Armaholic http://www.armaholic.com Covering the Arma series - Arma 3 | Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead | Arma 2 | Arma 2: British Armed Forces | Arma 2: Private Military Company | Armed Assault Cotonti Tue, 21 May 2013 19:22:07 +0000 Armaholic goes 1Gbit! Downloadspeeds should be good again!
Over the past few months we have seen a massive increase in visitors here on Armaholic. Of course that is a good thing and we enjoy seeing everyone use our website for what we made it. We also hope you keep using our services as you have done till now.
However, good things sometimes cause bad things. In this case the increase in visitors caused massive overload on our servers bandwidth. If a few hundred people are downloading at the same time on a 100MB line I think you all understand this will result in slow downloadspeed, no matter what we do.
Yes, we have read all the forum posts and have seen all the emails we recieved

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]]> Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:48:00 +0000 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:48:00 +0000 Mission releases and news
We would like to explain why we decided at this point to not create news for each and every mission which has been submitted to our website, posted on the BI forums or posted here on our own forums.

Since the Arma 3 Alpha went "public", it had a great acceptance. This means a lot of people have been creating new content for the game. We have been dealing with a continuous flow of releases, and it is almost impossible to stay up to date with all releases. We are working really hard so everybody's work is accessible from our website but we have to make some decisions to be able to continue our support.
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]]> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:00:15 +0000 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:00:15 +0000 Choose your news - Improved news selector added!
Since the release of the Arma 3 Alpha there has been a massive flow of news every hour. This caused many news items to quickly disapear to page 2 and futher.
So, to make sure people can easily browse the news they are looking for we have fixed the news selector we had in the past already so people are, once again, able to choose any specific news category.

You can find the new selector above the first news item. It has handy drop downs so you can easily choose the category you wish to see the news from only.

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]]> Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:44:00 +0000 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:44:00 +0000 Merry Christmas!
The Armaholic team wishes the entire Arma community a very Merry Christmas!
We hope you will enjoy the holidays with your family and friends!
Post your Christmas greetings in this topic.


The Armaholic team

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]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:00:33 +0000 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:00:33 +0000 Iron Front – Liberation 1944: D-Day is out now and patch 1.05 released
Benedikt Leurs, Koch Media Marketing Manager, informed us about the official release of the Iron Front DLC.
Iron Front D-Day is the first content update for Iron Front: Liberation 1944. D-Day adds eight new single-player and six new multiplayer missions to the main game. Expansive landscapes in Normandy are featured, including the famous Omaha Beach where the Allied Forces launched Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944.

Iron Front D-Day introduces the US Army as a new playable faction, providing players with an impressive arsenal of Sherman tanks, P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, lan

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]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:09:00 +0000 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:09:00 +0000 Armaholic is expanding! Carriercommandaholic.com
Today we would like to announce the opening of our new website, www.carriercommandaholic.com.

On this new website we will be covering Carrier Command: Gaea mission which BI released friday.
A while back I pre-ordered the game and tried the first beta, I liked the game a lot so when it was announced the ga

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]]> Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:30:00 +0000 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:30:00 +0000 Modsaholic.com Relaunched
Today our sister site Modsaholic.com has relaunched its website to celebrate its one year anniversary.
With the new site comes many new features and a whole new system to run it with.

The old site wouldn't let people create an account so that it worked across the whole platform (Modsaholic forums & site) but now our new system has fixed this issue. We have also completely restructured the downloads section as we had the prob

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]]> Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:22:00 +0000 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:22:00 +0000 Holiday time!
Starting from today I will have some holiday time.
I will be offline from 13 till 20 of July. Any addons and other Arma related news I post normally released during that time will be added when I am back.
See you again after my holidays!

The Armaholic staff

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]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:32:00 +0000 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:32:00 +0000 Iron Front: Liberation 1944 Sweepstake winners announced!
The past month Armaholic.com ran a sweepstake for Iron Front: Liberation 1944 in which 3 people could win an Iron Front game, an Iron Front dog tag and an Iron Front usb-bullet.
There were 113 submissions for the sweepstake where people could post their favorite loadout they would or are using in the game.

Today it is time to announce the winners! Th

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]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:33:00 +0000 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:33:00 +0000 Iron Front Sweepstake open for entries!

***** Update *****
Only one more day to go!
If you have not done it already and still want to have a chance to win one of three price packages make sure to post your favorite loadout in this thread: Iron Front: Liberation 1944 Sweepstake - post your favorite loadout! <--- Topic is locked, end of sweepstake. The winners will be announced soon!


*****

Starting from to

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]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:41:00 +0000 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:41:00 +0000 Website downtime - server maintenance

***** Update *****
And we are back!
It took a little longer than we hoped, we seem to have way more files on this server than we thought so copying everything over did take a bit longer than we expected.
But, everything went smooth. We have a new hardrive, a new chasis and a new network card.

Now we can add all the latest releases again! Thank you for your patience.

*****

Tomorrow morning at 07:30 (GMT) the Armaholic.com server will be taken offline!
There are some hardware issues which need to be resolved. We have been troubleshoot

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]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:20:00 +0000 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:20:00 +0000 Iron Front: Liberation 1944 Live Q&A with Panzer_Baron - submit your questions!

This friday at 19:00 GMT we will organize a Live developer Q&A in co-operation with AWAR.

Vasileios Patelaros, AWAR's art director, will join us during this live session and answer many questions in regards to Iron Front: Liberation 1944!
We would like to ask you to understand it is possible there may be to many questions for the 1.5 hour session this live Q&A will run to answer them all however we will do our be

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]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:27:00 +0000 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:27:00 +0000 Iron Front Sweepstake and developer Q&A next week! Win a free game!
Starting next week Armaholic will run a sweepstake for the Iron Front: Liberation 1944 fans!
The sweepstake is organized in co-operation with AWAR and X1Software and enables everyone who participates to win 1 of 3 price packages!

All 3 packages consists of following prices:
    a Steam code for the full Iron Front: Liberation 1944 gamean Iron Front dog tagan Iron Front usb-bullet

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]]> Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:33:00 +0000 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:33:00 +0000 Website downtime - server maintenance

***** Update *****
All server hardware and settings have been checked and normal service will be continued.

Thank you for your understanding!


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Tuesday morning May 22 at 01:00 GMT (03:00 CET) the Armaholic.com server will be taken offline for some maintenance.

Multiple hardware components need to be checked as well as some serversettings.
During this process the server will be unavailable at times and although we can not say how long the total process will take we do not expect this to be more than a few hours after which the s

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]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 21:32:00 +0000 Mon, 21 May 2012 21:32:00 +0000 Modsaholic.com covering Take On Helicopters
Our sister site, Modsaholic.com which has gone live last year has decided to start covering Take On Helicopters, the helicopter simulation game released by BIS.

Modsaholic.com will try to host all official and community releases and they have added most releases to their website already. You can find those in the Modsaholic

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]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:43:00 +0000 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:43:00 +0000 Happy New Year 2012
The entire Armaholic team wishes the ARMA community a very happy and successful 2012. We would like to thank BIS for their great game and support, all the addon makers, mission designers, script developers and all others who make the community enjoy the ARMA series so much!

This year we would again like to sent out our thanks to many people for their support:
    My good friend sunraa for keeping the Armaholic.com and the Armaholic.net servers alive!
    Big, my fellow admin who spends so much of his spare time to help on this website.
    B4mBi fo

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    ]]> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:43:48 +0000 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:43:48 +0000 Armaholic wishes the entire Arma community a Merry Christmas!
    The Armaholic team wishes the entire Arma community a Merry Christmas!
    We hope you will enjoy the holidays with family and friends!
    Post your Christmas greetings in this topic.


    The Armaholic team

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    ]]>     Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:39:00 +0000 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:39:00 +0000     Modsaholic.com opens its doors!

    Welcome to Modsaholic.com

    Today the Armaholic team is happy to announce that we have expanded our network for
    the modding community. This time not just for one game but for 32 games to start with and more will be able to be requested later on!

    We will be offering a whole new Download Section for the games, a whole new
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    ]]>     Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0000 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0000     Website update

    ***** Update *****
    The update has been performed and I think all went well.
    When you notice any errors please be so kind to report them here, thanks in advance!

    *****

    This evening (when all goes well) we will perform a website update!
    During this update our site will not work and you will see a maintenance page for some time. We will work as fast as we can to keep the downtime to a limit. We suspect the downtime

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    ]]>     Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:09:02 +0000 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:09:02 +0000     Holiday time
    Starting from today some people from the Armaholic staff will be on holiday. This will mean the posting of news and all other things website related will slow down.
      Big will be on holidays from the 10th till end of August so mission news/mirroring wont be up to date during this period.
      DarkXess will be on holidays from 4 untill August 13, so please report any issues you find on our forums as we we will be short on forum moderators.
      Foxhound will be on holidays from 4 till 7 of August. Any addons released during that time will be added when I am back.


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    ]]>     Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:16:00 +0000 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:16:00 +0000     Website is closed - we are moving!

    You are now on the new server!!

    Welcome to the new Armaholic server.
    The move has been completed and everything should be working fine for everyone.
    When you see any issues please feel free to inform us.

    Clients on hosted subdomains can not reach their domain directly yet, I need to wait till Sunraa gets back to help resolve that.


    Armaholic staff

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    ]]>     Sat, 28 May 2011 09:55:00 +0000 Sat, 28 May 2011 09:55:00 +0000     Armaholic server upgrade! Website closing saturday morning.
    In preparation for Arma 3 (yes, for real) and for the fact our website continous its growth in many different ways we decided it was time to buy a new additional server.
    We are going to split the traffic from now on. We will have a new server (specs below) on which we will run the website and another seperate server to host the files on. That file server will exist next to our current additional French file server.
    This means we will have 3 servers for this website and another small one which we use to host community projects for free.

    The new server we bought I am pretty proud of, its

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    ]]>     Fri, 27 May 2011 22:59:00 +0000 Fri, 27 May 2011 22:59:00 +0000     Website upgrade in progress - updated

    ***** Update 4 *****
    Welcome back!
    You should now be able to acces the site as you were before.
    Please notify us of any problems when you spot one, you can do that here!
    Thanks in advance.

    *****

    Since sunday evening an error shows on top of our website when you visit our website from an external link. This error is caused due to an update which would help us increase our website performance.
    I seem to have found the solution and this means I am going to h

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    ]]>     Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:59:00 +0000 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:59:00 +0000     Happy 2011!
    The entire Armaholic team wishes the ARMA community a very happy and successful 2011. We would like to thank BIS for their great game and support, all the addon makers, mission designers, script developers and all others who make the community enjoy the ARMA series so much!
    2010 has been a very successful year for Armaholic, our website is nearing the 100mln pageviews a year and bandwidth is sky rocketing (we are nearing the 30TB/month).

    Thanks to B4mBi for his support with the French (.fr) server and of course my good friend sunraa for keeping the .com server a

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    ]]>     Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:04:00 +0000 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:04:00 +0000     Server shutdown sunday morning
    Sunday morning around 03:00 CET (that is 01:00 GMT and 02:00 BST) the armaholic server will be down and unreachable for approx 10 minutes. Our host will disconnect the old and damaged hard drive.

    Lets hope this server shutdown will not have the same result as the previous one!
    All our backups are up to date, clients who we do not backup by default have been informed and all other hosted clients who did not recieve a message dont need to worry, I have done it for you.

    Although this shutdown is only a minor one due to the recent events I thought I should drop a message, yo

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    ]]>     Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:56:00 +0000 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:56:00 +0000     And we are back
    Since saturday morning I guess most of you have noticed our site has been offline. At first it was a schedueled downtime however our server failt to come back to life when it was booted due to a damaged harddrive. This caused a lot of troubles and everything had to be installed again on a new drive.
    We had to move all our files and databases from the damaged drive to the new one. We are very lucky this was actually still possible otherwise we would have lost a lot of files and content, but thanks to our admin Sunraa everything is availabe "as if nothing happened"!!

    This was a major happenin

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    ]]>     Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:47:00 +0000 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:47:00 +0000     New website online
    And.......we are back!!!
    We are happy to open our new website for the community again. It really was a lot of work and we have spend countless hours making the site ready for launch this weekend.
    Although we hoped we would manage to go "live" on sunday it was just to much work to manage, so with a small delay, here we are!!

    The Armaholic website is now running a new CMS, we have updated the entire website which includes the structure, the skin and the content. We are not going to list here what has been changed, as we are sure you will notice all the little and big new additions and t

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    ]]>     Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:09:00 +0000 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:09:00 +0000     Armaholic website closing! ** updated **
    Here is the scheduele so all of you know whats going to happen:
    Friday evening at between 20:00 - 21:00 CET we will:
      - disable the forums, registration and everything else we need to disable to keep an up to date database.
      - disable all folders so people can no longer download.
    After that we will begin to disable the website so the public no longer has acces.

    Saturday morning at 01:00 CET the server should go offline completely and will stay offline for some time. So, dont worry if you can no longer connect to this domain, its planned!
    When the server is

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    ]]>     Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:59:00 +0000 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:59:00 +0000     Armaholic needs you!

    We are looking for people who are interested to help us keep the community informed about all the latest news of Armed Assault, ArmA 2 and soon ArmA 2 - Operation Arrowhead.

    Are you one of those who does not mind to spend just a few hours a week to post news about newly released missions and addons or inform the community about a new addon/mod project? Would you be interested in joining a dedicated team of people to keep Armaholic.com up to date and running just so the community can enjoy their ArmA games better?
    If so why don't you get in touch with us to become part of the staff?
    We are looking for :

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    ]]>     Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:45:00 +0000 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:45:00 +0000     Happy new year!
    The entire Armaholic team wishes the Arma community a very happy and successful 2010. Our thanks go out to all those addon makers, mission designers, script developers, and all others who make the community enjoy this game so much!
    Also for us as Armaholic staff it has been a very successful year, our website has more than doubled in number of pageviews (nearing 70 mln in a single year).
    We cant wait for ArmaII Operation Arrowhead to be released and to support the community in the same way as we have done it all the past years.

    You can post your "Happy new year" gre

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    ]]>     Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:59:00 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:59:00 +0000     Merry Christmas ArmA community
    The Armaholic team wishes the entire Arma community a Merry Christmas.
    We hope you will have some very nice days together with your family and friends.

    The Armaholic team:
      Dead3yez
      tom_48_97
      Maddii
      Big
      Sunraa
      Foxhound

    Post your Christmas greetings in this topic.

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    ]]>     Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:57:00 +0000 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:57:00 +0000     Dispatches: Dead Silence
    Sometimes quiet is best. Parts of Arma2 involve small units infiltrating and neutralizing enemy forces in a stealth system similar to splinter cell or rainbow six. And in order to be successful a silenced weapon is often the required tool for the job.

    This week in Dispatches we're looking at silencers and how they are treated in Arma2. Which weapons are truly suppressed? And which are only "quieter?"

    We test a vareity of silenced weapons against the AI and against human players to determine what might be the most stealthy gun.

    Read

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    ]]>     Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:14:00 +0000 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:14:00 +0000     Dispatches: War Without Pain
    War can be fun. it's terrible to admit, but sometimes driving around with serious equipment and some good friends can be a fun time. The major downside of actual war of course is the possibility of death. The potential for horror and dismemberment.

    But there are plenty of ways to get close to war without running the risks real soldiers do. This week we're talking about ways to fight without running the risk of real injury. This dramatization or imitation of war is something we've been doing for generations. But the way it happens now is much more realistic than children running around with sticks in th

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    ]]>     Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:17:00 +0000 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:17:00 +0000     Dispatches - Camouflage: Blending in and Standing out
    Every war hinges on exploiting an advantage. And one of the best advantages is for the enemy not to know where you are. To be hidden is to have a leg up on your opponent. For the infantryman, this is almost always done through some sort of camouflage.

    The mottled green and brown of traditional woodland camo has come to typify camouflage, but these days camouflage seems to be just as at home on a purse as on a tank. From combat to catwalk, the pattern of disguise has changed.

    This week we're looking at camouflage in Arma2 and in the world around us. It was originally made to disguise, but now

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    ]]>     Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:44:00 +0000 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:44:00 +0000     Dispatches - The State of Guns in Games
    This week in Dispatches we take a look at small arms in videogames. The game industry has become linked with real world manufacturers, but sometimes those manufacturers have problems. The AK-47 might not have a legitimate manufacturer in the future. In Arma2, Kalashnikov manufacturer is identified and associated with its weapons. But thats not always the case. Some games have guns we vaguely recognize, while others have art directors to design anything they feel i

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    ]]>     Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:06:00 +0000 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:06:00 +0000     Website downtime
    Our server host has some major troubles with one of its routers. This causes connectivity issues with most of their servers.
    Those troubles started a few days ago and since that time they have tried to resolve the issue with the help from Cisco (their router supplier).
    They have now routed traffic over different routers but are still trying to fix things.
    This means although the website is currently back online you might be unable to reach us at other times.

    We are sorry for this issue but this is completely out of our hands. Our host is doing everything they can to resolve this

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    ]]>     Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:08:00 +0000 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:08:00 +0000     Dispatches: Cover me
    This week’s Dispatches examines the difference between playing alone and playing with human players. In Arma2, starting up a co-op game with someone you know is a remarkably different experience than playing single player. Team play is one of the most rewarding parts of modern video-games; to the point that the Enemy Territory and Battlefield series are built entirely around it. Paul Wedgwood is a long time tournament gamer and the designer behind both Enemy Territory and the upcoming Brink. Wedgwood claims “the buzz you get from coordinated team play is beyond and above just about every other experience that you can

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    ]]>     Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:41:00 +0000 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:41:00 +0000     Armaholic server upgrade

    ***** Update *****
    It seems we are back, the move went smooth and without problems.
    However, please note we are still uploading the Armed Assault/Arma2 files, so it is very possible if you want to download a file you get an error. This should be fixed in just a few hours.

    Thanks to all for your patience during this move.


    *****

    Due to the fact the popularity of Armaholic.com is increasing month by month we have decided it is time for a new and stronger server to improve the service we provide the ArmA community.
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    ]]>     Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:19:00 +0000 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:19:00 +0000     Dispatches - Playing the Dead
    Developers try to avoid setting their games in current conflicts because of the difficult political and moral questions they bring with them. But we as gamers can make what we please in the editor, including scenarios ripped straight from the headlines.

    As part of a new series on Armaholic; the first of Dispatches discusses the issue of imitating real situations in your Arma 2 editor. As video games become more realistic and reports from conflicts become faster and more accurate, the delay between headline and entertainment might only be a few minutes.

    Read
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    ]]>     Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:28:00 +0000 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:28:00 +0000     Charlie Foxtrot interviews Armaholic
    Macc0re admin of the Charlie Foxtrot Tournament had a talk with Foxhound about the Armaholic website in the past, at present and in the future as well as some general Arma and game related questions.


    As the people at Charlie Foxtrot have no intention to become another news posting website but still want to inform their players and the general public about what goes on in the channels of the Armed Assault and the ArmA2 com

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    ]]>     Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:26:00 +0000 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:26:00 +0000