#TuesdayNewsday is your weekly whiparound of the headlines of the strategy gaming world

The Fall Assembly is coming!

Registration & events are both live for the Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023.
We’ve got around 20 scheduled events, with plenty of empty table-space for pickup games in between. We’d like to add another big event or two, but until we start filling up the existing ones, it’s not a priority.

The latest update? A couple of designers are going to be joining us! Hermann Luttmann is coming to town. So is Bruce Maxwell. And Keith Tracton is going to make the trek, too! We’ll let you know if any others commit, as well.

Current Confirmed Game Sessions NATO: The Cold War Goes Hot – learn with designer Bruce Maxwell Learn to play Great Battles of the American Civil War Playtest sessions of the upcoming Maneuver Warfare professional development / USMC card game All-day Saturday game of It Never Snows, split into two 5-hour sessions. You don’t need to play in both, but are welcome to if you’d like Triumph & Tragedy, with one session each day over the weekend Bayonets & Tomahawks, with one session each day over the weekend Littoral Commander, the USMC training-game-turned-hobby-game Brief Border Wars for some conflicts you’ve never heard of Gunfight Royale for a Wild West shootout and more coming!

Convention Details Badges are $40 for the weekend, which include some munchies, custom Armchair Dragoons swag, and whatever other prizes or giveaways we’re able to gather before the event. Attendance is capped on this one because of the limited floorspace we’ve got inside the store and we want to make sure every player gets plenty of time on the tables. Gamer’s Armory is planning to open early on Sunday just for us, so we can get an additional game session or two in, before the general public gets in the doors. As noted on the convention site, we do not have a hotel attached to the facility. You can find local hotels here. We’re looking into a potential block deal with some local hotels, but with the State Fair in town it’s tough. As a reminder, Regimental Patron-level Patreon supporters get a free badge for all Armchair Dragoons-hosted events.

 

THURSDAY NIGHT! 9pm EDT
Hope to see y’all there 🤠

 

Games and other stuff released(ish?) in the past week that you’ll want to check out

• Wargames Illustrated #429 is now out
• There’s a bunch of new Victory at Sea boats over at Warlord Games
• Avalanche Press released the downloadable Island of Death: Return to Malta; of course, you need an out-of-print game to play them all 🙄
• ASLSK#1 is back in stock with MMP, and will probably be sold out again by the time you finish this bullet point (plus, Gamer’s Armory has ASLSK1 and ASLSKEP3 both in stock right now)
• S&T Press confused everyone with their latest emails, for World at War #92 (with Narvik 1940)
  • The link in the 8/22 email from S&T Press says the issue is available now, but links to #89
  • The link in the 8/23 email from DG doesn’t say it’s available, but goes to issue #91
  • The dates on the actual #92 page seem too far in the future, especially since the 8/22 email said that the issue is available
• We feel compelled to (1) notify you that Blue Panther have a new game out called Mango Cabana, and (2) apologize for bringing it to your attention
• CSL starts shipping 2022: Ukraine this week

 

Crowdfunding, p500, pledge programs, whatevs yo! ~ if you can order it now & get it later, here it is

• Catastrophe Games started pre-orders on their site for Rule the Waves: Brittania! with an expected December release date; you can also pledge it through Kickstarter if you prefer
• Draco Ideas launched their latest “SCOPE” game, SCOPE Panzer, on Gamefound; you also have the option to order the whole SCOPE trilogy – Panzer, U-Boot, and Stalingrad as a part of the campaign
• Osprey Games are taking pre-orders on A War Transformed, a skirmish minis game where a massive, mystical alt-history shift in WW1 and Doggerland is now a front in the war
• Feud – Shape Thy Fate is a new “roll, flick, write” game on Kickstarter that’s pretty lightweight for when you don’t have a ton of time to play
• Worthington Games launched Lands of the Mesozoic, a family-focused game of dinosaur ecosystems
• Per GMT:  “Unfortunately, we made a mistake when setting the original pricing for the Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, 2nd Edition Update Kit at $40 Retail and $28 P500.  (Thanks to those of you who brought this to our attention with your queries.) We have now corrected that price in our system to $20 Retail and $14 P500.”
• Chivalry is Dead – A Chariot Racing Game looks like something you might’ve found from Dragon Magazine in the 80s, and that’s not a bad thing
• If you were going to try to make Mass Effect The Card Game it would probably look a lot like Astra: Vestiges of Deep Space over at Gamefound
• Warlord Games has some ace pilots for Blood Red Skies on pre-order
  • British Ace Pilot: John Baldwin
  • Japanese Ace Pilot: Yukiyoshi Wakamatsu
  • Italian Ace Pilot Furio Niclot Doglio

 

Here to help you save a few bucks, or, y’know… spend more than you were planning if it wasn’t for a good deal

• RBM Studios has a sale running 1-8 September for 20% everything with coupon code SUMMER at checkout
• War & Peace just launched on Steam last week, and is still on sale (20% off) thru 8/31
• Undaunted: Battle of Britain is on sale at Miniature Market for $40
• LNLP has Space Infantry Federation on sale at half off
• Draco Ideas currently offering a couple of ONUS! things on sale: an all-in pack with the game, dice & tower, and terrain expansion for €26 off, or just the terrain & fortresses set at half off
• GOG has HOMM3 Complete for about $2.50 and no that decimal isn’t in the wrong place
• S&T’s game-edition magazine sale this week is S&T #303 with War Returns to Europe: Yugoslavia 1991

 

There’s always something going on with The Dragoons, so we’ve always got plenty to tell you about!

• Saturday Night Fights ~ The Battle of Midway for “NIMITZ”
• Travels in Europe ~ Leipzig & The East, Part 2
• Going back through our Armchair Dragoons’ archives ~ Thinking the UNTHINKABLE when playing Iron Curtain: Central Europe, 1945-1989 from Multi-Man Publishing
• Gameplay this week
  • The Church on the Flank (II) for “Chain of Command”
  • The Battle of Dresden (III) for “Valour and Fortitude”
  • Urban Operations – Lunch In Frankfurt – Board Setup
• This week in our forums
  • Contemporary Naval Wargaming
  • Some favorite war movies
  • The Blind Swords system
• Upcoming Dragoons Events (and don’t forget to check the event calendar for everything else)
  • Wargame Days at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC ~ September 10 and October 1
  • Next #UnboxingDay¹ will be 21 September
  • Next virtual event is The 2024 ACDC, 12-14 January 2024
  • Next live event is The Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023, 20-22 October 2023, The Gamer’s Armory, Cary NC

 

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

• 25 August – 2 September ConSimWorld Expo (Tempe AZ) <— RIGHT NOW!
• 31 August – 4 September DragonCon (Atlanta, GA)
• 1-4 September Pacificon (Santa Clara, CA)
• 1-4 September Strategicon: Gateway (Los Angeles, CA)
• 15-17 September Southern Front (Morrisville, NC)
• 1-8 October ASLOK (Cleveland, OH)
• 20-22 October The Inaugural Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023 (Cary, NC)

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Our fellow content creators from the wargaming world

• Beyond Solitaire has a great chat with Dr Stuart Ellis-Gorman about ACW gaming
• Rocky just wants to make everyone jealous with all his new toys
• My Own Worst Enemy explains card sleeves
• Justegarde gives an overview of his campaign of 1812: War on the Great Lakes
• Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about 3W wargames, and a bunch of other stuff

 

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

• Keep an eye on the Storm_Redz Twitch station for some Destiny II new DLC playthroughs / speed runs
• Wargame Design Studio talks about building a campaign game for Squad Battles
• Brian Train updated his QUICK game with some new downloads
• Designer advice from Dr Witcz
• Avalanche Press has an article about French Jaguar-class destroyers

 

Hey, we’d LOVE to have some more action in the dedicated area of our forums for the wargame practitioners.

• Looking for a professional wargame designer based at Ft Liberty² that requires 25% travel to INDOPACOM
• Keep updating those East Front OOBs
• Pretty cool campaign being played through by some UK Fight Club members, and they’ve got most of it on YouTube.  First video here, explaining the campaign
• The US Navy’s largest exercise….  so far
• The next GUWS webinar is tonight(!) with Intelligent Cardboard: Implementing AI in a Board Game; next in the barrel is
  Ender’s Legacy: Digital Wargames in Professional Military Education on 5 September
• PaxSims Simulation and gaming miscellany, 22 August 2023 romps through recent articles, with a Midjourney top graphic

 

Big thread here on professional wargames looking forward at issues in Ukraine vs commerical games looking at “puzzles to be solved”
Also awesome³ that he tags a bunch of commercial-only / no-professional-overlap accounts while ignoring the guys that since their founding have made it an explicit point to include the overlap of professional & hobby wargamers….  🙄

 

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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Updates each week,
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3. and by “awesome” we mean, in fact, the exact opposite