Tim’s summer shooter (Zortch or Kvark?)
In the mood for some nostalgic first-person gun-play I trialled two new retro FPSs yesterday. One generated predominantly yawns and sighs, the other produced mostly grins and glee.
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Crusadery Crossword (Win sandy UoC2 add-ons)
Unity of Command II’s logistical sophistication and starkly contrasting movement rates make it perfect for recreating WW2’s Western Desert Campaign. To experience the splendid synergy for yourself, you can either purchase Desert Fox and Desert Rats (two of UoC2’s latest and fattest expansion packs) or attempt to acquire them for nowt by participating in this competition.
Angola ’86 interview
Most wargames are designed by people without firsthand experience of their subjects. Currently in the early stages of beta testing, Angola ’86 springbucks the trend.
Friday Foxer #128
The lion’s share of todays co-op puzzle is the work of a guest foxer setter. Veteran defoxer, Colonel K, has selected and devoweled a host of “Things Found In, On, Or Under Frozen Places”.
A2G
A is for Abbreviated A2Z. I won’t be compiling any 26-entry news round-ups while The Experiment is running, but truncated versions like this may appear from time to time.
Aircraft in Pixels lets you assemble an Albatros
Anyone hoping Model Builder would spawn a plethora of winged add-ons has had a disappointing year. Apart from a solitary Hawker Hurricane wheeled out in May 2022, Moonlit has released nothing to tempt players weaned on Airfix aeronautica. Having just spent a pleasant evening piecing together a comely Great War biplane, I recommend frustrated warbird builders seek solace in Aircraft in Pixels.
Field of Glory II is free until June 8!
If you held a sawn-off hackbut to my head and forced me to compile a list of my ten favourite computer wargames, somewhere in the second half of that list would be a Byzantine Games creation. For thematic and campaign system reasons, said creation would probably be Sengoku Jidai or Pike and Shot: Campaigns not Field of Glory II, but ancient aggro sims don’t come more gripping, lively, challenging or compendious than this currently-£0-on-Steam corker.
Māris Ozols throws open the Gates of Freedom
While the armistice of November 11, 1918 brought peace to Western Europe, it paved the way for new conflicts in the east. Thanks to Māris Ozols, the solo coder behind the £15, twenty-scenario Comrades and Barons: Gates of Freedom, it’s now possible to computer game one of those conflicts – the Latvian War of Independence.