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Tally-Ho Corner HQ is feeling decidedly Spring-like at the moment. The lilacs in the dooryard are in full bloom, there are bouncing bunnies on the lawn, and a moment ago, for the first time in around eight months, a little…
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The Airflow Trials (Portal with quadcopters?)
At first glance the two circles in the flight game – puzzle game Venn diagram appear to touch rather than overlap. However, peer closely and there is in fact a common sliver – a common sliver populated by novel noodle…
Good Friday Aggrievement (Thoughts on Early Access Northern Ireland ’74)
If you knew nothing about The Troubles, could you learn about them through Johan Nagel’s new £10 wargame? At the risk of splintering my arse by fence sitting, “Yes and no”.
Is Lushfoil Photography Sim the perfect presomnial plaything?
WW2 combat fatigue and 1980s sectarian violence aren’t the best anxiolytics. While my current unwind aid of choice, aerofly RC, generally gets the job done, tonight, for a change, I’m going to let this £10 ramble-em-up cleanse my cranium before…
Win classy Cold War clash factory Armored Brigade 2
I spent most of yesterday evening issuing orders to men dressed head to foot in Disruptive Pattern Material. After a couple of absorbing hours in 1980s Northern Ireland I headed to 1980s West Germany, and – courtesy of Armored Brigade…
Rubber bullets and roadblocks (Welcome to Northern Ireland ’74)
Smaller maps, slightly streamlined logistics, and more liberal sector rules should mean Every Single Soldier’s latest COIN title is less likely to overwhelm and weary work-shy wargamers than its predecessor.
Mimic McIlroy in free golf sim OGC Open
Being highly impressionable, most years at around this time I get a powerful urge to play a PC golf game. This weekend when the compulsion hit I went in search of something unfamiliar, old-fashioned, affordable, and Augusta endowed, and, on…
Burden of Command review (part 2)
A lot has happened in the three days since I wrote part 1 of this review. I’ve led Nickel Company through the living hell that was Anzio. I’ve discovered that BoC’s combat system doesn’t always protect main characters from fatal…
Commandos: Origins under fire
Commandos: Origins’ first day in ‘enemy territory’ could have gone better. Slathered with ineffective bug repellent, encumbered by a pretty hefty price-tag, and lacking useful kit like rucksacks and D-IX pills, Commandos-4-in-all-but-name has found the past 24 hours a trifle…
Burden of Command review (part 1)
Normally, when I have a nagging question about a PC wargame – a question that the manual or forums can’t answer – I go direct to the developer for edification. With Burden of Command, I’ve found myself deliberately holding back……
My Burden of Command top tip
While I’m nowhere near finishing Burden of Command’s unforgettable campaign, I think I’ve seen enough to pen something resembling a review tomorrow. I also reckon I’ve seen enough to proffer the pictured words of advice.
Quinquagintaphilia (Game your way back to the 1950s)
DecimusSaxon, one of THC’s older readers, has an urge to revisit the era of his youth via the medium of PC gaming. He asked me for some Fifties game recommendations, and the following was the best I could come up…