Bounce the Bogen: Turn 13
How about I relay this turn’s developments in reverse benefilogical order rather than chronological order? ‘Benefilogical’ is a word not found in many dictionaries. It means “arranged in order of welcomeness”.
Category Wargames
A2Z
A is for Alphabetised wargame, sim, and site news. Now and again, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with…
Bounce the Bogen: Turn 12
This sixty-second burst of WW2 WeGo action leaves map square 29, 4, 5 and its environs reeking of cordite, limonene, and pinene. The citrusy terpenes waft from conifers violently pollarded and pruned by 25-pounder rounds.
Flashpoint Campaigner: Robert Crandall interviewed
Very few people in the world of computer wargame design have been concocting conflicts sims commercially for as long as Robert Crandall of On Target Simulations. Although the father of the chaos-embracing Flashpoint Campaigns series is busy putting the finishing…
Bounce the Bogen: Turn 11
Before the war the village of Nottingheim was something of a tourist magnet. The big draw wasn’t the castle, it was the famous Eichhörnchenhaus and its unusually tame residents. As CMBO doesn’t include an ornate squirrel tenement among its building…
War Law (How well do you know the Geneva Conventions?)
Computer wargames and combat sims are dab hands at history dissemination and tactical instruction, but how well do they teach the rules of war? Let’s find out. Beyond the break are twenty questions designed to test your knowledge of International…
Bounce the Bogen: Turn 10
Three HE rounds traverse the River Bogen during this sixty-second slice of Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord. The first across is 76mm in diameter and, apart from upping the pace of a gaggle of retreating German OAPs, achieves little. The second…
Bounce the Bogen: Turn 9
From their resolve and fighting prowess, you wouldn’t guess the four-man German team next to the railway bridge has a combined age of 263. The plucky band of Deutsch pensioners is led by a hard-of-hearing forester called Franz, a veteran…
Sultans of Swingfire: Combat Mission Cold War with added GB
Love Land Rovers, DPM, and endearingly ugly tracked vehicles? Assuming you’re also partial to micromanagement-heavy digital wargaming, Battlefront and Matrix Games have a Combat Mission: Cold War add-on they’d like to sell you.
This old campaigner deserves a Steamy Indian summer
Amazingly, first generation Combat Mission isn’t the oldest PC wargame series to have benefited from tender modernisation this month. That distinction belongs to Talonsoft’s Campaign Series, the core of which dates back to 1997.
Bounce the Bogen: Turn 8
The warriors that traverse the rail bridge during Turn 8 are all sprinting Tommy infantrymen. The munitions that whip across its mossy stonework are far more diverse. Speeding 9mm, .303, .50 cal, 20mm, 40mm, and 95mm rounds ensure the south-west…
V2Z
V is for Very well received Fulcrum. It’s not often a new DCS flyable gets a reception as warm as the one the new MiG-29A has received. Perusing the forums, praise of the flight model and framerate impact is particularly…