November 14, 2024

Summit Award Nominees & More ~ #TuesdayNewsday

Another #TuesdayNewsday is here, delivering breaking news & insights from the wargaming scene

 

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A few years ago, SDHistCon started awarding their “Summit Award” with the intention of

recognizing a historical board game published in the preceding year that most broadened the hobby through the ease of teaching and/or play, uniqueness of topic, or novel approach1

The nominees for this year are

  • Halls of Hegra. Designed by Petter Schanke Olsen, published by Tompet Games.
  • Land and Freedom: The Spanish Revolution and Civil War. Designed by Alex Knight, published by Blue Panther LLC.
  • The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire. Designed by Stephen Rangazas, published by GMT Games.
  • We Are Coming, Nineveh. Designed by Harrison Brewer, Rex Brynen, Juliette Le Ménahèze, and Brian Train, published by Nuts! Publishing.

All 4 games will be demo’ed at SDHistCon next month, and voting will take place at the convention.  Previous winners included Red Flag Over Paris and Votes for Women.  You can read more about the Summit Award over at the SDHist site

 

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If you’re in the US, go vote.
We’re not worried about who.
Just learn a little something about your candidates – especially your local ones – and get out there and make your voice heard.

 

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We’re starting to lay down the plans for January’s ACDC – the Armchair Dragoons Digital Convention – to be held 17-19 January 2025.  This is as close as we can get you to a real-world game convention while you’re hanging out in your pajamas.

We’ll have game sessions, watch-it-played demos, some historical talks, game panels, and more.  You can see 2024’s livestream archive and AAR here.

Want to get involved?  Drop a line in the forums here and we’ll figure out what works!  We’ll have some more info about the 2025 ACDC plans for next week’s #TuesdayNewsday.
Event submissions will open in November, and badges will go on sale right after Thanksgiving.

 

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5News 3 Incoming

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

 

 

5News 10 industry

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

 

OK folks, who wants to pick out all the wargames that illustrate each of these threads about the American War of Independence?

 

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

ICYMI elsewhere, we’ve set up a new LinkTree for the Dragoons, which collects the links to all the varying places where you can mount up with the Regiment of Strategy Gaming.

Reminder than #UnboxingDay is on hiatus until 2025, when we’ll re-evaluate its potential return

 

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Don’t forget to check our recently-updated 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 ~ 3 November and 1 December
  • Next confirmed live event is BuckeyeGameFest, 1-4 May 2025
  • Next planned virtual event is the ACDC3, 17-19 January, 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!

Fight Club’s group game using Command Ops 2 for a Nijmegen scenario

 

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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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Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.

Footnotes

  1. per their website
  2. what are the stats on a mule team in Bolt Action anyway?
  3. Armchair Dragoons Digital Convention
  4. M’44 tournament

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4 thoughts on “Summit Award Nominees & More ~ #TuesdayNewsday

      1. Yeah, take out two letters and that’s what you’ve got.
        One thing I do like about you, Brant, is that you can see things in context and have a sense of humor. Another admin would have given me a warning for that silly comment, or worse. You don’t seem to take yourself too seriously, and I think that’s a rare and welcome trait in this hobby full of “ate-ups”.
        That said, I’ve considered registering at your forum, but I know I wouldn’t last long. I’ve found over the years that I just don’t play well with others. Three times banned from BGG , although never for anything I wrote in the wargame subforum. It’s always the off-topic forums that do me in.
        I do appreciate being able to occasionally comment here, so thank you for that and for tolerating me. No one prolly reads these comments anyway, haha.

      2. Always happy to have folks join in the chatter, and hope to keep it as civil as possible.

        There are plenty of ways for folk to interact with us even outside of the forums, so don’t feel like you’re “less than” for commenting here instead of there. It’s all part of the Dragoons “ecosphere” (which is a dumb term, but the best we really have)

        Thanks for being a regular reader!

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