Friday Foxer #249

This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.

This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.

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 is an 88mm havoc-wreaker…

Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.

It’s rare but not unknown for the work of one studio to appear on two Stone Tablets – the A4-sized sandstone slabs upon which my personal ‘Top Fives’ in various game genres are engraved. Graviteam, for example, feature on both the ‘Wargames’ tablet and the ‘Tank Sims’ one. They owe their presence on the latter to a superb 2007 armour title that Steam is selling for an insulting £2 right now.

This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a whizz at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not lend a hand.

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.