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  • Origins Game Fair 2024 – featuring the Wargame HQ with the Armchair Dragoons – will be held 19-23 June, 2024 ~~ More Info here
  • Buckeye Game Fest will be held May 2-5, 2024, with The War Room opening on 29 April ~~ More Info here

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Buckeye Game Fest will be held May 2-5, 2024, with The War Room opening on 29 April ~~ More Info here

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RPGs & Adventure Gaming / Re: RPG Deals!
« Last post by bayonetbrant on Today at 09:39:07 AM »
Free PDF of the Star Trek Adventures 2nd ed quickstart from Modiphius

https://www.startrekttrpg.com/?mc_cid=a8132efb4d&mc_eid=5731a04b77

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History and Tall Tales / Re: This Day in History
« Last post by besilarius on Yesterday at 09:31:11 PM »
1545. Yi Sun-sin, Korea's greatest admiral, d/w, Battle of Noryang, 1598

1813  Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov, 67, Russian field marshal who bested Bonaparte in 1812-1813 [Apr. 6, OS]

1937, Vernon Bartlett (1894-1983), a veteran of the trenches and a journalist for the British daily The News Chronicle, interviewed Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (1883-1945).  Since Il Duce only agreed to interviews if a reporter would let him “review” any story, Bartlett submitted his draft report, rather than lose future access to the dictator.
When his draft came back, Bartlett was surprised to find that “The only alteration he made to my manuscript was significant.  Somewhere I had written, 'The Duce's laughter encouraged me to ask another indiscreet question.'  The word 'laughter' had been crossed out, and 'cordiality' stood in its place.  Apparently no dictator may laugh."
 
1939  Hitler claims the 1934 German-Polish non-aggression pact is still in effect

1943. air movement of B-24s from the U.S. to Europe in 1943-1944, required 18 days, following a route from Florida to Trinidad, to northwestern Brazil, to Ascension Island, to the Gold Coast or Nigeria and thence across West Africa, making several stops, and then to Morocco, to begin the final leg to Britain, or to Egypt or Libya, if bound for Italy.

mid-1944 to the end of the Pacific War, U.S. aircraft carriers lost an average of four aircraft a month while not in flight due to accidents, mechanical breakdowns, or enemy action.

1950, second lieutenants in the U.S. Army were paid nearly $2,600 a year, which was just about median income for the average American household.

1942    Nightly "dim-out" belatedly initiated on the East Coast, greatly reduces sinking of merchant vessels by German submarines

1944. William Franklin "Frank" Knox, 70, sometime Rough Rider, Republican newspaper publisher and politician, FDR's SecNav (1940-1944)
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Intel Dump / Re: Wargame Design Studio News Thread + Latest Sale Titles
« Last post by bayonetbrant on Yesterday at 11:20:31 AM »
New Game of the Week announced from WDS, Great Northern War! First time this title has been on sale. Check out todays post for more details.

https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/game-of-the-week-april-29th-may-5th

more about it here, too!

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/wdsgnw-1st/
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Intel Dump / Re: Wargame Design Studio News Thread + Latest Sale Titles
« Last post by rahamy on Yesterday at 08:37:37 AM »
New Game of the Week announced from WDS, Great Northern War! First time this title has been on sale. Check out todays post for more details.

https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/game-of-the-week-april-29th-may-5th
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Intel Dump / Re: Whats on Your Table?
« Last post by JudgeDredd on Yesterday at 06:33:42 AM »
I did give it a good go. It was on my table for almost two months think.

My wife was telling me to "Pack it up! Pack it up!"...trying to understand why I was playing a game that I kept walking away from to do other stuff.
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History and Tall Tales / Re: This Day in History
« Last post by besilarius on April 28, 2024, 05:04:34 PM »
4977   BC   The Creation, according to Kepler

399   BC   Socrates, noted hoplite, stone cutter, busy-body, executed by poison, at c. 70

1773. British Parliament passes Tea Act, leading to the Boston Tea Party

1805. With naval bombardment from USS Nautilus, USS Hornet, and USS Argus, Lt. Presley OBannon leads his Marines to attack Derne, Tripoli, and raises the first U.S. flag over foreign soil. The Battle of Derna was the Marines' first battle on foreign soil, and is notably recalled in the first verse of the Marines Hymn.

1822. Ulysses S Grant, general, 1861-1869, president 1869-1877, memoirist, d.  1885.

1937. Sgt. Maj. Daniel Joseph Daly, iconic and eloquent U.S. Marine, with two Medals of Honor, at 63.  Daniel Joseph Daly (1873-1937), known as “Dan”, was a one of those unique characters that the U.S. Marines seem to produce from time to time.
Only about 5'6" tall and weighing in at 132 pounds, Daly, a lightweight boxer in his youth, joined the Marine Corps early in 1899.  He earned a Medal of Honor during the Boxer Rebellion on August 14, 1900, single-handedly holding an isolated position in the Legation Quarter at Peking overnight against enormous odds, while inflicting hundreds of casualties on the enemy.  In 1915, Daly won a second Medal of Honor  for helping to lead 35 marines to safety when they were ambushed by about 400 insurgents near Ft. Dipitie, Haiti, on October 24, 1915.  During the fight for Belleau Wood, in France (June 5-10, 1918), Daly again turned in such an outstanding performance that he was nominated for a third Medal of Honor, which was disapproved in favor of the Navy Cross and the offer of a commission.  Daly declined the commission, saying "To be a sergeant, you have to know your stuff.  I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer."
Now during the fighting for Belleau Wood, Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Daly is famous for supposedly leading an attack with the cry, "Come on, you sons of bitches -- do you want to live forever?"
Often asked about this, Daly denied having uttered any such vulgarity, telling one reporter "You know a non-com would never use hard language.  I said, 'For goodness sake, you chaps, let us advance against the foe'."  On another occasion, however, he said that his words were "For Christ's sake, do you want to live forever," while he later also claimed to have said "Gracious, you chaps, do you want to live forever", not to mention “For Christ's sake men—come on! Do you want to live forever?"   
Whatever it was Daly said, the sentiment has certainly been expressed before.  While serving in the 61st New York Infantry during the Seven Day’s Battles in the Spring of 1862, Nelson A. Miles (later a distinguished Indian fighter and the Commanding General of the Army during the War with Spain) heard an unknown Confederate Colonel lead an attack with the cry, "Come on! Come on! Do you want to live forever?"
In addition to his two awards of the Medal of Honor and his Navy Cross, Daly held the Distinguished Service Cross, plus the French Medaille militaire and Croix de guerre avec palm, as well as two Letters of Commendation and two Wound Stripes, which in World War II would have been a Silver Star, with bronze device in lieu of second award, and the Purple Heart, with bronze device.
Daly retired from the Marine Corps in 1929, returned to New York City, where he worked as a bank guard, never spoke about his military experiences, and died in 1937.  He is buried in Cypress Hills National Cemetery, in Brooklyn.

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Intel Dump / Re: Whats on Your Table?
« Last post by bob48 on April 28, 2024, 04:16:10 PM »
Ah well, no one can say you didn't try. Whilst I love the system, I'm really not that interested in a game that just covers the one day of a 3 day battle. there are better games in the series, and, to be honest, if you are new to the series, that particular game is maybe not the best one to start with.
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Intel Dump / Re: Whats on Your Table?
« Last post by JudgeDredd on April 28, 2024, 04:12:09 PM »
Love me some chit pull.
And....up for sale.

I got really, really bored with rolling for activations for the Union and having them fail and only able to perform a Fire Order.

I was on turn 5 and the first 3 chits I pulled were Birney and Ayers (x2). Birney needs a roll of 2 or less and Ayers a 3 or less to have a full activation...both rolled high and they weren't within range of Confederate forces so couldn't attack resulting in 2 burned activations for Ayers brigades and 1 for Birney and that was me.

Salerno '43 is next.
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#Maneuver Warfare is a deck builder card game designed by a retired USMC Major (also the GM)

Not collectible, but customizable with a lot of cards in the box

Does have shared terrain the players fight over, plus logistics, C2, and cyber dimensions


Don't know much about First Folio, but it's a new one from Fort Circle where you're racing to be the first person to publish Shakespeare's plays