There’s a saying in my village:

When sloes and cobnuts early fall,

And goatsuckers in daylight are heard to call,

You’ll be playing a spiritual sequel to MicroProse’s Red Storm Rising and a new instalment of X-Plane in no time at all.

The local sayings related to wargame pricing and acceptable frame-rates in heli sims scan better but are less relevant to today’s column so I’ll save those for another day. … [visit site to read more]