Category Archives: Previews
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #85
GARPA! Special Weekend Edition ~
Invierno Cubano: Castro’s Counterinsurgency, 1959-1965 (GMT Games)
p500 $19, MSRP $28 (not there yet)
An expansion for Cuba Libre, Invierno Cubano expands Cuba Libre to focus on Castro’s initial time in charge, as he consolidated power through his own counterinsurgency. Factions include Casto’s forces, the rich landowners threatened by the socialist revolution, the escapees to the US that want to strike back at the new government, and Batista’s holdouts hoping to take the country back. It’s almost like a whole new game on the same map. Wade ashore at GMT’s p500 site to get your order in!
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #84
Give us a break… we’ve been watching football all day ~
Forgotten War, The Korean War ASL (MMP)
Preorder price $96
ASL goes to Korea… officially! Seriously, what else do you need to know. OK, how about what’s in the box? 7 countersheets and 4 maps, plus a bunch of rules additions. Now, the caveat – you need the ASL base rules to play, so in addition to your $96 here, you still need a bunch of other stuff to play. But hey, you can finally get off the Eastern front, or the beaches of Normandy, or wherever you’ve been treading water in your ASL games. Storm over to MMP’s site and place your pre-order and re-fight the first conventional battles of the Cold War.
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #83
Here comes GARPA! ~
Mark H Walker’s ’65 (Flying Pig Games)
$27k of $16k, ends 17 December 2015
The latest Kickstarter for Flying Pig is here, as previewed on The GrogCast – ’65 brings tactical combat in Vietnam to your desktop. Building on the same system they’re using for Night of Man, this card-driven game forces some agonizing decisions on you to manage your forces during intense shootouts. All the Mark Walker hallmarks are here – stunning counters, tight storylines, and fast, fun gameplay. March over to the campaign page and pledge already!
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #82
A TANKSgiving GARPA special – Black Friday/holiday sales! ~
So lots of folks are running a variety of holiday / Black Friday sales. Here’s a handful of them, and feel free to add your own in the comments below.
Turning Point Simulations is offering a free copy of Paul Rohrbaugh’s No Safe Harbor with any order between now and Christmas.
If wargaming-on-the-go is your thing, HexWar has a ton of iOS wargames at 50-60% off (some might be more than that, we’re just bad at math). There’s also a bunch of Mac wargames on sale, too.
Collins Epic Wargames is offering 30% off their entire online catalog until 12/1/15.
The Matrix Games holiday sale runs all the way ’til January 10th. But seriously, buy them early and play them over vacation. It beats ‘mandatory fun’ with the in-laws.
Lock’n’Load Publishing’s Black Friday sale includes 50% off a bunch of titles, both tabletop and digital. They also include a bunch of their Line of Fire magazines.
Pewter-pusher? GHQ has you covered with a Black Friday sale that’s already kicked in, but only runs for one day, so hurry!
Victory Point Games is discounting everything 10% if you order thru their Amazon store before 11/30.
Compass Games is offering 30% off all in-stock games until the end of the year with code “bgg30” (no quotes).
Looking for some gear to treat yourself this year?
GoRuck has a big sale going on their field gear. It’s all made in the USA and field tested by some truly insane dudes.
The boys over at RangerUp have 30% of the entire site this weekend, plus a bunch of 50% off deals on Black Friday itself.
And seriously, who can’t find a few (dozen) somethings over at ThinkGeek?
Discuss GARPA in our forums >>
Also note that we have running threads for sales, deals, and discounts on digital wargames, and tabletop wargames.
Grogheads Previews Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa
Your first look at the newest release coming from VR Designs and Matrix Games ~
Vance Strickland, 14 November 2015
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Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa, DC3 from here on, is the third in the series of operational level hex and counter wargames from VR Designs, published by Martix Games. The first, Decisive Campaigns: Warsaw to Paris (DC1), let us fight the beginnings of WWII with the invasions of Poland, France and a hypothetical Sealion. It had regiment level units with historical OOB’s. Hundreds of units representing infantry, artillery, and armoured units on the ground and fighter and bomber formations in the air for all the major combatants. Next came Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue (DC2). With the same scale of units and map it took us to the Eastern Front of WWII to participate in the massive German offensive of 1942 again with detailed OOB’s conveyed by hundreds of counters on huge maps. This game upped the detail of the supply modelling and refined some of the Command and Control aspects of the first game.
Let’s see what we can expect from the latest installment of this excellent line of games.
Note: This preview is from a pre-release beta version of the game. Some art and content may change on release.
What’s New
Title screen only the main event… so far…
The main entrance seems bare compared to the last version because there is only one scenario – the main event! There is no editor listed either but that apparently will be released as a separate entity that will work with the previous games as well. Also that that PBEM is now handled by Slitherine’s PBEM++ server system.
A plethora of options for lots of gaming
