Triton Noir | £55 | Co-op strategy | 1-4 players 30-180 minutes | Age: 12+ | v-commandos.com
Designer Thibaud de la Touanne’s decade-long career in video game development is clear to see in his debut release for the tabletop, V-Commandos. The stealth-action game features many of the tropes of modern first-person shooters: alarms to disable to halt enemy reinforcements, equipment dropped by defeated enemies, alert states driven by different weapons and environments, escort missions and a frolicking loose actionmovie feel that will leave fans of historically-accurate World War II wargames foaming at the mouth.
While the rulebook features plenty of details on its real-life inspirations, V-Commandos is not designed to be a faithful portrayal of the Second World War - and it’s all the better for it.