Fall Assembly 2025 Event Preview

Armchair Dragoons PAO, 12 September 2025

Registration is now open for the 2025 Fall Assembly and here’s a look at the games we’ve got on the official schedule.

Our official event schedule has a variety of genres, publishers, and scales to suit plenty of different tastes. But if there’s something else you want to play, there’s going to be free tables available for pickup gaming, just like every year. We even have a small-but-growing Armchair Dragoons wargame convention library we’ll be bringing along, as well.

All links take you to the game’s page on BoardGameGeek.

Cover	Game	Publisher
	Air & Armor: Wurzburg Always a hit, and taught by designer Bruce Maxwell Here’s a video of some of the gameplay from last year	Compass Games
	Battles of American Revolution – Savannah The GM is the author of our ongoing series on the Battles of the American Revolution	GMT Games
	Battles of the American Revolution – Brandywine / Guilford Same as above – the GM is one of our writers and covers the system extensively Here’s the Brandywine article that we’ve already published	GMT Games
	By Swords and Bayonets The new lightweight entry to the Great Battles of the American Civil War series	GMT Games
	Combat Commander (Europe) For 20 years running, this tactical game bring WW2 to the tabletop with clashes full of chaos, confusion, and cards in your hand	GMT Games
	Dawn of Battle – Designer’s Edition Designer Mike Nagel will be the GM for these games; come learn from the guy who created the game! Battles from well before the age of gunpowder	Blue Panther
	Dawn’s Early Light (Lock ‘n Load) The Cold War goes hot in Europe in the mid-80s with an operational-level game that uses variable initiative to show the differences in flexibility & formations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact	Lock ‘n Load Publishing
	Fading Glory A quad-pack of lightweight games covering individual battles in the Napoleonic Wars	GMT Games
	The Napoleonic Wars A card-driven point-to-point strategic-level game covering the broad sweep of the Napoleonic Wars from 1805-1815	GMT Games
	Off the Line Designer Mike Nagel will be the GM for these games; come learn from the guy who created the game! Tactical WW2 combat at the man-to-man level with command & control as a key feature	Relative Range/Blue Panther
	Plague of Dracula Victorian London comes alive as you have to control the spread of Dracula’s plague with the characters from Bram Stoker’s novel	Relative Range/Blue Panther
	Saar: Strike-Counterstrike The Grand Tactical System in a slightly smaller footprint, this WW2 battle is a great way to learn & play these rules in a convention-length timeframe	Multi-Man Publishing
	SAS: Rogue Regiment The heroes of WW2 pop up on your battlefield with this man-to-man minis game of actions behind the lines in Normandy	Word Forge Games
	Simple Great Battles of History Exactly what the title says – famous battles from the ancient world using a simplified set of rules for more streamlined gameplay	GMT Games
	We Are All Mortal: The Cuban Missile Crisis A wargame where the goal is to not go to war? Brinkmanship takes center stage as both players look to dominate the outcome without causing the missiles to fly	LPS, Inc. / Turning Point Simulations
	World at War ’85: Blood and Fury A big 3-v-3 multiplayer tactical game of the Soviets rolling across the inter-German border in a hypothetical WW3, with designer Keith Tracton serving as your GM	Lock ‘n Load Publishing

As noted above, just because it’s not on the schedule doesn’t mean we won’t see the game hit the table, as we’ve had pickup games of Memoir ’44, and Fast Action Battles: Bulge, and Iron, Blood, Snow, and Mud, and Versailles 1919, and more over the past few years.

As a reminder, 2025 is our first year in a new facility.
Rather than over-stay our welcome at The Gamer’s Armory, we’ll be about 1-1/2 miles away, hosted by the Cary VFW

Convention hours are
12p-Midnight Friday 10 October
9a-Midnight Saturday 11 October
9a-5p Sunday 12 October

Badges are $65 for the weekend¹
Our plan is to continue with our usual light munchies, some Dragoons swag, and whatever other prizes or giveaways we’re able to round up before the event.
There are a limited number of early-bird badges available at a discount, and don’t forget that Regimental Patron-level Patreon supporters get a free badge for all Armchair Dragoons-hosted events like this one.

As with last year, we do not have a hotel attached to the facility but you can find local hotels here.
Sticking with our usual schedule, The Fall Assembly is the weekend before the State Fair in North Carolina, so hotel availability shouldn’t be too bad.

See everyone in October for a great weekend of slinging dice!

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