The Week In Wargaming ~ #TuesdayNewsday 10/10/23

The Fall Assembly is almost here! Your other wargaming headlines, too

Mark Ruggerio has been a pillar of the wargaming community for a long time, and he and his wife are both fighting rather advanced stages of cancer.  Mark’s still been active in wargaming circles, posting some videos and playthroughs, as well as starting to sell off some of his (extensive) wargame collection.

There’s also a GoFundMe set up to help them cover their medical expenses, so if you’ve got a few spare shekels, please toss a couple their way to help them out.

 

Fall Assembly countdown: 10 days to go!

You can still get signed up for the Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023.
You can find local hotels here.
We’ve got around 20 scheduled events, with plenty of empty table-space for pickup games in between.  We’ve got multi-session monster games, smaller 2-player shootouts, playtest/pre-release games, and learn-to-play classics.

You can read our event previews here

Current Confirmed Game Sessions NATO–Next War in Europe (w/ the designer!) Littoral Commander (USMC training game) It Never Snows (two-session rolling game) World at War ‘85 (w/ the designer!) Triumph & Tragedy each day A double dose of Bayonets & Tomahawks Brief Border Wars, This War Without An Enemy, Oceans of Fire, Maneuver Warfare Card Game, Great Battles of American Civil War, Struggle for Zorn Open table gaming, In-store discounts, livestreams from the con Designers Hermann Luttmann, Bruce Maxwell, Keith Tracton …munchies, custom Armchair Dragoons swag, and other prizes & giveaways

Convention Details We’re almost two-thirds sold out Badges are $40 for the weekend We’re being hosted by The Gamer’s Armory, and they’re planning to open early on Sunday just for us, so we can get an additional game session or two in, before the general public gets in the doors Attendance is capped on this one because of the limited floorspace we’ve got inside the store and we want to make sure every player gets plenty of time on the tables. As noted on the convention site, we do not have a hotel attached to the facility. As a reminder, Regimental Patron-level Patreon supporters get a free badge for all Armchair Dragoons-hosted events.

 

Games released in the past week that you’ll want to check out

• Hollandspiele’s Horse & Musket VI: Sunset of an Era is out, bringing to a close the long-running line
• SNAFU released their latest ziplock game, The Battle of Mackinac Island
• ASL Action Pack #18, for Oktoberfest XXXVII, is now available from MMP
• Also on the ASL front, The Gamer’s Armory has Rally Point #20 from Schwerpunkt in stock, with scenarios covering the Italians in WW2
• The Tremendous Tome of Epic Dungeons had a successful Kickstarter last Fall and is now available through…  Target?!
• Hollandspiele also has some of their small card game Watch Out! That’s a Dracula! for sale during Halloween month
• Blue Panther have a new printing of Bill Molyneaux’s Battle of Brandywine
• CSL has a bunch of their games on Wargame Vault, for sort of a discount in return for your personal arts-&-crafts prowess
• Steve Jackson Games got Munchkin 10 – Time Warp reprinted
• Avalanche Press is re-releasing their Panzer Grenadier: Spearhead Division book
• There’s a pretty cool LRDG truck from Warlord Games this week
• The new Team Yankee NATO Forces products are starting to appear in stores
  • World War III: NATO Forces
  • NATO Forces Decal Set
  • M113 Platoon
  • FN MAG Machine-guns

 

Crowdfunding, p500, pledge programs, whatevs yo! ~ if you can order it now & get it later, here it is

• The newest volume of Old School Tactical is now on Kickstarter
• Wow.  Compass Games unloaded some pre-orders over the past week-and-a-half
  • Spring Prelude
  • Burma, 1942-45
  • Rebel Tide: The American Civil War
  • Spanish-American War, 1898
  • Golden Age of Piracy: 1718
  • Combat 3: Arnhem
  • Desert Generals
  • Warriors of America
  • No Peace for Thirty Years!
  • JUTLAND: Fleet Admiral
  • British Tank Ace
  • Lighting Strikes

 

Here to help you save a few bucks, or, y’know… spend more than you were planning if it wasn’t for a good deal

• Kraken Dice have 40% off all Dice Market sets
• Most of the VPG product line is on sale at Tabletop Tycoon right now, including Nemo’s War, Twilight of the Gods, High Treason and more
• Worthington has Philadelphia 1777 on sale at over 50% off
• S&M have the entire Field of Glory line on sale thru Steam right now
• S&T’s game-edition magazine sale this week is S&T #208 with Back to Iraq, a 2001 game that posits an invasion of fertile crescent, before, y’know… we actually went back to Iraq

 

There’s always something going on with The Dragoons, so we’ve always got plenty to tell you about!

Hockey jersey order cancelled – not enough people jumped on board

• Saturday Night Fights ~ The Battle of the Falklands (2) for “Fletcher Pratt”
• Mentioned in Dispatches Season 11 Ep 3 ~ Cole Wehrle Returns!
• The Armchair Dragoons Forums
• Going back through our Armchair Dragoons’ archives ~ Armchair Dragoons Reviews The Shores of Tripoli by Fort Circle Games
• Gameplay this week
  • Probe at Lacombe (2) for “Chain of Command”
  • The Battle of Utitsa for “Valour and Fortitude”
• This week in our forums
  • The guys from Draco Ideas have been showing off some deets on their ONUS! expansions
  • What’s on your table?
  • Building an HE-162 model kit
• Upcoming Dragoons Events (and don’t forget to check the event calendar for everything else)
  • Wargame Days at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC ~ 5 November and 3 December
  • Next #UnboxingDay¹ will be 19 October – right before the Fall Assembly
  • Next virtual event is The 2024 ACDC, 12-14 January 2024
  • Next live event is The Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023, 20-22 October 2023, The Gamer’s Armory, Cary NC and there are still a few badges available!

 

Don’t forget to check our consolidated event & convention calendar for more!
You can also submit your own events for our calendar here.

• 12-15 October GMT Weekend at the Warehouse (Hanford CA)
• 19-22 October GameHoleCon (Madison WI)
• 20-22 October The Inaugural Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023 (Cary, NC)
• 27-29 October Carnage Royale (Dover VT)
• 3-5 November Rock-Con (Rockford IL)
• 3-5 November BottosCon (Vancover BC)
• 3-5 November HMGS Fall In (Lancaster PA)
• 15-19 November BGG.Con (Dallas TX)

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Our fellow content creators from the wargaming world

• Great video from Mark Ruggiero about getting started with the new consolidated Third World War
• Rocky plays cards with Clausewitz
• Moe checks out Goose Green
• My Own Worst Enemy started playing Global War
• Beyond Solitaire talked to Cole Wehrle about Oath
• Joint All Domain Operation in action, with a ballistic missile scenario (translated)
• Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about “unplayable wargames”

 

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

• Biggest Essenspiel in its 40-year history, and how is Essenspiel only 40 years old?!
• Zenobia Award application window is still open through 14 October
• Wargame Design Studio has a great intro to their Napoleonic Battles Series
• Avalanche Press has an article about siege weapons in the late medieval period

 

Hey, we’d LOVE to have some more action in the dedicated area of our forums for the wargame practitioners.

• Peter Robbins interviewed Dr Phil Sabin about Take That Hill, his books, and his academic work
• Army Futures Command CG looks to the, uh… ‘future’ of warfare
• Sagger drills are still relevant
• The next GUWS webinar is on 10/30, covering Accelerating Organizational Change Through Games
• PaxSims points you to the French Army wargaming manual; jumping ahead to December 12, you get
  The Tyranny of Binaries: how wargame rules build narratives
• From our Connections Online livestream archive

 

 

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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