I hope you’ve got wide caterpillar tracks, Battle Drill. In coming months the weight of expectation pressing down on your mud-spattered hull is going to grow and grow. If you’re not careful, you’re going to find yourself buried up to…
Geoff Ayre, the developer of, amongst other things, Sub Commander, a splendid SSBN roguelike, and Infernal Ocean: Denmark Strait, the first 3D game Tally-Ho Corner ever covered, is working on a truly extraordinary project at present. Read today’s interview and…
Been a digital wargamer since the days of Computer Bismarck and Stonkers? Able to spot a John Tiller game in a blizzard at a hundred paces, and distinguish Panzer Corps from Order of Battle by the slightly different tracks they…
Inconspicuous unit sprites did the recent Steel Company demo no favours. Happily, Gyr Software have listened to the lamenters. In the latest preview build of their pantherine WW2 TBT, warriors and vehicles sport bold outlines and natty NATO symbol icons.…
Abandoning Sally, my ATS Mustang Fastback, even for a few hours this weekend, required considerable willpower, but somehow I managed it. Trading the Great Plains for New Jersey and sunny contemporary highways for snowy Eighteenth Century battlefields, I gave Early…
A is for Airfield anarchy. Compared to hunting scurrying infantrymen in Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator, Spiderweb-ing parked Tu-95s and Tu-22s is a piece of cake. The PC’s most realistic military drone sim gained a recreation of the SBU’s 2025 masterstroke…
Great news! In the brief window before AI steals all our jobs, overheats the planet, and 3D-prints the armada of virus-carrying drones that destroys mankind, it’s going to make some corking computer wargames. While Cyprus 1974 isn’t, strictly speaking, ‘corking’,…
Diceless combat, an invincible super unit, and a solitaire variant that’s very different from the two-player alternative… Archie’s War: The Battle for Guadalcanal, a fast-playing 2023 board game from Worthington Games has three pretty striking features. Oddly, the £7 PC…
I reconnoitred the imminent* Steel Wolverines: Modern Armored Combat demo yesterday and liked 95% of what I found. TboneWargames’ debut release might hexagonalise a fictional, near-future clash between NATO and Russia, but there’s nothing imaginary about the conflict that its…
Want to turn a green lane into a brown lane, tow a Gulaschkanone across a snowy field, or roam the Western Desert trashing Axis airfields? Get a 4×4. Want quick introductions to games of interest to realism relishers and old…
A is for Awfully big snap. In 2006 six artists turned an abandoned USMC hangar in California into the world’s largest pinhole camera and used it to create the world’s biggest print photograph. While free sim The Great Picture doesn’t…
U is for Undeserved neglect. Sometimes I’m so busy searching out the obscure and quirky, I fail to give the megafauna of the sim and wargame fields the attention it deserves. SCS Software, the studio that almost singlehandedly created the…