Sale Season Is Starting ~ #TuesdayNewsday – 11/7/23

Our weekly #TuesdayNewsday checks out the strategy gaming headlines for you

 

In case you missed Brant crashing The Chit Show

 

Games released in the past week that you’ll want to check out

• Compass Games started shipping the Russia Besieged Finnish Expansion
• Iron Coffins is a new solo u-boat game that you can pick up on Wargame Vault
• Ares Games should be shipping Quartermaster General: East Front
• Avalanche Press are happy to sell you their Great War at Sea expansion Remember the Maine
• The Fixer’s Handbook for Modiphius’ Five Parsecs From Home has been released
• The last of the NATO Forces expansions for Team Yankee dropped last week
  • French Unit Card Pack
  • French VAB Infantry Company
  • French Leclerc Tank Company Starter Force
  • Leclerc Tank Platoon
  • VAB T20 Fire Support Section
  • VBL Patrol
  • Infantry Platoon
  • 120mm Mortar Platoon
  • Mistral SAM Group
  • Eryx Team

 

Crowdfunding, p500, pledge programs, whatevs yo! ~ if you can order it now & get it later, here it is

• Compass Games put Europe in Turmoil 2 on Kickstarter, so it should be shipping soon(ish)
• Randice, for generating quick-&-dirty one shot adventures, are on Kickstarter and of course we ordered them
• Lone Canuck Publishing has some new ASL scenario packs that you can pre-order through Gamer’s Armory
  • Wacht Am Rhein 2nd Ed. Vol 3
  • Quick 6 VI
• Delver issues 11 & 12 are on Kickstarter for you OSR gamers
• New weapons teams from Warlord for their Bolt Action games
  • British/Allied commandos
  • Polish
  • Belgian

 

Here to help you save a few bucks, or, y’know… spend more than you were planning if it wasn’t for a good deal

• As noted up top, GMT announced their end-of-year sale with everyone getting 50% off of one game
• Order $200 or more from Avalanche Press and get free shipping with coupon code WENDY at checkout
• Big November Madness sale at Warlord, with 50% or more off most items
• Through Hell and Back – a solo game of B24 missions in WW2 – is on sale through Gamecrafter right now
• Kraken Dice has this ridiculous sale going on right now where all the rewards keep stacking as you order more
• Fighters of the Pacific has arrived at Miniature Market and is over $15 off
• S&T’s game-edition magazine sale this week is Modern War #25 with October War (Yom Kippur 1973)

 

There’s always something going on with The Dragoons, so we’ve always got plenty to tell you about!

• Saturday Night Fights ~ The Battle of Leipzig (IV) for “Blucher”
• Mentioned in Dispatches Season 11 Ep 7 ~ Traveller & Other Inferior Sci-Fi Games
• Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023 AAR
• A Grognard’s 32-Year Perspective on a Hundred Hours Campaign – Desert Storm: The Hundred Hour War
• My Go-To Game: Lock ‘n Load Tactical Digital
• Going back through our Armchair Dragoons’ archives: Battle Lab ~ Another “Resurgence” of Military Wargaming
• Gameplay this week
  • Blue Savannah for “Sharp Practice 2”
  • Second Battle of Targu Frumos for “Rommel”
  • Hethwill going sailing
• This week in our forums
  • The Great Emu War
  • History in videos
  • The upcoming Napoleon movie
• Upcoming Dragoons Events (and don’t forget to check the event calendar for everything else)
  • Wargame Days at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC ~ 3 December and 7 January
  • Next #UnboxingDay¹ will be 16 November
  • Next virtual event is The 2024 ACDC, 12-14 January 2024
  • Next confirmed live event is Buckeye Game Fest, 29 April – 5 May, 2024

 

Don’t forget to check our consolidated event & convention calendar for more!
You can also submit your own events for our calendar here.

• 9-13 November Compass Expo (Meriden CT)
• 10-12 November MythicCon (Charlotte NC)
• 15-19 November BGG.Con (Dallas TX)
• 25 November Battleground (Stockton-on-Tees UK)
• 12-14 January 2024 The ACDC (Online) <– info coming soon!
• 12-14 January 2024 Winter Offensive (Baltimore MD)

Justgarde takes you on a tour of SDHISTCON

 

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Our fellow content creators from the wargaming world

• Rocky dives into the Tattletail scenario for Harpoon
• Moe opens up Stout Hearts from Tiny Battle
• My Own Worst Enemy looks inside the new edition of Vive l’Empereur
• A very nice look at The War of the Triple Alliance from our man in Lithuania, Pjius
• Beyond Solitaire climbs Pont du Hoc with the US Rangers in Hermann Luttmann’s Crowbar
• Gimpy opens up A&A Arnhem, so apparently there actually are physical copies of games from Cadet Games, even if you can’t find anywhere to buy them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about CRTs

 

Various news & notes from the business end of the gaming world

• There’s a new professional organization standing up for tabletop game designers and there’s a bit of a media blitz in trying to highlight issues they purport to want to solve
• Matrix Games has been beta-testing a bunch of updates for Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2 and now you can poke around the updates yourself ahead of the full release
• WDS has a preview of their upcoming Thirty Years War game

 

Hey, we’d LOVE to have some more action in the dedicated area of our forums for the wargame practitioners.

• Videos from the International Wargaming Symposium
• What kind of tanks will the US need in the Pacific?
• Ukrainian Marines across the Dnipro River
• The next MORS Symposium is at Naval Postgrad out in Monterey, so if you need restaurant recommendations, ping Brant
• The last GUWS webinar of the year is 12 December (The Tyranny of Binaries: how wargame rules build narratives)
• PaxSims is reporting Connections North will be 17 February
• One of the GUWS students talks about the wargaming class there

 

Something neat from outside the wargaming world we thought was worth sharing

 

 

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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In a world of wargaming so grand,
Tuesdays, news spreads ‘cross the land,
Updates each week,
For battles we seek,
On the tabletops, forces will stand!

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