Bounce the Bogen: Turn 11

Before the war the village of Nottingheim was something of a tourist magnet. The big draw wasn’t the castle, it was the famous Eichhörnchenhaus and its unusually tame residents. As CMBO doesn’t include an ornate squirrel tenement among its building selection, you’ll just have to imagine there’s a cross between a traditional Swiss chalet and a pole-mounted dovecot in the pasture NE of the Black Squirrel inn.

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War Law (How well do you know the Geneva Conventions?)

Computer wargames and combat sims are dab hands at history dissemination and tactical instruction, but how well do they teach the rules of war? Let’s find out. Beyond the break are twenty questions designed to test your knowledge of International Humanitarian Law – the set of rules that is meant to ensure war is conducted in a civilised manner.

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Dusty but Trusty: Steel Fury

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.

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