Just twelve days to go the Joy of Six 2024!

Just twelve more days to go to the 2024 Joy of Six!   We are in the final planning stages for the show and it’s all coming together very nicely.

Rules downloads, a podcast and Your Vote is needed…

Three main talking points this week, but as ever, I will start with the magic order number, which stands at #29252.

With that out of the way, let’s get the first bit of this week’s news out of the way.   Following a considerable lobbying campaign by many folks and a serial email correspondence bordering on harassment , (thank you Mike!), you can finally get downloadable versions of our recent Polemos publications, the American Civil War Companion, and the 1859/1866 supplement for the Franco Prussian War rules covering the Risorgimento and German unification.

This week, it's all about Wargames shows.

This week new releases take a back seat, as it’s now  all about wargames shows. However, as usual I will start with this week’s magic number which currently stands at #29200.  The casters are doing a great job as they are also busy casting up stock and orders for shows…

..all of which brings us to the main topic for today.

You wait for one Sherman ARV to come along...

Leaving all the fuss over last week’s Golden Ticket winner, it’s time to look at some new releases and at what is coming up for Baccus over the next couple of months.  But first, we have this week’s Magic Order number which stands at #29133.

Let’s start with some new releases, and this week we are mostly about making do and mending, as we’ve made available not one, not two, but THREE Sherman ARVs.  

And the very first Baccus Golden Ticket winner is...

Lindy and I are delighted to be able to announce the first ever winner of the Baccus Golden Ticket draw.

The prize for the month of may goes to Shaun Gregory.

We are really happy that it’s gone to such a deserving winner.   We cannot do better than Shaun’s own words:

The Joy of Six is getting nearer...

Hi everyone, we’re holding off new releases this week, (and we have some lovely stuff to release on an unsuspecting world), as it’s time for an update on this year’s Joy of Six show.   However, we have the usual announcement of this week’s magic order number, which stands at #29047.

Order update, TTT, new releases and the Golden Ticket. (Phew!)

Hi there, it’s Monday, so it must be time for me to do the Friday post that didn’t quite make it last week.  Apologies for the break in communications.  Unforeseen circumstances, technical issues, unavoidable thingamabobs and all that…mumble, mumble…

And you thought 6mm was small?

Hello all, and it’s something a wee bit different from us this week, as we launch a new range.   I’ll tell you all about it once I get this week’s housekeeping out of the way.  Let’s start with the magic order number, which this week stands at #28813.    Moving on, can I repeat the message from last week – we will not be attending the Partizan show at Newark on 18th May, as we will be on holiday.     We can’t take bits along for you to collect, as we will not be there!  

But, enough of the boring stuff.   It’s new release time, and this little lot may come as a surprise, as they didn’t feature in the turn of the year predictions list.   I do like to keep you lot on your toes….

It's been a busy old week...

Before I launch into this week’s waffle, just a quick word about this time of year in the UK.    The April/May period is always one of extreme pressure at Baccus HQ.   We kick off with Salute, which is like a huge wargamery black hole, sucking time and effort into itself.   We’ve only just started to recover from this event and then we fall headlong into the Easter holidays, which creates two consecutive short working weeks and usually coincides with staff taking extra days off, (post-Salute recovery mode), and when we finally lurch over the line into May, we have two bank holidays ate each end of the month.    To say that this usually creates a few problems with getting orders out in a timely manner, is an understatement.   All of which brings us to the magic order number for this week, which currently stands at #28737.  

This is a record for us, not just in the sheer number of orders turned around in a week, but also by volume of metal involved.   Prior to packing and processing, orders are delivered to the admin team in plastic bins.   In a good week we will process around 16 or 17 of these bins.   Last week, we processed 23 bins.    Well done to the team, Tony, Tom and Andrew for casting the little chaps and to Lindy for single -handedly getting them all sent on their way!

I will shortly be posting a list of the shows that we will be attending for the rest of the year....

I’ve got a Golden Ticket…

Hi there, I’m Lindy and I’ve taken over the update for this week.   To be honest, I do most of the real work around here, so it’s only fair.   I’ll do the boring bit this week, so I will let you know that the current order number is #28605.

Now read on…