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05/31/15

GrogHeads Central Command at Origins 2015

GrogHeads Central Command schedule for Origins

Note that not all of these listings are in the official GAMA program.  We’re not sure why, either

Event Name Event Start Date Event Start Time
GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire / Crucible of Force D-DAY! Sat. 6/6 12:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire / Crucible of Force Game Fri. 6/5 10:00 AM
GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game Thu. 6/4 1:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game Thu. 6/4 5:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game Fri. 6/5 3:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game Sat. 6/6 4:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game Sun. 6/7 9:00 AM
GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire series Q&A with the Designers Thu. 6/4 7:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Flashpoint Campaigns Q&A with the Designers Sat. 6/6 7:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Learn to Play Flashpoint Campaigns with the Designers Thu. 6/4 8:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Staff Wargaming – Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm Thu. 6/4 10:00 AM
GrogHeads Presents: Staff Wargaming – Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm Fri. 6/5 6:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Staff Wargaming – Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm Sat. 6/6 12:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron Wed. 6/3 5:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron Thu. 6/4 10:00 AM
GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron Thu. 6/4 4:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron Fri. 6/5 12:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron Sat. 6/6 3:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron Sun. 6/7 10:00 AM
GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron D-DAY! Sat. 6/6 9:00 AM
GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron series Q&A with the Designers Fri. 6/5 7:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game Thu. 6/4 12:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game Thu. 6/4 6:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game Fri. 6/5 2:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game Sat. 6/6 4:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game D-DAY! Sat. 6/6 1:00 PM
GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game Sun. 6/7 9:00 AM

 

Come join the guys at Origins and play some wargames

 

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04/22/15

The First Four Steps: Designer’s Notes For The New Line Of OSS Folio Games

Brian Train, 22 April 2015

Game Theorist and Designer Brian Train joins us for a look inside the design of his new folio games with One Small Step games.

Ed Note:  We’ve already reviewed Shining Path here at GrogHeads.

At the beginning of 2015, One Small Step Games began to publish a series of new “folio games,” small format wargames on a variety of subjects at a reasonable price. At least eight will be released during this year: four by me, two Civil War titles by Richard Dengel (Lone Jack, Middle Creek) that use the Rebel Yell! tactical system, and two strategic World War Two games by Gary Graber (Battle of the Atlantic, Fall of Berlin).

The four titles by me are all modern-era, from 1956 Budapest to 2010 Afghanistan. Most of the game designs (I’ve published (30+ and counting) are post World War Two: for me, this is an area full of ungamed topics, grimy and nasty irregular wars which inform and shape the world we live in today. I was always interested in guerilla war/ irregular war/ low-intensity conflict, whatever it was being called at the time. I’ve been designing for about 25 years, and near the beginning of my career I was one of a very few people “ploughing in the COINfield”, as it were (I’m happy to say I have more company now).

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04/3/15

The GrogHeads Reader Feedback Survey

3 April 2015

We want to know what you think about us.

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We’ve got a quick-and-easy 10-item feedback survey here, on a few different pages.  We want to know what you think about us, and a little about your game-playing and -buying habits, to help us align some of our coverage to better match our audience.  Take 5 minutes and give us some feedback, please.  Thanks!

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04/1/15

GrogHeads Announces Sale of Website

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

1 April 2015

 

GrogHeads is pleased to announce the sale of our URL to the American Rum Manufacturers’ Association (ARMA), for the purpose of hosting their newly-announced club for fans of heritage brews of the “pirate era” (1650-1840).  GrogHeads anticipates a smooth transition of content from game-focused material to greater alcohol-focused articles, including mixology, sourcing, and recovery tips.

“We are thrilled with the acquisition of the GrogHeads brand” stated ARMA’s CEO, Cordwainer Bird. “Not only is the ‘Grog’ term already strongly identified with the focus of our material, but the forum conversations of the current membership of the site indicate they already spend much of their days deeply inebriated, putting them squarely in our core demographic for the new Grog Heads club.”

“We are excited about the new direction of Grog Heads,” remarked Chief Check-Cashing Officer Craig Handler.  “Especially since my direction is now ‘South’ toward the private island I was able to afford.”

“Honestly, I don’t expect to see many changes,” noted Brant Guillory, former content manager.  “The forums will still be a mixture of insanity, debauchery, and bad puns, and no one will ever notice the front page is something different.”

Among the new features planned for the forums are an “auto-ignore” criteria that members can set to filter posts from other members based on a lengthy questionnaire of previous media consumption (such as classic movies and TV shows), musical preferences, knowledge of obscure comic-book continuity trivia, or preference for real-time vs turn-based games.  Thus when a previously-deficient forum members reclaims his man card by eventually watching Saving Private Ryan, for instance, his posts will now appear in your forum view, as they would be above your auto-ignore threshold,

Watch for the new website rollout over the next 72 hours.  Or don’t.  Since you’re not likely watching the front page anyway.

 

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