Monthly Archives: January 2016
Gaming Nostalgia – Axis & Allies
#TBT at GrogHeads!
The original big-box Axis & Allies games that started so many of us into the hobby
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2016 Convention Schedule
Your local convention… and plenty of national ones!
Which one are you headed to?
Siege of Augusta
15-17 January, Augusta, GA
Anniversary of Jutland! Many minis, including ACW, pike & shot era, gaslight, WWII, post-apocalyptic, and… uh, hmm… “steam-pig”?!
Winter Offensive
21-24 January, Bowie, MD
MMP’s key ‘local’ convention full of all things ASL, other MMP games, and late-night Eurogaming.
Tracer Rounds – The Inaugural Column
A new weekly column ~
Brant Guillory, 4 January 2016
So it’s a new year, with an updated look in our forums, and the continuing evolution of our community overall here at GrogHeads. And with the new year, we’re launching a few new ideas, starting with this one, a new weekly column. I’m going to have some regular things I’ll hit each week, but first, I wanted to take a few moments and talk about where this comes from.
First, this needs come clarifying: I’m not “the guy that runs GrogHeads”. There’s a partnership of several of us. We had a few other founders who have left the team for their own personal reasons over the years, but there’s more than just me here steering the ship, and always has been. I’m just the most visible one, because I’m the editorial content guy here, and that also translates into making sure we distribute the content through social media channels. But anyone that thinks that les GrogHeads c’est moi is mistaken.
When we decided we wanted to include ‘front page’ content – regular columns, reviews, AARs, etc – the hope was to recapture some of the intelligent, erudite, and insightful commentary we’d previously been a part of elsewhere. It was a high bar to shoot for, and it would be foolish to claim we’ve cleared it regularly, though not for lack of trying. Personally, I was hoping for the front page to become the “Grantland of wargaming” which is crazy-hard to do with our budget, which consists of a handful of free games, some pocket lint, and about 11¢. But there’s another reason why it’s so hard.
Maintenance Alert
We will be performing some maintenance on the main site overnight 2-3 January 2015, so there’s no weekend feature this week while we knock this out and kick the new year into gear.
Thanks for all your support for GrogHeads.com and go check out our forums while we work on the rest of the site >>
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.
