BattleMart.com is offering free shipping on orders to the Continental United States.

From their announcement:

To help launch the re-release of PMD’s Modular Factory Series, we are temporarily offering free shipping on orders of $50.00 or more shipped within the Continental United States. For non-continental U.S. orders, we will split the shipping and handling with you on orders of $50.00 or more. The Modular Factory has become our most requested terrain item, and since we know how anxiously everyone has been waiting for its return, we thought this would be a good time for a promotion.

We carry an extensive line of WWII miniatures and gaming terrain with a goal of bringing you the most comprehensive 28mm World War II miniature game inventory on the Net. We are listing more inventory weekly to include hundreds of products such as WWII miniatures, vehicles, terrain, books, and more from various vendors. So please check back often to see what’s new!

Here are the questions that are being sent to Matt Wilson and Erik Yaple.

Any details that you can give us regarding the first expansion for the game?

How does this game change Privateer Press? Going forward will this game be an impetus to move PP into being more like WotC?

Will you be leveraging your experience with Monsterpocalypse plastic miniatures to Hordes & Warmachine?
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Matt Wilson and Erik Yaple from Privateer Press have agreed to answer TGN reader questions about their upcoming Monsterpocalypse game.

I think you all know the drill. Post your questions in the Comments section and we’ll pick the best ones to send to Matt and Erik for their answers. We’d like to keep the questions focused on Monsterpocalypse but if you have some good general questions to ask either, or both, of them then do feel free to post them.

This post will be up on the site until Sunday night when comments will be closed and I will be sending the questions to Matt and Erik for their answers. Thanks to Matt and Erik for agreeing to this Q&A session and to Bobby at Privateer Press for arranging it.

Update: Comments are closed and we will be posting the questions that we will be sending to Matt and Erik

If anyone is interested in testing out a few changes to the Flex comment browser I wrote I have posted a new, smaller, version of the app. The app now allows you the option to automatically log in when you visit, show the current post you are replying to as well as adding a few formatting buttons.

Let me know what you think and if there are any features you’d like to see.

Newbold World have sent along an update regarding their Newbold Challenge fund raising effort.

From their announcement:

$7,600 USD raised so far this year for Children in Need taking us up to $25,400 USD against our 5 year target of $50k USD. Very many thanks to everyone who is helping to make this possible.

Our current figure painting competition closes on 31 October 2008 so there is still time for you to submit an entry and give yourself the chance to win $100 USD for yourself and $100 USD for Children in Need.

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Discordian Times have announced some of the upcoming interviews they will be posting.

From their announcement:

The Discordian Times, the UKCORDs fanzine, is proud to announce 3 upcoming interviews. First of all, we will de interviewing Neil from Spartan Games, one of the two men behind the ‘Uncharted Seas’ game. Secondly, we have secured an interview with Geof Picard, the man behind Hell Dorado. And lastly we have the UKCORDs president, Jez Fairclough, lined up for an interview.

This is a great chance for us to get some answers for those questions that are bouncing around inside our heads, and find out what’s bouncing around in their heads.

If you would like to participate, you can submit you own questions to us and we will try to fit them in. send them via E-mail or by posting them in the relevant thread on the Discordian Times board on the UKCORDs forum.

Mongoose Publishing have posted issue 61 of Signs and Portents magazine. In this issue:

• Conan: Pygmies of the Hyborian Age, a new race for the Conan RPG.
• Gangs of Mega-City One: The Bite-Fighter, a new specialist for especially vicious gangs.
• Traveller: Adapt and Overcome, a complete scenario pitting the players against some unusual foes.
• Wraith Recon: Training, Wraith style!
• Spycraft: The Ulysses Agenda, an addition for World on Fire.
• Elric of Melnibone: Love and Hate, and mechanics for both!
• RuneQuest: Sanity Defined, a new approach to madness for all RuneQuest based games.
• Battlefield Evolution: For Love or Money, a set of mercenaries for Modern Combat.
• Gen Con UK 08: A report from our girls in the field.

Wargames Foundry have announced a new compendium of painting, terrain and gaming articles.

From their announcement:

The Foundry Compendium is packed with rules and painting advice plus ideas for making great-looking terrain. It covers a wide range of periods including Pirates and Darkest Africa, with Aztecs, Gladiators, Greeks and Romans as well. The Compendium will appeal to anyone interested in gaming the exploration of Darkest Africa, the fight for survival and glory in Rome’s gladiatorial arenas or the plundering of the West African coast with your band of pirates. Fantastic.

The 96 page book is available for £15.00 and is postage free for a limited time.

The Gaming Kingdom has an interview with ex-GW game developer and writer Gav Thorpe

Episode 16 of the D6 Generation podcast has been posted.

From their announcement:

In Episode 16 the D6G crew gets to interview one of Privateer Press’s game designers, Erik Yaple. Erik tells us about what he does at Privateer along with his efforts on Monsterpocalypse.

But first, Raef and Russ discuss the hot new MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. What makes the MMO set in Games Workshop’s Warhammer Fantasy setting different? Is it worth a look?

All that and our usual ‘not too horrible’ humor, with features such as:

• When Wives Attack
• Rapid Fire
• The Hollywood Minute
• Contests
• & More

Episode 9 of the This Week in Wargaming podcast is available for download from their website. The TWiW news podcast also now features Zac from TGN with his delightful monotone delivery.

Ganesha Games have announced that their rules are now available from Studio 2 Publishing.

From their announcement:

The PDF rulebooks produced by Ganesha Games (Song of Blades and Heroes, Song of Gold and Darkness, Song of Wind an Water, Mutants and Death Ray Guns, and Familiars RPG) are now available on the Studio 2 Publishing store

Battlegames have announced an upcoming increase to the price of their wargaming magazine.

From their website:

It’s just not possible to be unaffected by the economic factors buffeting all businesses at the moment, and on top of earlier hikes in postage costs, we’re now assailed by very high fuel and energy prices. To put the icing on the cake, my printers have just landed me with a price hike that I just can’t ignore, so I’m afraid that I’m going to have to increase the cover price of the magazine to £4.25 from next issue (15), due out at the end of October.

Check out their website for full details.

East Riding Miniatures have reorganized their 1:76th scale Platoon 20 range.

From their website:

We are currently reorganising the Platoon 20 range into packs of 4 figures or equivalent. Pack price: £2.50. Other items are packed and priced as shown. 8 figure packs will be gradually withdrawn and replaced with 4 figure packs. The single figure listing (available in the downloadable catalogue) will also be withdrawn.

Switching to 4 figure packs will result in less duplication within the packs and will help streamline production.

Is anyone else having problems viewing the “pop-up” images on the site?

I have a very tight deadline coming up that will require me to focus on work and so updates to the site may be a bit slow and in spurts for the next few days.

Scale Creep Miniatures have sent along a public service message for those people attempting to order from them.

From their announcement:

We have added a large number of products to the catalog over at Scale Creep Miniatures across a wide variety of categories. Books, figures, terrain and accessories – there’s something new for every taste and every budget. However…

Normally, we use the uplink to the Scan-a-tron 3000 to determine which of these products we think you need (and can afford). Now it has come to our attention that many of you continue to doff the tin foil hat, made so popular by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. These stunning fashion accessories, while oh so cool, actually interfere with the Scan-a-tron 3000 signals. Why, just last week, we sent Mr. Arthur Timid, of Woking, a new complete 25mm army of Sassanids. His tin foil hat caused us to mis-scan the chip in his temporal lobe. In fact he was really secretly hoping for 250 grams of sausage. Regrettably his insurance refused to cover the re-insertion of the kidney he used as collateral, identifying it as “optional, cosmetic or Munchausen-derived” surgery. So don’t let this happen to you! Recycle that hat and let the Scan-a-tron 3000 do its work. You’ll be much, much happier, we promise (and if that doesn’t work, try the orange pill).

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The Northern Virgina Gamers will soon be producing a new issue of their Gamers Closet newsletter.

From their website:

The ezine for the Northern Virgina Gamers (NOVAG) is back in publication supporting its club members and table top gaming in the metro DC area. The re-formated ezine will forcus on articles such as battle reports and product reviews on boardgames, miniatures, RPG’s, CCG’s, and rules. Publication dates will be based on the articles recieved so keep checking the NOVAG webpage on continued releases and of course, feel free to submit an article.

Antenociti’s Workshop have posted their new address and contact information for their new store location. They are still setting up in the new space though.

From their website:

At the moment we are all but in - there’s “just” the new extraction system to be fitted and then the casting facilities moved over - so there will still be some casting disruption, possibly for as much as two weeks, after which we should be back on track and start getting everything back in stock.

Battlegames editor Henry Hyde is trying to raise funds for the Combat Stress charity in Britain.

From their announcement:

Combat Stress is the only charity to support British ex-Servicemen and women who have been profoundly traumatised by harrowing experiences on active duty. Founded in 1919, the charity offers both short-stay remedial treatment at three specialist centres across the UK and a regional welfare service supporting clients in their homes.

Many of us, I’m sure, know of individuals whose scars may not be visible, but who suffer nonetheless. Only comparatively recently have the armed services begun to properly understand the long-term psychological effects of active duty, instituting ‘decompression’ either in, or close to, the theatre of operations for personnel about to end their tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Many thousands of our service men and women from less recent conflicts have been effectively left to fend for themselves, relying overwhelmingly on the voluntary help offered by charities like Combat Stress. Please help them to help the men and women who have served on our behalf in dangerous places and situations, often in extremely difficult and harrowing peacekeeping operations such as Bosnia, whatever their rank, job or arm of the services.

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Episode 39 of the Meeples & Miniatures podcast has been uploaded.

From their announcement:

Show 39 of Meeples & Miniatures – the podcast about Miniature Wargames & Strategy Boardgames – is now available to download. The show features the usual mix of gaming news and comment. For my featured rules review, I’m travelling back to the Wild West to review Gutshot, from Hawgleg Publishing.

As an added bonus, the show also features details of a competition to win one of two copies of the Gutshot rules.

The show is available from www.meeplesandminiatures.co.uk, or you can subscribe to the show via iTunes

Got a Mac running at least OS X 10.4.3? If so you can help us test the first version of the TGN Dashboard Widget. Please post any bugs or comments here.

It has been a long time since we posted a Q&A with anyone in the industry so in order to rectify that I am opening the floor, so to speak, for suggestions on a person or persons that we should attempt to do a Q&A with.

Sally White of Hasslefree Miniatures writes:

We have a space left in the mould for the October 2008 releases so are giving you a chance to say which of 3 figures from the January 2009 release should take the space.

You can vote on the FOD . The poll runs for one week and finishes Monday 22nd September at 9am GMT (thats when I have to send the greens to Griffin for casting). So shall it be Ceril the brooding dark elf prince, Dominatrix Libby or a goblin scout master with an attitude from Mark Kay? You decide.

Rackham have posted a PDF edition of their Cry Havoc newsletter for your reading pleasure.

Gripping Beast are reporting that they now have access to their email system.

From their website:

BT have finally restored our broadband access! We can now work through all your orders & emails that have come in since the lines were accidentally cut on Friday 12th. Thanks for your patience while we catch up.

The website for Game Trade Magazine has been giving an update.

From their announcement:

In the wake of Game Trade Magazine’s (GTM) milestone hundred-issue run, we were monumentally inspired to keep the momentum rolling by re-tooling our website. So, once we shooed away all of the lingering dust bunnies, our crafty gremlins went to task in tinkering, hammering, and sculpting our brand-spankin’ new website. Basically, we’ve taken the most popular elements from our original site and morphed it into a more streamlined, amped-up, user-friendly format, allowing you, our devoted and highly informed readers, ample free reign to frolic at your leisure. But, you needn’t rely solely on our bravado to convince you just how cool it is — just venture on over to www.gametrademagazine.com and test drive it yourself. We’re revving it up as of GTM #103, and we’re confident you’ll enjoy the ride for the next hundred issues and beyond…

Oh, and we welcome (and encourage.) your feedback and suggestions, positive or not-so. So, don’t hesitate to contact managing editor Andrew Smith and share your thoughts, musings, and insights — your input is tantamount in fine-tuning and improving the website to best suit your needs.

Pete Jones’ Freewargamesrules website now has the ability for users to add classified ads.

From their announcement:

I’ve now added a simple Classified Ads page to my site. Visitors can advertise their gaming related items for sale for free for 30 days. Its like the very British Bring & Buy Sale.

New miniature manufacturer Studio Miniatures have announced that they are open for business.

From their announcement:
As a new U.K. based miniatures company, we plan to offer quality miniatures for the gamer and collector. Over the next few months, we will preview our 28mm sci-fi/horror miniatures for our upcoming range U1:EVE.

We intend to make these available in both white metal and resin, giving gamers and painters the option of their preferred medium. Our initial releases will cover the early stages of the U1:EVE story, involving the zombie apocalypse.

Armorcast have added new Spinespur and Hasslefree figures to their online store.

From their announcement:

Armorcast LLC is continuing to expand its collection of unique and exquisitely detailed miniatures. Armorcast LLCnow carries the complete line of Spinespur miniatures and rules from Comfy Chair Games. Also Hasslefree Miniatures has been restocked and the line has been expanded to include the complete Adventurers line, Villager and many popular femme fatales.