2011 Q2 News Archive

In a whirlwind three week campaign on the Western Front, the likes of which have never before been seen and most likely never will be seen again, beast013, bravely leading his Airborne brethren, bulldozed his way through the German lines. Truly, a debut performance for the ages!

beast013, in recognition and commemoration of your accomplishment, you are hereby awarded this ribbon:

Meanwhile, half a world away, JayTownsend, one of our most decorated veterans, was busy leading Peru's lightning invasion of Ecuador to stunning results.

JayTownsend, in recognition and commemoration of your accomplishment, you are hereby awarded this ribbon:

It's time to celebrate! In fact, the show is about to begin! Come on in and join us for the:

Inaugural PG-HQ Annual Awards!

The PG-HQ General Staff has begun loading Winter Soldiers into the Library. Please be patient, as this one will take awhile!

In the meantime, feel free to add the game to your collection. Just don't record any plays for it until I give the all clear, lest you miss out on hard-earned and well-deserved bounty points!

All clear! Bounties have been recalculated. You may record plays for Winter Soldiers to your heart's content!

After the last medal ceremony, PatC stormed into my office.

"What the hell is going on?" he shouted, slamming his fist down on my desk for added emphasis.

"What's eatin' yah son?" came the reply.

"I seen that gloryhound Townsend get a medal just this morning and I ain't got nuthin'! We was shoulder to shoulder all up an' down that infernal muskeg! What's the deal?!?

Now, I've known Pat for awhile, and this just wasn't like him at all, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt and had a look at his service record... after a few moments it became clear what had happened.

"Settle down friend. Says here you've completed all 10 battles of the Aleutian Campaign--"

"You're damn right I have!" Pat snorted.

"...well" I continued, "the problem is there are eleven battles in the Aleutian Campaign. You're one short. Our brave leaders over at AP-HQ snuck one in at the last second. A double-secret, tricky-dick dash across some nasty ground after those retreatin' Japanese. Real nail-biter, I hear. You go get your ass out there and we'll talk about that medal.

A week later a particularly spirited battle report crossed my desk. Pat had done it.

PatC, in recognition and commemoration of your accomplishment, you are hereby awarded this ribbon:

May it prove to be the first of many!

For a variety of reasons the Site Wishlist is not necessary for the near term and has been removed from the main menu. It will be switched back on when I've got time to do major site development and after we've launched the core upgrades currently idle in the pipeline.

The PG-HQ staff has finished loading Little Saturn: Death of the Armata Italiana in Russia into the PG-HQ Library.

If you were curious about checking out the game ownership requirements, OOBs, and general scenario details before decided whether or not to order it, they're all waiting for you!

Thanks team! (particularly Peter!)

At 18:45 on May 2nd, I completed my 9 month basic training and became a regular member of the Army of Dads. Naturally, this change has strongly impacted all areas of my life, including PG-HQ.

For the next several months, the amount of time per week I can dedicate to site development will be severely restricted. I worked hard to get our next two big upgrades (Plays & AARs v2.0, PG-HQ Armor Guide) out the door before junior arrived, but it didn't quite happen. In the end, it's obviously better to delay them a few months and deliver well-designed improvements than to rush them out early and risk including a few back-breaking bugs.

What does this mean for you? Not much. I'll be answering emails to Site Admin a little more slowly for awhile. Everything already up on the site will continue functioning as before. We're just not going to have any new toys for awhile is all.

In related news, PG-HQ turns one year old in 20 days. Kind of snuck up on us didn't it? Originally I had big plans for this first anniversary, but the child's arrival and AP's on-going (but clearly improving!) struggles made most of them infeasible. I do have one little card up my sleeve, though, to help us celebrate the milestone...

Few men saw it happen, and even fewer lived to talk about it, but JayTownsend was one of them - the Aleutian Campaign. At the very tip of America, Jay stood his ground against the Japanese aggressors and successfully completed Alaska's War.

In recognition and commemoration of your accomplishment, you are hereby awarded this ribbon:

Meanwhile, a world away in Germany, campsawyer was striking a blow for Uncle Sam against the Germans. Over three weeks of bitter fighting, he drove the bastards out of the city and successfully completed Aachen 1944.

In recognition and commemoration of your accomplishment, you are hereby awarded this ribbon:

To your health, gentlemen!

The PG-HQ Team is working hard to get Carpathian Brigade and Go for Broke loaded into the Panzer Grenadier Headquarters Library for you.

You may now add those two titles to your collection, but please do not record plays for either game until I give the all-clear. Otherwise, you will get some screwed-up statistics and bounty results.

Once we're ready for new plays and AARs for those games, I'll update this news item.

FINAL UPDATE - Both Carpathian Brigade and Go for Broke are ready for your plays and AARs!

Our popular 3rd Edition Annotated Rules have been tweaked to show you the date of last update.

From now on, for both the online rules and the PDF, just have a look in the upper right corner. You can tell at a glance if your PDF is out of date, or if something new has been added since you last visited.

In February of 2006, one man answered the call: to become a Hero.

After five months of grueling toil, on July 9th 2006 that man stood atop the shattered and scorched remnants of a German tank and declared his victory complete.

Thus the histories record the campaign of one campsawyer, the first brave lad to attempt Heroes of the Soviet Union and live to tell about it.

In recognition and commemoration of your accomplishment, you are hereby awarded this ribbon:

May men salute your bravery over shots of vodka for generations to come!