ORIGINS WEEK! – #TuesdayNewsday 9/28/21

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This Week’s Headline:

Hey, it’s Origins week!  We’ll be reporting from the show starting Thursday and have a variety of coverage and photo galleries from the convention.

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ORIGINS PRE-COVERAGE
ARMCHAIR DRAGOONS EVENTS ~ EVENT SCHEDULE & MAP ~ EVENT PREVIEW (incl ALL WARGAME/HISTORICAL EVENTS)
DISCUSSION FORUM THREAD

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This Week’s Bonus Highlight:

 

Newly Released This Week:

• Scope Stalingrad from Draco Ideas is starting to sneak out the door in pre-press copies.  It’s a card-based game of sniper battles in WW2.
• Grand Tactician: The Civil War has exited early access, so it’s ‘officially’ released on Steam.
• Legion Wargames’ Decisive Victory 1918, Volume One – Soissons is starting to escape into the wild.
• Battlefront Minis Team Yankee line has a new Leopard 2A5 tank platoon set that’s pretty cool-looking.
• It’s a little vague whether it’s a re-release or just a new one that’s already on sale, but Compass Games has Granada: Last Stand of the Moors, 1482-1492 up on their site as the latest game out the door at about $20 off.
• GMT counter trays are back in stock. Given their popularity, they may be out of stock by the time you read this.

 

On Sale This Week:

• In keeping with the recent popularity of 1960s-era ‘moonshot’ themed games, Worthington has their Tranquility Base game with the Soviet expansion, on sale.
• Paradox has pretty much everything for Crusader Kings II on sale at 50% off
• S&T’s game-edition magazine sale of the week has been dead for a few weeks now and may not be coming back.

 

Newly Launched This Week:

• Russia’s War – Barbarossa Reloaded is on preorder from Fellowship of Simulations.
• Some pretty cool undead minis for RPGs/wargaming on Kickstarter.
• GMT’s latest monthly update included 2 new p500 games
  • Cross Bronx Expressway is another “Irregular Conflict Series” game, about urban development
  • Inferno covers the battles for Tuscany in the 13th century, in the same series as “Levy & Campaign” series as Nevsky

 

This Week With The Armchair Dragoons:

• Rocky ruffled plenty of feathers with his examination of the old TSR Hunt for Red October “wargame” and, well, chatter ensued.
• Our Origins preview, including vendor hall info, game skeds, and more
• Saturday Night Fights continued The Battle of the Sabis for “Age of Hannibal”
• We started a new weekly AAR that’s playing thru Canvas Temple’s Stalingrad Solitaire
• This week’s classic article was a look back at Columbia’s Liberty: The American Revolution 1775-83
• Mentioned in Dispatches had a 100% increase in “Mike” from last week!
• We’ve got a standing Dragoons Happy Hour on our Discord server on Mondays at 5pm EDT if you want to get your week kicked off with some wargaming fun.
• Other online games with the Armchair Dragoons
  • Wednesday Night Warfare was split in two, as our guys fought Operation Market-Garden using M’44, and then had to pick it up again after an EW attack.
  • The Thursday Night Throwdown went back to the Chain of Command campaign.
  • It’s not all in one thread, so you have to check their Twitter feed for a bunch of separate posts, but the Too Fat Lardies had a grandiose ACW minis throwdown over the weekend

https://twitter.com/TooFatLardies/status/1442826834450726922

 

News From The Wargame Industry:

• Looks like Catastrophe Games are now stocking games from THGC.
• Matrix Games has released a patch/update for GG WitE2.
• Free League had a Blade Runner RPG coming up. Key question: is it considered a “historical” RPG at this point?
• Avalanche Press takes a look at crystal meth and WW2 and yes we just wrote that sentence.
• This week on Twitter…  “Holy. Crap.” (more info here)

 

Something From Our Partners:

• Rocky puts his knaval knowledge to use in examining some recent ROK BDA modeling and hobby wargaming.
• Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about Origins!, and he also cracked into Legion Wargames’ new Soissons game
• Moe and the gang got together for a general Whiskey Charlie chat
• Solosaurus went back into hibernation

 

The Professional & Practitioner Wargaming World:

Don’t forget we’ve got a dedicated area of our forums for the professional wargamers.

• The impacts of wargaming at RAND in the 1950s.
• UK Fight Club has a bunch of discussion of gamification, with a pair of PDF articles.
• Confronting chaos in a cyberwar world
• This week, GUWS has Das Preußische Kriegsspiel – Prussian Wargaming (at noon EDT!) and next week, they’ve got Being a Game Designer is Not Unlike Being a Middle School Student (at 11am EDT!)
• PaxSims has a whirlwind tour thru a bunch of games & sims publications in the academic world over the past 2 months.

 

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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