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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We’re finally out of our terrible twos.

Three years ago, a bunch of knuckleheads were unhappy with the current state of their wargaming community, and they were just crazy (or stupid) enough to not know exactly what they were getting themselves into when one of them said “screw it – let’s just start our own site.”

Our forums opened for business three years ago today.  It took us a little longer to get organized enough to launch our front page – remember, we had no idea what we were getting into.  But we learned, we adapted, and we’ve grown.

And all of that is 100% attributed to our members, readers, and fans.  You guys have made this place what it is, and are what keeps it going every day.  It’s amazing to log in every day and see a wargaming community that shares a love of a hobby, and so many other common interests – music, movies, sports, technology, and more.

I can’t think of a better real-world summation of this place than what we saw last summer at Origins, when a group of Grogs showed up to help us run the GrogHeads Central Command, and despite none of them having met face-to-face, were clearly old friends who fell right into swapping tall tales at the bar between wargaming events and exhibit hall shenanigans.  And they’re all volunteering to come back and do it again this year.

GrogHeads is a success because of you, and we want to take the moment to pause on the journey to world domination to just simply say “thank you”.  You guys rock.

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