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The Easter Bunny made the arduous trek up Mount Hexmap over the weekend (the funicular was closed due to the bank holiday here in the UK) to scatter an assortment of pastel-dyed HEAT shells and bouncing betties around the grounds of PT HQ. I’m not sure that the Easter Bunny is hip to the current international consensus about land mines, but it’s always nice to see him.
Before heading back down, he mentioned that there were some new games out. Let’s see what those are.
If you take Pa Faraday to a beach, the first thing he’ll do is point out the best way to assault it with LSTs — meanwhile Ma Faraday slinks a little deeper into her copy of Grazia to avoid eye contact with other holidaymakers.
This new Tank Battle game from Hunted Cow’s HexWar label is right up Pa’s street: Tank Battle Normandy takes the Scottish studio’s long-running light strategy franchise and brings it to the most famous of all WWII venues. Somewhat unusually for a HexWar title, you can play Operation Overlord as the Allies or as the Germans in this one and the game ships with 23 scenarios, with two additional 8-mission campaigns available as one-off DLCs within the app. The devs tell us that there’s over 100 different units, including a bunch of the Churchill Funnies — history’s only known stand-up comedy tanks.
Tank Battle Normandy is iOS Universal and it’s two bucks.
Britain’s other noted wargaming house didn’t take the weekend off either: Slitherine have released an expansion for Pike & Shot, one of the most divisive wargames in memory. I really quite liked Pike & Shot and so did our man Davy Lane, but a fair few folks were put off by the unusually long scenarios. That’s a pity because the combat is pretty interesting and the era of warfare being modeled is unusual.
Tercio to Salvo is the first expansion for Slitherine’s iPad-only Renaissance wargame and it adds 10 new scenarios that include some real deep cuts of early modern history. Raise your hand if you can name the belligerents in the Battle of Axtorna. Anybody? I thought not. Anyway, Pike & Shot continues to do its bit to unearth some lesser-visited eras of history and I love it for that. If you’re not daunted by the idea of playing a wargame you need to sink 45 minutes into to complete a scenario, give Pike & Shot a… chance.
You can find the Tercio to Salvo expansion as a $10 IAP within the Pike & Shot iPad app.
Friend of PT Alan Newman wrote in to tell us about Pickomino, a Reiner Knizia-designed dice game that’s been brought to iOS by German publishers USM. That name should ring a bell for digital board game aficionados — USM are the current keepers of the Catan grail on iOS.
Pickomino isn’t one I know personally but Al tells us it’s a great little filler — albeit one with a few launch day bugs. USM tend to make high quality stuff so I’d be surprised if those cracks aren’t plastered over quickly.
No trailer or anything for this but here’s picture of some chickens rolling dice. How do chickens roll dice without any hands? DON’T RUIN THIS FOR ME.
Joke’s on you, chickens. You ARE the tasty snack
Finally, I got an interesting pitch in the inbox from the makers of Blades of Chance, who have got a turn-based street sword-fighting (!) game for Android. It’s same-device multiplayer-only, and not on iOS, so the market for this is a bit narrow but this trailer looks like Nicholas Winding-Refn’s pitch to re-make Battle Royale and I couldn’t not post that.
Blades of Chance is on Android and it’s two bucks.
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