Red Devils Midnight Sale...

The New Expansion Pack for Platoon Leader will go on sale at midnight tonight central standard time via EBAY.

I hope you guys have as much fun playing it as i did designing it!

The expansion is available as a single, or as a twin pack with Platoon Leader.  A hat trick is also available which includes, Platoon Leader and Cold Combat.

You must own Platoon Leader to play Red Devils.

Start your Monday the ASL way!!!

Waking up to go to work on Monday morning = a drag.  

Getting to work and finding a parcel from MMP on your desk = priceless

The tradition continues with Winter Offensive Bonus Pack #6!  

3 new scenarios: Liberation Day, Wildcat Strike and Poteau Party (or as i have begun calling it "porta potty") and a couple "new" boards to wet my appetite...

YAY!

Final Playtesting of RED DEVILS!

Can't take the heat?  Then get out of the kitchen! Some pics of final playtesting for the next expansion in the Platoon Leader game system.

Note: the two Germans in the above and below pic are placed upside down to denote an under the bridge position.

Some true stove top cooking here as a simple board on the oven serves as the proverbial drawing board while the next "iron in the fire" is currently set up on the real gaming table.  What you see here will be available next week from H&S GAMES!!!

(Wooden scrabble pieces and dice not included)

The 2nd Edition of Platoon Leader is Go!!!

Just a quick note to announce that the 2nd edition of Platoon Leader is now available!!!

Platoon Leader:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Platoon-Leader-/321649269522?pt=Games_US&hash=item4ae3ca5b12

Platoon Leader/Cold Combat Bundle:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Platoon-Leader-and-Cold-Combat-Bundle-/321649171998?pt=Games_US&hash=item4ae3c8de1e

The 2nd and final definitive edition of Platoon Leader is currently at the printers.  Why another edition?  In all honesty because the last one sold out.  What was wrong with the last edition?  Nothing.  So what's new with this one?  Among other things, a new cover, a tweaked double fire action mechanic, optional leader generated command rolls and leader specific command range as well as an added opportunity fire option.  Oh and a fold out, card stock color poster of the game cover! But most importantly, all the "stuff" that was in the original Platoon Leader is in the 2015 version.  

So check EBAY and BoardGameGeek as this becomes available within the next 24-48 hours.  

Red Devils, the new expansion for Platoon Leader, will receive some last minute tweaks this weekend (from a design perspective this thing has proven as tough to bang out as both the base game and Cold Combat combined) and then hit the printers next week, as such you can expect to scoop it up not this weekend but the next so clear a spot on the ol' game table!

Most importantly, thanks to all of you who have rolled the dice on Platoon Leader, your interest has been a blessing.

For those of you who have the first/second printings of Platoon Leader and are interested in the new options which are included in the 2015 version, just shoot an email to hexesandsoldiers@gmx.com  and I will gladly shoot you an attachment back.

Thanks,

JMK

The last platoon leader/cold combat bundle

The last Platoon Leader/Cold Combat bundle from H&S GAMES is up for grabs via EBAY and BoardGameGeek.  After this there wont be any more in stock until the next printing which will most likely occur when Red Devils goes to print so don't delay!

$15.00 trip down nostalgia ave.

My how time flies and this is perhaps never so evident as stepping directly into a pair of old wargaming shoes.  I was 13 years old when the movie Platoon came out.  My interest in all things Vietnam was peaking, just ask a neighboring farmer of ours.  The poor guy thought some military brat  had gone awol and was hiding out in the woods.  So he did what any concerned citizen would do, call the cops.  When they came to investigate they came to the same conclusion.  I knew better but no matter, all my ammo boxes and gear had been confiscated.  I suppose the barbed wire, bunker and trenches added a little too much authenticity as well.  Oh well, those were certainly the days, running through the woods, battling with my friends.  Now days i do my battling alone on cardboard but hey, its harder to catch ticks and poison ivy this way.  So as i watched and re-watched Oliver Stone's idea of what "the impossibility of reason" looked like, i was even more thrilled to learn that Avalon Hill had released a game based more or less on the film.  I'll never know exactly how many hours i spent on the dining room table with this thing, the living room somehow all too easily transformed into the prerequisite environment of foliage and heat within the battlefield of my mind. But it was awesome. Why the fascination?  Looking back on it, i can't honestly put my finger on it but it sure struck a timely chord with me.

So recently i was overcome with a wave of "remember when" and paid 15.00 for my time travel ticket.  The feeling was still there when the box showed up, all until half the already punched pieces were missing. ARGH!!!  So i put my fond reflection on pause, shipped the thing back for a full refund and found an unpunched copy for the same price!  

This time around however, i had a live opponent, a self professed hater of wargames and all things war.  Perhaps the cinematic tie in sold her, or perhaps she was just in a particularly unselfish mood.  Nonetheless, i proceeded to explain to her what the purpose of doing this or that was, and then further what the overall point was and lo and behold her competitive spirit simply could be contained no more but in the end it would prove inadequate.  She became more concerned with the row of dead that was lined up beside the board then the living NVA that still littered the board.  Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.  I doubt she understands any more than she did why I waste my time with this stuff and perhaps even less so since playing Platoon.  Nevertheless, "I think now looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves..."  and i think she would agree.

On the shelf goes the game, but i know it will always be there, as will Elias, fighting for what Rhah called, possession of my soul...ok ill stop.

thanks for reading
JMK