All Sorts of Awards ~ #TuesdayNewsday 4/25/23

Each week, #TuesdayNewsday’s trip around the strategy gaming headlines keeps you current on the headlines

Look, we’re all going to be looking at these awards and throwing our hands up and thinking “WTAF” but the way you change that is by showing up and voting for the ones that ought to be winning.

The Origins Awards nominees were announced at GAMA Expo right after the Media First Look session for a bunch of upcoming games with different publishers.  GAMA will publicly post everything on 4/26 but wanted to give the Expo attendees the scoop.  If you’re looking for wargames in here, you’re not going to find much…  Congrats to Undaunted: Stalingrad and Polyversal and Lion Rampant for their nominations.

Social/Light Strategy Board Games Castle Panic: Crowns and Quests Expansion ~ Fireside Games Creature Comforts ~ Kids Table Board Gaming Flamecraft ~ Lucky Duck Games Long Shot: The Dice Game ~ Perplext The Finest Fish ~ Last Night Games Strategy Board Games Evergreen ~ Horrible Guild Foundations of Rome ~ Arcane Wonders Hoplomachus: Victorum ~ Chip Theory Games Planet Unknown ~ Adam’s Apple Games Three Sisters ~ 25th Century Games Thematic Board Games Dead Reckoning ~ Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) Merchants of the Dark Road ~ Elf Creek Games My Father’s Work ~ Renegade Game Studios Tokyo Sidekick ~ Japanime Games Wonderland War ~ Druid City Games Card Games Cat in the Box ~ Bezier Games Scout ~ One More Game! Sea Salt & Paper ~ Studio Bombyx Turing Machine ~ Hachette Boardgames Undaunted: Stalingrad ~ Osprey Games Children’s Game Castle Panic: Second Edition ~ Fireside Games Disney A Goofy Game ~ Funko Games HONK! ~ Sinister Fish Games The Lunch Room Game ~ EAP Toys and Games Turtle Splash ~ Lucky Duck Games Collectables Flesh and Blood – Uprising ~ Legend Story Studios Magic the Gathering The Brothers War Collection ~ Wizards of the Coast Magic the Gathering Universes Beyond Warhammer ~ Wizards of the Coast Heroclix: Hellfire Gala ~ WizKids Unmatched: Houdini vs the Genie ~ Restoration Games Miniatures Game Lion Rampant: Second Edition ~ Osprey Games Northgard: Uncharted Lands ~ Hachette Boardgames Omicron Protocol ~ Dead Alive Games Polyversal Sci-Fi Miniatures System ~ Collins Epic Wargames Rapture ~ Gravity Bay

RPG Core Blackbirds ~ Andrews McMeel Publishing Bladerunner the Roleplaying Game ~ Free League Publishing Coyote & Crow ~ Coyote & Crow Teatime Adventures ~ Snowbright Studio The One Ring ~ Free League Publishing RPG Supplements Agents of Dune ~ Modiphius Blade Runner Starter Box ~ Free League Publishing Fallout Starter Box ~ Modiphius Warhammer Fantasy: Enemy Within Volume 5 ~ Cubicle 7 Entertainment Zweihander Starter Box ~ Andrews McMeel Publishing Accessory Call to Adventure Art Decks ~ Brotherwise Games Deluxe Board Game Train Sets ~ Little Plastic Train Co. Power Rangers Zordon Dice Tower & GM’s Screen ~ Renegade Game Studios The Deck of Many Animated Conditions ~ Hit Point Press The Deck of Many Animated Illusions ~ Hit Point Press 2D Art & Illustration 7 Sinners ~ Mana Project Studios Cowboys with Big Hearts ~ Bully Pulpit Games Cult of the Deep ~ B.A. Games Everyday Heroes – The Hunt ~ Evil Genius Games Galaxy Trucker – Keep on Truckin ~ Czech Games Edition 3D Art Fallout: Wasteland Warfare – Super Mutants: Swan ~ Modiphius Frostgrave – Fireheart Elk ~ Osprey Games Omicron Protocol – Jugger the Elephant ~ Dead Alive Games Time Capsules ~ Red Cat Games Graphic Design Defiant RPG ~ Game Machinery Dulce ~ Indie Game Studios/ Stronghold Games Norse Grimoire ~ Mana Project Studio Pathfinder Savage Worlds Boxed Set ~ Pinnacle Entertainment Group Tome of Chaos ~ R. Talsorian Games, Inc. Reviews Doctors & Daleks Player Guide ~ TheRatHole.ca Doctor Who The Roleplaying Game ~ TheRatHole.ca Grant’s Greatest Games of November ~ Grant’s Game Recs Mind MGMT Review ~ Board Game Quest The Best of Origins Game Fair from Grants Game Recs ~ Grant’s Game Recs

 

The Golden Geek Awards have winnowed down their nomination list, and – as expected – Mentioned in Dispatches will have to change our name to Meepeled in Dispatches to get anywhere close to the final round.  That said, Beyond Solitaire from Liz Davidson did make it to the final round, so there’s still a wargaming podcast you can vote for.

The nominees in the “Wargame” category for the Golden Geek Awards are

• • 1212 Las Navas de Tolosa
  • Almoravid: Reconquista and Riposte in Spain 1085-1086
  • Caesar!: Seize Rome in 20 Minutes!
  • Fire & Stone: Siege of Vienna 1683
  • Flashpoint: South China Sea
  • Lanzerath Ridge
  • A Most Fearful Sacrifice: The Three Days of Gettysburg
  • Pacific War: The Struggle Against Japan, 1941-1945 (Second Edition)
  • Resist!
  • Salerno ’43
  • Successors (Fourth Edition)
  • Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa
  • Undaunted: Stalingrad
  • Votes for Women

There’s a couple of very good wargames in that list.  There’s also a couple of very good is-that-really-a-wargame-games in there
¯_(ツ)_/¯

 

New games released in the past week that you’ll find interesting

• Hollandspiele released Horse & Musket Annual #4
• Osprey Games released a new book for Sliver Bayonet called The Carpathians
• OK, so we’ve finally hit the US shipping dates for both Saigon ’75 and We Are Coming, Nineveh so they better show up soon, dammit!
• Warlord Games has a bunch of new Epic Pike & Shotte sets for sale, rather than just pre-order, including
  • Pike & Shotte Epic Battles – All-In Collection – a full starter pack, plus additional ECW and 30YW infantry and cavalry sets, plus 2 different terrain packs, all for the price of a cheap used car
  • Pike & Shotte Epic Battles – Battle Of Winceby English Civil Wars Collection – starter pack plus a bunch of ECW cavalry, and just the cost of a car payment
• Storm Over Jerusalem is sneaking out from Multi-Man Publishing, and Noble Knight has it at a discount for you, and so does Gamers Armory, which is owned by the designer
• The Winter’s Battle Campaign Study for Avalanche Press’ Infantry Attacks game is now available

 

Crowdfunding or pre-orders ~ if you can pre-order it now, here it is

• Compass Games has Western Front Ace on Kickstarter, so it’s getting close to shipping
• DVG’s Third Option is now live on Kickstarter
• Fan of pirate-themed games?  To Glory! is on Kickstarter right now
• We have a new record flash-to-bang time from when we published #TuesdayNewsday to when someone completely screwed us by dropping an anvil of breaking news on our head.  So, thanks to GMT for waiting a while 14 minutes before wrecking last week’s news update! Here are there new¹ p500s
  • Resisting Revolution: A Cuba Libre Expansion
  • The Dark Valley Deluxe Edition, 2nd Printing
  • Tyrant, 2nd Printing
  • Time of Crisis Deluxe Edition

 

Stretch your budget a little further with these deals

• BIG clearance sale over at Modiphius
• Big sale on Fantasy General titles from Slitherine
• You can get Resist! from Miniature Market at over 20% off
• Victory at Sea Ironclad is on sale on Steam right now
• S&T’s game-edition magazine sale this week goes waaaay back to issue #140 with Objective: Tunis

 

What were the Dragoons up to this past week?

• Reporting from GAMA Expo – Day 1
• Saturday Night Fights ~ “Search and Destroy at Dak Po” for “Charlie Company”
• 5 Questions With… Pat Mooney of Flagbearer Games
• Mentioned in Dispatches Season 10 Ep 11 ~ What’s On Your Table and On The Horizon
• The Giant Civ 6 AAR: Nubia, Part 13
• The Grand “Champions of Krynn” AAR ~ Part One
• #UnboxingDay!
  • Heroes of the Bitter Harvest by Lock ‘n Load Publishing
  • The MOG: Mogadishu 1993 from White Dog Games
  • Imperium Legends by Osprey Games
  • Paths of Glory Deluxe Edition by GMT Games
  • FAB Sicily by GMT Games
  • Fatal Alliances by Compass Games
  • A Victory Awaits by Multi-Man Publishing
  • Ukraine ’44 by Multi-Man Publishing
• Gameplay this week
  • The Double-Blind Battle of Eggmuhl for “Blucher”
  • Attacking the Corridor of Death (II) for “Chain of Command”
• This week in our forums
  • What are you rocking out to these days?
  • This Day In History
  • New info on patches and expansions for Stellaris
• 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 ~ May 7th and June 4th
  • Next #UnboxingDay² will be May 18
  • Next virtual event is The 2024 ACDC, 12-14 January 2024, unless we have another Connections Online Showcase in the Fall
  • Next real-world convention is Buckeye Game Fest, in Columbus RIGHT NOW (and where are you?!)
  • Next real-world convention after that is ORIGINS in Columbus, OH, from 21-25 June, and here’s our discussion thread

 

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

• 24-30 April Buckeye Game Fest (incl The War Room) (Columbus, OH)
• 18-22 May Compass Expo Spring ’23 (Meriden, CT)
• 27-29 May KublaCon (San Francisco, CA)
• 21-25 June ORIGINS (Columbus, OH) and our discussion thread
• 23-25 June WarGamesCon (Austin, TX)
• 19-23 July Historicon (Lancaster, PA)

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As announced on our podcast on 3/31

The Inaugural Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 2023
20-22 October 2023
The Gamer’s Armory, Cary NC

Details will be announced after we get back from Buckeye Game Fest, and registration will open this Summer before we head off to Origins, and will be capped around 40 or so attendees.

In partnership with The Gamer’s Armory, we’ve got our first in-person convention coming up in October, where we’ll be taking over about half of the store.  We’ll be playing games in probably the biggest vendor booth you’ll see at a convention, and making plenty of new friends.

Stay tuned for details!

As a reminder, Regimental Patron-level Patreon supporters get a free badge for all Armchair Dragoons-hosted events.

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Our fellow content creators from the wargaming world

• Rocky goes under the hood of Lock ‘n Load’s World at War ’85 Solo Assistant
• Moe is going live tonight with Whiskey Charlie, so tune in until we go live at 10pm EDT
• Gimpy Gamer digs into Heroes of the Bitter Harvest
• Justegarde makes us hate him for having We Are Coming, Nineveh before we do
• Real & Simulated Wars is playing WDS’s new Great Northern War
• Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream was live from Buckeye Game Fest!

 

News & notes from the business end of the gaming world

• Dark City Games has a deal where you can get PDFs of the games you already own, at 2/$5, by sending them a picture of the games you’ve got
• CSL appears to be working on a Ukraine  2022 game, but if you’re not on their email newsletter there’s very little info about it
• Thin Red Line Games has gone “DEFCON 2” on their reprint of Less Than 60 Miles, so get pre-orders in now because it’s going to sell out for the third straight time

 

Don’t forget we’ve got a dedicated area of our forums for the professional wargamers.

• David Axe talks about both Leo 1 and Leo 2 tanks in Ukraine
• The US House of Representatives is wargaming out variations of a war over Taiwan
  • CNAS Defense Team Conducts Tabletop Exercise for the House Select Committee on the CCP
  • PaxSims talks about the US House of Rep’s wargame about Taiwan
  • Politico report about the game
  • The AP reported on it, too, which caught some attention in different places
  • (yes, cue the expected – and horribly wrong – “just play Next War Taiwan” idiocy)
• The next GUWS webinar is Scenario Design, or How I ruined my perfect wargame with a sloppy scenario on 9 May and followed on 16 May by The Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military

 

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

Just in case you were wondering

 

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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