Origins Game Fair 2024 – featuring the Wargame HQ with the Armchair Dragoons – will be held 19-23 June, 2024 ~~ More Info here
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Age of Gunpowder / Re: Bawb....
« Last post by bob48 on April 10, 2024, 06:46:15 AM »Very nice, JD. I have played the first 2 games in the series - it looks excellent. please let us know how it plays. 
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Age of Gunpowder / Bawb....
« Last post by JudgeDredd on April 10, 2024, 02:39:50 AM »8 pages of rules for a Gettysburg game? It's either shite or - nice and simply and "a game" as opposed to a learning experience.
Given the problems I had with Longstreet Attacks initially, this might be a breath of fresh air.
It's on my wishlist though
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Organizations, Vehicles, Equipment / Re: Ships!
« Last post by besilarius on April 09, 2024, 07:08:59 PM »https://www.navalorder.org/noushistoryhappenings
Not sure if this will interest. There will be a Zoom presentation on very early towed array sonars (1972) as used in the Mediterranean.
Information is available at the above website.
Not sure if this will interest. There will be a Zoom presentation on very early towed array sonars (1972) as used in the Mediterranean.
Information is available at the above website.
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Organizations, Vehicles, Equipment / Re: Ships!
« Last post by bayonetbrant on April 09, 2024, 06:38:58 PM »95
Intel Dump / Re: Tuesday Newsday! Weekly dump of wargaming news
« Last post by bayonetbrant on April 09, 2024, 01:26:47 PM »Connections Online, CSR Voting, Golden Geek Voting ~ #TuesdayNewsday
Not a ton of new releases, but a bunch of new pre-orders/Kickstarters, and plenty of other news
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/news/tn040924/
Not a ton of new releases, but a bunch of new pre-orders/Kickstarters, and plenty of other news
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/news/tn040924/
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History and Tall Tales / Re: This Day in History
« Last post by bayonetbrant on April 09, 2024, 01:08:11 PM »1271 Krak de Chevaliers in Syria is captured from the Knights Hospitaler by Mamluk Sultan Baibars after a 36 day siege
and they've been looking for alien artifacts underneath it ever since!
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History and Tall Tales / Re: This Day in History
« Last post by besilarius on April 09, 2024, 10:26:17 AM »241 BC. During the First Punic War (264-241 BC), Roman losses may have amounted to as much as 17 percent of the citizen body, as the census of 264 BC counted 294,000 male citizens while that of 240 found only 260,000.
0 BC the Roman festival of the Megalesia, celebrating the birth of Castor & Pollux
1143 Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos (co-ruler 1092/sole 1118-1143), 55, accidental poisoning by one of his own arrows while boar hunting
1195 Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelus (1185-1195) is ousted & blinded by his brother Alexius III (1195-1203); will later be restored as Emperor (1203-1204)
1271 Krak de Chevaliers in Syria is captured from the Knights Hospitaler by Mamluk Sultan Baibars after a 36 day siege
1746. old tradition in the Worcestershire Regiment (now incorporated in the Mercian Regiment), requires that two officers, the Captain of the Week and the Subaltern of the Day, wear their swords at all times, even in the mess, to commemorate an attack by supposedly friendly Native Americans on the regiment's officers while dining.
1832 Count Alfred von Waldersee, Generalfeldmarschall and Chief of the Great General Staff (1888-1891), fired for criticizing the Kaiser's military prowess, d. 1904
1940 HM Destroyer 'Glowworm' sank in a gallant fight with the German heavy cruiser 'Admiral Hipper'
1950, during the filming of The Desert Fox, director Henry Hathaway decided to shoot the incident on which Erwin Rommel (played by James Mason) was wounded in a strafing run by a Canadian Spitfire on July 17, 1944, at the actual site in France, and in the process found the wreckage of the field marshal’s staff car.
0 BC the Roman festival of the Megalesia, celebrating the birth of Castor & Pollux
1143 Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos (co-ruler 1092/sole 1118-1143), 55, accidental poisoning by one of his own arrows while boar hunting
1195 Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelus (1185-1195) is ousted & blinded by his brother Alexius III (1195-1203); will later be restored as Emperor (1203-1204)
1271 Krak de Chevaliers in Syria is captured from the Knights Hospitaler by Mamluk Sultan Baibars after a 36 day siege
1746. old tradition in the Worcestershire Regiment (now incorporated in the Mercian Regiment), requires that two officers, the Captain of the Week and the Subaltern of the Day, wear their swords at all times, even in the mess, to commemorate an attack by supposedly friendly Native Americans on the regiment's officers while dining.
1832 Count Alfred von Waldersee, Generalfeldmarschall and Chief of the Great General Staff (1888-1891), fired for criticizing the Kaiser's military prowess, d. 1904
1940 HM Destroyer 'Glowworm' sank in a gallant fight with the German heavy cruiser 'Admiral Hipper'
1950, during the filming of The Desert Fox, director Henry Hathaway decided to shoot the incident on which Erwin Rommel (played by James Mason) was wounded in a strafing run by a Canadian Spitfire on July 17, 1944, at the actual site in France, and in the process found the wreckage of the field marshal’s staff car.
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Intel Dump / Charles S Roberts Awards for 2023 releases
« Last post by bayonetbrant on April 09, 2024, 09:11:12 AM »
2023 Charles S Roberts Awards Voting Now Open
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The Board of Governors and Nominating Committee of the Charles S. Roberts Awards are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2023 Charles S. Roberts Awards for Excellence in Conflict Simulation Games (“CSR Awards”).
These nominees represent the pinnacle of achievement in the analog conflict simulation and wargaming space released in calendar year 2023. But only one of these award-worthy games can be the winner in each category, and those winners will be determined by the results of our public ballot, which is now open at https://forms.gle/SCPjWvDp7abnc9Ty5.
The ballot will be open until Midnight, Eastern Time, on May 13, 2024. Please vote, but only once!
much more at the link
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/news/2023csrvote-open/
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4X Gaming / Re: Imperial Ambitions
« Last post by bbmike on April 09, 2024, 09:04:50 AM »Nice find! I've actually been playing Imperialism 1 & 2 again lately. Fantastic games.
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Professional Wargaming / Re: Connections Online 2024 –– 15-20 April
« Last post by bayonetbrant on April 08, 2024, 12:07:59 PM »CONNECTIONS ONLINE 2024 BADGE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
https://tabletop.events/conventions/connections-online-2024
Event sign-ups will open in the next day or so.
(As always, Patreon supporters at the Regimental Patron level are granted free badges as a part of their support of Armchair Dragoons, a co-sponsor of Connections Online)
https://tabletop.events/conventions/connections-online-2024
Event sign-ups will open in the next day or so.
(As always, Patreon supporters at the Regimental Patron level are granted free badges as a part of their support of Armchair Dragoons, a co-sponsor of Connections Online)