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⛩️ GENERAL ORDERS: SENGOKU JIDAI – STRATEGY & SUPREMACY IN FEUDAL JAPAN || LIVE PLAY ⚔️

On tonight's show, command your clan and fight for dominance in General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, a fast-paced tactical wargame for two players. @ospreygames.bsky.social

An image with Paul Grogan, the host of the Gaming Rules! YouTube channel, alongside the cover of the board game Ayar and the title "TUTORIAL & PLAYTHROUGH", against a background photo of the heavily illustrated board and wooden pieces in various colours.

Paul Grogan of @gamingrules.bsky.social has his tutorial & playthrough of Ayar going live at 8pm BST tomorrow, Wednesday 8th August!

📢 Tune in on the Gaming Rules! YouTube to follow along and see our intricate new eurogame in action: https://bit.ly/3WsgFPi

// 16 OCT UK // 14 OCT US //

A close-up photo of a board of General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, with an illustrated ability card laid beside it, a handful of custom dice scattered on top of it, and various red and black wooden meeple placed around it.

The design diary for General Orders: Sengoku Jidai hit @boardgamegeek.com last week!

Missed it? Now find the deep dive from co-designer @djackthompson.bsky.social on our website blog as well: https://bit.ly/42qIsTP

// AVAILABLE NOW // https://bit.ly/4jeCg8d

Had a great 2p game day with my local gaming buddy yesterday. @ospreygames.bsky.social @trevormbenjamin.bsky.social A couple of classics (A Few Acres of Snow and Targi), my new hotness (Toy Battle), and one my co-designs (General Orders: Sengoku Jidai).

Photograph of the board game General Orders: Sengoku Jidai in the middle of a game, as red and black armies and ships crowd the central map.

Just finished my fifth game of the excellent new General Orders: Sengoku Jidai! Beautifully produced (cute wooden ships!), intensely tactical, and well paced. Thanks to @djackthompson.bsky.social, @trevormbenjamin.bsky.social, and @ospreygames.bsky.social for another wonderful design.

An image of the board game box for General Orders: Sengoku Jidai alongside a spread of sample cards and illustrations from the game depicting medieval Japanese battle scenes in a black and white style. Above, text reads "WORKER-PLACEMENT WARGAME FROM THE DESIGNERS OF UNDAUNTED", there is a "STAND 3.M600 sticker", and below are the SPIEL Essen and Osprey Games logos.

⚔️Play General Orders: Sengoku Jidai @ SPIEL Essen!

We'll have 4 demo tables every day of the show, running 1hr slots with new sign-ups opening each morning.

// STAND 3.M600//

✏️Check out the game's design diary from @djackthompson.bsky.social on @boardgamegeek.com: https://bit.ly/4pOoOeB

An illustration of a robed figure holding a scythe-like staff and wearing a horned skull helmet, leading a horde of skeletons – charging armoured knights beneath a landing dragon with a rider holding two glowing weapons. The background is dark mountains, the foreground is lit by fire, and the sky is cloudy and tinted purple.

An uncoloured line drawing in the style of an engraving or inscription, depicting a group of armed and armoured women in an ancient style, one with a jaguar on a chain, and led by a taller figure in a headdress and holding a crescent-moon-topped staff.

🎨💡 With Dragon Rampant: Second Edition out this month we're showing off two of the artists who helped bring it all together.

Check out this battle scene from Alan Lathwell & one of the engravings dotted through the book by Dave Needham @zhuindustries.bsky.social 🔥

PRE-ORDER: https://bit.ly/46OMirj

A screengrab of Jonathan Cox from Getting Games from his tutorial video for Ayar: Children of the Sun.

A screengrab from the tutorial video showing a fully set up game with a main board and player boards with various wooden and cardboard pieces arranged around them.

☀️ The official Ayar: Children of the Sun tutorial from Getting Games is here: https://bit.ly/4nRLppj

Learn to play this hot new eurogame from the creators of Merv & Sankoré @flopiano.bsky.social @mandelafg.bsky.social @ianotoole.bsky.social

// 16th OCT UK // 14th OCT US // https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y

I'm afraid stock will be limited so we won't have any roleplaying games at the show this time around!

An image with the text "DEMO GAMES, BROWSE THE SHOP, EXCLUSIVE PREVIEWS" in large font in three rows, against a background image of shelves stacked with board games faded out under a purple tone. A sticker reads "STAND 3.M600" and below are the Osprey Games and SPIEL Essen logos.

📆📆 3 weeks until ESSEN Spiel!

Find us on stand 3.M600 at Messe Essen, Germany, every day of the show 23rd–26th October.

We'll be running hot new demos, stocking a full shop, and even bringing some promos.

Watch this space for more show spotlights to come...

An image with a background illustration of a river behind the card for the bear Chunk from the board game Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River, showing him wading through a river. Above is the text: "ALL HAIL CHUNK!"

Chunk has been crowned the winner of Fat Bear Week 2025!

Compete for the best spots on the river yourself in Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River. Play cards with the real life bears, including Chunk, Grazer, Divot and more, to catch the most salmon in this 2-player board game.

An image with the Bolt Action: Third edition core rulebook alongside the new Armies of the Soviet Union supplement book. A sticker reads "COMING SOON" and at the bottom of the image is the text "FIELD EVERYTHING FROM THE HUMBLE CONSCRIPT TO THE MIGHTY IS-2 TANK".

It's release month for the newest Bolt Action: Third Edition supplement, Armies of the Soviet Union: https://bit.ly/46IFKu3

We're sharing @warlordgames.com's preview articles on our blog, so if you missed them first time round head over and check them out 👀 https://bit.ly/4nQuBhU

Episode 145 - Voidfighter — Lead Pursuit Podcast Have a bunch of X-wing miniatures collecting dust on your shelf since you rage-quit the competitive circuit?  Got some 1990’s Brigade Model metal minis painted with Testor’s glossy?  Come on...

Hey, do you want to hear me talk about Voidfighter for an hour? I don't blame you if you don't but here's a link. I was on the Lead Pursuit podcast.
www.leadpursuit.net/podcast/epis...

Another new game from Rob and me - available to demo at Essen Spiel! :)

"Uplifted cephalopods are natural candidates for hard-vac wetwork with millenia of evolution in Terran seas having prepared them amply for navigation in zero-g. The minds and bodies capable of moving with such ease through such an alien environment, however...

The cover of the board game Flip Pick Towers, published by Osprey Games, designed by Rob Fisher and Adam Porter, illustrated by Beatrix Papp. The art depicts a figure in a flowing gold and black cape spreading their arms in front of the scene of a castle in whites, blues and golds, with dragons circling ahead. Various pencils are shown extending into the artwork from the white border outside it to draw it, surrounded by magical sparkles.

✨✨ ANNOUNCING FLIP PICK TOWERS – a drawing game where players illustrate charming, playful castles to meet demands set out by the fussy nobles who wish to move in.

🤔 Find out more on @boardgamegeek.com: https://bit.ly/480MUfD

👀 COMING MARCH 2026.

Exclusive demos @ SPIEL Essen.

An image with a spread of three books in The Silver Bayonet wargame series side by side, with the Italy: The Shades of Calabria and Britain: Bones of Albion supplements accompanying the core rulebook. Above is the Osprey Games logo, against a deep red texture with a background illustration of an undead horde, and below is the text: "A WORLD OF NAPOLEONIC GOTHIC HORROR AWAITS".

Who's been busy getting their tables ready for The Silver Bayonet: Britain, out now?

Find the campaign's Bones of Albion Recovery sheet on our website, along with the game's unit sheets from the core book: https://bit.ly/3Lq5Rf3

👉 FIND OUT MORE: https://bit.ly/4g9lHJF

The board game box for Ayar: Children of the Sun, a large square with cover art depicting two figures and a llama silhouetted on the shore of a huge lake, with mountains on the horizon, and a huge elaborate sun motif above in the sky.

The board game box for General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, a small rectangle, with cover art depicting a samurai on a horse and a soldier on foot watching a castle burn, all in black and white except for the red of the flames.

It's under 1 month to @spielessen.bsky.social!

Who's ready for demos of our hot new releases Ayar: Children of the Sun and General Orders: Sengoku Jidai?

Watch this space for more details of everything we'll have to show off on Stand 3.M600... 👀👀

// 23rd – 26th Oct // Essen, Germany //

An illustration of an anthropomorphic sun bear in a vest and backwards baseball cap, sat on a futuristic storage crate, holding a spanner and a can of alien-branded beer.

🛠️ GAMING RESOURCES

Get everything you need for Untamed Worlds RPG by @jackno.bsky.social on our website: https://bit.ly/3yKLCpO

Character sheets, quick reference sheet, in-world slang & United Expeditionary Force alphabet...

// AVAILABLE NOW // https://bit.ly/47rPU4c

Art by Logan Stahl 🎨

A photo of the board game box for Ayar: Children of the Sun stood in front of a careful arrangement of different coloured wooden meeples from the game and cardboard score trackers shaped like elaborate golden idols. In the back ground, out of focus, are the board games Merv and Sankoré on a shelf.

Learn how to play ! 🧐🧐

The Ayar rulebook is now available on the game's @boardgamegeek.com page and our website gaming resources page: https://bit.ly/4miX3YE

Get a head start before release and demos @spielessen.bsky.social next month...

October 16th UK / 14th US: https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y

With all eyes on Katmai National Park and Preserve as #FatBearWeek reaches its final stages, who will be crowned the fattest bear?! 🐻

To celebrate, we're offering 30% off Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River!

▶️ Order by the end of 30th Sept and use the code GRAZER at checkout.

bit.ly/4gHSPs4

An image with a copy of The Silver Bayonet: Britain; Bones of Albion wargame supplement rulebook, against a background illustration with a Napoleonic soldier and an undead Norman soldier under a deep red tone, with a sticker reading "OUT NOW" and the words: "UNEARTH THE BONES OF ALBION".

Enter a land under siege from within and without...

Begin your Silver Bayonet adventure in the British Isles today.

💀💀 THE SILVER BAYONET: BRITAIN: BONES OF ALBION: https://bit.ly/4g9lHJF

/ OUT NOW /

🧟 ACROSS BRITAIN THE DEAD ARE RISING

💀 THE SILVER BAYONET: BRITAIN: BONES OF ALBION

📜 OUT NOW : bit.ly/4g9lHJF

An illustration of a worn hand of playing cards, with the face cards depicted as stylised animals, alongside a coin, two dice, and an ash tray with stubbed out cigarettes still smoking.

We have one more blog from Untamed Worlds author @jackno.bsky.social!

Get the lowdown on the anthro sci-fi RPG's setting – and have some frequent questions about the game answered: https://bit.ly/4mmEUc8

// AVAILABLE NOW // https://bit.ly/47rPU4c

An image with the deep reed cover of The Silver Bayonet: Britain: Bones of Albion alongside black and white illustrations of a Napoleonic soldier holding a door against a horde of undead, a glowing sword against a lake, and a map of the British Isles marked with ominous Xs. Below text reads: "NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE, A CURSE AWAKENS ACROSS THE LAND, GRAVEYARDS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS".

Get a sneak peak at the new Silver Bayonet supplement from award-winning wargame designer Joseph A. McCullough & learn about his inspiration for this new chapter: https://bit.ly/4892Cpd

💀 THE SILVER BAYONET: BRITAIN: BONES OF ALBION

📜 OUT THIS WEEK: https://bit.ly/4g9lHJF

A slice from a banner image made up of different game artworks side by side: a black-and-white medieval Japanese battle scene bleeding into a figure silhouetted against a gold-green lake.

A slice from a banner image made up of different game artworks side by side: a figure and a llama silhouetted against a gold-green lake bleeding into a hooded outlaw in all green tones.

A slice from a banner image made up of different game artworks side by side: a hooded outlaw bleeding into a battle scene between a barbarian and an orc as a dragon breathes fire above.

Spot our new banner?

What's your favourite piece of art from these hot board games, RPGs and wargames we have on the way?

💥 General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, Tanner Staheli

☀️ Ayar, Ian O'Toole

🏹 The Hooded Man, Brainbug

🔥 Dragon Rampant: Second Edition, Alan Lathwell

An image with the text "BRITAIN IS IN PERIL, NAPOLEON FROM ACROSS THE CHANNEL, THE UNDEAD FROM BENEATH THE EARTH" and The Silver Bayonet and Osprey Games logos, against a deep red background illustrated with a figure fighting off zombies and skeletons with a flintlock pistol and bayonet.

BRITAIN FACES INVASION & CONQUEST – FROM NAPOLEON & FROM THE UNDEAD

Centuries ago, a desperate druid attempted to wield a terrible power.

Now, labourers have uncovered a mysterious black stone & unleashed that fell curse.

💀THE SILVER BAYONET: BRITAIN:https://bit.ly/4g9lHJF

/ Sept 25 UK & 23 US /

A photo of the board game box for Ayar: Children of the Sun stood behind a fully set-up game: a large central board, 4 player boards and 1 side board, all covered with various wooden meeples and cardboard tokens.

Ayar photos are on @boardgamegeek.com!

Get a sneak peek at the eurogame from the creators of Merv and Sankoré ahead of release @flopiano.bsky.social @mandelafg.bsky.social @ianotoole.bsky.social

📸 boardgameshots

// 16th October UK // 14th October US // https://bit.ly/4n7je5c

An image with the board game box for General Orders: Sengoku Jidai and a sticker reading "OUT NOW" against a background of the map board from the game, illustrated cards, cardboard tokens, and wooden meeple of siege engines.

An image with the rulebook for Untamed Worlds: Anthropomorphic Science Fiction Roleplaying alongside background illustrations of a humanoid iguana in combat armour, and a baboon in camo gear, above the words "OUT NOW" and the Osprey Games logo.

Out today...

🔥🔥 GENERAL ORDERS: SENGOKU JIDAI – The worker-placement wargame from the designers of Undaunted: https://bit.ly/4jeCg8d

🚀💥 UNTAMED WORLDS – An action-packed RPG of animals uplifted to serve as humanity's agents among the stars: https://bit.ly/47rPU4c

You can leave the experiments to the lab rats. For real results you need a mouse out in the field.