The SITREP Podcast

Spetsnaz, SAS, US Marines, Zulus and Grande Armée, Oh My!

We are back with our next exciting adventure! We talk about many things including what is new in the news and what hobbies we have been doing.  There is talk about the next Zero Dark Thirty Kickstarter, Oriskany Jim's next Battlegroup game taking place in the Pacific as well as an upcoming game involving Zulus!  

 

Grab your brush or cuppa and let's hit it! 

We Are Back! Napoleonics in 12mm and Future State of the Podcast!

We are back after our break and we have a lot to talk about. There is gaming news and we highlight Warlord Games' Epic Battles Waterloo Battle Sets. We also through around ideas on the direction we want the show to go! 

Birth of a Game and Death of a Game, also Last Stands

Welcome back! We are back to present the next episode of the the podcast. Today we talk news, games that are growing and games that are ending. Lastly, we talk about playing games as the underdog. Grab you drink and let's go!

 

News Links: 

Spectre Miniatures

Dust 1947 killed by Rona

Front Rank Miniatures

Origins Game Fair

Historicon 2021

GENCON Twitch Channel

Skirmish Games with GI JOE and Building the perfect 2 Player Starter Set!

Join us for an enlightening episode as we talk all things related to historical wargaming. We talk about our latest hobby projects as well as the most recent news (Links Below). Then we talk about using SITREP Skirmish Rules to play battles with 3 3/4 GI Joes. Lastly, we talk about creating the ideal 2 player starter set. We want to hear your ideas about what is your perfect set and your ideas for the topic for our next show, you could win a SITREP Podcast T-Shirt!

 

News Links:

https://community.ttcombat.com/2021/09/08/wild-wip-wednesday/?fbclid=IwAR0_Lz6ZHU1JPCLWsQ0Pqaaaup8tTmw75OT2xvCcZsPwwEXFJcpv7TcUiCo

Its been a long time, months in fact, since we teased some of the new Wild West range, so I think its about time we got that show back on the road!

 

https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?u=75ba7a1e3437d30267e2b8479&id=58988d9160&fbclid=IwAR3IQr4kgoiNbmJuk6jSX4ACWDM1l8d2zDR871juUSXoRA8BGTpZ-uXmpfw

https://www.facebook.com/HMGSMidwest/

Autumn Wars has had to be canceled.

We have lost our venue due to the increase of the Delta variant.  Trinity University has recently undergone a high spike in positive cases.  Their main goal during these times is to keep their students safe.  (and rightly so) We were among a number of events that had to canceled.  We did have short time to seek out an alternate location, but logistically, none were viable.  The BOD apologizes for the inconvenience this may have caused.  Badge refunds will be available via Table Top Events,

 

HISTORICON 2021

https://www.hmgs.org/mpage/HconHome  NOV 10-14, 2021 Valley Forge Casino King of Prussia, PA

9-15-2021 - The event and tournament PELs are now available. War College, etc. will be up soon. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.hmgs.org/resource/resmgr/historicon/hcon_21/9-15-2021_game_pel.pdf

Registration is not yet open but probably soon. This year’s theme is Aircraft of War: Balloons, Bombers, Helicopters and more.

 

https://www.beastsofwar.com/modern-warfare/victrix-games-12mm-world-war-2-half-tracks/

Victrix Games has added a new plastic kit into the mix for those of you wanting to build on your 12mm World War II force on the tabletop. M3 Half-Tracks for the Allies are heading out onto the battlefields of Normandy and beyond

 

GENCON in progress in Indy  Can’t make it?  There’s plenty to check out on GENCON Online https://www.gencon.com/online for a full schedule of streaming events.

 

Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy: Two Thin Coats Kickstarter Paintshttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/transatlantisgames/duncan-rhodes-painting-academy-two-thin-coats-paints?fbclid=IwAR0yzoVeSHTMqwxXyjNGcoFxLP6QKtYA4RRryKPEHUEauhoYPfBsxXF4ank&ref=7ed2c8&utm_campaign=BK-PD-7ed2c8&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=duncan-rhodes-two-thin-coats.projectdomino18.com

54 colors, 6 washes- pledges from $4 for one bottle to all in for $192 for 60 bottles

 

Sarissa Precision Terrain OPERATION MARKET GARDEN

https://sarissa-precision.com/collections/operation-market-garden?fbclid=IwAR0Wuec7P30C5fsxzBKQ3L9pAtaC6JG9mwegZVCaTkD-V6T0wj5rPokuZus

Operation Market Garden 17 September 1944 - Objectives, seize a series of nine bridges with airborne forces, land forces swiftly following over the bridges. Liberate the cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen, create a 60 mi (97 km) salient into enemy-held territory, limiting V-2 rocket launching sites...

Solo Wargaming: What is your game of Choice? Game Creation, what drives us to make new games?

Join the crew as we catch up on our gaming and hobby time as well as what is in the news. We chat on about solo wargaming and how we each go about it. Lastly, we discover we have created a lot of rules and games for others to play. Join us for a great show!

Real Time Wargaming, Honoring ClassicWargames and Butterbar to Four Star Talk!

Welcome back operators! In today's show we talk about some brief news and give our thoughts on a recent post on the Spectre Miniatures Facebook page about gaming in real time with the current events. Also, we delve back in the the glory days of Hex and Counter wargaming. Finally we start building the foundation of what will be our particpation career campagin "Butterbar to Four Star".  Let us know what you think. Grab your favorite beverage and let's hit it! 

Force on Force Series and SITREP Career Participation Campaign Coming Soon! A possible contest too!

Welcome back! We have an awesome show for you today! We announce Marty's promotion to New Anchor and we talk about miniature games vs board games which leads us to our new and exciting announcement: the SITREP Career Participation Campaign we will be creating where you can join in too! Also, we talk about Force on Force and doing a series exploring the rules and each campaign book. Join us for a great show!

Wargaming and Conflicts: Which ones are Okay?

So what was supposed to be a short topic of what where they thinking becomes the entire show. Is there certain conflicts that should be taboo? Example "The Troubles" by Compass Games that is soon to be released. 

 

*** This one is touchy and we only discuss it with the upmost respect ***

Warfare in the Falkland Islands and in Space?

Join us as we catch up on the news and what we are doing in hobby. Also, we talk ACW, Falklands War and SPACE FORCE!

War of Independence, Battle of Gettysburg, Siege of Vicksburg and other Big Battles this week in Wargaming.

The new and smaller team (now all American) are back and talk about our projects, new minis and games. We catch up on our history with big battles that happened this week. Much more Empress Miniatures Vietnam as well as many more! 

D-Day Special

Talking about remembering the impact of D-Day not only on WWII but on history. How could you game the battles today? Was there events that should not have happened? We also talk about people we lost and remember as well as military figures we would love to sit down and chat with. 

 

News: 

Battlefront Miniatures - Team Yankee - West Germans
https://www.team-yankee.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=7225

 

Firelock Games - War Stories WW2 RPG

https://www.firelockgames.com/firelock-games-historical-world-war-ii-rpg-announced/

 

Warlord Games - Bolt Action - British and Inter Allied Commandos
https://warlord-community.warlordgames.com/incoming-british-inter-allied-commandos/

What Was Your Greatest Influence to Get Into Wargaming? What Are Your Post COVID Plans?

With parts of the world beginning to come out the other side of Covid and vaccinations continuing has your attitude changed towards gaming post Covid and if so how? 

Who or what was your greatest influence to get into wargaming? How do you pass that excitement on to the next generation?

 

News Links:

Grey For Now Games - Test of Honour

https://mailchi.mp/3be818e1c0ec/newsculpts

 

Perrys Miniatures - War of the Triple Alliance

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product-category/metal-ranges/war-of-the-triple-alliance/?orderby=date

 

Warlord Games - Epic Battles American Civil War

https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/pre-orders?page=2

 

Fireforge Games - Byzantine Cataphracts
https://www.facebook.com/Fireforge.Games.Miniatures/posts/first-look-to-our-byzantine-cataphracts-6-resin-models-long-spearmace-options-or/3097809970238306/

 

Triton Noir - V-Commandos
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/135116486/v-commandos/description

 

Spectre Miniatures - Insurgent PMCs

https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/mercenaries?sort_by=created-descending

 

Battlefront Miniatures - Flames of War

https://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=7238

 

Rubicon Games - Everything
https://www.facebook.com/rubiconmodels/

Live From Little Wars Convention: Friday Special

Join Marty, Chris and Bill live from the Little Wars Convention! This is the first in person convention we have been able to attend since 2019! Bear with us as we work out all the kinks in our equipment as go mobile!

Paints, Brushes and the Game You Never Played. We announce the Youtube Winner!

The crew is light today and Bill and Marty take on the news while Gaz plays Army. Marty gives us the news and we talk about our choices in paints and brushes. We then talk about the games we have missed out on. We announce our Youtube winner!

 

Happy Easter! We Did it! Giving Away Prizes and Games.

Welcome back players! It is Easter weekend and the team has the holiday off, except for SITREP 6 (Bill). I wanted you all to have a nice show and I ramble on about many things including thining the herd (Games and pile of shame). We hit 500 plus subscribers on Youtube and are so close on Facebook! Help spread the word! We will have a prize announcement video coming out on Youtube soon! I also talk about thinning out my collection and offering some give aways. We are recruiting and would love to have you join the show or contribute to the channel! 

LOST EPISODE: Oriskany is Away the Kids Will Play! We Go Off of the Rails...Sort of!

We found the lost episode!!! We promise you will love this one!!! We have lost our minds! 

 

Big Jim Oriskany is on leave, so the rest of the team get a little slap happy. We talk about hobby and news and then breakdown games we would like to see cross over from board games to the miniatures table. Also, where does Warlord Games go next with Epic Battles and finally what is the best option for building your terrain? 

 

Bobmack3d - 3D Printable US Vehicles of the Vietnam War, for Wargames, in 15mm (1/100), 20mm (1/72) and 28mm (1/56) scales.

 

A little under a week to go on our previous podcasts guests KS, if you’re looking for some US Vietnam vehicles as STL files then I think you will struggle to find a more detailed set available. Both Brad Sanders and Bob McKenzies Kickstarter has some truly loving looking vehicles available with a real authentic look and options to get them with stowage too.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bm3d/3d-printable-us-vehicles-of-the-vietnam-war-for-wargames/?fbclid=IwAR2Soez2E6suu3_jvMEwOQMki4nWCTjrVJDsF0dS2dD1pYTnA2H-EiBfeh0

 

Test of Honour 2nd Edition - Ashigaru with Ozutsu

 

This new unit sees the Test of Honour rang add more to their black powder arsenal in the form of Ashigaru with Ozutsu. This deadly weapon is practically a hand held cannon, although it gives up some of its range to other weapons like the musket the extra damage it can dish out more than makes up for it. If these in standard format are not enough you can even upgrade them with a couple of traits, namely ‘smoke clouds’ and ‘too much gunpowder’. These traits add a little bit more flavour to the unit and the battle giving you a little more cover and a little more punch but beware that extra gunpowder charge could end blowing up in your face.

 

https://testofhonour.com/collections/miniatures/products/ashigaru-with-ozutsu

 

Flames of War - German Bagration Book

 

Bagration: German is the third of the German books for the Late War series, with D-Day German and D-Day: Waffen SS already having been released and showing the quality of these great force selection series. It is the second release for the Bagration series following swiftly on the heels of the Soviet book and gives details on formations and available fighting forces for this theatre. 

Bagration: German covers Germany’s fighting forces for the Eastern Front including options to fight from Finland in the north to Romania and Hungary in the south from January 1944 to January 1945.

These books are always great quality and a solid product containing a nice mix of history and game related detail to field great looking 15mm forces in the WW2 setting.

 

https://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=7185

 

Footsore Miniatures & Games with Warhost - The Barons War Kickstarter

 

This continuing KS built series sees the third Barons War fundraiser open as we record this podcast today. This medieval miniatures range in 28mm has captured the attention of a lot of historical gamers and continues to be well funded with each new series release. This latest one named ‘Death and Taxes’ will see new rules and miniatures for use in the Magna Carta Conflict of 1215-1217. This latest KS will not only feature new rules and miniatures but is also supported with some terrain options from Lion Tower Miniatures. This is great to see as their releases become more comprehensive to give you a heavily fleshed out skirmish game now with opposing forces, themed rules and campaign and supporting scenery.

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hobbers/the-barons-war-3-28mm-medieval-miniatures

 

Sitrep Podcast - New logo and soon to be available Merch

 

Lastly we would like to give a little it of a shout out to ourselves. We decided that it was time to freshen up the logo into a format a little more friendly for 

use and have a brand new original from Jim Oriskany Designs. Jim along with a couple of the team members kicked around some ideas and settled on an old favourite and friend to all allied ground troops. We wanted something that would strike fear into the hearts of our enemies, something that would announce its presence with the whirr of its gun and gentle tinkling of falling brass. The A10 Thunderbolt is now the new official logo of the Sitrep Podcast.

 

https://www.facebook.com/SitrepPodcast

Bob Mackenzie, Tanks and Gaming Burnout?

Hello Players! We have a big show for you today! We have two guests inhouse to talk about their Kickstarter. We bring you the latest news and in turn talk about an obscure battle during WWII that we were not familiar with. The conversation takes a turn to how to bring in youg players and adjust complexity of games. Gaz talks about burnout (Say it ain't so!) We finally talk about possible game in a real world setting that is very recent. 

Links: 

• https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/pre-orders/products/d-day-the-us-sector-campaign-book?variant=33217534787664 Warlord Games - Bolt Action - This 150+ page book focuses on the conflicts of the US Sector in 1944, from the road to Carentan to the assault on Fort Montbarey. This book allows you to recreate the actions of not only the US forces, but other Allied Forces in the Sector, ranging from SAS, Partisans…In addition there is a themed miniature of War Photographer Robert Capa as part of this pre-order.
• https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/epic-battles-american-civil-war Warlord Games - Epic Battles: American Civil War - sees a whole host of items go up for pre-order. Amongst those available there are Union and Confederate Brigades, Cavalry Brigade, Iron Brigade, Zouaves Regiments, Union and Confederate force bundles, trees, scenery packs, paint sets as well as a starter set.
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wowbuildings/wowbuildings-relives-kellys-heroes?ref=ksr_email_user_new_project_from_creator_youve_backed WOWBuildings - Play out the film and the assault of the bank, all you need to create the town centre from the film, created from the actual buildings located in the town of Vizinada where the film was shot. This is a specially priced themed KS, two packages are available, there will be no bonus or stretch goals as its part of a continued themed KS outlook, this will enable you to get all of the files from the set and to get them as soon as the payment process is finished come the end of the KS, so no wait time, get stuck in and create your gaming table. You get the entire town center set up as shown below, but if you want to go that little bit further you can add a further 10 buildings, 5 ruins, and 5 complete, these are based upon buildings and ruins from the actual town of Vizinada so basically everything is on the theme for a complete setup.

• https://mythicgames.net/kickstartercampaign Mythic Games - Rainbow Siege 6 Boardgame - Coming this summer, we have put in a link below to their teaser 15 second video which gives you very little but does say going to KS Summer this year.
• http://www.hmgsmidwest.com/category/little-wars/ Have one of the team who has previously attended chat about the event.
• https://bobmack3d.com/bob/

Ghost Ops Kickstarter, Entry Games, Collateral Damage; what else can you ask for?

Welcome back PLAYERS! In this episode we are talking with J. from Feral Games Inc. about his next Kickstarter: Ghost Ops Second Strike. We then hear Gaz get all flustered with the news. Big Jim talks about Collateral Damage during games and Marty talks about what is the best way to get new gamers? Bill finishes out the show with Convention updates. 

 

In the News: 

1. https://www.facebook.com/victrixlimited
   Vitrix are adding to their 28mm Napoleonic range with some cavalry options. This will allow you to build either British Dragoons or Scots Greys with the kit containing the different heads to do one or the other. Following soon we will see a trumpeter and an officer before they move onto the Household Cavalry.
2. https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/new-set-announcement-boxer-rebellion?_pos=3&_sid=ec30d95b7&_ss=r
   https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/boxers-ready-for-tooling?_pos=2&_sid=ec30d95b7&_ss=r
   Wargames Atlantic is bringing the Boxer Rebellion to us as we see their new miniature line move into the tooling stage in preparation for production.
3. https://www.facebook.com/mailempressminiaturescom
   Empress Miniatures are continuing to expand their Vietnam miniature range and are this time bringing some elephants to the table.
4. https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/hmv?mc_cid=4c7ff28e74&mc_eid=9b7426eda3
   https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/weapons?mc_cid=4c7ff28e74&mc_eid=9b7426eda3
   https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/drones?mc_cid=4c7ff28e74&mc_eid=9b7426eda3
   Spectre Miniatures have plenty of stuff back in stock from HMV variants, weapon enhancement for vehicles and drone options.
5. http://kck.st/3qO1Epu Footsore Miniatures Savage Frontier Kickstarter FIW (meet funding in 90 minutes. 

 

Proxies, Scales and Big Games: What is Your Thoughts?

In todays show we look at over and underrated games, what is your choice? We talk about proxies and their place in gaming along with what is the best scale to play a combined arms game. Of course we bring you the news and much, much more! 

Absolute Emperor from Osprey Games

https://ospreypublishing.com/absolute-emperor

Quartermaster 3D - 5 Days to go for their War In Iraq Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qm3d/war-in-iraq-28mm-modern-warfare-miniature-stls?ref=project_link&fbclid=IwAR2QQUFHnhDHhUWrnh2L10_BcSdjQxaDnTXNZv2oNRsre-PKkfhdedviCsk

Back Order is Back Spectre Miniatures

https://www.facebook.com/spectreminiatures/

 

 Win a Spectre Miniatures Delta Force Prize!!!

Tanks and Warthogs, What could go wrong? Also Terrain and Home Brewed Rules (Rules Bashing)

Welcome back operators! We are diving into a great show with all kinds of talk and laughs about military wargaming. This week we talk about whats new and we go off on a wide path talking tanks and Warthogs (A10 Thunderbolt IIs, that is). What else could be better to help you get the creative Juices flowing.  So grab your cuppa and let's hit it! 

 

Spectre Miniatures -

Have started to have STL files on their online shop

https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/stl-files?mc_cid=cbe3fe6696&mc_eid=9b7426eda3

New Delta Range

https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/delta?mc_cid=9d8a2e294a&mc_eid=9b7426eda3

2. Plastic Soldier Company

North Africa WW2

British 8th Army Platoon

https://www.theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/product/british-eighth-army-platoon/

German Afrika Korp Platoon

https://www.theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/product/british-eighth-army-platoon/

Northag British Fox Patrol

https://www.theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/product/northag-fox-patrol/