When you first start Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator, you're standing in a small office annex of the walking artillery unit you call home. A board in front of you lays out the process of firing the turret's cannon. First you measure the distance and bearing to the target, calculate the necessary turret elevation, load the gun, angle and rotate the cannon, and then fire the shell. It all looks simple enough.
However, seeing as the inside of the Iron Nest is the size of a small warehouse, this artillery unit surely dwarfs the 'Gustav', the train-mounted cannon Germany built to blast the French forts of the Maginot Line. And, seeing as this machine looks to be of a similar vintage, getting that gun to fire is going to be a muscularly manual process.
On the office desk is a vinyl. I drop it onto the record player, crank up the volume, and head to the map table, pencil and compass in hand, military marching loudly blaring out of the Iron Nest's tannoy.
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