Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 12
You can split logs and de-husk coconuts with CMx1’s low-poly AP shells. As Team France proves in the twelfth turn of the fourteen-turn CM Olympics, they are also pretty useful for killing Panzers.
Category Wargames
Bargain-basement Balkan bloodshed
I breakfasted in the Balkans this morning courtesy of Wars Across The World’s latest DLC. Bulgaria 1913 translates the brief and complicated Second Balkan War into a dirt-cheap seventeen-turn digital board game. Halfway through my first playthrough, I’m simultaneously battling the…
Sea Power’s Early Access roadmap is troubling
Page Up, the key I crash-dive when I want to screengrab a Steam game, has seen an awful lot of action this week. Sea Power, an almost-upon-us naval wargame with brooding good looks, deep realism, but a disappointing attitude to…
The Velicogna Verdict: Stout Hearts
THC is lucky enough to have an ex-KCL Wargame Studies lecturer amongst its guest contributors. Today, Arrigo Velicogna sings the praises of a solitaire board wargame that’s chock-a-block with Churchill tanks, chary Jerries, and chancy counterattacks.
Scramble ramble #1
The day is barely six hours old and I’ve already experienced one “crippling defeat”. If November 5 continues in this fashion, I’ll be bankrupt by sun-up, homeless by lunchtime, and dead by nightfall.
Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 11
On balance I’d say Turn 11 was more punishing for Team France’s fans than its warriors, but both spectators and soldiery were made to suffer.
Unity of Command 2: Berlin DLC – Bag some rations for the road
I don’t know anyone better equipped to assay Unity of Command 2’s last expansion pack than THC’s man in Lithuania. As Martynas Klimas has spent around 220 hours cheek by jowl with 2×2’s hexy masterpiece, his take on this “fitting…
Hear the bell? Run like hell
A skillful ringer can communicate pretty subtle things with the THC scramble bell. For instance, the combination of clangs, bongs, and ting-tings that’s currently cacophonising the Corner tells me that Scramble: Battle of Britain is Early Accessible at long last,…
Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 10
What in heaven’s name do they teach them at Bovington these days? The British Crusader gets three chances to pot the PSW in Turn 10 and fluffs all of them.
Enemy on the tail! may bomb without bombers and campaigns
Not a good sign. Roughly thirty minutes after the released-yesterday Enemy on the tail! arrived on Ada’s hard drive, I was seriously considering unarriving it. Although I wasn’t expecting much for £3.21, I was hoping for something capable of outlasting…
Lines of Battle: Waterloo won’t penalise plodders
This toptal.com page about Leonardo Massaroli fails to mention one important fact about the Argentinian developer. He’s a wargamer. Leo has recently unveiled a web-based multiplayer-only prototype of a work-in-progress called Lines of Battle: Waterloo, and, a few hours ago,…
Myopic MBTs and MIA basics: thoughts on the Battlefield Commander WWII demo
Is Battlefield Commander WWII destined to be the latest in a long line of RTTs that tries and fails to combine Close Combat’s realism, accessibility, and gift for drama, with 3D graphics and a lithe camera? After two hours with…