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Big changes to GAMA’s organization, as they’ve changed their internal structure, hired a COO, and have a few positions open
ICv2 has a report on their new COO, Melinda Prickett, and the new job titles on some longstanding GAMA team members
More to follow during their Town Hall / Member meeting on Thursday, and we’ll update folks then.
Worthington Games sent out this update to their newsletter audience
Grant Wylie here with a small company update.
My wife Kristine is currently in the hospital with a brain tumor and has been since Monday. All is as good as can be and it is operable and the prognosis is very positive both short and long term. Surgery is this Wednesday.
The reason we are letting you know this is because we are a company of 5 with each of us handling specific roles that don’t always overlap. I generally handle customer service response while assisting in the other areas, and designing games.
With that said we ask for your patience over the next 2 – 3 weeks as I am working from the hospital on my phone while dealing with things here. I will try to answer questions and deal with issues as well as I can. Mike, Sean, Mark, and Tommy will be designing great games and still working on shipping and keeping production rolling on everything.
Please keep Grant’s wife Kristine in your prayers and best wishes from the entire wargaming community to her for the best possible recovery.
This was right after we published last week, but it’s still newsworthy and worth including in the news. The War Room is being retired by IDJester, and they’re all moving on to new things.
From factory floor to your frontlines—this week’s new releases are here!
- Thompson & Benjamin’s General Orders: Sengoku Jidai is now available from Osprey Games
- More of the Combat Mission series finally hits Steam, as SNEG is re-releasing them with a DRM system that’s actually based in reality
- They’re not “new releases” but Catastrophe Games are now stocking/selling games from some European publishers, so you can find releases from Draco Ideas, Turgalium Games, and more on their site
- New from Battlefront minis
- Also new from the GF9/Battlefront combined storefront
- Continuing their “re-release older games through Steam” binge, Microprose dropped these over the weekend, and both 20% off for launch for another 2 weeks
Here’s what your hobby budget might be doing next month
- For fans of a certain age, the Lone Wolf gamebooks and the world of Magnamund consumed a lot of after-school hours, and there’s a crowdfunding campaign for a board game reboot – Lone Wolf: Vengeance of the Kai is now live
- The Kaiser’s High Seas Fleet is on Kickstarter, so Compass is getting close to releasing it
- Princeps Games has launched the Kickstarter campaign for their new Iron Squad man-to-man WW2 game
- Trench Missionaries from Wargames Atlantic for Trench Crusade
- By the time you’re reading this column, Academia: A Game of Administrative Bloat from The Dietz Foundation will be live on Kickstarter
- Gamer’s Armory is taking pre-orders on the Inor Players Guide from Le Franc Tireur, who make a bunch of ASL content
- Mobile Arms – Mecha Wargaming in the Worlds of Tomorrow is now live on Gamefound
- Mantic has refined their Epic Warpath starter options
- Epic Warpath: 2 Player Starter Set (Battle for Phrovox)
- Epic Warpath XL Starter Bundle – online exclusive, contains the above, plus some oversized figs + terrain
- Epic Warpath Command and Targeting Dice
- Epic Warpath: Rulebook and token set
These deals are so good, even your backlog is excited
- WDS ‘Game of the week’ is Panzer Campaigns: Smolensk ’43 for $29.95
- The deal of the month with S&T Press is a game edition sale on game-edition magazines for $30 each
- This week’s newsletter from On Military Matters includes a bunch of stuff that’s in-stock and on sale, rather than their usual pre-orders, headlined by a 30% discount on the new Flames of War: Fortress Europe starter set, but also including a lot of WH40K minis, and a bunch of Age of Sigmar ones, too
- This week’s new release from Dice Envy is ‘Daybreak’ and it’s 10% off with coupon code HAWKE at checkout
- Platoon Commander Deluxe: The Battle of Kursk from Flying Pig is 60% off right now
- Ares Games has a Sails of Glory “Captain’s Bundle” on sale right now at over 30% off
- Miniature Market has a big sale on all things Bolt Action! right now
- Noble Knight has copies of On to Richmond II – The Union Strikes South starting at $198
- Kraken Dice has a buy one, get one 50% off on all their dice/sets thru Sunday 21 September
- NAC Wargames has The Republic’s Struggle on sale at 10% off
We wrote things! Hopefully useful things! Check ’em out
- Wednesday War Stories ~ Battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513
- Wargaming Research: Solo War & Historical Gaming 2025 — Last Call!
- Fall Assembly 2025 Event Preview
- Saturday Night Fights ~ “Snappy Nappy”: The Spring 1809 Campaign (IV)
- AARs
- Gameplay this week
The Most Interesting Thing We Saw On Another Site This Week Was
Crowdfunding Kayfabe Is Dead (Rascal News)
Crowdfunding persists because it is the only scheme in town. Video games use it as a test bed, or last resort, for a project that traditional publishers won’t finance. It’s a novel method of doing business for scrappy teams with a vision beyond their capital. The vast majority of the tabletop industry perches precariously upon crowdfunding’s arms. A charitable read contends that Kickstarter, Backerkit, and Gamefound’s established audience and built-in marketing machine are boons for creators. The lion’s share of money flows through these platforms, and their staff work hard to ease the friction of plugging into their vast discoverability matrix. I’m sympathetic to such an argument on the individual level — we all gotta pay rent. But don’t mistake gravity for patronage. A black hole offers stable orbits, but its nature is to devour every last atom.
Essentially, publishers are walking away from commodified third-party crowdfunding sites to bring pre-orders back in-house. So, uh, yeah . . . in 2025, they’re catching up with where GMT Games was in 1997 🤣
Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream took a spin through all the stuff Compass has on pre-order
Various news & notes from the business end of the gaming world
- This week, Scott Thorne talked about poor supply-chain planning for WotC’s recent Magic releases
- BoardGameWire reports on CMON’s continued tailspin, with them selling off IP’s they themselves only recently purchased from Mythic, another company that crashed & burned
- Rascal has a nice interview about how to distill the history of giant TTRPGs into 90-minute college classes
- ICv2 continues their reporting on the Diamond bankruptcy fallout, including the “adversary proceedings” against individual publishers, and the court order to stop selling consigned inventory ASAP
- Tabletop Therapy: How RPGs Support Mental Health, Friendships, And Romantic Bonds (from Start Playing)
- Noble Knight’s latest publisher spotlight is for Sound of Drums
- Skeleton Code Machine says you should Help libraries add your game to their collection
- Wargame Design Studio’s engine updates continue, with the Civil War Battles series this week
Don’t forget to check our consolidated event & convention calendar for more!
You can also submit your own events for our calendar here.
Our Next Armchair Dragoons Events
- Wargame Days at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC ~ October 5 and November 2
- Next confirmed live event is The Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly, 10-12 October 2025
- Next virtual event is the ACDC1, 16-18 January, 2026
Upcoming Conventions & Events
- 19-23 Sep World Series of Board Gaming (Las Vegas NV) <– THIS WEEKEND!
- 27-28 Sep European ASL Championships (Rome Italy)
- 1-5 Oct Game mORe (Albany OR)
- 5-12 Oct ASLOK (Cleveland)
- 10-12 Oct Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly (Cary NC)
- 23-26 Oct EssenSpiel (Essen Germany)
- 6-11 Nov Compass Games Fall Expo 2025 (Meriden CT)
- 7-9 Nov HMGS Fall-in! (Lancaster PA)
- 7-9 Nov RockCon (Rockford IL)
Details about the upcoming The 2025 Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly
Registered participants should check their email for a news update from the convention, which includes the discount code for Blue Panther games you should use to knock off the shipping costs for the games that Steve will deliver to the Fall Assembly.
If you registered after that, you should be able to see it in the convention news, and we’ll remind folks again later. The deadline for that discount is 3 October, so Blue Panther has time to make sure they print everything they need to bring.
Focusing on the practitioner world ~ don’t forget about the dedicated area in our forums for the wargame professionals!
- From Campus to Command: The William & Mary Wargaming Lab (TRADOC Mad Scientist Lab)
- What if Russia invades the Baltic? A tabletop game offers answers (Defense News)
- Marine Corps Logistics Command Launches First Operational Logistics Wargame (DVIDS)
- NHS running ‘war game’ exercises as bosses predict busy winter (The Independent)
- Student club war-games Chinese invasion of Taiwan (Focus Taiwan)
- CNN Academy is sending journalists to Brynania, a fictional country created at McGill (McGill Reporter)
- This week, Mick Ryan’s ‘Big Five’ talks about the Russian incursion of Polish airspace, among other things
- The next GUWS webinar is tonight ~ Naval Wargaming and Quantitative History, followed by What do you mean they had a Uboat? Wargaming integration in the German Navy on 23 September and then The First Recorded Italian Wargames & Their Legacy on 7 October
- Get Hired! USA Jobs has a posting for Wargaming Operations Specialist
Previous week was spent at Connections UK, representing the Wargaming Lab of ISM. Some takeaways. First, it's always great to meet old friends and find new ones! Wargaming community is very welcoming, and I'm glad that Connections UK continue to hold sessions specifically dedicated to newcomers.
— Pijus Krūminas (@pijusk.bsky.social) 2025-09-15T19:18:36.284Z
Something neat from outside the wargaming world we thought was worth sharing
That’s all for this week!
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