The Decision Games Pledge Program is an online preorder system for gamers to "pledge” their support to purchase future games, directing our efforts to the games customers have the most interest in seeing published. Pledge orders will receive a minimum 25% discount from the final retail price. We provide estimated pricing based on the latest information we have about components and print pricing, however the final price is subject to change.
For your convenience, the pledge projects are divided into three lists:
A List Games: Close to completion. listed roughly in the order we expect to publish over the next three years.
B List Games: In progress. Some are finished and simply waiting for a publication slot in the A List.
D List Games: Deluxe Edition (out of print games that will receive a deluxe update and reprint).
We continue to add games to the Pledge Program through the surveys we conduct as well as showcasing game submissions that we believe would interest our audience
To pledge for additional games, check your list, make changes or updates to your list or customer information, and visit the pledge area of the Decision Games Shop. Pledges are a commitment to purchase a game when published and current payment information is required in order to make pledges, however cards are not charged until a game is ready to ship. Credit card information must be kept current in order to maintain a pledge order. Accounts not kept current will have their pledge orders cancelled in order to keep an accurate count of pledge orders.
PLEDGE PROGRAM UPDATE
(1 OCT 21)
Big Changes
We have decided to add a new category, D
for Deluxe Editions. We’ll continue an annual survey of our out-of-print games
to see which games should get the Deluxe treatment, but now we’ll add the
winners to the Pledge Program. We’ll then move those games from the D category
to the A-list when they reach at least 200 pledge orders.
In order to make room for the Deluxe
category, we are dropping the C category. Games from that list have either been
moved to the B-list (euro-style group) or may return once the design updates
are completed.
Here’s where we stand currently on series
and individual projects.
Axis Empires Ultimate Edition
This is the capstone edition of the Krieg
series. Despite the Covid delays, the play testing continued on Cyberboard and
Vassal, so the base game and
Schiffskrieg naval expansion have been thoroughly
tested. The artwork is complete and includes new, thicker counters, rounded
cards (500 of them), and five fully illustrated color rules booklets along with
updated maps, charts and tables including the
Dice of Decision addition.
A complete prototype of the game was at CSW Expo in August for play testing and
review. It is now out to one of our elite play test teams for further testing
and review before we begin the printing process with an eye to release in
Summer 2022.
D-Day Series
D-Day at Saipan is expected to release in 2022 with an updated system rules
booklet. The system rules and an updated exclusive for
Iwo Jima will be
added to the E-rules section when Saipan is released.
Deluxe Editions
Deluxe Editions are magazine games that sold out and have been selected for an
upgraded boxed reprint. They receive a mounted game board with potentially
enlarged map, counters that may be enlarged and include new variant counters, a
possibly expanded rules booklet, and play aids.
Red Dragon Rising will include all of the variant counters
previously published as well as some additional variants, a rules update, and
play aids. We’re currently waiting on the developer to complete the updated
variant counters and rules, then it proceed to printing.
Sealion joined
the A-list and we expect to publish it in 2023.
GOSS
Market Garden is the next GOSS game. We expect to have playtesting started
by December. We’re expecting to complete play testing rapidly, with release in
2023. Play testing should then move on to the North Africa group of
GOSS
games: Alamein, Tobruk, and Tunisia, then on to Sicily.
Depending on the reception of the
Hannut game in World at War #80,
we may run some more proposals for
GOSS-lite battle games in the next
surveys for
World at War and Strategy & Tactics.
Other Monster Games
North African Campaign will be proceeding into play test in summer 2022. After North
African Campaign
, we will move on to War in Europe.
By the way, Campaigns in Europe was
selected by our magazine customers to appear in
World at War #97–100
(that’s in 2024–2025 for those wanting to subscribe for that series).
Campaigns
in Europe
utilizes an updated set of the four central maps from War in
Europe
and a historically based division (German/Western Allies) and corps (Soviets/Axis
Allies) level counter set to simulate major ETO campaigns. It will not have the
strategic elements of
WIE (i.e. production spirals, U-Boats &
convoys, strategic bombing, political tracks, etc.), however it will have
accurate OOBs with historical variation in unit capabilities for many of the
major campaigns. The series issue games currently planned are:
Barbarossa
North
, Case Blue to Operation Uranus, Sicily to Rome, and D-Day
to the Rhine
. One or more kits with additional counter sheets and scenario
booklets are planned.
Other Series Games
Battles in the East. This new series is an update of the SPIArmy Group South
series. The game mechanics are similar to the classic SPIPanzer
Group Guderian
game, and the new design standardizes the game scales and
allows comparison of organizational and doctrinal developments and unit
capabilities over the course of World War II in Russia. HQ units are utilized
to deliver higher level combat support and logistics. The scenario selection is
focused on a balance of lesser known battles along with better known. The first
three volumes continue in development and include the following pairs:
Sandomierz
Offensive
and Bagration Stopped (1944), Uman Pocket and Guderian’s
Final Blitzkrieg (1941)
, and Sonnenwende/Pomerania and Drive to
the Sea/West Prussia (1945)
. The first two pairs will proceed into
production when development is complete.
Napoleon 20.
This series was acquired from
Victory Point Games. Lance McMillan, the
series developer, is working on the first volume (
Imperial Sunrise, four
games from the 1806 campaigns) of a 13-volume quad game series mixing
previously published games with new game designs. Waiting on an update about
development.
Euro-Style History Games
Dr. Livingston, I Presume. This exploration game for 2–4 players has similarities to AH
Source of the Nile
but features Euro-style components and streamlined
mechanics. Each player controls a group of historical 19
th century
explorers as they prepare and carry out expeditions into the uncharted interior
of Africa. Players face numerous obstacles to completing their expeditions and
gain fame and victory points through reporting and defending their discoveries.
The game has just been accepted for development.
Middle East Struggle. The designers are continuing their play testing and researching
additions.
Pax Britannica. What we have of the updated game looks great, with streamlined
rules and play. We have ideas about giving the game a graphic and component
upgrade. What we don’t have is communication from designer Greg Costikyan so we
can move forward. This is looking less and less likely to proceed into
development and has been withdrawn from the pledge program until we hear from Greg.
Expected Release Schedule
For Up-to-date information check out the What's New page!
Early 2022
Midway Solitaire Deluxe Edition
Corrupt Bargain: The 1824 Presidential Election
Mid 2022
Axis Empires Ultimate Edition
D-Day at Saipan
Late 2022
Red Dragon Rising Deluxe Edition
Battles in the East #1: Sodomierz Offensive and Bagration Stopped (1944)
Battles in the East #2: Uman Pocket and Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg (1941)
2023–2024
Market-Garden (GOSS)
Battles in the East #3: Pomerania/Operation Sonnenwende and West Prussia/Drive to the Sea (1945)
Battles in the East #4: Mius River and Vitebsk (1943)
Sealion Deluxe Edition
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Pledges are a commitment to purchase a game when
published and current payment information is required in order to make pledges—
credit card information
must be kept current in order to maintain a pledge order.
Accounts that are not kept current will have their pledge orders
cancelled so that we are able to keep accurate count of pledge orders.
Pledge FAQ
Q) I don’t see my pledges that entered previously. A) You must place a full order with only Pledge game items
in the cart and check out. We will
switch the status to pending and you are then able to modify the order and your
account at any time.
Q) Will I have a “pending” charge on my card? A) No, the website is not set up to automatically complete the order. No charge will appear until a game is processing for shipping.
Q) I don’t see a game I
pledged for previously on the listing now.
A) Game proposals that
are not making sufficient progress are dropped to make way for new game
proposals
.