Desert Storm - 20 years ago, back to the present

[Ducimus]

Damn ill have to check that out. Years and years ago I did have an interest in Tank sims. (Which was shortly after my dying interest in flight sims. Never could land for squat )

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

(Which was shortly after my dying interest in flight sims. Never could land for squat )

That's no excuse. After all, it's never stopped Oberon.*












*It's usually the ground that does that. Bazinga!

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

That's no excuse. After all, it's never stopped Oberon.*

You didn't see the Flight Sim I was playing.....


I tried 4.0 later. I sucked at it, and lost interest.

When i said, years and years ago, i wasn't kidding. ;P

[Oberon]

pfft, I've been crashing planes since this:



And Jim says Steel Beasts graphics are dated

Fully copy on the MoD, they can be quite the paranoid lot at times, and yet their masters leave their copies of MoD documents on benches at the park, gotta love them. Haven't heard the term Britannic used to describe British vehicles since the days of the Redcoats, and they probably couldn't spell it then either.

One day I'd like to give Steel Beasts a whirl, it's just the price tag that's stopped me so far, but one day once I've got all the peripherals sorted, I will have to save up and give it a bash, I haven't had a good tank sim since my embarrassingly bad days at M1 Tank Platoon 2 (which I keep referring to as M1A2 for some reason ).

I wonder if I can co-opt Task Force to be my gunner, we make a good driver/gunner team on Red Orchestra Real Panzer server

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

pfft, I've been crashing planes since this:



And Jim says Steel Beasts graphics are dated

Oh I can go back a lot further than that...AH64 Apache for the spectrum...so old nobody has posted it

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Damn ill have to check that out. Years and years ago I did have an interest in Tank sims. (Which was shortly after my dying interest in flight sims. Never could land for squat )

Check the MP mission videos done by Zipuli, especially "Brave Rifles" part 1-6, wich was Hannover or Fulda Gap cold war battle - 1 hours of video covering 24 hours of battle. Quite some drama happened in there!

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Check the MP mission videos done by Zipuli, especially "Brave Rifles" part 1-6, wich was Hannover or Fulda Gap cold war battle - 1 hours of video covering 24 hours of battle. Quite some drama happened in there!

That's bookmarked, I love those Fulda Gap scenarios.

[Krauter]

I thought Canada only ran Leo's and not Abrams

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Krauter

I thought Canada only ran Leo's and not Abrams

Öh... äh... you seem to be correct. Think I was misled by a docu piece sopme time ago where they said that the big neighbour in Canada's south does not like the Canadians to buy foreign, and would want them to buy more American.

I am sure that they tested and considered the Abrams, however, since in the past 8 years Canada planned to replace its aging Leo-1 fleet. They wanted to go for Strykers with 105 mm guns, but then came Afghanistan and forced them to rethink their plan, and so they started to buy used Leo-2A4s, and leased Leo-2A6, modified, for immediate deployment to Afghanistan, where the tanks urpassed Canadian expecations, they said. The plan to pass on new tanks and go for the CV-90-120 also was scrapped.

A factor that decided in faovur of the Leo-2 A4s and A6s was quick availability, however.

[Skybird]

New video, telling two battle stories:


When Fins do sound recordings, they are serious: