by Yep, it’s #TuesdayNewsday and here’s what you should care about in wargaming this week >>>
This Week’s Headline:
San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHISTCON) has moved online this year, and there might be some stray appearances by the Armchair Dragoons with them! Harold runs a great show and the guest list is excellent.
Veterans’ Day Weekend, all online. Give it look!
(as a side note: our next virtual con is on the drawing board for January)
Newly Released This Week:
- Hollandspiele has released Aurelian, Restorer of the World for your solo gaming enjoyment.
- High Flying Dice has 2 new games out, too: Nightmare Island (Battle for Biak Island), and Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe).
- GMT starts shipping 1918/1919: Storm in the West over the next week.
- GMT also starts shipping A Time for Trumpets: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944 over the next week.
Newly Launched This Week:
There’s a bunch that’s hit Kickstarter lately, plus the usual preorders
- Shadow Network lets you get your inner spy on
- The WarStorm series finds a new home with Draco Ideas, and they’ve launched Help Arrives, another Spanish Civil War game
- The Zweihander RPG system heads to Colonial America with a very interesting mix of history and fantasy, in a quite intriguing setting Flames of Freedom
- Compass has already announced The Conquistadors, and we talked about it a bunch on our last podcast. It’s on Kickstarter right now, if you want to throw some shekels at it.
- Privateer Press pulled a “Warhammer” and took their fantasy-based Iron Kingdoms and scooted them into a sci-fi future. The first release of their Neo-Mechanika set blew up on Kickstarter, and the current expansion, Collision Course, is busy stacking up stretch goals.
- Tiny Battle Publishing is taking preorders on D-Day and Beyond, in what’s a very large package for a company called “Tiny Battle”
- CSL are taking preorders on their 1973: The Yom Kippur War game.
- Who doesn’t love dice? And showing off their love with dice? Steve Jackson’s got candy-heart d6s on IndieGoGo right now.
- Quarterdeck International has a pre-publication offer on their St Lo game, an update of the old WEG game. The $70 game is going for $55, and limited to the first 24 orders.
New from the Dragoons:
- Thursday was our monthly #UnboxingDay and we dug thru 9 different games, with a little help from our friends, of course.
- Mentioned in Dispatches spent over 90 minutes going thru the entire Compass Games Holiday Catalog!
- This week, Design x Dragoons took the week off, but will be back next week!
- Saturday Night Fights started the Battle of Leipzig. Note: “started“
- My Own Worst Enemy has a new Solobabble series of videos now underway.
News From The Wargame Industry:
- Thin Red Line Games have announced The Dogs of War, the next game in their LT60M series. It covers the BAOR and the northern side of the NATO flank.
- Quarterdeck International has a bunch of wargames on sale thru November 8, including Tornio ’44, Custoza, and Obbedisco, among many other obscure battles for you to dig into.
- Paradox has some Hearts of Iron IV DLC’s on sale. Both Battle for the Bosporus, and La Resistance are marked down right now.
- Lest anyone thing we’re ignoring them, we’ve been following Clash of Arms’ page ever since we started Tuesday Newsday, and there’s been no movement on it at all. Zip. Nada. Squat. Zilch.
- Z-Man Games has announced that they’re bringing back Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers
- Matrix Games is running a big Carthage-focused tournament for Field of Glory II.
- We’re pretty sure that Columbia isn’t getting out of the wargaming business, but if you follow the “wargames” link from their homepage, you get an error page. Doesn’t bode well!
The Professional Wargaming World:
- Call for articles for the next issue of EuroWarGames
- The Krulak Center is hosting an open house for folks to come check them out
- GUWS has seminars coming up on Agile Wargaming, Educational Wargaming, and Self-Publishing. Don’t forget, we’re the hosts of the GUWS online forums, too!
- PaxSims has an interesting look at a Congressman’s call for improved wargaming, and the pushback coming from those that think DoD-run wargames will preference DoD-led solutions.
Something From The Real World That You Can Use In A Game:
- Truck-mounted howitzers. Go on, someone stat this out!
- The Russians are deepening their military ties with Serbia. Update your current conflict charts!
Something From Our Partners:
- Moe & Ardwulf both pitched in for #UnboxingDay this week!
- RMN has picked up enough new games to run his own #UnboxingDay! He also digs into 878: Vikings from Academy Games
This Week on Six Degrees of Radio:
- The last in our tribute to Eddie Van Halen (RIP): Pretty Woman
- Kiss This Thing Goodbye by Del Amitri
- Smooth by Santana
- Saturday Night Concert: Tedeschi Trucks Band
That’s all for this week!
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