February 10, 2025

Inaugural Bobby Nunes Award, Game Store Awards, New Releases, and More ~ #TuesdayNewsday

Welcome to another #TuesdayNewsday! From game table to training center, we’ve got the top stories from the world of wargaming that you need to know this week

 

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Congrats to Beyond Solitaire for the award 🤠

Liz Davidson’s ‘Beyond Solitaire’ podcast announced as 2024 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award recipient
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce Liz Davidson’s Beyond Solitaire podcast interview series as the recipient of the 2024 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched this year in memory of our colleague and friend, Robert “Bobby Factor” Nunes, seeks to recognize exceptional gaming media published in the prior calendar year that reflects Bobby’s enthusiasm for and interest in discussing important cultural issues within the historical gaming hobby. It accompanies SDHist’s Summit Award, presented each year to a game that has broadened the historical gaming hobby.
Davidson has put out 180 episodes of the Beyond Solitaire podcast since 2020, with those episodes (available both on YouTube and in audio-only form) featuring interviews on gaming history, historical games, and the cultural significance of the games we play. Davidson released 40 episodes in 2023, from Episode #101 (an interview with Julián Pombo on his board game design Pampero) through Episode #140 (an interview with Josh Sawyer on his historical video game design Pentiment).

Read the full announcement here ➡️

 

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GAMA’s opened nominations for this year’s Power Retailer Awards, so if you’d like to nominate your FL(W)GS for one of their awards (Innovation, Store Design, etc), you can fill out this form here.  We’ll be reporting from GAMA Expo and can give you an update on which stores win.  They’re not likely to be wargame-heavy stores, but we’ll still let you know who they are.

 

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The Dietz Foundation are looking for contributions1 to their scholarship funds to help round out the year.  They’ve got a couple of different ones to choose from, and most of these are also supported by their game sales, too.  Most of these are to support aspiring teachers.

 

Registration is open for the 2025 ACDC, to be held online 17-19 January 2025.  Early bird badges are all gone, but even the regular ones are less than a latte at Starbucks.

As with our previous editions of the ArmChair Dragoons Digital Convention2, we’ll be wargaming all weekend long with a variety of games, seminars, panels, talks shows, pickup games, and more. Among the fun . . .

  • …we’ve got in-print games like Oceans of Fire, Stalingrad Roads, Hannut France 1940, Pendragon, Rebels & Patriots, and Squadron Strike
  • …we’ve got pre-pub games like Order & Opportunity (Vez Arponen), Epipolae (Walonoski), Queen of Spies (Thompson & Davidson), Code: ATLAS, and Forlorn Hope (Luttmann)
  • …we’ve even got seminars/talk shows ranging from making your own minis game to a custom episode of The Chit Show to some college students presenting their game on the logistics in the current Russo-Ukraine conflict

ORIGINAL OPORD ~ REGISTRATION ~  LIVESTREAM ARCHIVE ~ AAR

 

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Waaaaaaaay more games than we were expecting this close to the holidays!

 

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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?

 

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

 

Reminder to my gaming friends who probably aren’t paying attention. There is a new Federal filing requirement for all corporations. There are major penalties for not filing — about a 95% chance it applies to you. I have an S Corporation to deal with gaming stuff.
boiefiling.fincen.gov

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— Jason Matthews (@jasondcmatthews.bsky.social) December 17, 2024 at 2:10 PM

 

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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

 

Your Year in Wargaming, 2024 Edition

We’re asking how 2024 went for you.

You can hit the survey on our site here, or you can go directly to the form at this link.  We’re interested in what you played, who you played with, where you played, why you chose the games you did.  We’ve got a few questions that were suggested to us by respondents from last year, and we’re always interested in how you found out about the survey.

Much like the solo survey, we do ask you to paste a couple of URLs from BGG, but only 1 of those questions is required and you can choose to leave the other one blank (we are working on a possible solution to this).  For now, though, we use this method to keep the data consistent and cut down on variations in spelling, or exact wording, of the titles.  The survey closes on 31 December, and like last year, we’ll go through the results in January and share what we found.

 

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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 ~ 5 January and 2 February
  • Next confirmed live event is BuckeyeGameFest, 1-4 May 2025
  • Next planned virtual event is the ACDC3, 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

 

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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

Remember when the iPhone was a new thing?

 

 

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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Footnotes

  1. tax-deductible!
  2. the middle “D” does Double Duty
  3. Armchair Dragoons Digital Convention
  4. Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin
  5. h/t Jan!

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2 thoughts on “Inaugural Bobby Nunes Award, Game Store Awards, New Releases, and More ~ #TuesdayNewsday

  1. In regard to the iPhone, the first ten years of the internet were great. Then came “smart” phones, and masses of dumb people who heretofore had never touched a keyboard suddenly found the world at their fingertips. That’s when the dumbing down began and now we’re overwhelmed with stupidity with no end in sight.

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