Q is for Quick stogie card. Significantly larger and younger than all previous occupants of this slot, the thirty cards that make up ‘Soldiers of Waterloo’ were issued in 1995 and came in packets of Castella cigars. The text on the reverse of the card pictured below includes the story of Kenneth McKay, the plucky piper who, at the height of the battle, marched around the outside of the Cameron Highlanders square playing Cogadh no Sith (War or Peace).

R is for Rubble Town

As this video explains, Rubble Town, a new free solitaire wargame available in print and play, PowerPoint, and Tabletop Simulator module versions, penalises heavy-handed urban warfare techniques. Over-reliance on masonry-pulverising Challenger 2s, Warriors, and NLAWs could end-up making work for your CEVs and complicating things for your PBI.

S is for Show of hands, please

Who’d like next week to be firefighting week here on THC? If there’s an appetite for it, I’ll survey the sub-genre by auditioning titles such as Firefighting Simulator – The Squad, Into the Flames, and Fire Commander.

T is for Transformed coastline

After the Netherlands and China, no country has reclaimed more land from the sea than South Korea. As much of this reclamation happened after the end of the Korean War, the mapmakers at 1CGS who are currently constructing Korea: IL-2’s 440 x 440km theatre have a particularly tricky task.

U is for Unwanted games

Finding himself in possession of a number of GOG and Steam activation codes he has no intention of using, a kind reader called Konrad has decided to offer the codes to fellow Cornerites. While I can’t see any wargames or sims in the list, one of the available titles – Insurmountable – has had positive THC coverage in the past. If you decide to use one or more of the following, please mention it in a comment so that others don’t waste time entering redeemed codes.

(GOG)
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell – W9GAE87351058C07F5
Thief II: The Metal Age – V753C8C2C72022099A
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain – ZTUNA54CA3117A96F6
Hypnospace Outlaw – HMYV4476A28D0FD3BA
Gamedec – Definitive Edition- 55C6D9E5256BCD60E9
Syberia: The World Before – 8JX76F54639439ACF3
Wild Country – PAGY8337DE4F9D1895

(Steam)
Between Horizons – 98C7D-GPXQA-7ZQYB
Welcome to Elk – X5RRH-TCDRJ-XPJQI
The Blind Prophet – 4E6EY-Q78A7-NBI2L
Mail Time – HRAQB-LH3BR-G86IR
Nocturnal – KPJWE-BA68G-FH95Y
Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony- DLD6P-R8T9M-KR78E
Sugar Shack – BM07C-G8WVK-2BNWA
Silence – G4R2C-L45ID-J3GRI
Dead Age – RWDAL-JG4I3-JGHMP
Unloved – Y9TKP-655ZB-IIZMM
Burst Fighter – 44AA2-Z48FK-IPD8Z
Insurmountable – 9PDPP-EI3P8-PJIZQ
Garfield Kart – Furious Racing- CAPG6-WZ8D2-9TALX
Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic – 55208-RVJJI-5CEVK
Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood – Z3VHN-NKXHT-VI4XB
Talk to Strangers – BMD8I-4FXHJ-KDFVA
Eternal Edge + – CR405-W3FE0-CD6K6