Good Friday Aggrievement (Thoughts on Early Access Northern Ireland ’74)
If you knew nothing about The Troubles, could you learn about them through Johan Nagel’s new £10 wargame? At the risk of splintering my arse by fence sitting, “Yes and no”.
Maziac
Friday Foxer #224
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.
Is Lushfoil Photography Sim the perfect presomnial plaything?
WW2 combat fatigue and 1980s sectarian violence aren’t the best anxiolytics. While my current unwind aid of choice, aerofly RC, generally gets the job done, tonight, for a change, I’m going to let this £10 ramble-em-up cleanse my cranium before…
Win classy Cold War clash factory Armored Brigade 2
I spent most of yesterday evening issuing orders to men dressed head to foot in Disruptive Pattern Material. After a couple of absorbing hours in 1980s Northern Ireland I headed to 1980s West Germany, and – courtesy of Armored Brigade…
Rubber bullets and roadblocks (Welcome to Northern Ireland ’74)
Smaller maps, slightly streamlined logistics, and more liberal sector rules should mean Every Single Soldier’s latest COIN title is less likely to overwhelm and weary work-shy wargamers than its predecessor.
Mimic McIlroy in free golf sim OGC Open
Being highly impressionable, most years at around this time I get a powerful urge to play a PC golf game. This weekend when the compulsion hit I went in search of something unfamiliar, old-fashioned, affordable, and Augusta endowed, and, on…
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Burden of Command review (part 2)
A lot has happened in the three days since I wrote part 1 of this review. I’ve led Nickel Company through the living hell that was Anzio. I’ve discovered that BoC’s combat system doesn’t always protect main characters from fatal…
Friday Foxer #223
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a whizz at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not lend a hand.
Commandos: Origins under fire
Commandos: Origins’ first day in ‘enemy territory’ could have gone better. Slathered with ineffective bug repellent, encumbered by a pretty hefty price-tag, and lacking useful kit like rucksacks and D-IX pills, Commandos-4-in-all-but-name has found the past 24 hours a trifle…