It’s rare but not unknown for the work of one studio to appear on two Stone Tablets – the A4-sized sandstone slabs upon which my personal ‘Top Fives’ in various game genres are engraved. Graviteam, for example, feature on both the ‘Wargames’ tablet and the ‘Tank Sims’ one. They owe their presence on the latter to a superb 2007 armour title that Steam is selling for an insulting £2 right now.
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a whizz at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not lend a hand.
From their resolve and fighting prowess, you wouldn’t guess the four-man German team next to the railway bridge has a combined age of 263. The plucky band of Deutsch pensioners is led by a hard-of-hearing forester called Franz, a veteran of Verdun. It’s this wise old warhorse who issues a retreat order early in Turn 9.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Love Land Rovers, DPM, and endearingly ugly tracked vehicles? Assuming you’re also partial to micromanagement-heavy digital wargaming, Battlefront and Matrix Games have a Combat Mission: Cold War add-on they’d like to sell you.
Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers.
Just because I’m too ignorant to enjoy Graphwar II (£4) and its free predecessor doesn’t mean I’m not going to cover them on Tally-Ho Corner. I suspect there are a few Cornerites out there with sufficient maths skills to understand this tutorial and others who will be able to start sniping without any prior instruction whatsoever.
Amazingly, first generation Combat Mission isn’t the oldest PC wargame series to have benefited from tender modernisation this month. That distinction belongs to Talonsoft’s Campaign Series, the core of which dates back to 1997.