Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
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Friday Foxer #196
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. All are welcome to participate.
Bijou Brilliance – eight modern games that do an awful lot with precious little
Old prejudices die hard. Although Ada’s hard drive is as capacious as a Zeppelin hangar, and download speeds in rural Wessex are no longer narrowboat slow, I still wince when I go to download a game and see double digits in front of the ‘GB’.
Barnacle Bill (NAUTIS Home is pricey and flawed)
Spare a thought for simmers who prefer their rudders and propellers immersed, their rails and bridges spray-flecked. Compared to a Parker Knoll plane or train operator, the armchair ship/boat skipper has few choices and relatively high outgoings.
Unreal Tournaments – An hour with Joust
Best known for enabling French speakers to chinwag with Napoleon without the aid of a Ouija board, Vestigia, a games studio founded by three historians, is also keen to explain and shatter the finer points of jousting.
Armored Brigade 2 is nearly here and looking awesome
The wallets of many digital wargamers will be feather light by the end of November if both Triassic Games and Veitikka Studios make their deadlines. Due next month, Armored Brigade 2 seems intent on occupying the sunlit uplands between playable, pacy military RTSs such as WARNO and Wargame and slower, denser, grog pleasers such as Combat Mission and Graviteam Tactics.
Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 7
The inauspiciously named Corporal Bignon fires his cumbersome bolt-action elephant gun four times during the course of Turn 7. Three 0.55 calibre armour harmers whizz in the direction of a zealous scout car, while the other outsized bullet attempts to arrest the westward progress of a cavalier Panzer III.
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.