February 6, 2025

RIP Mark, And The Rest Of The News ~ #TuesdayNewsday

Welcome to #TuesdayNewsday, your trusted source for weekly updates in wargaming

Ahead of our usual top story slot, we want to offer our deepest condolences to the Ruggiero family on the passing of community stalwart Mark Ruggiero, wargamer extraordinaire.  There’s a long post from Ron Ruggiero over on Facebook announcing his passing and offering some details of his life.

As BBMike noted on our live show last night, “We should end with what Mark Ruggiero would always say, and that’s ‘if you’ve got a game, get it to the table’…” and that was followed up by a suggestion from Brian Jarvis that we hashtag our next game photos with

#playlikemark

 

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The Hollandays Sale is live!

Amabel also has a good look right here at their all-time top 10 best sellers

 

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ICYMI elsewhere, we’ve set up a new LinkTree for the Dragoons, which collects the links to all the varying places where you can mount up with the Regiment of Strategy Gaming.  With some coming rebalancing in our social media presence, you might want to take a look at the best places to engage with us.

We’ve got links to our site, as well as certain pages here – the event calendar, the podcast, the forums, etc.  There are also links to our Steam community, Discord community, and our Spring store (t-shirts and such).  The social channels we track included Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Twxtter, YouTube, Instagram, and our Facebook page, especially since our tools allow us to auto-post to those channels (except YouTube).
We frequently re-share our content in a variety of Facebook groups, as well as certain threads on BGG and ConSimWorld, but don’t auto-post to those.

We obviously love our forum, and encourage folks to join us there for all manner of game discussions, as well as other chatter.  But we’re happy to engage in plenty of other places depending on the preferences of our audience.

 

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We’re still accepting submissions for events for the 2025 ACDC, to be held 17-19 January

  • Event submissions for the January 2025 ACDC are now open and the bulk of the schedule should get announced before Thanksgiving
  • Registration should go live shortly after Thanksgiving
  • More info can be found on the announcement page here
  • Join the discussion in our forums
  • If you’re interested in volunteering to help with ACDC planning & execution this year, and going forward, please drop a line in the forums, or shoot a PM through there to Brant

 

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Hitting the shelves (and webstores) near you now!

 

 

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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

 

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Looking for a deal? Getting more bang for your buck?

  • We mentioned it at the top, but the Hollandays sale is live: $5 off each box game, plus 10% off any order over $100, plus a free mini card game if you buy at least 2 games . . . and they have other accessories and doodads that aren’t available throughout the year
  • WDS “Game of the week” is Modern Campaigns: North German Plain ’85 for $29.95
  • Big sale from Blue Panther right now on several of the lines they publish (thru 2 December), and yes, these discounts will stack
    • 15% off Blue Panther titles with coupon code BP15 at checkout
    • 50% off Schutze Games with coupon code SC50 at checkout
    • Only 10% off games from Historic Wings with coupon code HW10 at checkout
    • And finally 20% off games from The Historical Game Company with coupon code THGC20 at checkout
  • Matrix Games has a sale this week on the Strategic Command series, with discounts anywhere from 10% for some DLCs through 60% for some of the base games
  • Dice Envy has a sale on their metal sets – 20% off with coupon code METALLOOT at checkout
  • CSL has a sale through the end of the week – free shipping on orders over $100 with coupon code FREESHIPNOV at checkout
  • WARNO is on sale at GOG at 33% off
  • You can save a few bucks on Victory at Sea: Original 1992 Edition from Miniature Market right now
  • And yes, the folks at MMP started and ended their sale between our #TuesdayNewsday columns, so we’re acknowledging that it happened while simultaneously cursing their ancestors for such poor scheduling

 

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5News 8 Blogs

This week’s best written coverage from the wargaming world

 

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The best videos this week from our wargaming friends

 

5News 10 industry

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

 

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— Battlemaps (@battlemaps.bsky.social) November 11, 2024 at 9:06 PM

 

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5News 6 regiment

It’s been a busy week for the regiment; here’s what you might’ve missed!

Reminder than #UnboxingDay is on hiatus until 2025, when we’ll re-evaluate its potential return

 

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

Upcoming Dragoons Events

  • Wargame Days at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC ~ 1 December and 5 January
  • Next confirmed live event is BuckeyeGameFest, 1-4 May 2025
  • Next virtual event is the ACDC1, 17-19 January, 2025

Other Conventions & Events
things are slowing down now that we’re getting to the holidays, so we’re including some for next year

 

Fantastic time at @sdhistcon.bsky.social

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— Ardwulf (@ardwulf.bsky.social) November 10, 2024 at 9:39 PM

 

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Focusing on the practitioner world ~ don’t forget about our dedicated area in our forums for the wargame professionals!

 

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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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