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.

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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.

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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.

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