More news of interest to the Twilight: 2000 miniature wargamer!

Well, it's been a bit of a mixed news bag for the Twilight: 2000 gamer of late. First, for those of you that backed the PSC 20mm T-55 project, good news. The kits have shipped. When they arrive depends on where you are in the world, but knowing PSC, it won't be long. For those that waited, they are available for sale at 18.95 GBP for three tanks in a kit.

For Twilight: 2000, three tanks can often comprise a division, so the price isn't bad for what you get, and I am going to have to do a step by step build to show you all what you are in for.

Yep! They're on their way, Picture is courtesy of PSC! 

As covered in an earlier article, the Guild sadly, has left us, and with it, quite a bit of information for the discerning 20mm gamer (and many other gamers as well). That said, there has been the rise of a new site, and a new Facebook group, of which I am glad to point people to:

The new website is the Wargamer's Guild, it's new yet, and it might not quite have the flash the old Guild had, but I think, be patient and give it time, and it will do as well as it's predecessor did. I personally will be cheerleading it here, and hope to see many of you there.

The Facebook Group is known as Armchair Gamers. It's got quite a few "Guild Refugees" and memberships seems to be limited to former Guild members for now, but I do hope this policy changes soon, as the painting work is well, just incredible, and is meeting the usual high Guild standard (and not to mention the usual helpful nature of everyone there).

I also was at Williamsburg Muster down in Williamsburg last weekend. I haven't had the time to do a proper convention report, but I promise I will write one. I didn't see a whole lot of stuff of interest to readers from this blog, but there were some ideas worth mentioning I did see. And there was a Napoleonic skirmish game that would, with a little adaptation, make an excellent Twilight: 2000-themed scenario,

Another bit of news of interest to readers of the blog is some recent releases by Ehliem,  I am very interested in their new series of modern separate heads to convert figures with, including heads with a range of Soviet helmet types, and a 3-D printed BRDM-2 and BTR-80. There's also some new separate backpacks and food, perfect for customizing some post apocalyptic figures and terrain. I look forward to what comes down the pike further with these releases.

Till next time everyone!

Guild Wargames Forum Down for Good?!

Sad news from the 20mm Wargaming World. It seems that the Guild, a stalwart of the 20mm Wargaming community, and a site that I was an august member of, has seemingly gone under:

According to freewargamesrules on TMP on a thread asking about this:

Last I heard none of the Admins could access the Forum. The PhpBB forum they use has recently stated:

Earlier today, we identified that the download URLs for two phpBB packages available on phpBB.com were redirecting to a server that did not belong to us. We immediately took down the links and launched an investigation….If you downloaded either the 3.2.2 full package or the 3.2.1 -> 3.2.2 automatic updater package between the hours of 12:02 PM UTC and 15:03 PM UTC on January 26th, you received an archive modified with a malicious payload.

One of my mates spoke with the Admins who say "it is gone for good"

Further news from S&S's Facebook Page, directly from Shaun suggest the same:

If true, then this has been a blow to the 20mm community in particular, and the larger wargaming community as a whole. Reams of useful information have been lost to what appears to be a hacking of some sort. While more than a few FB groups have been filling in the breech, and the numbers for the Guild have gone down, it was hoped that upcoming releases, like Battlegroup NORTHAG and others would revitalize the Guild.

Here is hoping someone brings the Guild back, in some form, in it's heyday, it was an awesome place, and I think it can be again!

Update, sadly, the Guild has died, confirmation from the Guild FB page:

After a rather confusing and sad week, "The Guild" admin team are now announcing that it appears that the forum has gone for good.

We share the sense of loss that has been circulating online for the last few days, and like you we mourn the loss of what was not only a great wargaming and modelling resource, but was for us a labour of love and place to hang out with friends online. 

Between us we have run forums together for over 14yrs, first at Elhiem, then Showcase20 and most successfully with "The Guild" which ran for over 11yrs, our success based around treating others the same way as you would expect to be treated. A sign of this successful ethos was the fact that the forum pretty much ran itself as the 3500+ international membership were polite and encouraging. The reputation that the forum built up is an immense source of pride to us, and we thank those who helped foster that. We would also like to thank those of you we have met, travelled with, played games with, crashed at homes and generally been amazing friends with over the last few years. The friendships we have built I hope will endure beyond this.

With the death of the main forum, this FB page is redundant and the decision has been made to turn this off in the next two weeks also. 

At present the admin team are talking about the possibility of starting again and creating a new space to hang out in, but 11yrs on we now have much busier real lives, with added demands from work, family and children and other hobbies, so nothing is yet confirmed....

We thank you all for your recent communications and we hope to see you at a wargaming show soon...