by Yep, it’s #TuesdayNewsday and here come this week’s wargaming updates >>>
This Week’s Headline:
The Charlies are extending their voting deadline to 15 June. Still not sure they’re going to fill the niche that wargaming needs for a ‘prestige’ award, but it’s better than the current alternatives.
Newly Released This Week:
- MUNCHKIN WARHAMMER. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.
- OK, so you might also want to know that Compass Games has released the Designer Signature Edition of Vance Van Borries’ Decision at Kasserine: Rommel’s Last Chance
Newly Launched This Week:
- Kickstarter is awash these days with campaigns for .stl files for 3D printers. Most are kind of lame. These are kind of cool, if you’ve got a fantasy game you want to liven up with something different.
- Ventonuovo has sent out promo emails about their upcoming Black Swan game on Kickstarter, but the campaign hasn’t officially launched yet.
New from the Dragoons:
- This week, Design x Dragoons considers staffs & subordinate HQs with Mike Benninghof, David Freer, and others
- Saturday Night Fights wrapped up their Wagram throwdown
- Slavers make an appearance in the 3rd episode of Armchair Empire – the Shadow Empire 4X AAR
- My Own Worst Enemy is up to 6 episodes of exploring Don’t Tread on Me
- A classic review of a dead game… Line of Muskets was a browser-based game of the ACW
News From The Wargame Industry:
- Decision Games has a folio bundle on sale, with 5 games for $99.
- Columbia Games has some giant neoprene maps for some of their more popular games, but stock is running low on a few of them.
- GMT is still packing, and not yet shipping, their “Batch 1” of p500 orders, but some playtester/developer copies of games have gone out and pics are starting to appear online.
- Pacific Rim / Just Plain Wargames has Wellington’s War on sale this month for $75; block wargame of the campaigns in Spain.
- Against The Odds Magazine has a buy-2-get-1 sale going through the month of June.
- The Free RPG Day bundles have been announced: Starfinder, Pathfinder, Kids on Bikes, Keyforge, the Root RPG (wait, wha?… there’s a Root RPG?!), and others.
The Professional Wargaming World:
- How do you handle ‘competitive wargaming’ during a pandemic? Make it more realistic by distributing the players!
Something From Our Partners:
- Dan interviews Dr Cody Carlson
- Ardwulf has a multipart video of the campaign game of A Hot Dry Season from Patrick Mullen – part 1 & part 2
This Week’s Mashup:
An oldie but a goodie…. here’s Snoop + GNR
That’s all for this week!
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