Liftoff: Micro Drones lights-up parts of my brain that haven’t been illuminated since I last dallied with Airfix Dogfighter. In the follow-up to Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing (a top-notch drone sim that has been pressed into service as a training aid by both sides in the ongoing war in Ukraine) you sometimes find yourself limboing under parked cars, darting through half-opened windows, and alighting on chairs, shelves, and sofa cushions.
Task Force Admiral, Burden of Command, Armored Brigade II, Sea Power, Strategos. I’ve just re-jigged the upper echelons of my ‘Upcoming PC Wargames I’m Most Excited About’ list, and the following interview with the creator of Strategos, a turnless Ancients battle sim with myriad tactical subtleties, is partially responsible.
Tally-Ho Corner is going to look and feel a little different for the remainder of the summer. In an effort to banish malaise, give promising projects more limelight, and possibly gain a reader/subscriber or two, Friday features will make way for shorter daily posts for the next couple of months. News items, 3×3-style ‘reviews’, miniature interviews, bijou AARs, foxers, competitions, thinly-disguised rants… there’s no telling what each day (Sundays excepted) will bring. Today, for instance, there’s a Q&A with the father of Strategos, a recently announced Ancients wargame.
Every Friday at 1300 hours, 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.
The final set of clues to the Fox d’Or’s hiding place is one click away.
A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Now and again, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with the potential to fascinate, startle, cheer, dismay or amuse. Those stories are then dehydrated, alphabetised and delivered, via articles like this one, to people who’ve got better things to do than plough through puff and platitudes.
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.
Treasure hunters searching for the hiding place of the priceless Fox d’Or will need to solve today’s puzzle in order to remain in the hunt.