist of first impressions of Early Access Silent Depth 2: Pacific, a “sim lite game for those who want to put their foot in the…
Six reasons why I’ll never forget Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator
Reason 1. In other train sims you seldom fail a task because you’ve accidentally shot a prostitute.
Liftoff: Micro Drones is a dinky delight
Liftoff: Micro Drones lights-up parts of my brain that haven’t been illuminated since I last dallied with Airfix Dogfighter. In the follow-up to Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing (a top-notch drone sim that has been pressed into service as a training…
A2Z
A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Now and again, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with the…
3×3
Want to turn a green lane into a brown lane, tow a Gulaschkanone across a snowy field, or roam the Western Desert trashing Axis airfields? Get a 4×4. Want quick introductions to games of interest to realism relishers and old…
Dusty But Trusty: MechWarrior 2
To qualify for a Dusty But Trusty article, a game must be old enough to vote in Nicaragua, buy tobacco in Djibouti, and make the beast with two backs in Nepal. More importantly, it must be demonstrably super, smashing, great,…
A2Z
A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Now and again, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with the…
Not the Best Tank Games for PC!
Gunner, Heat, PC!, Steel Beasts Pro, Panzer Elite SE, Steel Fury, Steel Armor, M1 Tank Platoon II, Armoured Commander 2, Tank Mechanic Simulator, War Thunder, and Iron Warriors. There you go. Easy. Any wazzock can put together a respectable Tank…
Chalked Up: Wandering Wessex in an FS2020 Beaver
Last Friday the first FS2020-powered Tally-Ho Corner air tour bimbled from the Uffington White Horse in southern Oxfordshire to the Bulford Kiwi on the south-eastern fringe of Salisbury Plain. Today we head for the Jurassic Coast, following a flight path…