New Releases, Sales Still Going On, ACDC Registration Open! ~ #TuesdayNewsday

Welcome to #TuesdayNewsday! We’re diving into the week’s top stories from the world of tabletop wargaming, digital battlefields, and defense wargaming practitioners. Ready for the latest headlines?

 

Yeah, it happened again.  Bunch o’ twats over at The Book of Face who have their heads up their asses . . .

After running our ads for two days, Facebook has pulled them just like with our campaign for Votes for Women. It’s like a digital advertising Groundhog Day.

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— Fort Circle (@fortcircle.bsky.social) November 28, 2024 at 6:41 AM

 

Registration is now open for the 2025 ACDC, to be held online 17-19 January 2025.

As with our previous editions of the ArmChair Dragoons Digital Convention¹, we’ll be wargaming all weekend long with a variety of games, seminars, panels, talks shows, pickup games, and more.

ORIGINAL OPORD ~ REGISTRATION ~  LIVESTREAM ARCHIVE ~ AAR

 

Hitting the shelves (and webstores) near you now!

• Compass Games released GRANT: The Western Campaign of 1862 and you can still save $10 on it if you grab it quickly
• VUCA’s homepage says Formation Series #1 – Mirages is “out now” so we’ll count that as being “released”
• Osprey Games released the heavily-becolon’ed The Silver Bayonet: Italy: The Shades of Calabria
• Warlord Games Mystery Boxes are listed as “pre-order” because they don’t ship until the 12th, but they are only on sale until the 4th, so if you want one grab it quickly
• White Dog Games released The Sword of Orthodoxy, covering the rise/fall of Byzantium over the 1000(ish) years from 421-1453
• 2089 – Space Divided is out on Steam, and 20% off for the launch until 14 December
• DVG has released their “Warfighter” Vietnam core game and it’s still not the original Warfighter system from back in 2005
• Alternative Armies has a pretty cool Moskova Militia pack of Russian skeleton soldiers for Slaughterloo
• Someone named Turgalium Games released a solitaire game called Assault on the 105s! about the attack on Brecourt Manor during D-day
• Chaosium are re-releasing the classic Runequest Sun Country adventure / campaign
• You can get a couple of mugs from Warlord Games
  • Bolt Action Mug
  • Warlord Games Mug

 

 

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

• DiSimula Edizioni have Model’s Counterattack on Kickstarter
• No idea if the games are any good, and neither seems to be on track to make funding, but both I’d Like To Seduce The Dragon and Jackasses with Swords have got to be among the more entertaining game names we’ve seen on Kickstarter all year
• Ares Games has launched Viking Route on Kickstarter
• Decision Games has a handful of things due into the warehouse imminently, so they’re making sure folks get one last show at pre-order pricing on the following (and note that you can see a few of them in “action” in the FoxCon wrapup article, too)
  • Operation Typhoon
  • Iwo: Bloodbath in the Bonins
  • Red Dragon Green Crescent Deluxe Edition
  • Kircholm Riga in the Balance 27 September 1605
  • Battles in the East #3: Battle for Pomerania and Drive to the Sea

 

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

• WDS “Game of the week” is Naval Campaigns: Kriegsmarine for $29.95 and we had a bunch of coverage of this one when it was originally released
• Want to spoil yourself?  Carolina Game Tables has their annual sale on right now, and you can save $500 on any purchase over $1500 with coupon code HOLIDAY2024 at checkout
• Avalanche Press has a list of 30-odd games on sale for 50% with coupon code HALF at checkout
• Noble Knight’s current sale will save you 10% with coupon code BARD24 at checkout
• Black Oak Workshop has a lot of their store on sale thru the end of the month, including their “dragon” polyhedral sets (33% off); orders over $100 also get free shipping + a free dice bag and pin
• Matrix Games’ Winter sale runs through 5 January and some of the discounts are pretty significant
• Europa Universalis IV: Starter Edition (2024) is 90%² off on GOG.com until 4 December

 

This week’s best written coverage from the wargaming world

• Rocky is doing his homework ahead of the Space: 1999 game
• Stuart is (re-)reading the new edition of Playing At The World
• Pushing Cardboard ponders the future of the No Retreat series from GMT
• Wargaming Esoterica checks out World at War #99 with Italian Campaign from the Campaigns in Europe line

 

The best videos this week from our wargaming friends

• My Own Worst Enemy is refighting the War of 1812
• Moe checks out Stalingrad: Cauldron of Death
• Zilla’s Purple Haze Gameplay Demo
• Beyond Solitaire Podcast 179: Natalia Zwarts and Chris Gledhill on Gaming Ukraine
• Bill’s Airfix German 1/32 paratroopers are finally completed
• Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream celebrated show #200 🎉

 

 

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

• There’s been an announcement from OCS channels (PDF) that Carl Fung will be taking over as the “OCS Honcho” starting in 2025
• Thanks to a current postal strike in Canada, the USPS is not accepting packages headed north of the wall, so plan your holiday shipping accordingly
• ICv2 continues reporting on the “Making of D&D” nontroversy, wherein social media morons are setting off verbal dynamite around their interpretations of statements that are, quite frankly, false³; and of course, because he can’t help put aim more spotlight on himself, Elon continued to weigh in
• TGN has their own humorous take on the whole thing, too
• “The Greatest Board Game of All Time” ??
• CSL’s newsletter announced a new outside-the-US shipping plan at a flat $40
• As of this week, it looks like WDS is done updating all of their Panzer Campaigns games to the newest engine

I’m looking for playtesters for my board game on John Brown’s raid and the wider abolitionist movement, fill out this form if interested to play: forms.gle/P4AzxvWmPw7e…

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— Alex Knight (@alexknight.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 6:18 PM

 

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

• Saturday Night Fights ~ The Battle of Ligny (2) for “Valour and Fortitude” (3.0)
• Mentioned in Dispatches Season 13 Ep 12 ~ SDHISTCON
• Inaugural FoxCon – 2024
• ’Til helvde med det’ – Hooligan bashing in Operation Bøllebank
• Registration Open for The 2025 ACDC, 17-19 January
• FL(W)GS Spotlight ~ Mindtaker Miniatures Games and Hobbies
• Noble Knight Games Interview with Dan Leeder (Brant & Ardwulf)
• Gameplay this week
  • Scenario #1 for “Midgard”
  • The Battle of Wagram (3) for “Bloody Big Battles”
  • Star Fleet Battles – D-7 Gets pummeled by photon torps

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

Fancied to take some photographs of #3mm #ColdWarGaming battalions and #Napoleonic #Kriegsspiel. Thought you might enjoy them.
#wargaming #wargames #miniatures #coldwar #microscale #napoleonics

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— Jan (he/him) | Let’s Play History (@letsplayhistory.bsky.social) December 3, 2024 at 11:33 AM

 

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 ~ 5 January and 2 February
• Next confirmed live event is BuckeyeGameFest, 1-4 May 2025
• Next planned virtual event is the ACDC⁴, 17-19 January, 2025

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

• 17-19 January The ACDC (Armchair Dragoons Virtual HQ)
• 17-19 January ConQuest Ventura (Ventura CA)
• 17-19 January Marscon (Virginia Beach VA)
• 17-19 January Siege of Augusta (August GA)
• 23-26 January MMP Winter Offensive (Bowie MD)
• 24-26 January Winter War Con (Champaign IL)
• 31 Jan-2 Feb Captain Con (Warwick RI)
• 5-9 February Game-on (Bellevue WA)

 

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

• Connections North will be held on 15 February in Kingston, ON and registration is open now
• Noted journalist William Langewiesche has a long-form article from the NY Times Magazine called “The Secret Pentagon War Game That ​Offers a Stark​ Warning for Our Times” that’s a fairly interesting read, although as is common with outsiders covering the field there are a few gaffes about the professional wargaming world
• Big standoff attack by the Ukrainians in Crimea; how do you wargame out these sorts of multi-faceted bombardments?
• Another bullet
• This week, Mick Ryan uses a bunch of maps to illustrate some talking points about Ukraine
• The next GUWS webinar is Understanding Educational Wargaming in the Military Sector on 17 December and then Wargaming for the Social & Cognitive Sciences on 21 January
• Connections Oz videos are up online

 

 

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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1. the middle “D” does Double Duty
2. not a typo
3. shades of this discussion earlier in the year
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