We ve been sending Fraser off to explore Early Access games. He keeps coming back. This week, he s been standing in a neat row with new friends while 18th century Frenchmen shoot at him in Holdfast: Nations At War [official site]. >

During my sojourn in the Napoleonic era, I have seen some terrible things. I watched as an officer yelled at his troops to stand in a neat line, not realising that they d all been killed by artillery. I witnessed 20 bold soldiers charge across a tiny bridge, all slaughtered before they got the other side. From my hiding spot behind a tree, I saw my allies cut down by screaming Frenchmen who burst out of the darkness, sabres held high. And throughout it all, I drummed.

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