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Rules downloads, a podcast and Your Vote is needed…

28th Jun 2024

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.

Both are available from Wargames Vault, along with all of our other Polemos titles. 

Next, we head into the wonderful world of Podcasts.  Earlier this year at Salute, Jared Fishman asked me if we could do an interview for an episode of his 20 sided Gamified podcast.  The recording was completed a few days ago, and Jared unleashed it on the unsuspecting world earlier today.   You can find it here:

This turned out to be great fun, as due to a scheduling error I actually crashed in on the latter part of an interview in progress with Ken Reilly, the infamous, ‘Yarkshire Gamer’.   What followed was ninety minutes of Ken and I agreeing, disagreeing, agreeing to disagree and generally the both of us gently sparring all while Jared trying to keep order.   Once you’ve listened to this one, check out Jared’s back catalogue as there are some gems in there.

 And speaking of Mr Reilly, he is currently conducting the, ‘World Cup of Historical Wargames Manufacturers.' This is light-hearted competition decided by public vote in the form of a knockout competition to decide the eventual winner.   Much to my surprise, Baccus qualified for the final 16 nominees out of a final field of around 150 candidates.   We are now into the first knockout round and in a David vs Goliath match up we’ve been drawn against the might of Old Glory.   If you’d like to see us make it to the next round and a face-off against Peter Pig, all you have to do is place your vote for Baccus with the Yarkshire Gamer.

Finally, the Joy of Six 2024 is getting ever nearer.   Please to get those collect orders in to us.   We will stop taking them on the Tuesday before the show, so that means you’ve got just over two weeks to give us the list of what you need.   There are still some places left on the Afternoon tour of the Baccus workshop on Saturday 13th July, and if you’d like to take them, please get in touch – first come, first served!