Choosing winners in the TFA screenshot competition proved harder than expected, but the Hanging Committee (myself, Amiral Crapaud, Julien, and Reis) did eventually manage to skim the double-cream from the cream. The four fab images that bagged prizes are displayed…
Drydock Dreams Games has decided to give away four digital copies of uncommonly photogenic Task Force Admiral to four talented screengrabbers, and, as it was an email from Yours truly that prompted this act of beneficence, I’ve been invited to…
I felt my last Task Force Admiral demo clash went rather well. No US vessels ended up at the bottom of the Coral Sea. The Yorktown’s winged minions well and truly clobbered the Shōkaku, losing just one Dauntless in the…
In addition to a choreographable Coral Sea clash between taskforces linchpinned by the Lexington and Yorktown, and Shokaku and Zuikaku, the due-out-early-next-week Task Force Admiral demo includes an Easter egg the size of a Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp. Courtesy…
That rumble you can hear is the sound of Drydock Dreams Games’ aft elevator lifting a public TFA demo into the sunlight. If all goes according to plan, by this time next month the ascender’s wings will have been unfolded…
Last night one of my Armored Brigade II BMP-2s had a very lucky escape. Cluster-bombed by a marauding Phantom, it would have been dead as a doornail if the bomb in question had been a standard CBU not a training…
Looking like a cross between an old-fashioned gramophone player and a glass harmonica, the trusty THC news trap generally catches at least a couple of stories overnight. When I opened it up this morning I found the following five paragraphs…
A is for Alphabetised wargame, sim, and site news. Every so often, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with…
Marauding peregrine falcons and sparrowhawks are taking an alarming number of THC carrier pigeons at the moment. The last seven days have been especially grim. Since last Friday we have lost Intrepid, Inkspot, Introvert, Insufferable, Insurgent, and Interlagos. As Insurgent…
For a while it looked like my temperamental PC and Task Force Admiral’s press demo were never going to get along. My attempts to heal the rift with driver changes and dll feng shui having come to naught, I had…
A is for Abbreviated A2Z. My mammoth monthly news round-ups are on hold, but short, scattergun versions like this will appear from time to time
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.