3×3
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 wargamers and simmers? Read…
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Interview: Gregory Adam Scott
If the bottom ever drops out of the armour roguelike market, Gregory Adam Scott won’t need to cast about for a new career. When the creator of Armoured Commander II isn’t enlarging or enhancing his trailblazing austerity tank sim, he’s…
Rome or Bust – an Armoured Commander 2 AAR
April 12th, 1943, Gabes, Tunisia. Dear Peter, Since your departure in November, the Hospitallers have been, as the newspapermen like to say, “hot on Rommel’s heels”. We were in the thick of it at El Agheila, Beurat, Medenine, and the…
And the winner is…
The beehive murmur of an expectant crowd… the clink of cider-filled champagne flutes… Roman clutching an envelope the same colour as his lamé Nehru jacket… you don’t need to be Miss Marple to work out that the final act of…
A Pair of Passable Panther Substitutes
Close to the top of my ‘Childhood Toys I Wish I Still Owned But Can’t Quite Justify Repurchasing’ list is a Solido Panther tank the colour of butterscotch Angel Delight. The thing was diecast, heavy as a grapefruit, and sported…
A2Z
A is for Alphabetised wargame, sim, and site news. Once a month, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a day or two scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories…
Stolen Sabbath
Due to a cock-up at Greenwich last Sunday, residents of Bramley End – the village I call home – lost a day this week rather than an hour. The government is offering each adult resident £50 in compensation – a…
Horseplay
Imagine if there were no Ancient, Medieval, Napoleonic, or American Civil War PC strategy games. Imagine if wargame makers, for mysterious reasons of their own, decided that military history commenced in 1900. A situation unthinkable in one precinct of computer…
The Wargamer’s Curse
Decades of wargaming and simming have changed me in ways I’m reluctant to admit. Although I can still – thank goodness – see footage of death and destruction on distant battlefields and feel pity, outrage, and despair, forty years of…
A2Z
A is for Alphabetised wargame, sim, and site news. Once a month, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a day or two scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories…
Dusty But Trusty: Hidden & Dangerous 2
To qualify for a ‘Dusty But Trusty’ article, a game must be old enough to vote in the Federated States of Micronesia, buy tobacco in Algeria, and serve in the Pontifical Swiss Guard. More importantly, it must be demonstrably super,…
This and That
Some snaps taken during my first day with Tiny Combat Arena, an £11 Early Access Harrier sim with a fetching mid-90s aesthetic, impeccable framerates, an empty missions folder, and an unapologetic “Fun Before Fidelity” philosophy…