Zenobia Award Finalists Announced and More! ~ #TuesdayNewsday

Welcome back to #TuesdayNewsday, where we keep you informed on the latest in wargaming

 

As noted on their official website, the 2024 Zenobia Awards have chosen their finalists to go through the rest of the process, and BoardGameWire has a nice article about the process and synopses of the finalists

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We’ve had our convention listings down below in the news for a while now, but hadn’t updated the actual calendar page on our site in a year or so.  That’s been fixed!

• Added over 70 conventions to the calendar
• Subscribed to 2 different calendars w/ minis wargaming events on them
• Updated the convention-only extract table below but for some reason it won’t correctly sort on “date”

 

The 2024 Fall Assembly will be held 11-13 October 2024.

• Both badge & event registration are open; still have some badges available!
• Event flyers in both PDF and PNG format you can share
• Swag alert ~ T-shirts (in 3 different colors), and Pint glasses (plus some on-site exclusives you’ll have to be there to get!)

We’re still moving things from the “to-do” list to the “done” list:

• DONE: finalized official event schedule; plenty of space to add pickup games
• TO-DO:  print the table signs with the event schedule for that table for the weekend
• DONE: Catering order for Saturday snacks
• TO-DO: Reservation for Thursday night pre-con hangout
• DONE: Badge design for physical badges
• TO-DO:  Print the actual badges (Friday morning; waiting for last-minute registrations)
• DONE:  Flyer design and digital distribution
• TO-DO:  Print some more to distribute around town for local audiences
• DONE:  Ordered some attendee swag
• TO-DO:  Get it here through shipping so we can have it ready for attendees!
• DONE:  Checked a lot off of the to-do list
• TO-DO:  Put more stuff on the list

We’ve got a dozen folks coming in from out of town, so there’s no reason for geography to be a limiting factor on you joining us for the convention.  It’s only going to get bigger, badder, and cooler; get in early so you’ve got bragging rights for the future!

 

Hitting the shelves (and webstores) near you now!

• Warlord Games and Osprey Games have jointly released the 3rd edition of the core Bolt Action rulebook; Osprey order here and Warlord order here¹
• Compass started shipping Breaking the Chains 2.0 for all your South and East China Sea hot war shenanigans
• Oy vey…  Red Sash Games released Dreams of Empire, their latest Lace Wars series game, buuuuut – it’s not mentioned on their homepage at all, the email announcing its release didn’t include a link, or even a mention of what series the game belongs to, and on the game series’ page it’s at the bottom of the damn page; seems counter-intuitive to make your customers work that hard to (1) find your new game, and (2) give you money for it.  Anyway, you can get $50 off until 15 October if you order now
• Wargames Illustrated issue #442 is available
• Now that Kickstarter backers have their copies, Free League has released The Electric State to the public; grab it now so when the big movie gets released next year you can brag about being ahead of the curve
• Muchkin Shadowrun⁉️  Why not?
• OSG’s latest newsletter says they’ve pieced together about 20 copies of Napoleon at Leipzig so act fast to fill in that hole in your collection
• Brian Train released a new freebie on his site called High-Rise and you can download the PDF here
• Strategemata released Crete, 20-22nd May 1941
• BluEncore shared a booth with Fort Circle at GAMA Expo to show off their game War of Civilizations that’s now available for retail
• Osprey also released their Through the Hedgerow RPG
• Steve Jackson Games started shipping Hexagram issue #13
• Napoleonic artillery batteries from Warlord Games
  • Napoleonic Spanish Horse Artillery Battery
  • Napoleonic Prussian Horse Artillery Battery (1813-1815)
  • Napoleonic Prussian Foot Artillery Battery (1813-1815)
  • not artillery but still cool: Napoleonic Portuguese Cavalry Regiment

 

 

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

• Just in from our buddy Ed²– Mayfair Games has a deal in place to import some English language versions of Weimar: The Fight For Democracy with a planned ship date of Q4 2024 and you can pre-order now on the Mayfair site
• Fortress Games have a new version of Save Afghanistan, Comrade! in a box with a mounted map, officially on pre-order while they wait for it to arrive
• Flames of War’s next focal point are the Late War Leviathans with all sorts of oversized tanks
• Draco Ideas put their new ONUS! Triumviratus book / expansion on pre-order
• Rock Manor Games launched StarDriven: Gateway on Gamefound
• Rome Must Fall is a roll-&-write game now on Kickstarter
• Osprey doesn’t usually put things on pre-order this far out, but Line of Fire: Burnt Moon is an all-new game in the Callisto universe that can be pre-ordered now but won’t get released ’til June of 2025
• Some more Warlord stuff on pre-order
  • American Civil War Infantry Brigade (Charging)
  • American Civil War Zouaves Brigade

 

Looking for a deal? Getting more bang for your buck?

• WDS “Game of the week” is Panzer Campaigns – Scheldt ‘44 on the anniversary of the start of that battle, and it can be had for $29.95
• Dice Envy has their new “trick or treat” jack-o-lantern themed mystery bags with 3 dice sets in each, at 10% with coupon code PERMPKINS at checkout
• Miniature Market has the new Axis & Allies: North Africa at almost 30% off
• Steam’s got a big “turn-based RPG fest” sale going on right now

 

This week’s best written coverage from the wargaming world

• Rocky looks back at Mahan, budgets, seapower, and “$eapower”
• Wargame Design Studio tells you all about scenario design
• Wargaming Esoterica dives into Doomed Battalions, the new ASL module
• Space Biff talks about Kurt Vonnegut’s GHQ
• Avalanche Press has an article about modernization and the battleships from Pearl Harbor

 

The best videos this week from our wargaming friends

• Moe opens up Into the Whirlpool
• My Own Worst Enemy rips shrink on For The People
• Bill recaps his trip to the Barrage convention
• Beyond Solitaire has an interview with the designer of Red Dust Rebellion
• Meandering Mike reviews his September arts & crafts products
• Ardwulf’s counter clipping stream talked about Fantasy Wargames and amazingly stayed on topic for pretty much the whole show

 

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

• ICv2 reports on the dockworkers’ strike that just launched today, and its potential impact on games
• BoardGameWire tries to sort through the Lorcana lawsuit
• Mitchell Land talks about the reprint of Next War: India-Pakistan on InsideGMT
• Rascal talks about their new staffers³, and we did confirm that the “wargaming” staffer is focused more on 40K and other minis and not at all worried about more traditional tabletop wargames
• S&M held their Home of the Wargamers virtual event last week, and you can watch most of the video here

 

It’s actually been a really busy week for the regiment; here’s what you probably missed at least part of!

• Saturday Night Fights ~ The Battle of Teugn-Hausen (3) for “Lasalle 2”
• Mentioned In Dispatches Season 13 Ep 3 ~ Solo Wargame Survey Wrapup
• Data Diving Into the 2024 Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey
• Behind the Scenes at Noble Knight Games
• Scramble: Battle Of Britain, Early Impressions
• A Bear and a Dart enter a bar(fight) ~ NORAD 3 from Banzai Magazine Vol. 22
• Gameplay this week
  • Operation: CHARNWOOD the Battle for Galmanche (IABSM)

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 ACDC⁴, 17-19 January, 2025

Other Conventions & Events

• 3-6 October 2024 SPIEL (Essen GE)<– THIS WEEKEND!
• 11-13 October 2024 Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly (Raleigh/Cary NC)
• 11-13 October 2024 HAHMGS Call to Arms 2024 (Kansas City MO)
• 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 while ago, the MadSci blog from TRADOC asked wargamers to weigh in on some particular lessons they were taking from wargaming and have started publishing the feedback, with part 1 here and more (presumably) coming
• Ian Sullivan dropped a fantastic article with reflections of playing a “red” commander in practitioner wargames and of course released it right after #TuesdayNewsday went live last week
• WOTR has a podcast on The Emerging Emphasis On Enlisted Wargaming but it’s behind their paywall
• New leader at NATO
• Obstacles don’t care whose side you’re on
• This week, Mick Ryan talks about the immediate future of the Ukraine war
• 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 looks at the latest issue of Simulation & Gaming

 

 

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

The hair!

 

 

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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