February 10, 2025

Here’s Your Last #TuesdayNewsday of the Year

It’s our last #TuesdayNewsday of the year! Catch up on the top headlines shaping the tabletop wargaming hobby, computer strategy games, and the defense wargaming community.  We’re off next week, and we’ll see you in 2025.

 

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Merry New Year, Happy Holidays, Joyous School Days Off, Fröliche Weihnachten, and a very Celebratory “Wish I Could Use Some of My Vacation to Play Games” to all!

This is the last #TuesdayNewsday of 2024 and we hope you’ve have a great year of wargaming

🎄

 

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GMTLogoThe latest GMT newsletter leads off with a discussion around some upcoming price increases and the reasons behind them

These costs add up, and we’re finally at the place where we’re going to have to make some increases. So these rising costs—many abrupt and unexpected—have made our journey much more difficult, especially in this last half of 2024. Along with anticipated upcoming tariff increases of even 10%, they are causing us to take a hard look at what we’re charging for our products and for shipping, as well as doing some internal “belt-tightening” on expenses, in order to keep GMT healthy in these challenging times.

So there are some prince increases, corrections on shipping weights, and some other tweaks.  They’ve also found a distributor for Australian customers.

 

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Lock ‘n Load Publishing’s long-awaited Kickstarters are in the warehouse and shipping is underway.  Of course, we’ve got holiday mail traffic + days off to work around, but at least they’re starting to move!

Depending on what you ordered, there’s a combination of World at War ’85: Blood & Fury, Ju-87 Stuka Ace, Glory & Empire: First Victories, and even a Point Blank expansion all showing up

 

Registration is open for the 2025 ACDC, to be held online 17-19 January 2025.

As with our previous editions of the ArmChair Dragoons Digital Convention1, we’ll be wargaming all weekend long with a variety of games, seminars, panels, talks shows, pickup games, and more.

Folks, we’ve got a pretty impressive lineup of games for The ACDC, and seats still available in a bunch of them.  Our surveys show that people would love to be playing more games, and now here’s a chance!  Whether you’re checking out an upcoming game (Order & Opportunity, Queen of Spies, Epipolae, or one of the others) or learning something you can order by the end of the night (Raider Drop Zone, Stalingrad Roads, Oceans of Fire, Rebels & Patriots, or another one of several options), there’s a bunch to choose from, plus a couple of talk shows, seminars, and other frivolity between the games.  It’ll be the best $4 you’ve spent all year

ORIGINAL OPORD ~ REGISTRATION ~  LIVESTREAM ARCHIVE ~ AAR

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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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5News 8 Blogs

This week’s best written coverage from the wargaming world

 

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The best videos this week from our wargaming friends

 

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

 

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It’s been a lighter week here with the regiment as we slow down for the holidays; here’s what you might’ve missed!

 

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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 ~ 5 January and 2 February
  • Next confirmed live event is BuckeyeGameFest, 1-4 May 2025
  • Next planned virtual event is the ACDC4, 17-19 January, 2025

Other Conventions & Events
things are slowing down now that we’re getting to the holidays, so here are some for next year

 

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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 Army Command & General Staff College has been playtesting Herman & Dokter’s upcoming Defiance (from GMT)

click to enlarge

 

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

This one’s a favorite around the Dragoons HQ.  Enjoy!

 

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.


Thank you for visiting the Regiment of Strategy Gaming and riding with The Armchair Dragoons.
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You can also support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.

Footnotes

  1. the middle “D” does Double Duty
  2. we don’t normally announce pre-orders early but since we’re taking next week off we didn’t want this to wait 2 weeks
  3. we are as shocked as anyone
  4. Armchair Dragoons Digital Convention

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