For decades forum sages have been telling us that a Total War-style strategy game with WWI’s famously static and linear Western Front trench warfare at its core wouldn’t work. The Great War proves these Cassandras wrong. While the action-packed real-time…
Wargaming Swiss Army knife Wars Across The World can’t quite muster a Raj quartet yet, but thanks to the Anglo-Zulu War add-on released last week, anyone fascinated by violent Victoriana, can now use it to explore four 19th Century colonial…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Sorry, Nuclear War Simulator and Hydrofoil Generation, this was meant to be a 3×3. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of trying Reentry, an engrossing Early Access sim that does for pre-Space Shuttle NASA spacecraft what DCS World does for fast…
As last Friday’s A2Z came without a ‘miniature interview’, here’s a rare standalone one by way of compensation. Beyond the break, Stefano Casillo, the renowned realism merchant behind sims such as netKar Pro, Assetto Corsa, and Hydrofoil Generation, fields a…
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…
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…
Stalingrad, October, 1942. A bullet-dimpled Sd.Kfz. 250 halftrack grinds to a halt beside a vast Tractor Factory assembly hall. Its passengers – two flamethrower operators – hurriedly disembark. Within seconds the pair are directing a stream of blazing napalm through…
To ensure you get a full and rounded picture of 2023’s most eagerly awaited computer wargame, THC will be running a series of articles on Second Front rather than one traditional review. In this, the first of those articles, I’ll…