Friday Foxer #174

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.

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Unity of Command 2 DLC: The “L” stands for “Love”

While October is the traditional time of the year for Stone-free wordage on THC, I thought I’d publish this piece on UoC2 add-ons kindly submitted by Martynas “JcDent” Klimas while it’s fresh. A Lithuanian pewter pusher not averse to a spot of CoH, GHPC, Regiments, Armored Brigade, and Uo2C (obviously), Martynas podcast hosts and website propriets when he’s not waging ersatz war.

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At ease, grogs. Headquarters: World War II is far from essential

Scanning the notes I penned while playing HQWW2 this week, I can’t find anything resembling an aggro anecdote. There’s no chunk of shorthand reminding me of that bit in Mission 4 of the US campaign when I spent an absorbing half hour hunting a Tiger with nothing but a green bazooka team and a singed/scared Greyhound, or that spell in Mission 2 of the Brit Campaign when my Red Berets, using smoke, pluck, and Sten guns, overran a German position, then used the Pak 40 they captured to see off a counterattack involving a Panzer IV and several halftracks.

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