by It’s that time of the week again—welcome to #TuesdayNewsday! Whether you’re an avid tabletop strategist, a digital commander, or interested in the cutting-edge world of defense industry wargaming, we’ve got all the latest news to keep you in the loop.
Connections Online wrapped up last Friday. We need a few weeks to finish going through the videos and we’ll make the public at the same time we publish our AAR.
Meanwhile, if you’d like to mark your calendar now, Connections Online 2026 will be 20-24 April.
We’re starting to see tariffs and their effect on printing costs impact the wargaming community, as MMP is changing the expected price on Inflection Point and telling you about it here.
BLUF: prices1 go up on 4/21, but if you order(ed) before then, they’ll honor the originally-quoted price.
And yes, the usual utterly-disconnected-from-reality jingo-ism broke out in the comments on the announcement.
In other MMP news:
Hello everyone! We're now on Blue Sky, and look forward to bringing you all the news and content available on our other social media platforms.
— Multi-Man Publishing (@multimanpublishing.bsky.social) 2025-04-10T17:47:45.204Z
Having fun at SALUTE over in the UK
Hitting the shelves (and webstores) near you now!
- The Dietz Foundation are shipping Order of the Day: Normandy
- Ludopress released Alea #42, with the included Chiclana-Barroaa 1811 game
- Green Ronin released the new issue of Engine, their in-house magazine for the AGE System
- Para Bellum XV is now shipping, with La Seconda Guerra del Monferrato as an included game
- Para Bellum also released Special n.3, which includes L’ultima Battaglia, about Volturno 1860
- New stuff from Wargames Atlantic for The Baron’s War
- You know that conspiracy-theory meme with the corkboard covered in pictures, clippings, and strings2? Yeah, how about a game where you get to build one of those as you play? Check out Sleepaway from Steve Jackson Games
- Great Powers released on Steam, and you can wind your way thru 1500-1900 or so across the globe
- Wehrlegig Games is finally getting Molly House out the door to backers and its for sale on their site
- Two sets from Steamforged Games’ Epic Encounters line, for Free Leagues’ Ruins of Symbaroum
- Age of Wonders 4: Giant Kings DLC released by Paradox
- Wow‼️ –– High Flying Dice Games has been busy for the past week, with a whole series of new releases in their Lines in the Sand series for $10.95 each or . . . get all 6 in a special box set at 20% off
- Lines in the Sand vol. 1: Operation Compass, December 9-11, 1940
- Lines in the Sand vol. 2: The Assault on Bardia, January 3-5, 1941
- Lines in the Sand vol. 3: Operation Brevity, May 15-16, 1941
- Lines in the Sand vol. 4: The Battle of Bir Hakeim, June 8-11, 1942
- Lines in the Sand vol. 5: The First Battle of El Alamein, July 1-5, 1942
- Lines in the Sand vol. 6: Battle of Kasserine Pass, February 19-20, 1943
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
- Catastrophe Games has Lonely Cairn on Kickstarter and it’s well past 300% funded in under an hour
- Compass announced a pair of new pre-orders
- A World Gone Mad
- The Korean War Classic Designer Edition
- Hey look, it’s great that a small press announces a new product in an email to users, but why wouldn’t you link directly to the page to place your pre-order, and make it easier for your customers to give you money?
In a not-at-all related note3, Red Sash Games announced The Coorg War is on pre-order through Blue Panther - New pre-order from Phalanx Games: PUNICA
- Lunar Wars is live on Gamefound
- 1918: A First World War Miniatures Wargame is live on Kickstarter and well past its funding goal
- Get Out Of My Territory is on Kickstarter right now, and says it’s a “Strategy Board Game which combines Carcassonne, Risk & Catan with the heart of Command & Conquer“, so it’s fully buzzword-compliant
- From Warlord Games, Iron Coffins – Achtung Panzer! Supplement With Stanley Christopherson Special Miniature
- Multiple pre-orders from Draco Ideas / Eclipse
- Combined set of 4 expansions for 2GM Tactics (you do need a base set to use these)
- Drums of War – Conquest, a stand-alone expansion
Looking for a deal? Getting more bang for your buck?
- WDS “Game of the week” is Campaign Shiloh for $29.95
- This week’s deals from On Military Matters include a bunch of the minis sets we told you about over the past few weeks, including The Baron’s War and Black Powder Epic Battles
- For the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, where the USS Laffey earned its fame, Catastrophe Games is giving you 25% off of USS Laffey: The Ship That Would Not Die all week
- Dice Envy has their “pip-squeaks” (12mm d6’s) on sale – packs of 10 for $5 – and stack another 10% off with coupon code LILGUYS at checkout
- Easy Roller Dice Company has a deal right where where you get a free dice coffer with every gemstone set purchase, no coupon or code needed
- The “Royal Treatment” sale at Miniature Market has some really good discounts on a variety of wargames
- Battlefront minis has a bunch of “whilst stock lasts” products on sale as their clearing out the warehouse, including both Team Yankee and Flames of War stuff
- Big “Spring Cleaning” sale at Renegade with up to 90% off some games; we filtered to the things most likely to interest our readers, but there’s other stuff on sale, too
- Men of War: Condemned Heroes is 80% off at GOG right now
- Worthington are trying to clear space in the warehouse and unloading a bunch of older titles at stupid-low prices, but there are bunch of them now showing as “sold out” already
- Star Realms: Rise of the Empire is 33% off right now
It’s been a busy week for the regiment; we launched a pair of new Sunday AARs!
- Saturday Night Fights ~ A Grave Day at the Canal for “I Ain’t Been Shot Mum!”
- Mentioned In Dispatches S14 E11 ~ Adepticon
- Godless Gothic RPG in Black Powder and Brimstone
- Dispatches from Cyrano’s War Room, Adepticon
- Armchair Dragoons Previews Imjin War by SGS
- AARs
- Gameplay this week
The Best Thing We Saw On Another Site This Week Was
David Ensteness showing you how to make a giant minis game mat in a well-illustrated article
Every so often it is important to pause and look at your progress. Yes, the road network around Eckmühl in 1809 is just that crazy and insane looking, but remember, that grid of faint blue chalk lines indicates one mile by one mile squares, so it is actually very low density compared to ya know, nearly anywhere we travel today.
not included: how to forget the mat at home when you leave for a convention 😆
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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Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about Wargaming Reboots and Fresh Starts and a lot about dice, and counter storage, too
Various news & notes from the business end of the gaming world
- Another year for Golden Geeks and still can’t get Mentioned in Dispatches into the final round of podcast voting; it’s OK, we’re over it4
- Decision Games bringing back the Modern Battles series!?! Take the survey here!
- This week’s tariff news:
- Rocky offers his thoughts and some supporting links
- Cardboard Edison polled a bunch of publishers associated with the TTGDA about their effects
- Leder Games statement on the tariffs
- ICv2 talks about the whiplash from the constant rudderless changes
- Cephalofair might pull out of the US market altogether after the tariffs essentially doubled the price of getting their product to the warehouse
- ICv2 reports that minis were the largest market growth segment in the hobby world last year
- BoardGameWire covers yet another GAMA comms person leaving5
- Wargame Design Studio has posted their 2025 1st quarter update
- Does anyone know if Serious Historical Games are going to get their website working again?
Don’t forget to check our consolidated event & convention calendar for more!
You can also submit your own events for our calendar here.
- Wargame Days at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC ~ 4 May and 1 June
- Next confirmed live event is BuckeyeGameFest, 1-4 May 2025
- Next planned virtual event is the ACDC6, 16-18 January, 2026
Other Conventions & Events
- 24-28 Apr HMGS Little Wars (Naperville IL)
- 25-27 Apr Spring Offensive 2025 (Burlington NC)
- 28 Apr-5 May The War Room at Buckeye Game Fest (Columbus OH) <– featuring QUAD FEST!
- 1-5 May Buckeye Game Fest (Columbus OH)
- 2-5 May Gaming Hoopla (Milwaukee WI)
- 8-12 May PAX East (Boston MA)
- 9-12 May PunchedCon (Coventry, UK)
- 15-19 May Compass Games Spring Expo 2025 (Meriden CT)
- 16-19 May CanGames (Ottawa ON)
- 16-19 May HexaCon 2025 (Rangiora NZ)
Coolest thing I've seen at Salute today: this minis version of the classic early-80s Atari arcade game Battlezone. Not the digital-to-tabletop adaptation I'd expected to find, but wow.
— James Wallis (@jameswallis.bsky.social) 2025-04-12T13:51:00.965Z
The Wargame HQ will be in 2412 in the main gaming hall
All of the Armchair Dragoons War College events will be in Room A210, which is about as far away from our gaming area as you can get and still technically be “in the same building”
We will have maps, event listings, exhibitor highlights, GM info, game previews, and more coming as we start counting down to Origins next week.
LOOKING BACK AT ORIGINS 2024 HIGHLIGHTS
THE EXHIBIT HALL ~ THE VIEW FROM ABOVE ~ GAMEPLAY PHOTOS ~ WARGAME HQ EVENT REPORT ~ KRIEGSSPIEL ~ AAR
Focusing on the practitioner world ~ don’t forget about our dedicated area in our forums for the wargame professionals!
- Wargming conference coming up in Poland (h/t PaxSims)
- Why it’s OK to lose your wargames
- Friend-of-the-Dragoons Pjius has a nice column about educational wargaming in the Baltics
- Updating your Taiwan scenarios to test this concept of “hedgehog” defense? (PDF file)
- Four Russian Assault Groups Attacked At The Same Time In Donetsk—And Ran Into A Wall Of Drones
- The next GUWS webinar is Modeling Urban Warfare: how can we model the complexity of urban space? on 6 May followed by Cobalt Rocks: Wargaming Seabed Operations on 20 May
- PaxSims has their latest roundup of stray articles yearning to be read
This one’s 3 years old, but damn is it pretty cool
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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