Before the war the village of Nottingheim was something of a tourist magnet. The big draw wasn’t the castle, it was the famous Eichhörnchenhaus and its unusually tame residents. As CMBO doesn’t include an ornate squirrel tenement among its building…
Three HE rounds traverse the River Bogen during this sixty-second slice of Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord. The first across is 76mm in diameter and, apart from upping the pace of a gaggle of retreating German OAPs, achieves little. The second…
From their resolve and fighting prowess, you wouldn’t guess the four-man German team next to the railway bridge has a combined age of 263. The plucky band of Deutsch pensioners is led by a hard-of-hearing forester called Franz, a veteran…
Love Land Rovers, DPM, and endearingly ugly tracked vehicles? Assuming you’re also partial to micromanagement-heavy digital wargaming, Battlefront and Matrix Games have a Combat Mission: Cold War add-on they’d like to sell you.
Just because I’m too ignorant to enjoy Graphwar II (£4) and its free predecessor doesn’t mean I’m not going to cover them on Tally-Ho Corner. I suspect there are a few Cornerites out there with sufficient maths skills to understand…
Amazingly, first generation Combat Mission isn’t the oldest PC wargame series to have benefited from tender modernisation this month. That distinction belongs to Talonsoft’s Campaign Series, the core of which dates back to 1997.
I’ve written hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. As many of these appeared in the British version of PC Gamer magazine and nowhere else, now and again something from my archive may…
The warriors that traverse the rail bridge during Turn 8 are all sprinting Tommy infantrymen. The munitions that whip across its mossy stonework are far more diverse. Speeding 9mm, .303, .50 cal, 20mm, 40mm, and 95mm rounds ensure the south-west…
Sometime in the early Noughties a bright spark at Activision realised flogging (mostly) mediocre PC games at budget prices would be slightly easier if the boxes the mediocrities came in were emblazoned with ‘The History Channel’. By chance one of…
V is for Very well received Fulcrum. It’s not often a new DCS flyable gets a reception as warm as the one the new MiG-29A has received. Perusing the forums, praise of the flight model and framerate impact is particularly…
Q is for Quick trade card. The collectible shown below was disgorged by a coin-operated railway station weighing machine some time in the 1950s. Small compared to most cigarette and tea cards, the 24 cards in the British Automatic Company’s…
L is for Lacking linesmen. Football Referee Simulator almost earned itself a Police Week article. Until Referee Simulator and Football Referee Simulator 26 arrive, Vladimir Pilashkun’s 2D effort has the ref sim genre pretty much to itself. Because you don’t…