It's Charlie's Year Once More at Against the Odds

We rarely publish one newsgram right after another but immediately after sending out our last one, it was announced the Charles S Roberts Awards were being restarted after a 7 year hiatus. One of the premiere awards in the industry, the CSR recognize real excellence in game design, graphics, and military history analysis and writing.

Click on the banner above to cast your ballot or you can register your vote here:

https://charlieawards.wordpress.com/

But in all cases, voting ends at the end of May, so don’t miss your chance to make your mark!

While voting is only for items published in 2019 (and that was more the year of our sister line, Turning Point Simulations, as they wrapped up their 20 game series) Against the Odds Magazine published:

A Gate of Hell: The Campaign for Charleston, July-September 1863 with bonus game All or Nothing inside as well (Vol.13, No.1) containing the following articles:      

    * A Gate of Hell by Paul Rohrbaugh      

    * On Guards: The Fortifiers by Andy Nunez      

    * And the Data Shows: All Ashore That's Going Ashore by Ed Heinsman      

    * The Fifth Columnist by John D. Burtt      

    * Louis XVIII's Dream by John Prados
 

Die Atombombe: The Reich's Bid to Build the Bomb (Vol.13, No.2) with the following articles inside:        

    * Building the Bomb by Steven Cunliffe      

    * On Guards: Nazi Weird Science by Andy Nunez      

    * And the Data Shows: They Also Fissioned by Ed Heinsman      

    * Screaming Butterflies! by J.D. Webster      

    * Revolt Against the Masses: Kornilov in 1917 by Darin Leviloff      

    * More Miracles on the Marne: Expansion Rules for Fateful Days: The Marne Campaign of 1914 by Paul Rohrbaugh      

    * Simulation Corner: Whither Innovation? by John Prados      

    * The Fifth Columnist by John D. Burtt

Plus the six new Pocket Battle Games below (do you have them all?):



and:




While you're there at the CSR ballot site, you can also vote for your favorite TPS game from 2019 as well (all pictured below):

The Battle of Marathon      The Battle of Châlons

The Battle of Blenheim       The Day of Waterloo

Plus the one new Pocket Battle Game (La Haye Sainte) from TPS:



Remember, your vote could be, well, decisive (just like our TPS Decisive Battles series)! 

And in other news, the mailing for issue #51 is complete (you may not have yours yet, but all copies have been posted). Our next ATO issue will be #52 with Operation Ichi-Go (below) inside. Subscribe or re-subscribe now to get your copy.

Best,

Steve Rawling, Publisher