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The Week That Was... 3.06.10
We have shipped all of the initial order of ATZ and Dawn's Early Light that the printer delivered on Feb 26. The remainder of both games arrive March 13th. We have shipped ALL of the World at War Compendium orders. We have also shipped all of the Tank on Tank and Revelation orders. We are wrestling with a problem in the Heroes of Stalingrad scenario editor menu. White Star Rising... tested a new version of the augmented firepower rule. Game is very close to going to press, maps need a couple of tweaks, counter art needs adjusting. Might start charging next week. Two of the four new Sci-Fi/horror games have web pages now (they haven't gone live). If we are lucky, the Sci-Fi section will go live next week. Might not. We have found someone to help with the web site. That is a huge relief...thanks to Mike for chipping in! We STILL need someone who can do book trailers in MovieMaker or something similar.
Band of Heroes After Action Report...
Read the AAR of a playing of "Birds of Prey" by Ralph Ferrari and Al Persinek. Right here.
World at War: Revelation on Sale!
It’s the summer of 1985. Sergeant Matt Dahl is a tanker, dedicated to his crew and country, Mike Hudson is a private dedicated only to himself, and Colonel Michael Balakirev is a Russian paratrooper, intent on holding the Tanenhause Bridge. These men are among the hundreds of thousands that are embroiled in the Third World War, embroiled in NATO’s struggle to stall the Soviet advance through West Germany. Revelation is their story, the first in the series of World at War novels. Available in trade paperback or pdf download. Click here for more information.
Tank on Tank Rules Online!
Lock 'n Load Publishing has placed the rules for their new, fast playing tactical wargame online here. The game is on sale for $34.99. Expected release date is February 2010.
Tank on Tank on Shipping!
 Tank on Tank is a new Peter Bogdasarian design. A smaller game that can be learned in less than five minutes and played during a lunch break, Tank on Tank depicts tactical ground combat in Europe in the latter years of World War II. Click here to place an order.
Dawn's Early Light Rules Available for Perusal...
We've put up the DEL rules for your reading enjoyment. Click here to read them, or here to find out more about this exciting operational-level system.
Conflict of Heroes -Storms of Steel only $55!
Now offered through Lock 'n Load Publishing, Conflict of Heroes -Storms of Steel. Storms of Steel witnesses histories greatest tank battle. After the stinging defeat at Stalingrad, the Germans gather their best forces for an all out attack to smash through the Soviet lines. The Soviets, having learned of the German's plan through their spy networks, prepare a trap to stop and then decimate Germany's best Panzer forces. Click here to buy at the low price of $55.
World at War Compendium Digital Download Now Available!
You can now purchase and download the World at War Compendium digital download, for only $19.99!  The download includes everything that comes in the printed version, in an easily downloaded PDF file. You'll get a link to the PDF file. Download the file, and enjoy the articles on your computer, or print it all and read it/play with it at your leisure. Click here to get your copy now.
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If you prefer to pre-order the professionally printed version, you can still do so. Click here.
Line of Fire #7, Professionally Printed and Downloadable PDF on Sale!
Professionally Printed Copies shipping now!
 Lucky #7 is here! Fall into the season with the latest issue of Line of Fire. And with this issue it’s not only available as a downloadable PDF, but as a hands-on printed magazine! That’s correct: you can still get Line of Fire 7 as a quick and easy-to-read, full-color downloadable, or you can get a printed copy, which includes a color front and back cover, black-and-white pages and two new full-color, 14-point card stock maps—a World at War city map (with several new types of city terrain) and a Lock ‘n Load desert map. Please place your cursor here, and depress the left button. Thanks!
Battle Pack Bravo on Sale! -Downloadable or Printed Version!
 What could be more exciting than the publication of the 2nd Edition of the award-winning Lock ‘n Load: Band of Heroes? How about more scenarios? Twelve, in fact! Where can you get them? In Battle Pack Bravo!
Lock ‘n Load: Battle Pack Bravo contains a spiffy new map, 12 fresh scenarios for use with the components found in Band of Heroes and Noville, Bastogne’s Outpost; and is available for EITHER immediate download from our Web site, or printed and delivered for your door. That's right, you can have your gaming cake and eat it too! From Normandy to the Hürtgen Forest, to Monte Cassino and Anzio in Italy, Battle Pack Bravo has you covered. It also includes a return to Noville, Belgium, as the Battle of the Bulge wanes down. Click here to order.
Battles Within Battle Ready for Download
In need of more World at War? Look no farther and wait no longer: World at War: Battles within Battles is now available for immediate download! The first downloadable expansion for the World at War system, Battle within Battles contains 14 scenarios, an 8.5” x 11” map, a few new rules, a handful of new counters, and also utilizes the counters and maps from Eisenbach Gap and Blood and Bridges. Pick up a copy here.
Resistance is Futile!  Lock ‘n Load: Heroes of the Gap is on preorder. Heroes of the Gap, is a complete Lock ‘n Load module that brings the Lock ‘n Load system to the environs of Eisenbach, Germany. No, this is NOT a World at War series game. This is pure, impulse-driven, tanks vs. tank, squad vs. squad, leader vs. leader, RPD vs. M60, Lock ‘n Load system gaming. Click here.
Like the lady says, "Resistance is futile."
Summer Lightning: The Invasion of Poland on P500!
 September 1st, 1939… Panzers roll across Germany’s border with Poland, intent on the subjugation of their neighbour. In front of the German soldiers lay thousands of square miles to conquer, under them eager tanks, and leading them the officers keen to let loose a new type of war…Lightning War… the Blitzkrieg.
Welcome to Summer Lightning: The Invasion of Poland 1939, an operational-level game by veteran designer, Brian Train. In Summer Lightning gamers control brigades, divisions, and even corps of German, Polish, Slovakian, and Russian units in a proven game system (Autumn Mist, Balkan Storm) that features an interactive sequence of play and near-diceless combat that both shows the historical German superiority in command and control and yet is flexible enough to allow players to explore many variations and options, so that the game can be as equal (or unequal) a contest as they want. Options include: variable Polish deployments; greater or lesser surprise and speed of mobilization; changed attitudes of the Soviet Union or neighbouring countries; French intervention; Plan Zachod (the Romanian Bridgehead Strategy); and even the possibility that the Blitzkrieg, so appealing in theory, fizzles out on the battlefield. Click here for more information.
World at War: The Untold Stories on P500
 World at War: The Untold Stories recounts the struggle of Warsaw Pact and NATO allies previously not covered in World at War modules. Included are the battles of the Canadians, East Germans, Poles, Dutch and Belgians as each fought desperately to survive in the opening days of the war that ended all wars. It's 528 counters are the most that we have ever stuffed in a game and it's geomorphic maps are a first for a World at War title. Cick here for more information
 Lock ‘n Load: Forgotten Heroes 2nd Edition returns the aboriginal Lock ‘n Load series game to print. This will be professionally printed and boxed, with die-cut counters, mounted maps, etc. The art has been completely updated. Each counter has been redrawn, every map created anew, and Skill Cards, scenarios, charts, and rules laid out with painstaking care. In fact, all the 2nd edition has in common with the original is the Lock ‘n Load series rules and the scenarios… and we’ve even added two more scenarios for those who pre-order. Click here for more info.
Britain Stands Alone 2nd Edition on P500!
It's 1940 and Germany invades England again in this new, graphically enhanced edition of Jim Werbaneth's classic game. Click here.
Component's Page Online!
Now you can get spare counters, maps, rules books and more at the LnLP game components page. Click here to satisfy your wildest cardboard cravings.
World at War: Operation Garbo on P500
World at War: Operation Garbo takes the popular World at War game system into the hills and valleys of Sweden as their long-kept neutrality is  violated by the Soviet Army. Swedish forces include its upgraded Mark 4 variant of the British Centurion tank, the famous Swedish S-tank—which has no turret!—and the PBV 302, a combat-proven APC. Other units include AT helicopters, tracked TOW and SAM launchers, and the hard-hitting, but fragile, IKV 91 tank destroyer. Home Guard units made up of old men with old rifles and fast, jeep-driving recon units support the heavier tank units. Click here.
Nations at War: White Star Rising on P500!
 White Star Rising introduces Lock ‘n Load Publishing’s Nations at War (NAW) game system. Based on the popular World at War, NAW depicts platoon level combat in World War II. Here you’ll find everything you're looking for in a platoon-level game, armor, artillery, infantry that serves as more than cannon fodder, command and control, air support, amphibious landings, desperate close assaults that leave the victor in possession of the ground and the defeated in headlong retreat, all in eight pages of rules. Click HERE for more info and some scrumptious screens.
What's a P500?
For those of you not familiar with P-500 we have details on our triple-Dick Tracy secure ordering page, but here are the basics: You order any of the P-500 games using our secure server with your credit card of choice (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express). When we reach 400 orders (or less, depending on the game) we go to press. And oh yeah, you get 15-35% off the retail price, plus additional goodies like free scenarios. Click on the icons above to get more information on each game. |
