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 of Verdun. It’s this wise old warhorse who issues a retreat order early in Turn 9.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
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.
Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers.
Just because I’m too ignorant to enjoy Graphwar II (£4) and its free predecessor doesn’t mean I’m not going to cover them on Tally-Ho Corner. I suspect there are a few Cornerites out there with sufficient maths skills to understand this tutorial and others who will be able to start sniping without any prior instruction whatsoever.
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.
I’ve written hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. As many of these appeared in the British version of PC Gamer magazine and nowhere else, now and again something from my archive may appear as one of THC’s daily posts. On reflection, WWII Battle Tanks – T-34 vs. Tiger was a tad unfortunate. It landed on my desk not long after Steel Fury, and got fairly short shrift (49%) as a result. Perhaps I owe it a re-review. In the meantime here’s my one-page 2007 take.
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 corner of the map is a dangerous place to be this sixty.