Alphabetised game news (Q2U)
Q is for Quick fag card. The 25 cards that make up ‘Victoria Cross Heroes in Action’ are not your typical fag cards. Released in 1970 by Sheffield firm Bassett & Co, they were distributed in packets of candy cigarettes.…
Category Wargames
Alphabetised game news (L2P)
L is for Light at the end of the tunnel at long last? General Staff: Black Powder’s website and Steam page haven’t been updated in a dishearteningly long time, but recent posts on the Kickstarter page give wargame AI aficionados…
Alphabetised game news (F2K)
F is for Fourth time lucky? Originally slated for a Q1 2024 release, then rescheduled for September 2024, and, later, May 2025, the sequel to one of Simulatia’s most realistic motoring sims acquired its fourth ETA earlier this week. The…
“I’m not driven by a profit motive” – Gregory Adam Scott on money, martial fatigue, and museum visits
Five years ago today, Early Access Armoured Commander 2 hit Steam. Part-time developer, full -time academic, Gregory Adam Scott promised “over a year of planned additions and updates” in his first post-launch communique. What he and his customers didn’t know…
London calling
If anything is guaranteed to make a patriotic English wargamer’s blood boil, it’s the sight of a Nazi flag flying over Buck House. Yesterday, a few hours after watching the Red Arrows stripe the sky over the King’s unpretentious London…
Steam recommendations for alphabetical completists
Mildly troubled by the fact that your Steam library doesn’t contain games beginning with all 26 letters of the alphabet? The following list of top-notch time-killers is designed to help completists fill gaps wisely. In its original form THC’s Steam…
V2Z
V is for Vernal vanguard. For many, the highlight of Steam’s week-long ‘Wargaming Fest’ is sure to be the release of the Strategos demo. Trialists get the chance to road-test three quite different factions – the versatile Late Carthaginians, the…
Q2U
Q is for Quick tea card. For a spell in 1962, boxes of Brooke Bond tea contained colourful portraits of ‘Asian Wildlife’. Illustrated and written by well-known nature artist Charles Tunnicliffe, the 50-card set included this striking image of Pakistan’s…
L2P
L is for “Less of a sphere, more of a potato”. The Tacview sequel currently under development will be able to do a lot of things its predecessor can’t. For example, because it models the Earth as an oblate spheroid…
G2K
G is for Grim great-grandparents game. Sound effects are used to great effect in Onthecht, a short but powerful offering by a Dutch dev whose great-grandparents were among the hundreds of thousands of Jews murdered at Sobibor.
A2F
Tally-Ho Corner HQ is feeling decidedly Spring-like at the moment. The lilacs in the dooryard are in full bloom, there are bouncing bunnies on the lawn, and a moment ago, for the first time in around eight months, a little…
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”.