Roman came up with theme for the following vowel-free brainteaser while eating a bowl of venison bolognese in front of the Winter Olympics. One of these bits of background information is irrelevant, the other – as you’re about to discover…
While it’s done a pretty good job of marshaling its infantry assets thus far, CMBO’s TacAI hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory on the angry house front. I don’t wish to take anything away from the Comment Commanders, who’ve choreographed…
A couple of turns ago, the Allied bid to take the castle gates looked to be in real trouble. The unexpected appearance of enemy reinforcements had left Hood’s vanguard bloodied and backpedaling. In Turn 27, bolstered by halftrack-delivered replacements, and…
One good reason to keep visiting the Corner while Roman and myself are pretending to be game developers is you might stumble on a competition like this one. January has been pretty eventful for MicroProse Mk II. Last week, sword-and-sandal wargame…
The closest Allied Armoured Recovery Vehicle to Nottingheim is over twenty miles away. If the churning caterpillars of the Churchill VIII don’t grip something solid in the next turn or two, Sergeant Johns and his crew have a long, frustrating…
Worried your solo defoxing skills are already starting to rust? Tackle this geographical brainteaser post-haste.
Ouch! Comment Commander Colonel_K might want to pour himself a stiff Bovril and take a seat before reading the following turn report. In the 25th minute of this nailbiting play-by-comment CMBO contest, the AI-controlled Germans positively savage the small human-orchestrated…
Turn 23 ended on a cliff edge. The Comment Commanders’ most valuable (?) armoured asset – a late-war Sherman – seemed seconds away from an unpleasant encounter with an unidentified German heavyweight. In this sixty-second instalment of intricate WEGO wargaming,…
Until I settle on a theme for the THC game (This week the theme shortlist shrunk to just two candidates) my Chief Foxer Setter turned Senior Researcher /Lead Scenario Designer doesn’t have a great deal to do, hence the following…
While the swarm of Balkenkreuze in the above image is just the little joke of a mischievous GM, the blocky tank with the question mark on its turret is not. Five seconds after Turn 23 gets underway, Allied units (presumably…