Geoff Ayre, the developer of, amongst other things, Sub Commander, a splendid SSBN roguelike, and Infernal Ocean: Denmark Strait, the first 3D game Tally-Ho Corner ever covered, is working on a truly extraordinary project at present. Read today’s interview and…
Been a digital wargamer since the days of Computer Bismarck and Stonkers? Able to spot a John Tiller game in a blizzard at a hundred paces, and distinguish Panzer Corps from Order of Battle by the slightly different tracks they…
A is for Airfield anarchy. Compared to hunting scurrying infantrymen in Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator, Spiderweb-ing parked Tu-95s and Tu-22s is a piece of cake. The PC’s most realistic military drone sim gained a recreation of the SBU’s 2025 masterstroke…
Front-page handkerchief knot: Remember to use the delightful Glider Sim Deluxe for the next Tally-Ho Corner tour! Since I first encountered it, Joey Sipos’s fuselage-free flight sim has undergone five years of Early Access tweaking and gained a feature that…
It would be criminal to leave Kent’s county town without talking about the ferocious battle that occurred here in the Seventeenth Century, or mentioning at least one of the wrong’uns who’ve spent time in the local clink.
After those unfortunate events in the St. Gotthard Pass and the so-called ‘River of Tears’ incident in Calabria, I thought it wise to mothball Tally-Ho Corner Tours for a spell. Now the press has found new whipping boys, and memories…
Want to turn a green lane into a brown lane, tow a Gulaschkanone across a snowy field, or roam the Western Desert trashing Axis airfields? Get a 4×4. Want quick introductions to games of interest to realism relishers and old…
A is for Awfully big snap. In 2006 six artists turned an abandoned USMC hangar in California into the world’s largest pinhole camera and used it to create the world’s biggest print photograph. While free sim The Great Picture doesn’t…
Yesterday evening command of the Sabre-rattling 12th FBS squadron passed to Major Furnace Amberwick after Major Terence Torrance, my alter aero for much of the past week, failed to return from a bomber interception mission near Old Baldy. The fact…
According to Steam I’ve spent sixteen hours with Korea IL-2 so far. During that time I believe I’ve downed just three swept-wing interceptors. This meagre tally of MiG-15s and F-86s is partly a consequence of play choices (Much of my…
GenAIs such as Grok and Gemini are already perfectly capable of coding the vitals of computer wargames… the GUIs, the LoS systems, the AIs. How long will it be before they can spot promising untapped historical themes the way a…
To qualify for a Dusty But Trusty article, a game must be old enough to vote in Nicaragua, buy tobacco in Djibouti, and make the beast with two backs in Nepal. More importantly, it must be demonstrably super, smashing, great,…