February 18, 2025

Podcast Time! SDHistCon Online! Way More New Releases Than You Were Expecting! ~ #TuesdayNewsday

From epic tabletop battles to immersive digital skirmishes, #TuesdayNewsday brings you the latest headlines & in-depth analyses in the wargaming sphere, ensuring you stay at the forefront of the action.

 

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Mentioned in Dispatches is back!

We kicked off last week with a discussion of our annual ACDC and other online conventions, and continue this week with a look at the old SPI classic quad games and a look ahead to Quad Fest at Buckeye Game Fest.

Later this season, we’ll also spend time on the OCS, Total War, and BoAR series; Fantasy 4X games; Historical 4X games after the new Civ 7 launches; Serious (Non-)Wargames; Brant ‘live’ at GAMA Expo; and more!

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SDHistCon Winter Quarters is this weekend, and no, it doesn’t overlap the Super Bowl, so you’ll be fine

 

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Unfortunately, we have more sad news to share today. Our GMT family is mourning the sudden passing of Carla Horger, co-designer with her husband Jeff of our Thunder Alley series of racing games.
For those of you who’d like to donate in Carla’s memory and help Jeff cover expenses, see below:

— GMT Games (@gmtgames.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM

there is a GoFundMe to support the family that’s already past its original goal

 

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Hitting the shelves (and webstores) near you now!

 

 

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Time to get those orders in now and then either (a) complain that it’s 2 years late, and/or (b) be surprised when it gets here sooner than you thought

 

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Looking for a deal? Getting more bang for your buck?

 

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It’s been a busy week for the regiment; here’s what you might’ve missed!

 

The Best Thing We Saw On Another Site This Week Was

Unfair Fairness from Geoff Engelstein1

The neat thing is that you can’t predict at the start which color will end up having the most chips. At the start there is an equal number of each in the bag – but it is an unstable equilibrium. Anything that adds more chips of one of the colors will make it more likely that chip is chosen in the future and create a self-perpetuating mix. One game you may get lots of blue chips, another red may be dominant, and then in a third the chip distribution may stay roughly equal.

This model is typically used in economics to explain the perpetuation of market share. If I have 60% of the market in chocolate chip cookies, that will tend to remain the same, all other things being equal. I will get more shelf space and more market presence, and that will lead to more people buying my cookies. Market share in all goods can shift, but for some it takes a lot more effort or a big shift in consumer sentiment.

 

This week’s best written coverage from the wargaming world

The best videos this week from our wargaming friends

Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about The Best of GMT Games, Part VII: 2014-2016

 

 

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Various news & notes from the business end of the gaming world

Wonderful thread here from Cole

This is such a great video. And, sadly, the conversation about rules and arousal is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to publishing (and design) best practices which are couched in half-cocked studies and which often try to cover for far bigger issues. Short 🧵

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— Cole Wehrle (@colewehrle.bsky.social) February 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM

 

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Don’t forget to check our consolidated event & convention calendar for more!
You can also submit your own events for our calendar here.

Upcoming Dragoons Events

  • Wargame Days at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC ~ 2 March and 6 April
  • Next confirmed live event is BuckeyeGameFest, 1-4 May 2025
  • Next virtual event is Connections Online, 7-12 April, 2025

Other Conventions & Events

 

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Focusing on the practitioner world ~ don’t forget about our dedicated area in our forums for the wargame professionals!

 

The US Navy released a new photo of USS Preble (DDG-88) firing her HELIOS laser weapon.

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— OSINTtechnical (@osinttechnical.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM

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Something neat from outside the wargaming world we thought was worth sharing

 

 

That’s all for this week!
Be sure to drop by our forums and join the fun, and next Tuesday we’ll drop some more news on you.


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Footnotes

  1. you can just hit “continue reading” to bypass the paywall
  2. they skipped a year here and there

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