The SITREP Podcast

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 Germanshttps://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 Commandoshttps://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 Cataphractshttps://www.facebook.com/Fireforge.Games.Miniatures/posts/first-look-to-our-byzantine-cataphracts-6-resin-models-long-spearmace-options-or/3097809970238306/
 
Triton Noir - V-Commandoshttps://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 - Everythinghttps://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: 
https://www.facebook.com/victrixlimitedVitrix 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.
https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/new-set-announcement-boxer-rebellion?_pos=3&_sid=ec30d95b7&_ss=rhttps://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/boxers-ready-for-tooling?_pos=2&_sid=ec30d95b7&_ss=rWargames Atlantic is bringing the Boxer Rebellion to us as we see their new miniature line move into the tooling stage in preparation for production.
https://www.facebook.com/mailempressminiaturescomEmpress Miniatures are continuing to expand their Vietnam miniature range and are this time bringing some elephants to the table.
https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/hmv?mc_cid=4c7ff28e74&mc_eid=9b7426eda3https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/weapons?mc_cid=4c7ff28e74&mc_eid=9b7426eda3https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/drones?mc_cid=4c7ff28e74&mc_eid=9b7426eda3Spectre Miniatures have plenty of stuff back in stock from HMV variants, weapon enhancement for vehicles and drone options.
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/
 
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