My Burden of Command top tip
While I’m nowhere near finishing Burden of Command’s unforgettable campaign, I think I’ve seen enough to pen something resembling a review tomorrow. I also reckon I’ve seen enough to proffer the pictured words of advice.
Category Wargames
Quinquagintaphilia (Game your way back to the 1950s)
DecimusSaxon, one of THC’s older readers, has an urge to revisit the era of his youth via the medium of PC gaming. He asked me for some Fifties game recommendations, and the following was the best I could come up…
Where foxes trot – a war gaming news miscellany
In a couple of weeks’ time millions of freshly unfurled beech leaves will render OP Foxtrot useless as a news gathering vantage point. Until that green explosion happens, I’ll continue to traipse up there every morning with my binoculars, notebook,…
Is overcoming Alexander in Arete too easy?
The humiliation! Not only has Alexander the Great just lost the Battle of the Granicus, perishing in the process, the commander that outwitted him was consuming a bowl of Shreddies and admiring a low-flying Milvus milvus while issuing his orders.…
This Task Force Admiral rival would fit on a floppy
Task Force Admiral looks seriously bloated when placed alongside this demo-blessed wisp. Based on a UNIX wargame David Riggle coded in his youth, action-packed Midway 1981 takes up less HD space than an uncompressed TFA screenshot yet offers numerous unexpected…
Screenshots = spoilers in Burden of Command
Green Tree Games have given me permission to share an account of a Burden of Command mission ahead of the April 8 review embargo, but the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that shedding light on…
Strategos is marching under the MicroProse banner now
A lot of water has flowed under the Ponte Tally-Ho since I first swapped emails with Gabe, the AI specialist behind promising swords-and-sandals wargame, Strategos. Keen to catch-up, I recently quizzed him about a range of topics including project progress,…
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…
Partisan gets a firm ‘nyet’ from me
Some forgotten PC games deserve eternal obscurity. Recently winched from the Russian bog where it’s sat for the past sixteen years, WW2 RPG Partisan is just such a game.
Crack kraks in Crusades: Book I
Meteorologically speaking, Wargame Design Studio’s latest release is as dry as the Negev Desert. In tactical terms, however, it’s anything but desiccated.