Compass Goes Nuts on Pre-Orders – Tuesday Newsday 15 September 2020

Yep, it’s #TuesdayNewsday and there was a bunch that happened in wargaming this week  >>>

This Week’s Headline:

Compass Games went a little nuts on the Friday webcast, and announced SEVEN (7) (sieben) (siete) (Семь) (VII) (siwen) new preorders.

• Flanks of Gettysburg
• Roma Victrix
• 2040: An American Insurgency
• Blue Water Navy: The Pacific
• A Test of Faith: The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (OSS series)
• The Enemy is at the Gates: Berlin (CSS series)
• Eastern Front Operational Battles Quad

 

Newly Released This Week:

• Dark City Games released Deceit & Betrayal in their “Time & Space” series.
• S&T Quarterly #11, with a Thirty Years War poster map, is now shipping to subscribers, and is for sale on their site
• There’s already an expansion pass for sale for Crusader Kings III to get you the first 3 expansions.
• By the end of the week, you’ll be playing Slitherine’s new Order of Battle: Red Storm DLC; it releases on 9/17
• FFG has a solo ‘bot assistant for playing their Civilization boardgame by yourself.
• Steve Jackson has a “Black Friday” pack for Munchkin so you can knock off 10 gamers from your holiday shopping before the leaves even fall.
• GMT Games is now shipping both the 3rd edition of Flying Colors, and a 3rd ed. update kit for those folks with earlier editions.

 

Newly Launched This Week:

• LG Tactics is a combat card game with some fantasy/medieval theming.  It’s well past its funding goal, and looks like a good lighter game that you can get your non-grog buddies to play with you.
• You can still get the preorder price on A Splendid Little War from Revolution Games right now.  It’s expected to ship in October.
• A German Type-7 u-boat game?  Sure!  With a laser-cut wooden model of the boat?!  Huh?!  Check out the campaign for the new Type 7 game.

 

New from the Dragoons:

• Mentioned in Dispatches kicked off season 1 with RMN and Bart Gauvin joining us to talk about wargaming the Cold War, on the waves and in the sky.
• Brant gave an extended “how to” for the way we execute the Team COIN events at Origins.
• Saturday Night Fights took to the sea, with the Battle of Lake Erie
• My Own Worst Enemy is continuing the fight at Ligny in Napoleon’s Last Battles.
• Ardwulf made a guest appearance with a reprint of an older article about monster games, and he’s teased us with a sequel to the article, too.

 

News From The Wargame Industry:

• Brian Train offers his own thoughts on Brant’s explanation of how the Team COIN games run at Origins.
• LNLP released a podcast featuring an interview with David Heath.
• John Tiller released a bunch of updates for their games recently.  Now the demo for Napoleonic Battles has been updated, too.
• Lots of sturm-und-drang about the death of wargaming…  again.  We’ll cover this in much greater detail over the next few weeks.  But if you can get 4th-graders playing Commands & Colors with Legos?  Yeah, wargaming isn’t dying.
• Our own BanzaiCat is joining the Solosaurus podcast!
• Pacific Rim Publishing are in the midst of a move, and are finding all sorts of things in the warehouse.  Before, it was a case of the old Metagaming G.E.V. game.  This month, they’ve realized they have a few complete runs of the old BattleTechnology magazine, with the special editions included.  And they’re pricey.
• White Dog Games is highlighting their September Storm as their ‘game of the month’
• Hasbro has taken control of the Avalon Hill imprint from WotC.  Does this have to do with the relaunch of HeroQuest?  And how much does this line hurt to read:

board gaming brand Avalon Hill, a portfolio that spans classic titles such as Axis & Allies, Diplomacy, the Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion

 

The Professional Wargaming World:

• Wargaming at the US Army War College
• Fort Circle Games are getting some play at the USNA Museum
• Connections Oz will be held online this year, like pretty much everything else we’ve done lately.
• Want to take a free class on professional wargaming?  The National Defense University is here for you!

Something From The Real World That You Can Use In A Game:

• How do you include “mercenary” forces in a modern game when they’re clearly state-sponsored interventions?

 

Something From Our Partners:

• Moe talks with Rob Oren on his Whiskey Charlie show on 9/15
• Last week we told you that Compass was shipping Jacobite Uprising and Ardwulf cracks it open this week.
• Dan wants to talk about anything except wargames.  Huh?  That does not compute.

 

This Week’s Tunes:

This past week on Six Degrees of Radio ?

• On The Line by Tangier
• Tracy In The Bathroom Killing Thrills / Blue Stockings by Mary’s Danish
• Four in the Morning by Night Ranger
• Rocks by Primal Scream

 

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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