WorldsForge Private Limited and Field Marshal Games have united to bring a North American release of Field Command: Singapore 1942.

Field Command: Singapore 1942 covers the Battle of Singapore in WWII, featuring the Japanese, British & Australian armies.  Inside the box you’ll find 3 full campaigns and 4 tactical scenarios, along with plastic pieces in 11 different sculpts and 9 dice.  The rules can be found here.

The system is supposedly easy to learn, hard to master, which I’m sure we’ve all heard before.  The quality is pretty impressive for a wargame, and you get a ton of stuff in the box.

While this doesn’t seem like my cup of tea, I’m sure there’s plenty of wargamers out there dying to get their hands on it.

The game is available right now, and at a special price, too.

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Conquest Gaming has just announced that their shipment of Warlords of Europe should be arriving at their warehouse shortly, and then will go out to those who pre-orded the game. Pre-orders should be getting to customers by the start of February, and hitting store shelves by the end of Feb.

Warlords is set in the early 13th century, and deals with the conquest of Europe by rival warlords. Looks a bit bland to me, but I’m sure this is the kind of thing wargamers go crazy for.

Anyone out there pre-order this, and are REALLY looking forward to playing it?

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The Fantasy Flight Games Event Center is a new push from its “Professional Zone” and is located in Roseville, MN. It’s a location for FFG staff (currently hiring) to play with consumers, and will open Feb 5.

Games include FFG games as well as those of “key partners”. The site will host open gaming and special events, sell concessions (outside food not permitted …), and sell membership (from $5 a day to $125 a year, which doesn’t include optional fees for reserving games or rooms).

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Space the Game, self-published by Darrel Tuttle, is the game you kind of wanted to design most of your childhood: plastic combat spaceships that float around an actual 3D board.

The 3D is achieved using metal poles and ships that slide onto them and fit snugly. Play and combat look like your basic war game, and several scenarios are included.

All dandy, only the game costs $200, plus expansions at $100 each. Youch.

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The Ohio News Leader pimps Guesstimation, Word on the Street, Ruin, Jishaku, CirKis, Scabs `N Guts, Guesstures, Now What, Shut the Box, Apples to Apples, DaVinci Challenge, Quiddler, and SET. (source)

Hawaii Business pimps Cashflow. (source)

The Colorodoan pimps The Haunted Game Cafe. (source)

The Reno News and Review pimps Magic: the Gathering and Warhammer. (source)

The Baptist Standard pimps religious games, including BuddhaWheel, Missionary Conquest, and Hajj Fun Game. (source)

The North Michigan Record Eagle pimps game store Mayhem Games, and games Wings of War and Warhammer. (source)

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Pinnacle Entertainment Group has released a free rules book for tactical miniatures combat in all genres. The system described in Savage Worlds Showdown [PDF] is substantially the same as the Savage Worlds RPG, which was already heavily influenced by miniatures gaming. Modifications and enhancements, however, address constructing armies, balancing opposing forces, unit cohesion, morale, terrain, and heavy weapons. Along with the rules in electronic form, Pinnacle is providing Troop Builder, a spreadsheet for creating characters, monsters, squads, and vehicles, as well as an initial scenario, Rumble in the Jungle [PDF].

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The hottest Games Workshop news this week has nothing to do with GW (which means I don’t have to boycott it, right?)! Fantasy Flight Games has announced that their next “big box” game will be a remake of an early 80’s wargame, The Horus Heresy. The Horus Heresy is a two-player game where one player takes control of the forces of the Emperor of Mankind as he defends Terra from the traitorous pawn of Chaos, Horus, his once trusted right hand. This remake is really taking things to the extreme in terms of quality, with a 3-dimensional board (molded terrain), tons of miniatures (120!) and a totally re-worked combat system (card-based which seems to be the new trend at FFG). This mammoth title will retail for $99 US, which might make it difficult to justify for many (but let’s face it, how many of us picked up Space Hulk for the same amount), but if you’re a fan of the Warhammer 40K universe (or if you’ve been reading through Black Library’s Horus Heresy series of novels), this is probably going to be right up your alley (no word on a release date yet).

Update: I’ve got it on pretty good authority that the hint about the “13th of Secundus” (February 13th) in the text on FFG’s site is close to the release date (if not the actual release date).

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MCS Group has completed development on Battle for Baghdad and will now fine tune the game in play testing. The game will enter manufacturing once 250 pre-orders are reached.

Battle for Baghdad covers the US occupation of Iraq, and players take control of several different groups during this period of time. The real cool thing is that the board is composed of satellite images of Baghdad.

MCS states that all the forces in the game are asymmetrical, but each can reach a favorable outcome.

If this game strikes your fancy, make sure to pre-order a copy.

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Combat Dominoes from Haywire Group look and sound neat. It’s actually just the standard game of Dominoes with a few twists: special ops that do things like swap your tiles, look at your opponent’s tiles, or spark a War-like face off when you play them. Does it qualify as a war game?

Haywire Group’s latest games are:

• It Fits: Six criteria cards are flipped up, and each player has to think of something that matches all six.
• Word Pirates: A Scrabble-like game, where the words you form are used to form a path from your pirate to the treasure.

They will be publishing a game based on the Guinness Book of World Records next year (source). The last games with that IP were from 1975 and 1980.

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We covered some updates from Litko back in 2008, but those where mostly geared towards RPG players.  Litko has announced a slew of new accessories, including some for specific games, such as Warhammer: Invasion and Monsterpocalypse. There’s also plenty of new counters for miniature and wargames, including infantry markers and grenade markers.

The full list is as follows:

- Invasion Token Set, set of 60 tokens, $19.99 US
- Kaiju Destruction Template Set, set of 10 templates, $12.99 US
- Chemical Destruction Templates, set of 6 templates, $7.99 US
- Fire Destruction Templates, set of 6 templates, $7.99 US
- Portal Destruction Templates, set of 6 templates, $7.99 US
- Rad Destruction Templates, set of 6 templates, $7.99 US
- Rubble Destruction Templates, set of 6 templates, $7.99 US
- Objective Marker, single color, set of 1 multi-part marker, $4.99 US
- Infantry Command Token Set, set of 20 tokens, $9.99 US
- Infantry Charge Retreat Tokens, set of 10 tokens, $4.99 US
- Infantry Hard & Soft Cover Tokens, set of 10 tokens, $4.99 US
- Infantry Kneel & Prone Tokens, set of 10 tokens, $4.99 US
- Infantry Knockback & Knock Down Tokens, set of 10 tokens, $4.99 US
- Infantry Pinned Suppressed Tokens, set of 10 tokens, $4.99 US
- Artillery Strike Markers, variety set, set of 5 multi-part markers, $9.99 US
- Artillery Strike Markers, small set, set of 7 multi-part markers, $9.99 US
- Artillery Strike Markers, medium set, set of 5 multi-part markers, $9.99 US
- Artillery Strike Markers, large set, set of 3 multi-part markers, $9.99 US
- Artillery Strike Markers, large set, set of 3 multi-part markers, $9.99 US
- Artillery Strike Markers, XL set . set of 1 multi-part marker, $9.99 US
- Hand Grenade Tokens, single color, set of 10 tokens, $4.99 US

You can find all this and more on their website.

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