Fancy getting to know another interesting bit of Britain via a classic train sim? You’re in luck. Having picked up several bargains in the almost-over TSC2024 sale, I plan to spend the remainder of this week exploring unfamiliar lines, researching…
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
It’s early April 1945 and, a week or so after ‘bouncing the Rhine’, the Western Allies reach another watery obstacle, the Bogen river. At Mannsfeld a few gung ho US AFVs manage to barrel across the bridge before it is…
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…
If there are no posts on THC on Wednesday or Thursday this week don’t blame Corsica 1764, Ground of Aces, or the first Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific expansion. The lull is probably because I’m busy preparing this…
Unlike most games set in the Netherlands during WW2, Survive, Resist, Collaborate is not crawling with Allied airborne troops and obsessed with bridge securing. Due out later this year but trial-able now, SRC is a text-based tale of a triangular…
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Microsoft Train Simulator, BVE, Trainz… in 2004 the PC rail simmer had far fewer choices than they have today. Oddly, one of the most realistic options available to desktop train drivers back then featured South African rolling stock. If you’re…
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
Forty plus years of WW2 tactical wargaming leaves an indelible mark on a person. Like most long-in-the-tooth desktop generals, I’m now so used to parsing battlefields, assessing weaponry, and weighing up odds, the process is almost instinctive. StuG there…. dead…