Category Wargames

The THC Relic Roadshow

Today’s off-topic post is inspired by a recent comment from an Italy-based Cornerite. If you visit THC regularly, chances are you have an avid interest in history, and, like Nutfield and myself, have at least one found, inherited, or purchased…

Task Force Admiral jpegs judged

Choosing winners in the TFA screenshot competition proved harder than expected, but the Hanging Committee (myself, Amiral Crapaud, Julien, and Reis) did eventually manage to skim the double-cream from the cream. The four fab images that bagged prizes are displayed…

Burden of Command foreplay

Pinch me. Almost nine years after I first got wind of it, Burden of Command is finally trickling onto my PC. As I’m not permitted to share opinions until the day of release (April 8th) and feel a game this…

Q2U

Q is for Quick tea card. Card no. 17 in ‘Locomotives’, a 25-card set issued by Barbers Teas of Birmingham in 1956, features Cock o’ the North, the first of Nigel Gresley’s striking but flawed P2s. Like the other five…

L2P

L is for Lamentable landscapes. Clumsily created and employed, AI art can ruin otherwise sound computer games. For proof of this, look no further than Frontline: Assault Corps, a £12 hex wargame in which southern Italy looks awfully like the…