Easy Red 2 is easy 2 recommend

Grunts don’t give armour enough respect, tinned tuna is too common in inventories, and the Gurkhas don’t carry kukris. If you held a Luger to my head I guess I could come up with a few criticisms of Easy Red 2, but it would be a struggle. Recently updated and enlarged, Marco Amadei’s marvellous multi-front WW2 FPS is available for a paltry four quid at the moment. At that price, it puts the Browning automatic rifle in ‘bargain’.

Read MoreEasy Red 2 is easy 2 recommend
Friday Foxer #254

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. All are welcome to participate.

Read MoreFriday Foxer #254
Bounce the Bogen: Turn 15

I reckon there are few more evocative sound effects in computer wargaming than the wave files in CMBO’s audio folder numbered 900 to 904. Used to communicate close quarters violence largely ignored by Big Time Software’s no-frills graphics engine, these chilling melee noises play several times this turn as British troops close to the rail bridge launch local assaults and fend off counterattacks.

Read MoreBounce the Bogen: Turn 15
Bold Campaigner: Master of Command reviewed

When you’re a member of the snobbish Wargame Reviewer’s Guild, heaping praise on a title that doesn’t model line-of-sight and battlefield fog of war, and treats beverages such as tea and coffee as potential battle winners, isn’t without risk. It can prompt whispering in the Guild mess, anonymous letters to the Committee, even expulsion. Let them mutter, plot, and banish, I say. Master of Command is too good not to recommend.

Read MoreBold Campaigner: Master of Command reviewed