Scramble ramble #1
The day is barely six hours old and I’ve already experienced one “crippling defeat”. If November 5 continues in this fashion, I’ll be bankrupt by sun-up, homeless by lunchtime, and dead by nightfall.
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Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 11
On balance I’d say Turn 11 was more punishing for Team France’s fans than its warriors, but both spectators and soldiery were made to suffer.
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Pure Rock Crawling’s rocks rock
While I can’t tell you whether Pure Rock Crawling’s depiction of rock crawling is superior to BeamNG.drive’s and Expeditions’, I’m hoping at least one THC reader has the necessary expertise and time to answer this question via a comment. What I can say is that my first few hours with Maciej Kuzianik’s £10 (until November 11) boulder bothering sim have flown by and I’ve enjoyed every minute so far.
Unity of Command 2: Berlin DLC – Bag some rations for the road
I don’t know anyone better equipped to assay Unity of Command 2’s last expansion pack than THC’s man in Lithuania. As Martynas Klimas has spent around 220 hours cheek by jowl with 2×2’s hexy masterpiece, his take on this “fitting endnote for the series” is worth its weight in Nazi gold. Over to you, Martynas.
Friday Foxer #200
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.
Hear the bell? Run like hell
A skillful ringer can communicate pretty subtle things with the THC scramble bell. For instance, the combination of clangs, bongs, and ting-tings that’s currently cacophonising the Corner tells me that Scramble: Battle of Britain is Early Accessible at long last, that the recently updated Gary Grigsby’s Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich is just eight quid at present, and that I can now play Target For Today using Tabletop Sim.
Dissenting Devs: Creative Europe’s grant scheme isn’t universally popular
Not everyone in the games industry is quite as positive about Creative Europe’s game development hand-outs as the three grant beneficiaries whose views I shared in Thoughts of the Thankful. It would be remiss of me not to give you a taste of the skepticism and suspicion I’ve come across while looking into EU fun funding.