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Line of Fire #3 on Sale
 Lock ‘n Load Publishing announces the publication of Issue #3 of its indomitable downloadable magazine Line of Fire. At almost 60 full-color pages, this issue contains new scenarios (including some new counters), revealing interviews, battle reports, game-system introductions, tactical narratives and a force analysis, plus an excerpt from Mark Walker’s upcoming World at War novel and a demo -with spiffy new counters and map- of Lock ‘n Load: Ring of Hills, which depicts combat during the Falklands War in 1982. Click here for more details!
World at War: Operation Garbo on P500
World at War: Operation Garbo takes the popular World at War game system into the hills and valleys of Sweden as their long-kept neutrality is  violated by the Soviet Army. Swedish forces include its upgraded Mark 4 variant of the British Centurion tank, the famous Swedish S-tank—which has no turret!—and the PBV 302, a combat-proven APC. Other units include AT helicopters, tracked TOW and SAM launchers, and the hard-hitting, but fragile, IKV 91 tank destroyer. Home Guard units made up of old men with old rifles and fast, jeep-driving recon units support the heavier tank units. Click here.
Lock 'n Load: Dark July now shipping... To celebrate its official release the game is on sale for 34.99 (retail is 42.99) for a limited time. Order yours today and refight the tank battles of Prochorovka. Click here for more info.
Lock 'n Load: Day of Heroes now shipping!
The return of the famed Lock ‘n Load tactical game system to the modern era, Lock ‘n Load: Day of Heroes depicts the American’s battle against Somali militia in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu on October 3rd, 1993. The game includes a 17" x 22" mounted map  portraying the market section of Mogadishu, beautifully-illustrated counters including American Rangers, Delta Force, Navy SEALs, Pakistani and 10th Mountain soldiers, Somali militia, SAWs, M-60s, M203s, RPDs, Mobs, road blocks, Somali Technicals, American helicopters, HMMVs, M1A1 Abrams (for a hypothetical scenario), a complete Lock ‘n Load V3 rule book, players aid cards, ten scenarios, and dice. Day of Heroes is a complete, boxed game. Retails for 49.99
Lock 'n Load: ANZAC Attack on sale!
ANZAC Attack, the first expansion for Forgotten Heroes, is back as a digital download for the limited-time price of $12.99 (normally $16.99). With two maps, 71 gorgeous counters, 12 scenarios, and a players’ aid card, whether you’re a fan of the original or a gamer that missed out the first time around, this version of ANZAC Attack provides a unique opportunity to add this game to your collection. Click here.
All Things Zombie on Pre-Order!
All Things Zombie brings the Origins 2006 miniatures game of the Year to the board game world of  Lock 'n Load Publishing. Gamers play as adventurers trying to survive in a world populated with zombies, fighting intensely satisfying tactical battles as they roam the devastated land. As the designer, Ed Texiera says, "It's all about real life in an unreal world." Or something like that.
Where and when you explore determines how many zombies and survivors you’ll meet. Stick to the rural areas in the daytime and your chances of running into zombies are slim. Prowl around at night in the cities and you may have more zombies than you can handle. Why go there then? Because that’s where you can find the most stuff. Better weapons, medical supplies, even the cure to the virus. But hey, it’s up to you. ATZ opens the door to hours of fun. Just be sure to look behind it before you go in!
Guilford Courthouse on Sale!
 An extensive remake of the original game... Guilford Courthouse’s streamlined play will have you leading charges in no time. Leaders matter, formations must stick together, and all the detail we love is present in just four pages of rules. There is weapon differentiation (those muskets don’t shoot too far, do they?), unique units (cavalry works better in the open), shattered regiments, and fleeing militia, to name just a few of the changes. A unique sequence of play (Rally, Fire, Melee, Move) captures the feel of interactive combat without all those tedious nouns, adjectives, and passive-voiced sentences. Download it now, or maybe later this afternoon, and see what we mean.
Flintlock is off P-500, (pssst... you can still save money on a pre-order...)
 Richard Berg’s Flintlock: Black Powder, Cold Steel is headed to the printers. You can still get it for $44.99... and save a fiver. Order now or forever dream about what you might have done with your extra Washingtons.
Lock 'n Load: Forgotten Heroes Now on Sale!
Forgotten Heroes, the game that set the Lock ‘n Load Publishing ball in motion, is back. Yes, due to repeated requests, a downloadable edition of the original—and almost four years out of print—Lock ‘n Load module is currently available for the limited-time price of $14.99. Whether you're a fan of  the original or a gamer that missed out the first time around, Forgotten Heroes: Revision 2 (FHR2) provides a unique window to the squad-level confrontations of the Vietnam War. Click here for more info.
Not One Step Back Sold Out!
Not One Step Back is on P500. But our low stock means your big savings. Order NOSB for 27.99, and be the first to get it when we reprint the game. Keep in mind that you need NOSB to play Dark July.
Line of Fire #2 on Sale!
 Building on the success of Line of Fire, Issue #1, Lock ‘n Load Publishing has released a second issue of the popular downloadable magazine. With over 55 full-color pages, the magazine is filled with scenarios, including new maps and counters; battle reports; interviews; previews; articles on tactics, forces, and game variants. Line of Fire, Issue #2, aims to please all gamers whether they’re fans of Island War Deluxe, Lock ‘n Load and/or World at War systems or just Lock ‘n Load Publishing fans in general. Click here.
Lock 'n Load: Dark July on P500
 Subtitled “The Battles for Prokhorovka,” Dark July depicts the battles fought west of the Russian city of Prokhorovka on July 10-12, 1943. Designed by Juan Carlos Cebrian (A las Barricadas!), the game features 85 new counters; a 22” x 34” historically accurate map complete with the famed Hill 252.2, the Soviet trenches to the east, and the Oktiabrskii State Farm to the north; and six historical scenarios. Here’s every gamer’s chance to be a part of one of the Second World War’s climactic battles on the Eastern Front; and the squad-level nuances of the Lock ‘n Load gaming system will put you in the middle of it. Be the Germans, be the Soviets. Be there!
World at War: Blood and Bridges on P500
 The war is raging on and now it is up to the British and their formidable array of weapons systems to blunt the Soviet spearhead. Chieftain and Challenger tanks, Striker ATGM vehicles, FV-432 APCs, Lynx attack helicopters, Tornado fighter-bombers and others clash headlong into first rate Soviet Guards units outfitted with T-80 and T-64 tanks, BMP-2 APCs, MTU-55 Bridgelayers, SA-13s, Hind E attack helicopters, Su-25 ground attack aircraft and many more. There is only one mission here. Hold the bridges or see Soviet armour on Channel coast. Are you up to the task? Click here.
Noville -Bastogne's Outpost on P500
 Lock 'n Load: Noville -Bastogne's Outpost is an expansion to Band of Heroes that depicts the intense fighting for the small town of Noville on a large, historical 22" x 34" map. Located northeast of Bastogne, Noville was defended by Team Desobry, straggers from a handful of shattered American formations, elements of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, and a handful of M-18 Hellcats from the 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion. This patchwork quilt of men and machines held Noville for two days against the onslaught of the German's 2nd Panzer Division and 26th Volkgrenediers.
Nations at War: White Star Rising on P500!
 White Star Rising introduces Lock ‘n Load Publishing’s Nations at War (NAW) game system. Based on the popular World at War, NAW depicts platoon level combat in World War II. Here you’ll find everything you're looking for in a platoon-level game, armor, artillery, infantry that serves as more than cannon fodder, command and control, air support, amphibious landings, desperate close assaults that leave the victor in possession of the ground and the defeated in headlong retreat, all in eight pages of rules. Click HERE for more info and some scrumptious screens.
No Middle Ground... And don't forget that Paul Rohrbaugh’s clever operational design simulating the 1973 War of Atonement is now available for P500 preorder. Titled  No Middle Ground, the game uses battalions and brigades to recreate the Syrian assault on the Golan Heights, the Israeli counterattack into Syria, and the battle of Chinese Farm. Click here for more information.
World at War: Gamer's Guide Shipping!
 Packing forty professionally printed, and glaringly-glossy pages (including cover) and filled with World at War wisdom, the World at War: Gamer's Guide is shipping. In it you'll find a preview of the upcoming World at War boxed game, World at War: Blood and Bridges. Two new scenarios, Clearing Hell's Highway, and Poor Bloody Infantry. Two battle reports with semi-fictionized recounts of WaW scenarios (Some of you call these after action reports). A ten page article examining strategy in the World at War series and the specific tactics needed to win all six Eisenbach Gap scenarios. Even variants for night fighting, and a design your own scenarios "how to" article. And much more... including a unit-by-unit analysis of the platoons of Eisenbach Gap. Order now, or later, if you like.
Death of the 1st Panzer Shipping!
 Expand your World at War battles with World at War: Death of the 1st Panzer. The initial Soviet forces have taken heavy losses, but NATO has discovered that the Soviets can give as good as they get. The smoking remnants of an American armored brigade dot the hills of the Eisenbach Gap, and still the Soviet attack continues. Now it is the hastily assembled 1st Panzer Division’s turn to stop the red horde. Will the West German’s mix of Leopard I tanks, Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles, and tank destroyers, coupled with a handful of lethal Leopard II tanks, be enough to stop the Soviet onslaught? It’s up to you to find out. Right here.
Corps Command:Totensonntag Now Shipping!
Corps Command: Totensonntag is shipping! Totensonntag is the first offering in the Corps Command series from Lock' n Load Publishing. It’s an operational level game covering the First  Battle of Sidi Rezegh, in which gamers control battalions and regiments using the game's unique impulse activation system. Designed by Peter Bogdasarian, Corps Command is an introduction to not only a game, but a complete operational gaming system. Totensonntag is just the beginning. Modules are planned for Operation Goodwood, Prochorovka, and Kasserine Pass. This game is simply the most fun we’ve had since our first playing of Lock ‘n Load’s, A Friend in Need. Click here to find out more.
Lock 'n Load throws itself into the Line of Fire!
 Lock ‘n Load Publishing announced the first issue of their company magazine, Line of Fire, is on sale and available via download. The PDF magazine is 63 pages thick, and includes five new Lock ‘n Load, World at War, and Island War Deluxe scenarios, five new maps, a huge Heroes of the Blitzkrieg preview, as well as previews for Flintlock, No Middle Ground, Ring of Hills, and Heroes of Stalingrad.
Additionally there are articles tacticae on Swift and Bold, armor in Band of Heroes, asymmetric war in Day of Heroes and units and play in Forgotten Heroes. But that’s not all there’s a well-illustrated battle report on the Not One Step Back scenario, Prochorovka, and much, much more. Click here for more info.
Battle Pack Alpha Now Shipping
Battle Pack Alpha is in house an shipping! The pack features twelve scenarios designed to increase the ability to replay your Lock 'n Load games. Included are missions in the jungles of Vietnam, the streets of Arnhem, and the small, Belgian village of Foy. Click here for a complete description of the included scenarios.
Lee at Gettysburg, Charging Your Computer...
Lee at Gettysburg: The Battle for Cemetery Ridge -Gold Edition is a substantial reworking of the game that originally appeared in the Armchair General. Counters represent the brigades, leaders, and batteries that  fought on the first day of the Gettysburg. Leaders are critical not only rallying their troops, but enhancing their attacks as well.
The Lock 'n Load franchise will also soon vist a PC near you with the release of Lock 'n  Load: Heroes of Stalingrad.
And while you're in the buying mood... don't forget Island War Deluxe is ready for download. An ambitious, new tactical system from the designer of Lock ‘n Load, Island War Deluxe includes over 130 eye-popping counters (Sherman tanks, T-97, Japanese and U.S. Marine squads and leaders, BAR, Type 96, F4F, and much more), four lush, geomorphic maps, rules, charts, and a complete VASSAL module to boot. Click here to find out more and get your copy RIGHT NOW.
Speaking of the downloadable games, we have put up a review of Omaha: Battle for the Beach. Click here, to read it. While your flipping through our downloadable games, check out this spiffy Valley of Tears after action report (with pics).
New Lock 'n Load VASSAL uber-mod (version 1.5) ready! Designed by VASSAL-ninja Bill Ash, the LnL Uber Module is ready for download. With the Uber-mod, you can play any LnL scenario designed. Oh, yeah, it's free. Click here to get yours.
Look to the right to order our other offerings: Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes (2006 Origins Historical Board Game of the Year), the super chilly Soviet and Bundeswehr mounted counters and straight from the rain on Spain's plain, A las Barricadas.
What's a P500?
For those of you not familiar with P-500 we have details on our triple-Dick Tracy secure ordering page, but here are the basics: You order any of the P-500 games using our secure server with your credit card of choice (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express). When we reach 400 orders we go to press. We do NOT charge your card until the first game ships. And oh yeah, you get 15-35% off the retail price, plus additional goodies like free scenarios. Click on the icons above to get more information on each game. |
