Amazon Link: B.U.G. When it comes to good guys taking on the terrorists, do you turn to ‘Die Hard’, or are you more a James Bond fan? If you answered ‘Die Hard’, ‘BUG’ is the book for you! What I love about the ‘Die Hard’ series is the John McLean character Bruce Willis plays, always in […]
Author Archive | Fred "HeinKill" Williams
Battle of Britain II, Wings of Victory Update
Hope you all had a happy holiday break. I spent mine getting reacquainted with an old friend I haven’t seen for nearly two years. The good news is he’s still the same old loveable guy but he’s got a new lease on life and is much more fun to be around! Yes, I’m talking about […]
Atlantic Fleet: Review and Interview
Remember those dark days when German wolf-packs nearly brought Britain to starvation, and incredibly brave merchant sailors crossed the Atlantic under the guns of mighty battleships like the Scharnhorst, Bismarck and Tirpitz, who were in turn hunted by British battlecruisers such as Hood, Renown and Repulse? And remember the good old days when a sim […]
Sid Meier’s Starship for iOS: space is flat!
Sid Meier’s Starship for iOS: space is flat! I used to love the Civilization series of games from Sid Meier, on both PC and iOS, so I was really looking forward to this title. If you don’t know the Civilisation series, they are turn-based ‘4X’ (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) strategy games which focus on different periods […]
Book Review: William Gibson – The Peripheral
Do you enjoy games where you can create an avatar and then roam a virtual world, carrying out missions, fulfilling quests and saving damsels or dudes in distress? OK, now imagine the possibilities if the avatar you created existed in the real world, not a virtual world. This is the premise behind Cyberpunk godfather William Gibson’s newest […]
Eastward Ho! Battle Academy 2 Review
If you ask me, the tablet PC was created for one purpose and one purpose only: mobile wargaming. Steve Jobs may not have realised it when he and his team were rolling out the first iPad, but what he was creating was the most convenient, compelling and easy to use platform for mobile wargaming that […]
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Review
“During six days of fighting from 14 October 1942, the Luftwaffe maintained relays of aircraft attacking river crossings and troops. There was hardly a moment when German aircraft were not overhead…by that time, the 8th Air Army was down to fewer than 200 machines of all types, of which only two dozen were fighters.” – Antony […]
The Rise of the Fourth Reich, by Jim Marrs Book Review
The publisher’s blurb says “Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don’t believe anything you hear from the government — The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about American power.”I suggest instead you suspend all disbelief and […]
Half Way Home and Hurricane, by Hugh Howey Book Reviews
Digital age author Hugh Howey specialises in post apocalyptic ‘what happens after the end of the world’ storytelling, with minutely imagined, detailed worlds and compelling characters whose fates you cannot fail to care about.Many book lovers will need no introduction to Howey and his famous ‘Sand’ and ‘Silo’ series books, so for this review I have chosen to review two of […]
The Origin Trilogy by AG Riddle Book Reviews
PreambleI am just beginning to dive into Elite Dangerous, and to get in the sci-fi mood, I picked up this huge time, universe and species spanning space opera trilogy. The three titles in the Origin Trilogy include Atlantis Gene, Atlantis Plague and Atlantis World, and I made the mistake of reading the first two in […]
Europe at War (non fiction) & the Ossie Wolf Trilogy (fiction)
Blue Man Falling/Band of Eagles/To Play the Fox, Frank Bernard (Kindle Editions). Frank Bernard titles on Amazon PREAMBLE Frank Bernard penned this trio of great yarns about a fictional American volunteer pilot in WWII, Ossie Wolf, and his adventures in the Battle of Britain, Africa and the Med. True story: I was sitting on a […]
Dawn Attack by Brian Callison Book Review
Dawn Attack by Brian Callison Plot precis: Fictional account of a British combined forces attack on German Occupied Norway, drawing inspiration from the British commando raid on Lofoten in March 1941.The story of the dawn raid is told from multiple points of view, both the German and British side, as well as from air, land and sea. Preamble: […]