The SITREP Podcast

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!

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! 

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!

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 ***

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!

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! 

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

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

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

Triton Noir - V-Commandos

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

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!

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!