Max Chee

WarFront demo headquarters under attack inside curved trenches, with smoke over the base and a damaged supply road.

Review

WarFront Demo First Impressions: The Tanks Are Already Outside

WarFront demo first impressions: oil trucks, trenches and striking night battles. My AI ally conquered towns while I struggled to construct a barracks.

Uncategorized

New Paint, Same Bad Generalship: A Guide to the New Avid Wargamer

The Avid Wargamer has been through a refit. Here is a quick guide to what changed, where everything lives now and what to expect from here.

Official Twilight in the East artwork showing tanks and infantry advancing across a snowy Eastern Front battlefield

News

Weekly Wargaming News: Twilight in the East Approaches

Moscow beckons, Sweden is on offer, and Battlesector checks the sums. This week’s wargaming dispatch passes through the procurement office.

Full rectangular battlefield map with the planned approach, consolidation line, bridge assault route and contact positions

After Action Report·Featured

Commander’s Diary: A Bridge Too Expensive

A gentle return to Firefight ends with a captured bridge, three lost vehicles and a disastrous verdict from headquarters.

Computer Wargame·Featured·Review

MENACE Is the Most Interesting Tactics Game I’ve Played This Year (Even If It Isn’t Quite There Yet)

I’ve only played the demo and a decent chunk of Early Access, not the finished game, so take this as a first impression.

Computer Wargame·Review

Italians with Ambition: Panzer Corps 2 Frontlines – Cyrenaica Reviewed

Hello again, you magnificent grognards! Panzer Corps 2: Frontlines – Cyrenaica turns historical humiliation into tactical joy. Here’s my sand-blasted return to the hexes.

Computer Wargame·Featured·Review

Why I Think Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is a Wargame

Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance looks like an RTS and plays like a wargame. Suppression, morale, wounded crews and very precious reinforcements. Here is my case.

Computer Wargame·Featured·Guide

10 Wargames to Get During the Steam Autumn Sale 2024

Ten computer wargames worth buying while they’re cheap, priced in the only currency that matters: cups of Starbucks coffee.

Computer Wargame·Featured·Review

Combat Mission: Red Thunder – The Rite of Spring (Review)

Combat Mission’s take on the Eastern Front belongs in the library of every Eastern Front enthusiast, and of anyone who can’t sleep at night knowing their collection lacks some Soviet meat-grinding bonanza.

Computer Wargame·Featured·Guide

How to be a Better Armchair General

Top 10 tips for any armchair generals to apply to their wargames to improve their skills.

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