Just in: From Bounding Fire, a BIG, BIG scenario set for ASL, ASL:Crucible of Steel covering lots of battles during the Kursk offensive of 1943.

If will fit in a flat rate envelope for $8, but nothing else can ship with it.

UPS has announced that its ground shipping rates will increase "on average" 5.9%. Ouch.

For us, that means that the average shipment cost of $13.19 increases to $13.99. For you, it likely means a $0.50 increase in base shipping prices and an adjustment to those nasty "heavy" packages.

UPS has consistently increased its rates at a year to year rate of at least twice the rate of overall inflation for the last 10 years. Add the many fees added to the base rates and it has increase rather rapidly. The Age of Cheap Gas is long gone...

For those paying attention, please note that Round 1 of our Annual Clearance ends after Wednesday.

Round 1 gives big discounts on hundreds of Magazines & Magazine-Games. But act now for wait another year...

We received a HUGE set of restock shipments today. HUGE.

Stuff from Australian Design Group: Patton in Flames, World in Flames.

Stuff from Decision Games including the missing shipment of Second Kharkov S&T 271 and also Lepanto S&T 272.

Stuff from Against the Odds including the new ATO, Meatgrinder #33.

And also LOTS of distributor-sourced games too. Busy day.

Its our biggest set of sales of the year. Its where we find stuff that needs a good home, drop the price - alot - and offer it up to the first taker.

This year, our first offering or Round is focused on most of the magazines & magazine-games. These are the S&Ts, Commands, Wargamers, Against the Odds, Vae Victis -- those with games in each issue, plus the magazine-onlys that help us become competent gamers or provide historical background for the games. The latter include the late AH General, Paper Wars, C3i and more.

We've selected 400 some items to offer, put an ADDITIONAL discount of 10-30% on them, that is in addition to our already discounted, everyday price, and let 'em go.

PLUS, if you buy 10 or more items from our Round 1 Clearance Catalog, you get another 5% off of EVERYTHING in your order (including clearance items and non-clearance items, but excluding personal game sale items).

Whew!

A bunch of modest sized restocks including GMT (Twilight Struggle, Labyrinth, Urban Sprawl), Australian Design Group (World In Flames Deluxe & Classic, Patton in Flames).

New Clash Of Arms & Against the Odds arriving shortly (Including Naval Sitrep #41, Meatgrinder #33 & more).

Also, a bunch of mags from Decision Games: Rhineland War (World at War #21) is in-stock now. Next week, we expect Kharkov S&T271, Lepanto S&T#272.

We received our first shipment of Decision Games TOTALER KRIEG 3rd as well as is new, sister game, Dai Senso! Both $90 cash.

TK is in its 3rd incarnation as its proved to be a very popular game & game system. Dai Senso! ports the system to the Pacific in WW2, and the two games are now designed to mate, allowing experienced players to game all of WW2.

Its a good thing retirement is coming!

We just received a large restock of Multi-Man Publ Games. These include a few games & the ASL rules that have been out of print for a while. There are price increases on those reprinted items.

The vital ASL Rules binder is among the newly available reprints.

Special Ops Magazine, successor to Operations Mag, is also available now.

ASL Rules 4th, $80

ASL For King & Country 2nd, $84 (the British army)

ASL Starter Kit #3, Tanks, $30

Special Ops Mag #1, with 2 complete games, $18
This mag replaces Operations mag, and includes 2 complete games: Raphia & Savage Streets (area-move game of the battle for central Stalingrad). $18

Just received a restock of various newer Decision Games/Excalibre games. Included were two brand new games that should be very popular.

Totaler Krieg 2nd [aka Krieg 3rd], $90 new.
Strategic level game of the war in all of Europe & N.Africa in WW2, including card-driven events. This has been such a popular game that DG has brought it back with a 3rd edition, and it now mates with...

Dai Senso!, $90 new
A new, strategic level game of the war in all of the Pacific in WW2, again including card-driven events.

Both will likely sell out in 2-3 years, and judging from our experience, retain both their replay value and their prized status within a game collection.

We will be mailing several hundred postcards to former customers with whom we are out of contact as their email address has gone bad over time. If you receive one of these, please get in touch with us.

Update the contact info we hold for you, and we can then provide you with all the services you've not received...including first notices of our upcoming Annual Clearance Sale.

Just email us to re-establish contact.

We've added dozens & dozens more of my personal stash of games. Included are many titles we haven't seen since they went out of print. And many I personally have only seen one copy EVER (and it went straight into my collection).

Want examples? How about the Ragner Bro. game ANGOLA from 1988, in cherry condition. Or Manassas 1st. Or a great family game: The Plague (be the first to bury 100 bodies). Or North American Rails & Australian Rails, both in a tube, and laminated maps for EuroRails & Empire Builders. Space Empires by Steve Jackson Games. IVY's At All Hazards game &Bethesda Church kit. And several mint copies of Jadgpanther mag: Marine #10, Gotterdammerung #9. And this little gem: High Seas, a very good study of pirates in the Caribbean in the late 1600s.

And more to come in time.

Another week, another restock with some new wargames. And also a few games that are now out of print.

Included in this shipment is:

Field Commander Napoleon, $72, solitaire game of the Napoleonic era.

And three games that are now sadly out of print (temporary or permanent):

Boots on the Ground $32
Guns of August $36
Commands & Colors, Ancients 3rd $52

In the last week, I've returned to my personal stash of games to do the garage sale thing: culling my collection with games that don't suite my personal preference for strategic level stuff. So there are LOTS of great games, many rare games, and more than a few odd & unusual items. I have added more than 5 apple boxes worth of games, most in mint condition. Check it out.

Received a shipment of Decision Games latest new products. Some exciting stuff including an update of one of my personal favorites.

Battle for Stalingrad 2nd, a graphical update of this battalion/regt level game of the battle for Stalingrad, Fall 1942. $43

Mighty Fortress 2nd, a graphical update (of the counters at least) of this great but long 6-player game of the reformation on both military & religious levels. $30, and recommended.

Conquerors, Romans & Macedonians, an update of this Richard Berg 2-game set that covers most of the ancient Mediterranean during both the times of Greek & Roman ascendancy. $60

WatW #20, Grossdeutschland Panzer Division, 4 scenario, 2 map, 560 counter game of one of Germany's super-division. $37.50

Just received 3 restock shipments. Among the games received are these first-timers into our inventory:

ASL Berlin the Final Days [Fall of 3rd Reich 3rd ed] $75
This is an update with revised map & counter styles.

ASL Nordic Twilight $56
ASL version of an 8-scenario look at a 3-division, mid-winter German attack in the Moder valley in Jan.1945.

Star Trek Fleet Captains Card Game $74
Large card game set in the Star Trek universe (including all versions), with tactical combat between the many factions.

1955, War of Espionage $18
Card game of the heart of the cold war, as the two superpowers attempt to sway other nations to their side.

We have just published another newsletter. In it, we tip our hat to the passing of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and its fallout.

We also offer 3 special offers for the month of September:

1. Special deals on a carefully selected group of 119 games & gaming supplies, nearly all new & unblemished, and all of which belong in YOUR collection. See the associated link.

2. FREE Shipping is back! But now it includes EVERYTHING you purchase from us; no exclusions. Just buy $125 in net cash-basis pricing & ship to a non-rural address in the 48 states and shipping is entirely free. See the associated link for full details & terms.

3. We continue to offer the Ranger v4.1 bundle for $74.95 including shipping, and a $5 credit toward any future purchase from Fine Games. See the Ranger section in the associated link for further details.

We received a small distributor restock today. Among the games received are 3 entirely new games:

1955, War of Espionage (APE) $18
Test of Fire, First Bull Run (MAYFAIR) $24
No Peace Without Spain (COMPASS) $46

We received a small restock from both Decision Games & GMT.

Included are some tasty new titles:

Battle for Stalingrad 2nd, an update of this John Hill Classic $43
Ancient Conquests 2nd, an update of an early game $35

No Retreat!, a very strategic look at the war in the east $42
Space Empires 4x, galactic conquests $45
Mounted Maps for Barbarossa to Berlin, Empire of the Sun & For the People II.

We received a modest restock of MMP items, including copies of their brand new Breakthrough, Cambrai $35. Your orders are welcome.

We just received a restock of GMT Games (including Sun of York). Their other new items will follow next week.

We also received a broad (but shallow) restock of Minded Games various games, many of which we have not had previously. If you want any of these, order fast as we have limited stock of each individual title.

Decision Games, the holder of remaining remenant stock of games originally published by Excalibre, Meta Games & World Wide Wargames (3W), announced a major (and rather arbitrary) price increase in most titles of these 3 lines. The price increase in many cases is roughly 20%.

It also appears that a number of titles have fallen under the waves, and are no longer available.

Updated prices will be reflected in our catalogs this evening.

We returned from a weeks vacation today, 25 Aug, Monday, and have begun responding to all emails, voice mails & carrier pigeons sent to us while we were closed (& having much fun & sun) last week.

If you haven't received a reply to something you sent to us by Tuesday, please give us a call at 866-690-7879 & we'll address it promptly then.

Thanks for your patience.

We have again updated our New Game Special Order Price List, where you can save up to 35% on ANYTHING our primary distributor has to offer in its catalog.

Now for a limited time, we are pleased to partner with Omega Games to offer a special deal on the current edition of a long-time favorite game on the very timely subject of Special Ops conducted by U.S. special forces (rangers, seals, green berets) in the present time frame.

Ranger is a solitaire (only) game of planning & executing squad or platoon level ranger missions, including recon, ambush & raids. It is played on plasticized maps using dry erase markers with a wide variety of terrain. This version of the game includes an Tactical Events Booklet that integrates all missions from the game and expansions as well as all 600 possible events. Mission cards are printed in color, and booklets have color covers. All components are professionally printed.

Contents of Ranger include

*Rules of Play Booklet in our easy-to-read bullet paragraph format

*Patrolling Tactics Booklet

*Tactical Events Booklet

*2 Map Sheets

*24 full color Mission Cards

*5 color Play Aid Cards

*Tactical Template

*Dry Erase Marker

*Game Box


The AO Sierra/AO Victor Expansion Kit Contents 4 additional maps

*48 more missions to the game

You may find additional info at Omega Games Website.

For $74.95 (within the US; $94.95 in Canada and $99.95 internationally), you get:

*Ranger Base Game, 4.1 edition, including all professionally printed components;

*AO Sierra & Victor Mission Expansion kit, 4.1 editon;

*Actions at the Objective CD-ROM, with 130 PDF forms used to play Ranger at a larger scale;

*Shipping to your address within the USPS postal system (via media mail).


If you can show that you bought a prior version of Ranger, then the base price including shipping is $49.95.

To order, simply email, phone (866-690-7879 after 10am PST) or fax us at Fine Games with your normal order info (Name, contact info, payment info & what you wish to order). We'll get it in the works so that your bundle of goodies arrives ASAP.

As an incentive to act now -- by placing your order on or before the 2nd of September -- Fine Games will give you a $5 credit good toward any future order with us for each bundle purchased. That is $5 off your next order with Fine Games.

Terms of this offer are: All prices quoted are cash-basis; add 3.1% if paying by credit card or most PayPal payments. Game bundles will be shipped promptly & directly from the publisher to you; thus, no other games can be added to or combined with this offer. Game is expected to begin shipping the week of 15 August. You must prove ownership of a prior edition of Ranger to qualify for the $49.95 price; do so via prior registration with the publisher or other documentation satisfactory to the publisher. Offer may end at any time.

Take 20% off our normal selling price of any USED Strategy & Tactic, Command, Wargamer, General or Paper Wars magazine, magazine with game, or game-only. By "used," we mean mint, excell or very good condition (i.e. not "new"). And we include either the magazine and/or the game. (And to confuse things, we'll also add all NEW General magazines to this offer.)

See our sale.htm catalog for links to the catalogs to hunt thru.

This offer is good thru the end of August.

We are offering FREE shipping to orders meeting two conditions, now thru the END OF August. This is an experiment on our part to see the range of possibilities before we make this a blanket offer.

Your order must
(1) be shipped to an address within the 48 continental states of the US; at this time, HI, AK and foreign customers are not included.
(2) total $100 of regularly-priced merchandise; items including any form of special offer or sale pricing are not included, nor is shipping or the loss of the cash discount. Just regular priced merchandise at our cash-price.

ONE free parcel per customer (i.e. a single box of up to 70# weight).

For our foreign customers, we will offer a $10 flat discount on all shipments meeting the $100 minimum purchase amount.

We've updated our New Game Price List. This is our master catalog of EVERYTHING available from our primary distributor, the largest hobby game supplier in the world.

All items are shown with a special order price reflecting discounts of up to 35% off list price. Also reflected is actual availability info: how many of the distributor's 4 regional warehouses the item is available at (the more the better).

We continue to use this periodic download info to clean up and connect our own data base to theirs. So what you see in our various catalogs is as current & accurate as possible.

We received a restock of Clash of Arms games today, including the newest ATO magazine, Birth of a Legend #32, $28.

We will receive many other general restocks as well as some key new games in distributor shipments arriving thru the balance of the week. Included in the brand new games is:

Proud Monster 2nd, $104. 4map game of the war in the East in WW2 at division level.

Federation Commander, Transports Attacked, $21

Panzer Grenadiers LITTLE SATURN kit, $8

Federation & Empire, ISC War, $35 (sold out to preorders & limited supply)

Just in, a restock of GMT titles. We're now at full stock for all that GMT offers.

Brand new is C3i #25 magazine, $18, packed with lots of inserts, counters & scenarios.

Also, Hexasim's Almeida & Bussaco, 3 grand tactical games of the Napoleonic Wars in Iberia. This game won't be in print long, so get it quick. $22

We have continued to make use of a regular download of our primary distributor's inventory to update our own database of game prices & availability. Most recently, we updated several pages of price updates on publishers such as Fantasy Flight, Rio Games, Steve Jacks, and others.

In most cases, prices went up often substantially. In other cases, they decreased and sometimes substantially.

But the best news is that our catalogs are more accurate, more current, reflecting what we can actually provide to you in the way of great games & great prices!

The long-popular multiplayer game of Japanese unification under a single Shogun first published as Shogun (Milton-Bradley) and later as Samurai Swords (Hasbro) has just been republished in its third incarnation as IKUSA (Wizards of the Coast). Our price, $60.

This colorful game for 3-5 players has each clan (player) seeking to build a solid base in a part of Japan and then extend their reach into opponent's territories, capturing cities & fortresses and ultimately all 3 opponent's leaders to take them out of the game.

In a sign of the times, the list price of this 3rd edition is nearly double that of the earlier 2nd ed.

A long-lost restock order from GRD just in. Included is a supply of

Wavell's War, $60
And several "recent" Europa mags #81-87

Thru the end of July (31 July), we offer an additional 10% off our already heavily discounted normal selling prices on four (4) types of games.

* All ASL items in stock
* All ATS items in stock
* All Panzer Grenadiers items in stock
* All 'Zombie' games & kits

Catalogs are available for each:
http://www.finegames.com/text/asl.pdf (or asl.txt)
http://www.finegames.com/text/ats.pdf (or ats.txt)
http://www.finegames.com/text/pg.pdf (or pg.txt)
http://www.finegames.com/text/zombie.pdf (or zombie.txt)

That's an additional 10% off our standard selling prices on any or all of these items. As always, you can combine other items into a single order.

Email your order to us today!

Just in the door, the newest WORLD AT WAR #19 & a restock of various games.

BRAND NEW:
World at War mag #19, "the Hardest Days," 5 key days during the Battle of Britain. $22.50

RESTOCKS:
ASL Hell's Bridgehead 3rd WITH Map, Kursk, $29

Godzilla Kaiju $54, a big simple fun game of Japanese 50's-60's movies monsters duking it out over Tokyo

Conquest of Nerath, $60, 2-4 player fantasy campaign

Our distributor is having a clearance sale which includes a large number of OSPREY MILITARY HISTORY BOOKS. We are offering you savings of 50% off the list price of each book, now thru our last order in late July.

ALL titles are special order, and are subject to availability at our distributor. If you're interested in these books, we strongly suggest you act NOW to have the best chance of getting the books you want.

We present the complete list of what is available in 3 graphics on a special web page at
http://www.finegames.com/osprey_sale.htm

Email or call us to order ASAP. We will include as many books as will fit in a flat rate USPS priority mail envelope.

We just received a small & VERY late shipment of new Critical Hit games. But available now while they last:

ATS LZ X-Ray $29: Nov'65 combat in the Vietnam
ATS Drop Zone Normandy $22: the 101st AB at Normandy

ASL Bob Normandy $29
ASL Hell's Bridgehead 3rd with map $29

Note that many of CH's new kits are in an obnoxious, legal sized package that must be folded to ship in a flat rate envelope (or ship boxed).

Recently released games just received, in stock:

BELLICA: Age of Musket Tomb for an Empire, area move
game of the war in Iberia, 1808-14; $78

MMP Karelia '44, final Soviet assault on Finland 1944; $31
uses Std Combat System

MMP None But Heroes, battle of Antietam Spt 1862; $58
using Line of Battle (GBACW) series

GMT Case Yellow, fall of France 1940; $38

GMT Nightfighter, nighttime air combat over Europe in WW2; $38.50

ADB Star Fleet Battles, C3a Andromedans; $14

ADB Star Fleet Battles, Captn Log #43; $14

We began posting news of interest to our customers via a RSS feed in late June 2011. We intend to post notice of new game receipts, notice of key games we've learned have gone out of print, as well as special sales we may offer.