by Each week, our #TuesdayNewsday column gives you a romp through what’s important in wargaming and the strategy gaming world >>>
This Week’s Headline:
The Connections Online conference is underway and if you’re curious how it’s going, here’s one of yesterday’s panels, and the conversations it generated.
Newly Released This Week:
- Avalanche Press has finally released the PanzerGrenadier expansion Lithuania’s Iron Wolves.
- Strategy & Tactics Magazine #328, featuring Vicksburg: Joint Operations in the American Civil War is now shipping to subscribers, and should be available to the public shortly thereafter.
- The April edition of the RPG & Wargame Supply Sourcebook was released last week. If you’re not a subscriber, you should be.
- Modiphius has released their new Dune RPG core rulebook as a PDF download.
News From The Wargame Industry:
- The Zenobia Awards have announced their first round cut at the submitted game proposals.
- Paradox has Necropolis: Brutal Edition on sale for $7.50.
- Matrix Games has a new 1943 mod that they’re touting on their site, that takes their modern-era wargame back to the Eastern Front of WW2
- S&T’s game-edition magazine sale this week isn’t that old – S&T #319, with Schlieffen’s War covers the opening of the 1914 campaign in France. It’s 50% off, so $20, for the game edition.
- An update from the guys at One Page Rules, covering a handful of their different games.
Newly Launched This Week:
- BattleFront is taking preorders on their new West German set for their Team Yankee tabletop minis game.
- GW is taking preorders on the “Imperial Nobility” team for Blood Bowl, the Bögenhafen Barons.
- Bad Squiddo’s campaign for the Women of WW2 Soviet Russia minis has just about wrapped up, but go check it out anyway.
New from the Dragoons:
- Saturday Night Fights finally wrapped up Eylau.
- My Own Worst Enemy is up to part 5 of the Frederick II game.
- This week’s classic review looked back at Mechwarrior: Dark Age
- Connections Online is underway, and we’ve got a list of Youtube streams/links for you
- Mentioned in Dispatches had a visit from a pair of students in the MMAS program at the Command & General Staff College at Ft Leavenworth.
Something From Our Partners:
- Moe interviewed David Heath of LNLP last week. And a couple of numbskulls about Connections, too.
- Ardwulf continues his love affair with Hârn, and his counter clipping stream talked about series rules.
- RMN takes a nostalgia trip through S&T #82, with the first of the Fifth Corps series of games.
The Professional Wargaming World:
- Speaking of Connections, the call for Game Lab proposals for this Summer’s Connections US is now out there.
- GUWS has a pair of game events this week, both on 17 April: the South China Sea matrix wargame, and the Battle of Privden Swamp.
- The Educational Wargaming Cooperative have announced their finalists for EWC Challenge ’21.
This Week on Six Degrees of Radio:
A look at some great music from the past 60–odd years, with stories about the different songs.
- Metal Monday: Be Legendary by Pop Evil
- Times of Trouble by Temple of the Dog
- Sidekicks Week: No Bed of Roses by Lynch Mob
- Sidekicks Week: Atomic Playboys by Steve Stevens
- Sidekicks Week: Wagon Wheel by Pat Buzzard
That’s all for this week!
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