by Here’s #TuesdayNewsday ~ your weekly roundup of wargaming news, releases, pre-orders & crowdfunding, events, and the best content from the world of wargaming
The results of the Solo/Solitaire Wargaming survey are now starting to come out, including a video discussion with Beyond Solitaire, the Geeklist on BGG, the summary list from us, and more to come over the next 2 weeks.
2024 Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results
ANNOUNCEMENT | RESULTS | DATA DIVING | BEYOND SOLITAIRE YOUTUBE DISCUSSION | BGG Geeklist |
MORE DATA DIVING | MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES EPISODE
some of those titles are placeholders for things yet to publish
John Tiller’s daughter Julia is running the New York City Marathon again this year as a fund-raiser for the National Brain Tumor Society, in honor of her father. You can donate to the cause here, and pick up your own “Tiller’s Troopers” shirt at this link.
Julia also has a short 1-minute video that’s she’s made about her father and “Why I Run with the NBTS” that a good watch, and will bring back all sorts of John Tiller memories for those lucky enough to have ever met or worked with him.
The 2024 Fall Assembly will be held 11-13 October 2024.
- Both badge & event registration are open; still have some badges available!
- See below for scheduled games list, plus there’s plenty of space for pickup games!
- We will be back at The Gamer’s Armory again this year, in Cary, NC (just outside Raleigh)
- Event flyers in both PDF and PNG format you can share
- Swag alert ~ T-shirts (in 3 different colors), and Pint glasses
| Event Name | Type | Max# | Starts | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air & Armor: Wurzburg | Board Game | 5 | FRI 10/11 at 14:00 | 300 |
| GMT Rebel Fury | Board Game | 4 | FRI 10/11 at 14:00 | 120 |
| Raider Drop Zone | Board Game | 4 | FRI 10/11 at 16:00 | 180 |
| GCACW-Stonewall in the Valley-Cross Keys & Port Republic | Board Game | 3 | FRI 10/11 at 18:00 | 240 |
| Take That Street | Board Game | 4 | FRI 10/11 at 19:00 | 120 |
| #Maneuver Warfare: The Card Game | Card Game | 4 | SAT 10/12 at 10:00 | 120 |
| Air & Armor: Würzburg | Board Game | 5 | SAT 10/12 at 10:00 | 300 |
| GMT Rebel Fury | Board Game | 4 | SAT 10/12 at 10:00 | 120 |
| Raider Drop Zone | Board Game | 4 | SAT 10/12 at 10:00 | 240 |
| GMT's Fort Sumter | Board Game | 4 | SAT 10/12 at 12:00 | 120 |
| The Last Success (Library of Napoleonic Battles) | Board Game | 4 | SAT 10/12 at 12:00 | 240 |
| GMT Battles of the American Revolution | Board Game | 4 | SAT 10/12 at 13:00 | 240 |
| Star Wars: Armada | Minis Game | 10 | SAT 10/12 at 13:00 | 120 |
| World In The Air 85 | Board Game | 2 | SAT 10/12 at 14:00 | 240 |
| Star Wars: Armada | Minis Game | 10 | SAT 10/12 at 15:00 | 120 |
| Take That Street | Board Game | 4 | SAT 10/12 at 18:00 | 120 |
| SPI's Bundeswehr | Board Game | 4 | SAT 10/12 at 19:00 | 120 |
| Men of Iron | Board Game | 4 | SUN 10/13 at 10:00 | 180 |
| GCACW-Stonewall in the Valley-Mcdowell | Board Game | 4 | SUN 10/13 at 10:00 | 300 |
| NATO: The Cold War Goes Hot | Board Game | 4 | SUN 10/13 at 10:00 | 300 |
| TCS - Goose Green | Board Game | 4 | SUN 10/13 at 11:00 | 240 |
Hitting the shelves (and webstores) near you now!
- S&T issue #349, featuring the game Korea: The Mobile War, is now available to order
- Compass Games started shipping Victory at Sea, Original 1992 Edition but you can still grab it at the pre-order price
- Avalanche Press says that Great War at Sea: Risk Fleet is now available
- As near as we can tell, Renegade Game Studios are now shipping Axis & Allies: North Africa
- Lord of Rigel finally released and is available on Steam, winning the race with Burden of Command for “damn that took a long time”
- Hayfoot! Strawfoot! is a new release from the new Homegrown Designs (printed by Blue Panther) that continues the Huzzah! system, and covers First Bull Run
- Frostpunk 2 is also in full release and also available on Steam, if that’s your jam
- Ares Games is now shipping a couple of the NUTS titles for which they are the US distributor
- GMT’s latest newsletter says these guys are shipping this week
- the long, long anticipated Red Dust Rebellion1
- Labyrinth, 5th printing and the 3″ box to hold the expansions
- Labyrinth, The Awakening 2010-?, 2nd printing
Time to get those orders in now and then either (a) complain that it’s 2 years late, and/or (b) be surprised when it gets here sooner than you thought
- The 2nd ed of Flying Pig’s ’65 – Squad Battles in the Jungles of Vietnam is now on Kickstarter and way past its funding goal
- If you got your copy of Divine Right over the past 2 weeks, but missed out on the neoprene map, Worthington is opening up pre-orders through Friday, but they are only taking pre-orders and this will not go to retail, according to them
- Routledge is really killing it with game-related academic books – on the heels of tomes from Suckling and Massini comes Graphic Design for Board Games from Daniel Solis (with an assist from Geoff Engelstein), now on pre-order
- Trekkies can go get their pre-orders in on Modiphius’ new Lower Decks – Buffer Time card game
- Get mad at us later, but you know you’d love to spend 2025 filling out the Hexcrawl Daily Workbook
- Rapid Fire! has their Road to Carentan scenario book on pre-order with orders shipping after the Partizan show on 13 October
- Worthington’s next Kickstarter is a tabletop 4x game, Imperial Stars II Legacy Edition that’s got about 2 weeks to go
- Ed Texiera (All Things Zombie) has a new urban warfare/commando-style solo game on Kickstarter called Red Ops 5
- DNA Voyager is Ventonuovo’s latest game on Kickstarter; definitely not a wargame but definitely uses a lot of generative AI art
- Free League put their Symbaroum setting City of Eternal Euphoria on pre-order
- Civilization VII is up for pre-order
- Warlord has some new minis sets on pre-order
- American Civil War: Infantry Regiment Charging
- American Civil War: Zouaves Regiment2
- Hail Caesar Epic Battles: Roman Generals Headquarters
- Hail Caesar Epic Battles: Battlefield Vignettes (includes the HQ above, plus a spy interrogation, a desert well, and a divination scene, all of which are also available separately)
- Last week, GMT’s newsletter announced the following p500s
- Twilight Struggle 20th Anniversary Hall of Fame edition
- Small Battles of the American Revolution Volume I, The Battle of Cowpens, which is also the launch of the new “Small BoAR” line
- Reprints for: Salerno ’43, Plum Island Horror, and the 3″ box/mounted map for Downfall
Looking for a deal? Getting more bang for your buck?
- After their website crash over the Summer, the Too Fat Lardies had to rebuild from scratch, which also meant a lot of lost customer records and rather than have people try to dig up long-lost receipts, they’re holding a 20%-off-everything sale through the end of the month
- WDS “Game of the week” is Campaign Chickamauga for $29.95
- The Flash Gordon Savage Worlds box set on sale at Amazon, but still damned expensive for a Flash Gordon game
- In conjunction with their Home of the Wargamers event, S&M put a bunch of Matrix Games on sale between 30%-80% off
- Kraken Dice have a big sale on their acrylic 12pc sets where most of them are between $7-10 with a lot of options
- Miniature Market has DVG’s Battle for Stalingrad at $10 off
- Noble Knight has The Last Gamble from Compass for around $20 off
- A bunch of stuff on sale over Steam
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Scourge of War Waterloo – Wavre at 10% off for the launch
- Graviteam Tactics: Treacherous Lakes is also 10% off for its launch
- Sovereign Stars wanted to be different, so you get 35% off for their intro offer
- Battleship Avalon is early access through the end of the month, at 40% off
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This week’s best written coverage from the wargaming world
- Rocky looks at Mick Ryan’s new book about the Ukraine war
- Wargaming Esoterica plays through another Red Strike solo scenario (translated from Japanese)
- Stuart gets all Marie Kondo on his hobby collection(s) for an international move
- Space Biff takes the new Mass Effect board game for a spin
- Avalanche Press has an article about ships that never quite got into the Russo-Japanese War
- Here’s a fun one to check out – refighting the 7 Years War with the Flintloque minis in “Dog Wars”3
The best videos this week from our wargaming friends
- Moe cracks the lid on Corvette Command
- My Own Worst Enemy is thundering up Champion Hill
- Justegarde plays the Legnano scenario for Dawn of Battle
- Beyond Solitaire dragged David Thompson along for a demo playthrough of their upcoming Night Witches, along with their historical consultant, Reina Pennington
- We joked about how long Burden of Command is taking, but Zilla has a look at some actual gameplay with early code
- HissyCat has a play-along of LNLP’s new Ju-87 Stuka Ace
- Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about “weird wargames” but more importantly, the Noble Knight field trip
Various news & notes from the business end of the gaming world
- GMT’s latest newsletter talked about re-baselining the production estimates for a bunch of games in their pipeline, so look for some updated timelines for a bunch of games that have lingering in a particular status for a long time
- Slitherine will be hosting their Home of the Wargamers event virtually again, with a stream on their Twitch channel on Thursday, 26 September
- ICv2 reports a couple of big headlines, including Hasbro moving their corporate offices and CMON selling off $12 million of their intellectual property
- BoardGameWire reports that Leder Games are looking at potential video game / comic book productions with “one of their IPs”
- Rascal recommends avoiding the new DD6e4 Players Handbook, but probably not for the reasons you think
- Stonemaier Games has an interesting column where they’ve surveyed peers in the industry about paid / comp’ed reviews
- It’s nice to see Sound of Drums finally get the lorem ipsum text off their front page
- Good article on InsideGMT about map making and the evolution of the Cuius Regio map
I just submitted an event for @SDHistCon. It's going to be the first time @beyondsolitaire and I publicly demo our new design, Queen of Spies. It's a solitaire game in which you run an intelligence gathering group in a small town in Belgium during the First World War. pic.twitter.com/V1FwqVDufT
— David Thompson 🇺🇦 🎗️ 💚 (@djackthompson) September 24, 2024
It’s been a busy week for the regiment; here’s what you might’ve missed!
- Saturday Night Fights took the week off for Cyrano to join a polka mosh pit and yes there’s video evidence
- Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results 2024
- Inevitable Wargame to History ~ 1943-1945 from Dissumula Edizioni
- Mentioned in Dispatches Season 13 Ep 2 ~ AI & Tabletop Gaming
- FL(W)GS Spotlight ~ Noble Knight Games (more to come from this trip – stay tuned!)
- First Impressions of Headquarters: World War II, Market Garden DLC
- Gameplay this week
Reminder than #UnboxingDay is on hiatus until 2025, when we’ll re-evaluate its potential return
Don’t forget to check our consolidated event & convention calendar for more!
You can also submit your own events for our calendar here.
Upcoming Dragoons Events
- Wargame Days at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC ~ 6 October and 3 November
- Next confirmed live event is The Fall Assembly, 11-13 October 2024 at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC
- Next planned virtual event is the ACDC5, 17-19 January, 2025
Other Conventions & Events
- 27-29 September 2024 Czech Consim 2024 (Prague CZ)<– THIS WEEKEND!
- 3-6 October 2024 SPIEL (Essen GE)
- 11-13 October 2024 Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly (Raleigh/Cary NC)
- 13 October 2024, The Other Partizan Show (Newark UK)
- 17-20 October 2024 GMT Fall Weekend at the Warehouse (Middle of Nowhere CA)
- 17-20 October GameholeCon (Madison WI)
- 26-28 October 2024 Auck Con (Auckland NZ)
- 1-3 November RockCon (Rockford IL)
- 6-11 November 2024 Compass Game Fall Expo (Meriden CT)
- 7-10 November BottosCon (New Westminster BC)
- 8-10 November 2024 MythicCon (Charlotte NC)
- 8-11 November 2024 FoxCon (Dallas TX)
- 8-11 November 2024 SDHISTCON (San Diego CA)
- 5-7 November2024 Connections Oz (virtual)
- 15-17 November 2024 SCGCon (Liverpool UK)
Focusing on the practitioner world ~ don’t forget about our dedicated area in our forums for the wargame professionals!
- A compact, but compelling, article over at War on the Rocks compares the DoD wargames that saw what was coming in Vietnam, and what similar games are saying about Taiwan today
- How in the hell would you wargame out the devastating attacks on Hezbollah from the past week, and their long-term effects?
- Russians are redefining the concept of “naval infantry”
- This week, Mick Ryan gives you a solid end-to-end walkthru of the Ukrainian strike process and lines it up with larger principles
- The next GUWS webinar is The Challenges and Pitfalls of an ‘Authentic’ Medieval Wargame lined up for 8 October and followed by Dungeons and Dragons: Next Generation Interactive TDGs on 22 October
- PaxSims gives you a field trip report from the DSTL
Exercise Support Officers practicing using LandPower, a #wargame for running a student staff exercise here @USACGSC @ArmyUniversity pic.twitter.com/cAbhSv0TrP
— Mark Greenwald (@smarkg52) September 23, 2024
Something neat from outside the wargaming world we thought was worth sharing
That’s all for this week!
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https://brtrain.wordpress.com/2024/06/26/third-lebanon-war-2024-scenario/
You could drop the Hezbollah C2 rating by a card or two, perhaps.