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Q is for Quick Topps card. Unlike many of the trade cards that appear in this slot, I’ve probably owned this 1978 Superman card from new. I say ‘probably’ because there’s a chance it was actually pulled from its flimsy…

Q is for Quick Topps card. Unlike many of the trade cards that appear in this slot, I’ve probably owned this 1978 Superman card from new. I say ‘probably’ because there’s a chance it was actually pulled from its flimsy…

L is for Liftoff: Micro Drones leaves Early Access. Lugus marked 1.00 by equipping their moreish tiny whoop sim with a track builder, two new maps, and an extra flyable. Just about the only significant things this £16 delight lacks…

G is for Great War game = great wargame? I remember a time when you could count WWI PC wargames on the fingers of one hand and it was rare for a year to pass without a new WWI flight…

A is for Alphabetised game news. There’s nothing especially original about the way I gather game news. Like other reporters, every so often I set cage traps baited with chunks of old telephone directory or stale urinal cake in likely…

Corporal Whitehand ends turn 2 surrounded by armour. Fortunately for him the close-range stuff is bipedal, medieval, and empty, and the more distant specimens are currently unaware rogue American POWs are at large in the castle.

Splendid – we now have enough volunteers to begin Bouncing the Bogen! In Turn 1, thanks to orders issued by half a dozen game Cornerites, kit jangles and leaf springs flex on the heavily wooded western side of the river,…

Several of the units in Bounce the Bogen, THC’s latest play-by-comment Combat Mission game, still need chaperones. If you’re an airlifter and fancy directing Captain Hood’s HQ team or Sergeant Scarlet’s Daimler armoured car for a few turns (you don’t…

Fancy getting to know another interesting bit of Britain via a classic train sim? You’re in luck. Having picked up several bargains in the almost-over TSC2024 sale, I plan to spend the remainder of this week exploring unfamiliar lines, researching…

It’s early April 1945 and, a week or so after ‘bouncing the Rhine’, the Western Allies reach another watery obstacle, the Bogen river. At Mannsfeld a few gung ho US AFVs manage to barrel across the bridge before it is…

If there are no posts on THC on Wednesday or Thursday this week don’t blame Corsica 1764, Ground of Aces, or the first Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific expansion. The lull is probably because I’m busy preparing this…

Unlike most games set in the Netherlands during WW2, Survive, Resist, Collaborate is not crawling with Allied airborne troops and obsessed with bridge securing. Due out later this year but trial-able now, SRC is a text-based tale of a triangular…

Microsoft Train Simulator, BVE, Trainz… in 2004 the PC rail simmer had far fewer choices than they have today. Oddly, one of the most realistic options available to desktop train drivers back then featured South African rolling stock. If you’re…