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GARPA 42 – GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory
This week, GARPA dips into the pre-order troves of some wargame companies, as well as tiptoeing through Kickstarter, to find you some great upcoming games.
Huzzah! Four Battles of the American Civil War Vol. 1 (One Small Step)
$39.95 pre-order
Company-level actions in the ACW comes to your tabletop in a quad-game package with 4 small, but important, battles from the 1860s. You get Grant’s first real battle, out in Missouri. You’ll also get Burnside in North Carolina, and two other fights. The colorful counters give you a solid period feel, and the maps a compact and get you into the fight in a hurry. Check out the preorder page and load your muskets!
Kawaguchi’s Gamble: Edson’s Ridge (MMP)
$33.00 pre-order
A gorgeous area-movement game of the Japanese attacks to over-run the USMC airfield on Guadalcanal, Kawaguchi’s Gamble is up on pre-order right now with MMP. Outnumbered over 3-to-1, the Marines are holding Edson’s Ridge from Japanese attacks that include banzai charges and gas attacks. Drop in on the pre-order page for the game and check out some playtest images and place your order.
GARPA 41 – GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory
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Next War: Taiwan, GMT Games
p500 made the cut – shipping date not set yet
With a $30 discount for preordering, GMT’s latest entry in the Next War line of games aims for the near-future Chinese invasion of Taiwan. It includes rules for some basic naval conflict, given the amphibious nature of the likely assault. The standard game is the ground war shootout, and the advanced rules layer on some robust tracking of airpower. It’s battalion- and brigade-level wargaming that’s not for newbies to the tabletop, but is a well-tested system for modern conflicts that has many fans in the grognard community. Go give it a look and get your order in.
GARPA 40 – GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory
This week, GARPA has some nifty little strategy games for you to check out.
The Ancient World (Red Raven Games)
$21,000 or $15,000, ends 3 April 2014
From the creator of Eight Minute Empire comes a new civ-builder set in the ancient Mediterranean with a box full o’ cards that cover trade routes, combat, knowledge, and building. Red Raven’s artwork is some of the best thematic art on the market, and although it’s a light worker-placement game, it feels like your civilization is rising from nothing to dominate the neighborhood. At $50 for a copy, this is a good deal for a game that’s likely to become a staple of any game group that’s not exclusively grogs. Go see the Kickstarter page and get a load of the game, and some gameplay videos.
GARPA 38 – GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory
This week’s GARPA? A truckload of new games on Kickstarter, and some wargaming, too!
Board Games
GBACW: Twin Peaks (GMT Games)
p500 – not there yet! Pre-order price $41
Building off of one of wargaming’s most enduing game systems (TSS first rolled out in 1976), Twin Peaks govers the battles of Cedar Mountain and South Mountain, in the fall of 1862. It’s two games in one, and both part of the series that all ACW gamers already know and love. There’s a high level of complexity in the system, but that’s the tradeoff you make for the high degrees of realism and fidelity you get. It’s the seventh GMT game in this series, so you know what you’re getting into for art and design. Jump into the GBACW series with this while it’s on pre-order; hit GMT’s site to make your pledge.
Storm over Dien Bien Phu (MMP)
p500 – 156 of 520 needed, preorder price $33
The last gasp of the French in Southeast Asia, the decisive 1954 battle set set the stage for dramatic shifts in warfighting for the next half-century. MMP’s game gives players the familiar “Storm Over ____” system to jump into their game quickly, and augments gameplay with a deck of cards. The world was shifting from a WWII warfighting mindset ot something much more recognizably “modern” and you can game it out on your table if you pop over to MMP and place a pre-order for the game.
GARPA 37 – GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory
This week’s GARPA? A few nifty KickStarter projects, and the pre-order of a reprint that’s kicking butt.
Magazines
Ares Magazine (One Small Step)
$18,200 of $25,000, Ends 3 February 2014
Remember Ares Magazine? The guys over at One Small Step sure do, and they’re bringing it back. They’ve got a KickStarter project to, well, kickstart the printing and distributing of the new magazine. They promise to include a game in each issue, and the first issue is a War of the Worlds-inspired alien invasion of London. You can also pick up the fiction-only version of the magazine, if you’re interested in saving a few bucks and skipping the game. But hurry – time’s running out on the campaign, and they need some help to get over the final hump! Head over to KickStarter and get your pledge in now >>
Board Games
The Hunters – 2d Printing (Consim Press and GMT)
278 Orders on p500 – Not there yet
This well-honored game from Consim Press – it ran away with two categories in our Readers Choice Awards – sold out the first printing rather quickly, and demand for a second printing has been building. Take command of a U-boat and patrol your way to glory through the dangerous waters of WWII. It’s a solitaire game, so you always have an opponent, and take its inspiration from the venerable B17 Queen of the Skies game for the feel of the game the designers were after. It’s on p500, and with a successful print run already under its belt, it’s unlikely to need 500 orders to make the cut, but it cold still use some nudging from y’all to move it along, so hit the p500 page and make your pledge today >>
