Wargame HQ at Origins 2023 ~ #TuesdayNewsday 4/11/23

Our #TuesdayNewsday is your essential update for the week’s strategy gaming headlines

Origins Game Fair is 21-25 June and we’ll have plenty of coverage leading up to, and at, the convention.  And it’s taken them a while, but our events are finally loaded into the Origins 2023 event system, where you can register for them once ticketing opens up in a few weeks.

Here’s the extract for our events.  Note that there are 3 Origins War College talks included in this list, since it’s our people giving those talks.  We’ll have the rest of the Origins War College events with the consolidated wargaming event grid coming in a few weeks.  You can see from the listing below that we’ve got a lot of coverage planned leading up to Origins.

There are over 60 events in the grid, so you will have to page through it a few times (or expand the number of rows you’re seeing), but it is also sortable by event title, day, and publisher, as well.

Event #	Event Name	Max	Starts	Mins	Game Publisher
3802	Salerno '43	4	21-Wednesday at 1500	240	GMT Games
3844	Votes for Women(w/ The Designer)	4	21-Wednesday at 1800	120	Fort Circle Games
3830	Song For War Med Theater	4	21-Wednesday at 1800	240	Invicta Rex Games
3817	Stonewall Uprising	4	22-Thursday at 0900	120	Catastrophe Games
3796	Third World War by Compass Games	4	22-Thursday at 1000	240	Compass Games
3803	Salerno '43	4	22-Thursday at 1000	240	GMT Games
3829	CPX Bootcamp - MTC	6	22-Thursday at 1000	120	On Target Simulations
3790	PicoArmor Panzerblitz	6	22-Thursday at 1100	180	Avalon Hill / PicoArmor
3819	Arabian Struggle	3	22-Thursday at 1100	120	Catastrophe Games
3845	Votes for Women(w/ The Designer)	4	22-Thursday at 1100	120	Fort Circle Games
3808	A Distant Plain (Team COIN)	8	22-Thursday at 1100	240	GMT Games
3821	Zurmat	4	22-Thursday at 1300	120	Catastrophe Games
3843	Halls of Montezuma	4	22-Thursday at 1400	120	Fort Circle Games
3823	Judean Hammer	4	22-Thursday at 1500	120	Catastrophe Games
3809	Plains Indian Wars	4	22-Thursday at 1500	120	GMT Games
3791	PicoArmor Panzerblitz	6	22-Thursday at 1600	180	Avalon Hill / PicoArmor
3797	Third World War by Compass Games	4	22-Thursday at 1600	240	Compass Games
3785	Command Post Exercises (The CPX)	10	22-Thursday at 1600	240	On Target Simulations
3836	Undaunted– Play w/ The Designer!	4	22-Thursday at 1600	120	Osprey Publishing
3838	Shores of Tripoli	4	22-Thursday at 1700	120	Fort Circle Games
3825	Liberty or Death	4	22-Thursday at 1800	180	GMT Games
5355	Combat Commander	4	22-Thursday at 1800	120	GMT Games
3831	Song For War Med Theater	4	22-Thursday at 1800	240	Invicta Rex Games
3806	Brief Border Wars	4	22-Thursday at 1900	120	Compass Games
3846	Votes for Women(w/ The Designer)	4	22-Thursday at 2000	120	Fort Circle Games
5356	Combat Commander	4	22-Thursday at 2100	120	GMT Games
3807	Brief Border Wars	4	23-Friday at 0800	120	Compass Games
3815	Sadr City	4	23-Friday at 0900	120	Catastrophe Games
3798	Third World War by Compass Games	4	23-Friday at 0900	240	Compass Games
3788	CPX Bootcamp - Gap Crossing	6	23-Friday at 0900	120	On Target Simulations
3792	PicoArmor Panzerblitz	6	23-Friday at 1000	180	Avalon Hill / PicoArmor
3842	Halls of Montezuma	4	23-Friday at 1000	120	Fort Circle Games
3811	Space Empires 4X	4	23-Friday at 1000	120	GMT Games
3832	Song For War Med Theater	4	23-Friday at 1000	240	Invicta Rex Games
3813	True Command	4	23-Friday at 1100	120	Catastrophe Games
3826	Liberty or Death	4	23-Friday at 1100	180	GMT Games
3820	Arabian Struggle	3	23-Friday at 1300	120	Catastrophe Games
3804	Salerno '43	4	23-Friday at 1300	240	GMT Games
3847	Votes for Women(w/ The Designer)	4	23-Friday at 1400	120	Fort Circle Games
3818	Stonewall Uprising	4	23-Friday at 1500	120	Catastrophe Games
3799	Third World War by Compass Games	4	23-Friday at 1500	240	Compass Games
3835	Undaunted– Play w/ The Designer!	4	23-Friday at 1500	120	Osprey Publishing
3786	Command Post Exercises (The CPX)	10	23-Friday at 1600	240	On Target Simulations
3839	Shores of Tripoli	4	23-Friday at 1800	120	Fort Circle Games
3833	Song For War Med Theater	4	23-Friday at 1800	240	Invicta Rex Games
3793	PicoArmor Panzerblitz	6	23-Friday at 1900	180	Avalon Hill / PicoArmor
3810	Plains Indian Wars	4	23-Friday at 2000	120	GMT Games
3794	PicoArmor Panzerblitz	6	24-Saturday at 0900	180	Avalon Hill / PicoArmor
3814	True Command	4	24-Saturday at 0900	120	Catastrophe Games
3848	Votes for Women(w/ The Designer)	4	24-Saturday at 0900	120	Fort Circle Games
3805	Salerno '43	4	24-Saturday at 0900	240	GMT Games
3827	Liberty or Death	4	24-Saturday at 1000	180	GMT Games
3834	Song For War Med Theater	4	24-Saturday at 1000	240	Invicta Rex Games
3789	CPX Bootcamp - Counter/Recon	6	24-Saturday at 1000	120	On Target Simulations
3816	Sadr City	4	24-Saturday at 1100	120	Catastrophe Games
3800	Third World War by Compass Games	4	24-Saturday at 1200	240	Compass Games
3824	Judean Hammer	4	24-Saturday at 1300	120	Catastrophe Games
3849	Votes for Women(w/ The Designer)	4	24-Saturday at 1300	120	Fort Circle Games
3787	Command Post Exercises (The CPX)	10	24-Saturday at 1300	240	On Target Simulations
3837	Undaunted– Play w/ The Designer!	4	24-Saturday at 1400	120	Osprey Publishing
3822	Zurmat	4	24-Saturday at 1500	120	Catastrophe Games
3828	Liberty or Death	4	24-Saturday at 1500	180	GMT Games
3795	PicoArmor Panzerblitz	6	24-Saturday at 1600	180	Avalon Hill / PicoArmor
3841	Halls of Montezuma	4	24-Saturday at 1600	120	Fort Circle Games
3801	Third World War by Compass Games	4	24-Saturday at 1800	240	Compass Games
3840	Shores of Tripoli	4	24-Saturday at 1900	120	Fort Circle Games
3812	Space Empires 4X	4	24-Saturday at 1900	120	GMT Games

 

 

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ORIGINS 2023 COVERAGE
WARGAME HQ EVENTS ~ MiD PREVIEW EPISODE ~ WARGAME HQ EVENT PREVIEWS ~ ADVICE FOR ROOKIES ~ CONSOLIDATED WARGAMING EVENT GRID ~  EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT ~ THE MAILBAG ~ FOOD & DRINK
SETUP & FIRST GAMES ~ REPORT FROM THE SHOW ~ EXHIBIT HALL PHOTOS ~ GAMEPLAY PHOTOS ~ WARGAME HQ EVENT REPORT  ~ REPORT FROM THE DRAGOONS  ~ CONVENTION PHOTOS  ~ AAR
DISCUSSION FORUM THREAD

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Nominations are open at BoardGameGeek for the Golden Geek Awards.  There’s pretty much -ZERO- chance that Mentioned in Dispatches would ever win for Best Podcast but we’d love to crash the party and get a wargaming podcast into the final round of voting.  Can y’all help us out?

 

Registration is now open for Connections Online 2023, to be held from 17-23 April, with Core events running 18-20 April

The Connections Online executive committee is pleased to announce the theme of this year’s Connections Online conference: “The Enemy Gets a Vote — Playing Red.” We’ll look at playing Red in wargaming, as well as what various professional communities mean by the term “red teaming.” (Hint: The definitions overlap, more or less, but terms frequently has discipline-specific connotations that may not be entirely obvious.)

Among the events are: What Is Red-Teaming; Red-Teaming Acts of God; Advice for New Practitioners; Gaming & Red-Teaming the Pandemic; the Wargame Bootcamp to learn to use Discord, VASSAL, and TTS; a Littoral Commander demo; a discussion of the state-of-the-art of the hobby wargaming space; and a multi-player Discord-driven Kriegsspiel with the International Kriegsspiel Society, and more

 

New games released in the past week that you’ll find interesting

• Compass Games moved Prelude to Revolution to the “recent releases” column
• Compass Games also moved Doomsday Project 2: The Balkans to the “recent releases” column
• Fellowship of Simulations website shows that Napoleon’s Conquests can now be ordered
• Avalanche Press has the playbook edition of Second World War at Sea: Bismarck available
• While the US ship date seems to be more “aspirational” than “committed” there are copies of We Are Coming Ninevah appearing around the globe

 

Crowdfunding or pre-orders ~ if you can pre-order it now, here it is

• New England Sims are now taking pre-orders on the reprint of Winter’s Victory
• There’s a nice new M4A3E8 “Easy Eight” platoon on pre-order at Warlord Games
• Nations & Cannons: The American Crisis is for anyone who ever wondered “huh, what if we play the AWI with D&D rules?”
  It’s built on the existing N&C setting & rules that have been around for a while
• TS Wargames has a new pre-order for Iskra with precious little additional info
• CSL has put all of their Sedan games on sale
• Hmmm… Price of the Dragon: A Role-Playing Game for Couples, uh–  we have…  questions
• Last week’s winner of the “screw those guys; go live 3 hours after the release the news” were the guys behind the really neat Aerocatures book; imagine the characters from Pixar’s Planes as WW2 comic book art, and you’re about halfway there; includes a card game

 

Stretch your budget a little further with these deals

• Our buddies at LNLP are catching on, and announcing their big sale on Monday!  Of course, it’s a “blitzkrieg” sale that’ll be wrapping up by the time you read this, but hey…  we tried! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Columbia has a “free”/pay-what-you-want intro-level adventure on DTRPG
• Giant Close Combat sale from Slitherine over on Steam, including Panthers in the Fog for under $10¹
• S&T’s game-edition magazine sale this week is S&T #268 with When Lions Sailed, 17th century naval warfare
• There are a pair of TTRPG bundles on DTRPG right now, and proceeds from both are going to help Owen KC Stephens with his medical bills from both a pulmonary embolism and a cancer diagnosis²
  • Bundle #1 ~ 5th Ed, Mutants & Masterminds, Pathfinder 1st & 2nd ed, Savage Worlds, Starfinder, and more
  • Bundle #2 ~ ACE, ICONS, Shotguns & Sorcery, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Mutants & Masterminds, Pathfinder 1st & 2nd ed, and more

 

What were the Dragoons up to this past week?

• Armchair Dragoons Reviews Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy
• Origins 2023 ~ The Wargame HQ With The Armchair Dragoons
• Mentioned in Dispatches Season 10 Ep 9 ~ What Naval Wargaming Gets Wrong
• The Giant Civ 6 AAR: Nubia, Part 11
• Saturday Night Fights ~ Double-blind “Spearhead” (part III)
• Gameplay this week
  • A Patrol to Ap Bac (part III) for “Charlie Company”
  • “Attacking the Corridor of Death” for “Chain of Command”
  • “The Battle of Altdorf” for “Valour and Fortitude”
• This week in our forums
  • Plenty of chatter about classic TV shows
  • Reorganizing US Army divisions
  • Going back to our previous article about Fulda
  • What were you playing last weekend?
• 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 ~ May 7th and June 4th
  • Next #UnboxingDay³ will be 20 April, right in the middle of Connections Online
  • Next virtual event is Connections Online Connections Online, 17-23 April
  • Next Real-World Convention is going to be Buckeye Game Fest, in Columbus OH, 28-30 April (with the War Room opening up on 24 April for extended wargaming)

 

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

• 17-24 April Connections Online
• 24-30 April Buckeye Game Fest (incl The War Room) (Columbus, OH)
• 18-22 May Compass Expo Spring ’23 (Meriden, CT)
• 27-29 May KublaCon (San Francisco, CA)
• 21-25 June ORIGINS (Columbus, OH) and our discussion thread
• 23-25 June WarGamesCon (Austin, TX)
• 19-23 July Historicon (Lancaster, PA)

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As announced on our podcast on 3/31

The Inaugural Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023
20-22 October 2023
The Gamer’s Armory, Cary NC

Details will be announced after we get back from Buckeye Game Fest, and registration will open this Summer before we head off to Origins, and will be capped around 40 or so attendees.

In partnership with The Gamer’s Armory, we’ve got our first in-person convention coming up in October, where we’ll be taking over about half of the store.  We’ll be playing games in probably the biggest vendor booth you’ll see at a convention, and making plenty of new friends.

Stay tuned for details!

As a reminder, Regimental Patron-level Patreon supporters get a free badge for all Armchair Dragoons-hosted events.

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Our fellow content creators from the wargaming world

Use the Polyversal system to play WW2?!

• Rocky digs into Land & Freedom from Blue Panther
• Moe dings into 1914 Hell Unleashed
• My Own Worst Enemy is continuing his charge up the Hill of Death
• Gimpy Gamer has a whole playlist on Fighters of the Pacific
• Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about the best of WW1

 

News & notes from the business end of the gaming world

New favorite game rule

• Avalanche Press has an article about the US Navy’s War Plan: Emerald in the 1910’s
• Buncha updates on the age of gunpowder games from Wargame Design Studio
• Paizo has released the first public draft of their ORC⁴ license and one of the first systems released under that license is Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying engine
• The latest update from Canvas Temple Publishing is not a joyous one. Jon Compton writes

I do not intend to close Canvas Temple, however. The 3D printing portion of the business is doing rather well, and has exceeded my expectations. I’m also not closing the door on future publishing, but for now the business model I created for publishing boxed games is taking too long to cycle, and shipping costs rise too quickly and abruptly for those long cycles.

and

To be sure, I am not closing the door on publishing at some point in the future. I still have a strong interest in some aspects of doing so. But to be honest, I’ve simply not enjoyed that process over the past year. I intend to complete shipping Pratzen and Boer War as quickly as I’m able, and then I’m going to take a break from it. The website will remain open to orders regardless, so long as inventory lasts.

 

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

• David Axe has several articles about Ukrainian offensives and obstacle breaching (and potential problems with it)
• Finland talking about NATO naval integration, among other things; and they’re not making friends with the Ruskies
• The next GUWS webinar is May 9, with Michael Bond talks about Scenario Design, or How I ruined my perfect wargame with a sloppy scenario
• PaxSims talks about someone trying to interdict Class I resupply

 

 

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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