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.
WW2 combat fatigue and 1980s sectarian violence aren’t the best anxiolytics. While my current unwind aid of choice, aerofly RC, generally gets the job done, tonight, for a change, I’m going to let this £10 ramble-em-up cleanse my cranium before bedtime.
I spent most of yesterday evening issuing orders to men dressed head to foot in Disruptive Pattern Material. After a couple of absorbing hours in 1980s Northern Ireland I headed to 1980s West Germany, and – courtesy of Armored Brigade 2 – choreographed a gripping Chieftain- and Harrier-supported assault on a Soviet-held village. Said assault went swimmingly right up until the moment it didn’t.
Smaller maps, slightly streamlined logistics, and more liberal sector rules should mean Every Single Soldier’s latest COIN title is less likely to overwhelm and weary work-shy wargamers than its predecessor.
Being highly impressionable, most years at around this time I get a powerful urge to play a PC golf game. This weekend when the compulsion hit I went in search of something unfamiliar, old-fashioned, affordable, and Augusta endowed, and, on finding nothing that ticked all four boxes, ended up settling for OGC Open, a free online golf sim that ticks three.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
A lot has happened in the three days since I wrote part 1 of this review. I’ve led Nickel Company through the living hell that was Anzio. I’ve discovered that BoC’s combat system doesn’t always protect main characters from fatal wounds. I’ve realised there’s one aspect of the game’s core mechanics I really don’t like. I’ve experienced a crash. I’ve found myself pleasantly surprised by GTG’s approach to pricing. Most significantly, I’m now happy to use the word ‘unmissable’ in connection with Burden of Command.
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.