On Military Matters Update 04-25-2024
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DARK PLACES: Professional Wargaming of Dark Themes
Examines wargames that are used to explore the darkest elements of conflict. Those usually run behind closed doors and rarely, if ever, reach the public domain. Sometimes these games are part of professional military activity, sometimes part of academic research. The games in this book were carefully chosen to reduce the risk of offense and demonstrate the ways of running such games, but without using current or recent conflicts as examples. They include: Bosnian Mercenary: Gaming the Chaos of the Disintegration of Yugoslavia; WMD 1945; My Aunt’s War: Civilian Experience of War; Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Gaming Surrender; Pickett’s Charge: Using Drama; The Button: Nuclear Decision Making; Exercise Hard Rock: Civil Defence; and The Tank Factory: Military Management of the Economy During Wartime. $25.00 USD
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On Military Matters Update 04-18-2024
On Military Matters Update 04-18-2024
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Achtung Panzer! Blood & Steel: Rulebook
This 108-page, full-color rulebook is a WWII tank platoon battle game for two or more players. Recruit your crew, select your platoon of tanks, and choose assault guns or armored cars. Introduces a campaign system that allows your crew to progress after each encounter and your tanks to be upgraded to be more effective in the next battle. Contains extensive tank profiles and photo copyable stat cards. Core rulebook covers Britain, Germany, U.S.A., and U.S.S.R. Additional nations, theaters of operations, and tanks will be introduced in future expansions. $37.50 USD
Discussion of 2023 Charles S. Roberts Historical Period Awards By Meandering Mike
Discussion of 2023 Charles S. Roberts Historical Period Awards By Meandering Mike
This is an excellent video where Mike explains some categories and goes in Depth on the Napoleonic Period category. He also explains who decides the categories and who then nominates games. All in all an excellent Video! Thanks to Mike for allowing us to share it here on Tabletopnewstoday.com !
Games Workshop Opens the Ruination Chamber!
The Reclusians are unleashed as Games Workshop Opens the Ruination Chamber!
With the peal of a thousand bells and a rent in the earth, the Vermindoom has begun. Blight City has manifested in physical reality and crashed into the Mortal Realms, puncturing up from its foetid subrealm. Untold numbers of Skaven are teeming out of these warpstone-tainted rifts, hunched clanrats backed by nameless horrors and ramshackle weapons developed by Skaven engineers.
These twisted beachheads appearing in the realms are deadly to even the freshly reforged Stormcast Eternals Liberators, and the scale of this disaster is so broad that Sigmar has been forced to unseal the Ruination Chamber of the Stormcast Eternals. The first warriors to emerge from its threshold are the baroque Reclusians.
are mere steps away from losing there souls, a handful of reforgings away from losing themselves completely. They are accompanied by mortal priest who are there descendants called Memorians that helps keep their souls anchored during battle and prevents them from slipping away.
The pictures below show some Gorgeous new male and female models. Three separate models are shown and though Games Workshop has released no details I would assume they will come in a unit of three. I for one cannot wait to add them to my Stormcast Army.
When the Reclusians take up arms, they are accompanied by mortal priests called Memorians, often direct descendants of the Stormcast Eternals themselves. They are an anchoring presence for the Reclusians, ensuring that the precious humanity that grounds them does not slip away in battle.
GMT April Monthly Update
Hi everyone!
I hope you are all well.
It’s an incredibly busy time at our offices this week, as our office and warehouse folks finish up our lastest P500 shipment (see below) while also transforming the warehouse configuration so that we can host the Weekend at the Warehouse here starting this Thursday.We’re all looking forward to seeing about 125-150 of you for four days of gaming fun later this week.
We have a great mix of designers and developers who are planning to attend this time. I always love seeing these team members and catching up with them during the convention and during our team dinners on Wednesday and Friday night. As of this writing, I know of the following team members who plan to attend:
Mark Aasted Mike Bertucelli Adam Blinkinsop Stephen Bradford John Butterfield
Jason Carr Ananda Gupta Chris Janiec Kai Jensen Michael Lahl Mitchell Land
Sam London Bruce Mansfield Mark Simonitch Jerry White
One of the things I always get to do at these weekends is to meet with these designers and developers and see new games as well as development progress on existing titles. So, for example (this is NOT a complete list), I’m eagerly anticipating a “secret project” that Sam London is showing me Wednesday afternoon (I’m hoping for a sports game as I’d love to see us do more of those). I’m also looking forward to checking out the newest version of Wings for the Baron that Stephen Bradford will be bringing with him. Luke and Kai and I had so much fun playing that with Stephen and friends in Tempe last summer. Jason Carr will be bringing Lenin’s Legacy, a game I LOVED when I played it with Matthias and Engin back in November in San Diego, as well as a new version of Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon, which sounds really cool, and a few new titles as well. Adam Blinkinsop has a couple of designs that I want to check out, too—a space game already slated for P500 and another that I heard about through the grapevine and am very intrigued to see. Inevitably, there will be more, and usually one or two designers bring “completely out of the blue” designs that I had no idea about beforehand. With so many talented designers and cool new games, it’s an exciting time to be both a game publisher and a game player. I’ll do my best to update you on all of the games I get to see at the convention in next month’s newsletter.
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We also had a bunch of mostly East Coast designers all together at Circle DC con about ten days ago. I hope many of you east coast gamers got to attend and play a bunch of cool games. Here’s a pic from Jason Matthews of a bunch of GMT designers and developers (and Cole Wehrle, who’s definitely a friend of GMT) at the convention:
Updates, Solitaire Play, and a Series (!) for Volko’s new design Coast Watchers!
I’m hugely excited about this new game from Volko. I love interesting historical topics that haven’t been the subject of a game before, and that’s certainly part of the appeal of Coast Watchers. But I love game SYSTEMS, and like many of you, I’ve played a TON of different systems over the decades that I have enjoyed in our hobby. It’s just not that often that I see a game where BOTH historically and system-wise I think, “wow, I have never seen anything like that in a game before,” (the last one I can remember was Jerry White’s Atlantic Chase) but Coast Watchers is such a game. Once again, Volko has crafted something amazing
On Military Matters Update 04/11/2024
On Military Matters Update 04/11/2024
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CLASH OF ARMS WARGAMES…
CLASH OF ARMS WARGAMES: Current Wargames in Print
OMM has acquired a collection of Clash of Arms games that are excellent condition and unpunched in the original boxes. Prices are listed next to each item. First come, first served.
The following current games receive a 35% discount.
1807: The Eagles Turn East – $55 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $35.75 USD)
The Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee’s Campaigns, 1861-1863 – $69 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $44.85 USD)
Barons’ War: The Battle of Lewes and Evesham – $44 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $28.60 USD)
Borodino ’41 – $40 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $26.00 USD)
The Campaigns of King David – $55 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $35.75 USD)
Epic of the Peloponnesian War – $90 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $58.50 USD)
Fires of Midway: The Carrier Battles of 1942 – $75 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $48.75 USD)
La Bataille de la Moscowa: September 1812 – $166 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $107.90 USD)
La Bataille de Lingy – $154 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $100.10 USD)
La Bataille des Quatre Bras – $81 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $52.65 USD)
The 6 Days of Glory – $45 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $29.25 USD)
Landships! Tactical Weapons Innovations 1914-1918 – $51 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $33.15 USD)
Infernal Machines: A Landships! Expansion Game 1915-1933 – $33 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $21.45 USD)
Prague: The Empty Triumph – $95 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $61.75 USD)
Summer Storm: The Battle at Gettysburg – $88 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $57.20 USD)
Triumph of Chaos V2 The Russian Civil War Deluxe edition – $134 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $87.10 USD)
Wallace’s War – $49 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $31.85 USD)
The War of 1812: Amateurs to Arms! – $108 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $70.20 USD)
War Without Mercy – $72 USD (OMM Discount 35%: Now $46.80 USD)
CLASH OF ARMS WARGAMES: Wargames Out of Print
The following out-of-print games receive a 25% discount.
Atlantic Navy: (out of print) – $64 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $48.00 USD)
Brute Force: The War in the West, 1940-1945 (out of print) – $48 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $36.00 USD)
Close Action, Volume 1: The Age of Fighting Sail (out of print) – $58 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $43.50 USD)
High Seas Fleet: The First World War at Sea (out of print) – $58 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $43.50 USD)
The Hell of Stalingrad (out of print) – $48 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $36.00 USD)
High Tide: The Cold War, 1980-1989 (out of print) – $68 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $51.00 USD)
The Mediterranean Desert War 1940-1945 (out of print) – $18 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $13.50 USD)
Persian Incursion (out of print) – $38 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $28.50 USD)
Speed of Heat (out of print) – $38 USD (OMM Discount 25%: Now $28.50 USD)
C3i Magazine Nr 37 (RBM) – Unbagging, Page Through and Content Inventory
C3i Magazine Nr 37 (RBM) – Unbagging, Page Through and Content Inventory by Kilroy Was Here. This is another outstanding C3i magazine. It has 4 games inside plus two game mods. The magazine itself is filled with great articles, including a Clio’s corner by Mark Herman on the battle of Midway.
Charles S. Roberts Awards Nominees Announced
Charles S. Roberts Awards Nominees Announced
Voting is Open
The Nominees for the prestigious Charles S. Roberts , Charlies. Awards were announced this morning. The categories have changed and include, Best Ancients Game, Best Medieval Game, Best Gunpowder or Industrial Era Game, Best Napoleonic Game, Best American Civil War Game, Best World War I Game, Best World War II Game, Best Modern Game, Best Strategic Game, Best Operational Game, Best Tactical Game, Best New Edition of a Previously Published Game, Best Political, Social, or Economic Game, Best Solitaire or Cooperative Game, Best Hypothetical Game, Best Wargaming Magazine, The Redmond A. Simonsen Memorial Award for Outstanding Presentation, The James F. Dunnigan Award for Playability and Design, The Chad Jensen Memorial Breakthrough Designer Award, and of course The Charles S. Roberts Game of the Year.
The CSR Awards are presented yearly and are based on games released in the previous calendar year. The current awards are for games published in 2023.
Charles S. Roberts Nominees Announced
Voting is Open
The Nominees for the prestigious Charles S. Roberts , Charlies. Awards were announced this morning. The categories have changed and include, Best Ancients Game, Best Medieval Game, Best Gunpowder or Industrial Era Game, Best Napoleonic Game, Best American Civil War Game, Best World War I Game, Best World War II Game, Best Modern Game, Best Strategic Game, Best Operational Game, Best Tactical Game, Best New Edition of a Previously Published Game, Best Political, Social, or Economic Game, Best Solitaire or Cooperative Game, Best Hypothetical Game, Best Wargaming Magazine, The Redmond A. Simonsen Memorial Award for Outstanding Presentation, The James F. Dunnigan Award for Playability and Design, The Chad Jensen Memorial Breakthrough Designer Award, and of course The Charles S. Roberts Game of the Year.
The CSR Awards are presented yearly and are based on games released in the previous calendar year. The current awards are for games published in 2023.
On Military Matters Update 04-04-2024
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Thank you for your continued support.
RUSSIA’S ARMY: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine
This comprehensive account covers the history of the Russian army from 1801 to 2022. Offers an analysis of military strategy and doctrine as reflected in specific campaigns, issues of manning and maintaining an army, and relations between army and society, at home and in the near-abroad. Identifies themes that weave their way through this military history: the adoption of a strategy to maintain a defensive posture in the West, an offensive strategy in the Balkans, and an expansionist policy in the East; maintenance of a large standing army; and a consistent unease about the army’s and non-Russian minorities’ loyalty to the state. $35.00 USD
THE BATTLE OF THE FRIGIDUS RIVER, AD 394: Theodosius’ Miracle
Sets the battle within the context of the political situation across the empire and the campaigns leading up to this pivotal showdown. Discusses the armies, tactics and strategy of both protagonists. Recounts the battle and reveals the natural phenomenon behind the ‘miracle’ that saved Theodosius. Analyzes and assesses the aftermath and consequences of this significant clash, which included Eugenius’ execution and the temporary reunification of the Eastern and Western Roman empires. Contains 16 images. $43.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $36.55 USD
On Military Matters Update 03/28/2024
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Talking Miniatures: History of Games Workshop & Citadel Miniatures
Two-volume set in slip case recaps the early years of Games Workshop and Citadel Miniatures. Written and compiled by former White Dwarf editor and Design Studio manager Robin Dews, and ex-Citadel/GW sales director, now head of Warlord Games, John Stallard, the book consists of a series of lavishly illustrated conversations with some of the eclectic cast of designers, sculptors, artists, rebels and similar non-conformists who in the early 1980s gravitated towards Bryan Ansell and the early Citadel Miniatures team. $80.00 USD
The army raised by Charles I in 1625 for his war against Spain – and subsequently, with France – is most famous for its failure, but it is one of the best-documented armies of the early 17th Century. First half of the book covers the origins and lives of the officers and men serving in the army of Charles I, as well as the women who accompanied them. Discusses how men from England, Scotland and Ireland were recruited, clothed, fed, given medical care, and taught tactics. Second half of the book covers expeditions to Cadiz, the Isle de Rhe, and the siege of La Rochelle and their effect on England that feared a Spanish (and later a French) invasion. Also covered are the campaigns of Count Ernest von Mansfeldt and Sir Charles Morgan and battles of Breda, Dessau Bridge, and against the forces of the Holy Roman Empire. The final chapter examines disbandment of the army and fates of soldiers and their widows. Includes 30 black-and-white illustrations, maps, and four pages of color plates. $50.00
