Intel 925X Express Chipset and Pentium 4 3.4 EE CPU Review Page 2
Back to Page 1 Prescotts and Socket T The 925X and 915 chipsets represent an abrupt move away from the Socket 478 platform by introducing a new format, LGA775 or Socket T. Intel suggests that this new packaging increases power and signal delivery, and will thereby give needed headroom as CPUs continue their inexorable […]
Intel 925X Express Chipset and Pentium 4 3.4 EE CPU Review
by John Reynolds Times Are A-Changin’ The PC is ever-evolving, with new features and technologies brought to market at what feels at times as an almost monthly basis. Yet this constant influx of new technology is in somewhat stark contrast to other aspects of the PC that marches to a decidedly slower pace: form factors, […]
Combat Mission: Afrika Korps Page 5
Back To Page 4 Overall Opinions and Recommendations There are few games out there that compare with the Combat Mission series in scope and depth of gameplay. For amateur tacticians, and for some professional ones, there are few games that match it. To win in the game you need to take terrain, weather, the […]
Combat Mission: Afrika Korps Page 4
Back To Page 3 Gameplay Well, overall the gameplay of the first two games is brought forward into this game. The strengths and weaknesses of gameplay are still there, for good and bad. AI is a mixed bag in this game. I’ve said before in other reviews that the AI is very good on […]
Combat Mission: Afrika Korps Page 3
How to Play The real bread and butter of any wargame is its playability. Wargamers are not FPS players, although there are folks that play both. Wargaming is a slower paced method of play; folks with ADD probably wouldn’t enjoy wargaming. Planning is much more important than execution in most wargames. Go rushing in helter […]
Combat Mission: Afrika Korps Page 2
Installation, Setup and Manual Setup for CM:AK is pretty straight forward, just like it has for other games. I have never been able to get auto run to work with the game but go to the CD-ROM drive, hit setup and the game installed without a hitch. Unlike some early difficulties with CM:BB the game […]
Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
by Tom “WKLINK” Cofield In the year 2000, Big Time Software and Battlefront.com released a title that took the wargaming genre by storm. Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord was a unique mix of 3D graphics, hard core realism, interactive gameplay, and immersion that instantly made it one of the classics not only of wargaming, but of strategy gaming […]
2004 Farnborough International Airshow
by Alex “Zander” Keep I was bubbling over with excitement as last week drew to a close. As a little boy I would see the build up to Farnborough every year on the TV and then beg, plead and offer untold riches to my father to take me there. My father would reply that it was […]
Desert Litening: The 103rd FW in Iraqi Freedom Page 3
Back To Page 2 Q. Do LITENING-equipped A-10s still carry dumb bombs? A. Oh yeah, there’s still plenty of reasons to carry them. To me, a lot of the mantra of PGMs (precision-guided munitions) is overdone. A well-trained A-10 pilot with Mk82 dumb bombs can hit any target, and the gun is the most precision-guided weapon […]
Desert Litening: The 103rd FW in Iraqi Freedom Page 2
Back To Page 1 Q. The majority of what the public knows about the war in Iraq comes from the eastern part of the country… the drive up through the river valleys into Baghdad. Much of what happened in the western desert seems more ‘black.’ Even the location of your forward base seems to be […]
Desert Litening: The 103rd FW in Iraqi Freedom
by John “Spoons” Sponauer An A-10 of the 104th FW (Barnes Field, MA). The unit deployed with the 103rd FW of the Connecticut Air National Guard during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 104th A-10s also carry the LITENING targeting pod. Few modern military aircraft have broken the conventional wisdom of their roles like the A-10 Thunderbolt II […]
Sacha’s Grandmother Visits Page 5
Back To Page 4 “Sasha, look out! A 109 at your six, high!” The German had slipped past Galina’s guard. She went vertical, diving right past his nose, trying to shake him off me, without success. “Two, go low and stay out of the fight. Three, work him north, if you can.” Lilya, wanting […]