While Darkson Designs are at the Alliance and ACD Game Days, from September 8-14th, you will be able to get the limited edition GenCon “Indy” miniature from their online store.

Darkson Designs have added several packs of 28mm AE-WWII Soviet miniatures to their online store or through distributors. All prices are in US$.

• AT-Rifle Team $10.99
• 50-PM 40 Mortar Team $10.99
• ROKS-3 Flamethrower Team $10.99
• Banshees $9.99

Darkson Designs have sent a photo of the upcoming AE-WWII Soviet Mortar team. Now word on a release date for these figures but we expect them to be available soon. These should be available in their online store by the end of the week.

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Darkson Designs have sent along photos of painted samples of their 28mm AE-WWII Soviet Banshee models. As well, Matt Hope will be at PAX this weekend doing AE-WWII demos and that means that the convention only figures are available from the Darkson online store.

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• Gen Con “Indy” 08
• American Buffalo Pilot
• German Fraulein “Raina Tod”
• German Lab Rat

Matt Hope from Darkson Designs discusses the AE-WWII game and their upcoming Occult expansion.
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We’ve received a photo of a “work in progress” green of a Werewolf for AE-WWII. No word on a release date.

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Darkson Designs have posted issue 6 of their Over the Wire e-zine for AE-WWII.

From their website:

This month, we present a deluge of new items including rules for Combat Engineers, a new scenario, new weapons, new rules for suppression and lots more.

The staff of Darkson Designs will be out of the office for a few days.

From their announcement:

The Darkson Staff will be out of the office from Aug 3-8 doing research for the Occult Wars Expansion. We will be exploring the:

Chichen Itza Mayan Ruins: The Mundo Maya’s most famous site, Chichen Itza was founded in 445 BC and inhabited until 1204 AD when, mysteriously, it was abandoned.

The site is centered around the largest structure, the pyramid El Castillo (The Castle), which has steps that end in huge serpents heads. During the Equinoxes, these steps cast shadows which give the appearance of a great snake descending the pyramid. Other important buildings include the Observatory, the temple of Chac Mool, and the Tzompantli, a representation of the underworld.

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Pulp Monsters has announced that it will be running some cross-over games of Pulp City and AE-WWII at GenCon Indy in collaboration with Darkson Designs.

From their announcement:

As some of you might know, in a good comic book/pulp fashion, the Darkson Designs team and Pulp Monsters decided to have two cross-over games of AE-WWII and Pulp City at this year’s GenCon.

To celebrate this event (and hopefully more to come), Pulp Monsters will release a very special Supreme miniature.

First in the line of Pulp City Golden Age, super heroes and villains inspired by the Golden Age of Comics era, these miniatures are meant to be played in story driven games, but if your opponent agrees, there is no reason not to use them in a regular Pulp City encounter.

The games take place on Sunday:

11 AM the AE-WWII rules event
3 PM the Pulp City rules event

Darkson Designs have posted an update explaining their lack of recent miniature releases.

From their website:

First off we at Darkson Designs would like to thank you all for being so patient while we work through our growing pains, it has been an arduous journey.

You may have noticed that we have had a lack of releases for a few months this is due to some molding issues we have been experiencing. Needless to say we have worked out the issues and received our Masters for several months of releases. These are on there way to our painter and we will have some new releases by the first half of August.

We will be revising the dates for the release seclude and be posting the update on July 11.

Darkson Designs have a new distributor for AE-WWII.

From their announcement:

Alliance is now taking orders for the AE-WWII miniature range. Check out the latest issue of Game Trade (#101) for more info or contact them at:

East -1-800-669-4263
Midwest -1-800-444-3552
Southwest -1-800-424-3773
West -1-888-366-5456
El Cerrito -1-800-424-4263
International Customers -410-602-8000

Darkson Designs have posted issue 5 of their Over the Wire AE-WWII newsletter.

From their website:

This month we’re featuring two new planned scenarios. The first is an ape-filled bash certain to entertain as well as annoy. The second scenario is one by our very own ‘myincubliss’, Olly, who is our Scenario Design Contest winner. Give these new scenarios a try. In addition, two handy Vallejo Paint color-combination charts have been included to help painters make their forces shine.

Darkson Designs have announced an AE-WWII Demo event to be held in Portland.

From their announcement:

My name is Steve and I am a new Partisan. I will be running my first event soon and I wanted to get local players attention. So if you live in the Portland Metro Area please feel free to come to my event and meet other AE-WWII fans.

Here are the event details
locations: Z-games
2100 SE 164th Ave
Suite D111
Vancouver, WA 98683
(360) 567-1684
Date : July 20th
Time : 3pm to 6pm
event type: demo - nothing to structured just come in and learn to play the game, meet others interested in AE-WWII and have fun. I have plenty of models for everyone to play with but if you have your own bring them in too.

Darkson Designs have sent along a photo of the green for the AE-WWII German Rohilingsoldat. The miniature is 35mm from the bottom of the feet to the top of his head. It also comes with an MG42 arm set, 2 different heads, 2 backpacks, and a 40mm round lipped base.

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Polish fans of AE-WWII now have their own dedicated fan site for the game.

From their announcement:

I would like to invite all Polish AE WWII fans to the first polish site dedicated to this great game. Visit my site and let me know what do you think about it.

For now site contains mainly basic, introductory materials but I am planning to build more content soon. I hope this site will help us find more AE-WWII players in Poland.

Darkson Designs have posted Over the Wire issue 4 to their downloads page.

From their website:

In Issue 4 of Over the Wire, we present rules for using combat medics, helping save the lives of the units in your detachments. In addition, we’ve included a painting guide to help you get your American forces looking good.

Over the Wire is their PDF based magazine with articles for AE-WWII.

The AE-WWII forums are now back up and running after a problem at their host’s data centre.

From their announcement:

Looks like there were some major problems at the data center where the servers are stored that host our boards. Something about an explosion and then a fire. The boards are back up, albeit missing a great deal of data - looks like everything after mid-April is gone - but we have assurances that it’ll be restored eventually. Thanks for your patience.

Darkson Designs have announced a delay in the release of their AE-WWII American Heavy Weapons miniatures.

From their website:

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the release of the American heavy weapon teams and the K-9 squad will be delayed until June. Thankfully, the Soviet heavy weapon teams will be coming out shortly thereafter, so it’ll be two solid months of new releases! We apologize for the delay. Thanks a lot!

Darkson Designs have posted some work in progress photos of the upcoming Soviet Banshee miniatures. No word yet on a price or release date for these.

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The AE-WWII FAQ has been updated and the latest version of the PDF can be found on the Darkson Designs Downloads page.

Darkson Designs have posted issue 3 of their Over the Wire newsletter to their site’s download page.

From their website:

This month, in Over the Wire, we include rules for panzerfausts as well as a painting guide for a German ‘pea-dot’ pattern.

Darkson Designs have announced that ACD Distribution is now carrying the AE-WWII line.

Darkson Designs have announced that the FAQ and Errata documents for AE-WWII have been updated and are available from their downloads page.

Darkson Designs have announced that their AE-WWII Convention Only miniatures are now available in their shop until April 24th midnight Pacific Standard Time.

The figures are:

• American Buffalo Pilot
• German Lab Rat
• German Fraulein “Raina Tod”

Darkson Designs have announced that their AE-WWII Partisan program is accepting applicants.

From their announcement:

As a Partisan you will earn points that you can spend on the Darkson Designs shop as well as have access to AE-WWII miniatures before they are released. Another benefit of becoming a Partisan is you will get opportunities to Beta Test rules and help to shape further expansions of the AE universe.

If you would like information on how you can become a Partisan please send an email to: info@darksondesigns.com

Darkson Designs have sent along an update to their AE-WWII scenario contest with a list of some of the pre-release miniatures that you can win.

From their announcement:

With the release of the Core Rulebook we thought we would run a little contest. We would like for you, the fans, to create a Scenario for AE-WWII. This contest will run from March 1st until April 30th 2008. The top scenario chosen by the Darkson Staff will get a Pre-Release blister of their choice as well as having their Scenario in an issue of the Over the Wire monthly online article, making it 100% official content and the possibility of being printed in future books!. Submissions should follow the same outline as those presented in the Core Rulebook.

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Earlier this week I got a chance to sit down and talk with Matthew Hope the developer of AE_WWII. Matt and I discuss the game’s release, their upcoming Occult expansion and GenCon.

You can download the interview in one of three formats:

• 128Kbps MP3 23.6M
• Ogg Vorbis 11.2M
• 64Kbps MP3 11.8M

Or you can stream it from the Internet Archive.

Darkson Designs have announced that the second issue of Over the Wire, their monthly AE-WWII newsletter, has been posted to their Downloads page. This issue presents the rules for the Abomination Hunter hero type and a unique hero for use in games of AE-WWII.

Darkson Designs have sent along a photo of the green of the upcoming AE-WWII Soviet AT Rifle miniature. The figure is set to be released in June/July 2008.

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Darkson Designs have sent along their June/July 2008 Soviet release schedule for AE-WWII

June/July

• Soviet Guard ROKS-3 Flame Thrower
• Soviet Guard DP-28 Light Machine Gun
• Soviet Guard 50-PM 40 Mortar
• Soviet Anti-Tank Rifle Team
• Soviet Anti-Tank Dog Squad

Update: We posted this earlier but I failed to recognize it from an earlier post.