| Col Piron | 22 May 2019 5:09 a.m. PST |
link ( It a closed FB group , so you will have to be a member to comment on it ) PRESS RELEASE – MAY 2019 Well the long wait has finally ended! From the end of May 2019, The Plastic Soldier Company will be taking over exclusive ownership of the Battlegroup gaming series from Ironfist Publishing. What will this mean to our players? Well not much will change for you but we hope it will finally secure new production and reprints going forward. Warwick will be writing the rest of the books and finishing the series as always planned. Piers will be looking after the support and promotion of the game along with helping out on books as needed in terms of writing and photos. So in this regard nothing changes. What will change is that along with the new books, PSC will commence reprinting the currently out of print titles. First up will be the first half of Overlord (D-Day) to pair with Beyond the Beaches. Following this will be Kursk and Fall of the Reich. It's planned all this will be in softback form, in order to lower costs in both production, shipping and retail. The next hardback book release will be Battlegroup: Pacific War, later in 2019, followed by the series returning to the Eastern and Southern Fronts in 2020. As regards NORTHAG, we will now be helping PSC with its final production and release, plus looking at a first supplement for the NORTHAG series. Outside of Battlegroup and NORTHAG with PSC, other rules will be published by Artorus Games, and this will commence with Soldiers of Rome, which is almost complete. Vietnam will then follow. We hope this brings security and stability to Battlegroup and it's community in the future and look forward to working with PSC on the game and increasing its popularity. Piers and Warwick |
| deephorse | 22 May 2019 5:30 a.m. PST |
That link takes me to a broken Facebook page. Others may have a different experience. |
| Marc at work | 22 May 2019 5:55 a.m. PST |
Good news. Will be interesting to see how this works out |
| Col Piron | 22 May 2019 6:06 a.m. PST |
@ deephorse , in the OP "( It a closed group , so you will have to be a member to comment on it )". That's why you get a broken link , as you aren't a member of the group.  |
| Mkultra99 | 22 May 2019 6:36 a.m. PST |
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| Steamingdave2 | 22 May 2019 9:37 a.m. PST |
Is Battlegroup still a popular option amongst WW2 gamers? I haven't played it for 18months and several of my gaming accquaintances have moved to other systems, such as those from Two Fat Lardies. |
| Vintage Wargaming | 22 May 2019 10:22 a.m. PST |
Interesting way to issue a press release – inside a closed Facebook group |
Marc33594  | 22 May 2019 11:32 a.m. PST |
In my humble opinion, for all the reasons stated, moving to soft cover a good plan for the reprints. |
| Col Piron | 22 May 2019 12:05 p.m. PST |
link That's on PSC's FB page . |
| PiersBrand | 22 May 2019 12:17 p.m. PST |
Well saves me posting it here… :)
SteamimgDave2… it's still popular in my house. ;)
Must be quite popular as it keeps selling out… :) |
| Marc the plastics fan | 22 May 2019 1:44 p.m. PST |
Yep. We like it still. CoC hasn't grabbed me yet but I appreciate gaming is a broad church |
| forrester | 22 May 2019 2:58 p.m. PST |
Very good to see the Battlegroup books bouncing back. Id be interested in Kursk and the other half of Overlord. |
| Tony S | 22 May 2019 3:18 p.m. PST |
We tend to play both CoC and Battlegroup. Both great fun! Greatly looking forward to NORTHAG! |
| jdginaz | 22 May 2019 10:29 p.m. PST |
Must be quite popular as it keeps selling out… :) Without knowing the size of the print run that doesn't really mean anything. |
| PiersBrand | 23 May 2019 4:41 a.m. PST |
I do know the print run size though… ;) |
| VolleyFire Andy | 23 May 2019 7:34 a.m. PST |
Fabulous game, and great to see it being further supported. |
| cj1776 | 23 May 2019 8:15 a.m. PST |
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| Wargamer Blue | 24 May 2019 12:59 p.m. PST |
I'm going to pick up the pacific book. I really like the infantry rules in this game. The armour not so much. |
| Tony S | 25 May 2019 1:21 p.m. PST |
I was initially a little skeptical of the armour rules too, as they seemed a trifle too "rivet counting" for my tastes. But they seem to work fine for us in practice. I have noticed that because of the ammo limits, the game moves a little quicker, as players are often reluctant to waste finite ammo on nearly impossible shots. Most other games with infinite tank ammo often see players essentially wasting time by trying to take out a hulldown Tiger with their Greyhound across the entire table. (And it drives me crazy in ANY game where some players INSIST on figuring out all the factors before rolling the dice, because they "need to know" what to roll beforehand. Just roll the bloody dice first. If you get a poor roll, then you don't need to waste time calculating all the modifiers). Actually, the part I have difficulty swallowing is that smoke is "factored in" to the BG game. Laying smoke barrages played a large tactical role in WW2. And I don't even play British! |
