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.
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.
“GeoGuessr for grown-ups.” (Dr. Victor M. Vitharana, Kandy)
Fancy hunting huffy houses in handsome Hessian surroundings, but don’t have £24 spare? The following competition is for you.
Insipid aerodynamics, and a lack of targets and target variety prompted me to uninstall the £8.50 Death From Above a mere two hours after torching my first T-80. I might have lingered longer had Rockodile forced me to scrounge ammo and allowed me to clobber invaders with dropped washing machines.
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. Don’t be shy. All are welcome to participate.
Enthusiasm for co-op campaigning in Steel Division 2… talk of “BIG” Radio General sequel plans… looking back at this October 2022 A2Z interview with Michael Long, perhaps I should have seen Real-Time General coming.
Roman, my perpetually restless sidekick, has persuaded me to try a little experiment. For the next two weeks, instead of posting a substantial feature every Friday, I’ll be posting something smaller – a news story, some ‘first impressions’, a miniature interview, a foxer, or a competition… – every day.