by Every week, #TuesdayNewsday gives you a tour thru the headlines in the strategy gaming world >>>
This Week’s Headline:
It’s countdown time to the upcoming digital conventions, and a few that are still shooting for in-person events
- Huzzah / Hold the Line, 22-23 May
- SDHISTCON Spring Deployment, 21-23 May
- GAMEX 2021, 28-31 May
- Tactical Warfare Tournament, June 2021
- THE ACDC, June 18-20
- CommunityCon July 9-11
- HistoriKC Fest, July 30 – August 1
Newly Released This Week:
- ASL fans! How about some 3-player scenarios? Yep, the KCASL March Madness Three Player Pack is now available from Gamer’s Armory
- Compass Games is shipping Paper Wars #97, with Battle for Galacia, 1914.
- Looks like MMP are shipping Hood Strikes North to their preorder folks?
- SJG has a digital How to be a GURPS GM – Managing Expectations ebook. It pairs nicely with their previous one on Realm Management. Advice applies to other games, too!
- Matrix Games has released Caster of Magic – an updated/reimagining of the old Master of Magic – with native Windows support.
- Catalyst Games are reprinting a bunch of Battletech books, plus adding a new Recognition Guide
- Europa Simulazioni has a limited-edition reprint of The Invasion of Russia 1812 available
- Dark City Games released Village of the Dead. We’re hoping to have them at The ACDC, too!
On Sale This Week:
- Paradox has pretty much everything for EU-IV on sale at 50% off
- Compass Games has The War for the Union – Designer’s Edition and The Late Unpleasantness both on sale right now
- S&T’s game-edition magazine sale this week is Modern War #4, with Six Day War: 1967 for 33% off.
Newly Launched This Week:
- Napoleon’s Eagles 2: The Hundred Days is now on preorder from Compass Games
- Worthington Games has a 3-game Great Sieges Solitaire bundle on Kickstarter right now
- Cyberpunk + minis = a game on Kickstarter.
- Phalanx Games are taking pre-orders on the English edition of 1920 (Russia v Poland!)
- Not sure how ‘new’ it is, since you can’t sort on their site, but CSL are taking pre-orders on Trierarchs: Trireme Warfare in the 5th Century BC
- Sirens: Battle of the Bards for 5e is up on Kickstarter
- GMT Games added 3 to their p500 list
- The Pure Land: Ōnin War in Muromachi Japan, 1465-1477 – COIN series
- Battle of White Plains – BoAR series
- Dubno ’41 – FAB series
News From The Wargame Industry:
- THGC has added games to their “coming soon” page, but none of them have actually arrived since the start of 2021.
- VUCA Sims has added a few games to the bottom of their homepage as “coming soon” too: Red Strike and 1914 Nach Paris
- John Tiller has released a bunch of updates for the Panzer Campaigns series games, and you can get the list on their update page.
- Meet the design team behind D&D.
- A fun read about a gamer’s history with all the variants of Risk.
- Brian Train has a bunch of clarifications and FAQs about the District Commander series on his blog.
This Week from the Dragoons:
- The Connections Online 2021 AAR is up, and the archive page with the recordings and event details is live, too.
- Saturday Night Fights is back to Quatre Bras with a game using the Shako 2 system.
- My Own Worst Enemy is up to part 6 of the Frederick II game
- A first look at Matrix Games’ new WarPlan Pacific
- RMN dug into the mini-Midway game Kido Butai
- Mentioned in Dispatches hit the finale for Season 6, with a nice long wargaming chat with Brant, Mike, Jim, and… Mike.
Something From Our Partners:
- Welcome to the Solosaurus podcast as a new partner! Their latest review was Viscounts of the West Kingdom
- Moe is digging into High Frontier is great detail. His video series starts here.
- Ardwulf went off on wargaming awards and yes, we’re going to enlist him in our attempts to fix it!
- RMN is looking for background info to help with his Atlantic Chase games.
The Professional Wargaming World:
- Connections 2021 (aka “Connections US”) is coming up this summer, right after The ACDC, and will be held online again (thanks, COVID!)
- This week, GUWS has Wargaming at the Japanese Center for Air and Space Power Strategic Studies and next week, they’ve got Critical Theory and Game-Design: Mapping Meaning-Filled Spaces
- PaxSims has a new Matrix game on the Ukrainian conflict called Bandera.
This Week on Six Degrees of Radio:
A look at some great music from the past 60–odd years, with stories about the different songs.
- Metal Monday: Eyes of a Stranger by Queesrÿche
- Still I Love You by Candy Dulfer
- Weirdo by Charlatans UK
- You Don’t Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce
- Hannah Jane by Hootie & The Blowfish
That’s all for this week!
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