Although Steam’s gaping Gettysburg gap narrowed considerably on Saturday, until my favourite Battle of Gettysburg title joins the rather dear Scourge of War: Gettysburg in this line-up, Steam’s selection of wargames dedicated to the pivotal Pennsylvanian scrap, will remain glaringly…
While it’s theoretically possible that the distant dust clouds spotted by both teams during Turn 2 have been raised by restless breezes, stampeding camels, or whirling dervishes, by far the most likely culprits are Afrika Korps AFVs on the move.
A is for Abbreviated digest of game news. The only thing the following stories/games have in common is that they rubbed shoulders on the Corner on a breezy August day in 2024.
It looks like Tom ‘Gunpoint’ Francis may have another smash hit on his hands. Most of the big games sites have heaped praise on the out-today Tactical Breach Wizards, and having just spent an hour with its demo, their enthusiasm…
A wise City Bus Manager player keen to found a profitable omnibus company on the peaceful, car-free Channel Island of Sark would start by building a depot on its bigger, more densely populated neighbour – Guernsey. Me, I naively sited…
Wrung all the fun out of Regiments’ long game? Birds Eye Games were thinking of you when they conceived and coded Winds of Change. Here’s what THC guest writer Martynas Klimas thinks of this newly released £11 adjunct.
Apart from the green ‘GO!’ flare fired into the sky by a match official at the very start of this turn, the Olympiad’s first minute of action is fireworks free. Both teams race their infantry and their mortar-team taxis towards…
Some people said Sark didn’t need a sizeable bus station and a tangle of intertwined bus lines – that 55-seat PCVs were inappropriate on this small, sparsely populated Channel Isle, not to say illegal. Others predicted my latest City Bus…
Austerity – THC’s cantankerous Auster AOP.9 – was conducting one of her routine recce jaunts yesterday when she spotted a curlicue of fresh tank tracks in grid square CC. As this sector has been very quiet of late, she decided…
I am currently in possession of the Nineteenth Century equivalent of one of those preloaded retro games consoles. While I knew I wouldn’t be able to use it to vapourise alien spacecraft, fragment drifting asteroids, or leap rolling barrels, I…
A comment posted below this recent piece opened my eyes to the wonderful world of Armoured Commander 2 modding. Not that you’d know it from perusing AC2’s Steam page or forum (the modders share their wares via Discord) but Sudasana’s…
Wargame Design Studio have donated two copies of their latest WW2 release to the Corner. The games will go to readers willing to pore over maps of the Carpathian Basin.