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The folks at Avalanche Press have posted a New Year's Eve wargame special:

Panzer Grenadier: Road to Berlin
Retail Price: $74.99
YOUR Price: $50
Gold Club Price: $45

Panzer Grenadier: Eastern Front
Retail Price: $74.99
YOUR Price: $50
Gold Club Price: $45

Panzer Grenadier: White Eagles
Retail Price: $24.99
YOUR Price: $24.99
Gold Club Price: $22.50

Tiger of Malaya
Retail Price: $59.99
YOUR Price: $40
Gold Club Price: $36

Alamein
Retail Price: $199.99
YOUR Price: $120
Gold Club Price: $108

Buy Two, Get a Third Free
It's back! The free game is the one with the lowest price.

Avalanche Press has a new offer available:


A number of other daily specials are listed on their site as well.

From the Decision Games web site comes the following news:

08 Dec 08
Strategy & Tactics Update
Strategy & Tactics #254 goes in the mail today. S&T#254 features the issue game Hannibal's War covering the Second Punic War. Feature articles include Hannibal's War: The Second Punic Wr & The Rise of Rome, Cybernetic Warefare-Frontier of 21st Century Conflict, The British Campaign in the Rio de la Plata, 1806-07, and Barbarossa: Border Tank Battles in the Ukraine, June 1941. Other articles include The Beyeux Tapestry: 1066 Lives On, Operation Knight's Charge, and Jennie Irene Hodgers in the American Civil War, and our regular columns: Miranda on Design, the Long Tradition and Work in Progress.

Avalanche Press has announced a Christmas Gift special, detailed below:

Christmas Gift!
The Christmas Season is on us, and we'd like to toast the season with a special gift for purchasers. Every day between now and Christmas, we'll add a special gift -- a game, a supplement, possibly a new download -- to every order over a certain amount.

Today's Gift (12/12/2008 or 12/13/2008 - Not sure.)
Desert Rats. We'll add a copy of Desert Rats -- a $65 game -- to every order over $200 at NO additional cost including FREE shipping anywhere.

For details and information about the current gift, see their web site.

In honor of St. Nicholas' Eve in Austria, the folks at Avalanche Press have a special this weekend on six games that include Austrian pieces:

Great War at Sea: Cruiser Warfare
Retail Price: $49.99
YOUR Price: $35
Gold Club Price: $31.50

Great War at Sea: Mediterranean
Retail Price: $59.99
YOUR Price: $42
Gold Club Price: $37.80

Great War at Sea: Dreadnoughts
Retail Price: $24.99
YOUR Price: $18
Gold Club Price: $16.20

Third Reich
Retail Price: $64.99
YOUR Price: $45
Gold Club Price: $40.50

Soldier Kings
Retail Price: $39.99
YOUR Price: $28
Gold Club Price: $25.20

Austerlitz
Retail Price: $29.99
YOUR Price: $21
Gold Club Price: $18.90

The Tanga.com web site is currently offering Avalon Hill's Axis & Allies: Guadalcanal for only $16.99 plus shipping.  The specials on this site are typically offered for a short time (e.g., 24 hours), so you may want to move on this quickly if you're interested.  Note that I've not personally bought anything from this site so I can't vouch for its reliability or service.

Our friends over at Wargamedownloads.com have released some new titles recently:

Maria Teresa: War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) Solitaire game on the War of the Austrian Succession	$7.00 Sale
Song of Drums and Shakos Napoleonic skirmish game based on the popular *Song of Blades and Heroes* mechanics	$8.00

Avalanche Press is currently running its "Black Week" promotion.  They have 18 games at reduced prices, combined with a "buy two, get one free" promotion, Gold Club discounts, and a present for $100+ orders - the free download of the Panzer Division PDF.  This exclusive PDF will only be available as part of the Black Week promotion and "will never, ever be seen again".  The list of wargames included in the sale includes (as of this writing):

Panzer Grenadier: Afrika Korps
Panzer Grenadier: Desert Rats
Panzer Grenadier: Road to Berlin
Panzer Grenadier: Eastern Front
Panzer Grenadier: Battle of the Bulge
Panzer Grenadier: Guadalcanal
Great War at Sea: Cruiser Warfare
Second World War at Sea: Midway
Great War at Sea: Mediterranean
Second World War at Sea: Eastern Fleet
Second World War at Sea: Strike South
Great War at Sea: US Navy Plan Gold
Tiger of Malaya
Great Pacific War
Third Reich
Soldier Kings
Austerlitz
Red God of War

For availability, pricing, and ordering, see their web site.

According to the Ad Astra Games web site, their title "Birds of Prey: Air Combat in the Jet Age" is now shipping.  Priced (as of this writing) at $74.95 for the basic edition, plus $15.00 for the Expanded Edition, or $45 for the Deluxe Edition, this game uses the latest unclassified sources for fighter combat data.  The game reportedly uses innovative techniques to put "true aerodynamic modeling" into table top air combat gaming.

From the Multiman Publishing web site comes the following new release information:

Karelia '44 is the lastest Standard Combat Series game focusing on the last major campaign of the Russo-Finnish Continuation War. 1 map, 1 countersheet, some new twists on game length, a lot of fun in the usual SCS manner. Retail price is $42, preorder price is $31.50.

Next up is Baltic Gap, the next game in the Operational Combat Series line. This game depicts the Soviet drive into Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania during the summer of 1944. Retail price is $70, preorder price is $52.50.

Another OCS title, Guderian's Blitzkrieg II (reprint) is well known to older OCS players as the game which mates to Case Blue and makes one monster game. Of course it is playable stand-alone as well. Retail price is $160, with a preorder price of $120.

Last, but not least, ASL Action Pack #5. 12 more scenarios, 3 new maps, a lot of ASL enjoyment for a retail price of $30 and a preorder price of $22.50.