LS eNewsletter #9 – February 15, 2023

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SUMMARY OF THIS ISSUE

Streets of Stalingrad™️ Reborn update plus the 2-volume Stalingrad book series is complete and both books are shipping now!
FREE DOWNLOAD (see below)

The English edition of the new Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic book is scheduled to be printed in May – with a new add-on of two 1799 translated reports coming as well
FREE DOWNLOAD (see below)
and (teaser)
A new series announcement coming soon

Civil War author and miniatures scenario designer Scott Mingus is preparing Gettysburg campaign mini games with Dana
FREE DOWNLOAD (see below)

4 New WW1 aviation books ON SALE
ABOVE: Dana (on right) talking with the audience after his Stalingrad presentation at The Game Chamber in Dover, NH on December 3, 2022.
ABOVE: Randy Heller, designer of Bitter Woods, and Dana playtesting the latest version of Streets of Stalingrad™️ in December during Dana's visit with Randy who is the developer for the fourth edition of SOS.
ABOVE: The most current SOS game map – just needs the names of some key terrain features added. To see it enlarged, plus download the just finished Terrain Effects Chart, and view the latest versions of the playing pieces (unit counters) go HERE.
SOS Reborn playtest kit coming this spring!

Dana is working on a playtest kit for anyone interested in trying this totally new game design. We did not stop investigating a Vassal version for playtesting, but Dana's new kit can be produced faster. More details coming soon!
The 2-volume Stalingrad book series is complete – and shipping NOW
You might think that we already know almost everything there is to know about the campaign and battle for Stalingrad after all of the books and games that have been published since World War Two. But thousands of pages of archival documents, dozens of photos from veterans' albums, and even more eyewitness stories still appear, including what's inside these two books that have new information that Dana is incorporating into the fourth edition of Streets of Stalingrad™️ – download a FREE 9-page article Myths of the Stalingrad Battle by researcher and author Christer Bergström HERE.

Buy one or both Stalingrad books ON SALE NOW with free shipping from Dana's warehouse and fulfillment partner Monroe Publications HERE.
Read the REVIEW of volume 1 HERE.
The Campaign in Egypt 1798-1801 UPDATE

The French version of this new book was published in December. The English-language edition should be translated and printed in May.

This extraordinary volume contains 196 large format 9.5 inches x 12.5 inches pages with some never before published illustrations by E. Leliepvre, P. Courcelle, L. Rousselot, and H. Boisselier.

NEW BONUS ITEM: We are now working on a special Egyptian campaign supplement with two rare 1799 reports: one by Napoleon's chief of staff General Berthier and the other written by Charles Norry, one of the civilian savants who accompanied the military expedition. The English translations are completed and more details about this book will be provided ASAP.

To RESERVE A COPY of The Egyptian Campaign book, contact Dana at dana.lombardy@gmail.com to receive updates. Please put "Egyptian Campaign" in the subject line of your email.

LOW INVENTORY: The Camp of Dresden 1812-1813 uniform 2-volume set SOLD OUT in French before it was printed. We have some English-language copies left. You can read more about it and order a Dresden set HERE.

EXTRA: FREE BONUS ITEM TO DOWNLOAD NOW
For years Dana has been a member of the Napoleonic Historical Society. The NHS kindly gave me permission to send a sample of the NHS Newsletter to Lombardy Studios fans. Download the latest issue HERE. Highly recommended!

BIG NAPOLEONIC ANNOUNCEMENT IS COMING SOON
A new series by Scott Bowden, Peter Cross, featuring several artists will be a major presentation of a future eNewsletter.
Author and scenario designer Scott L. Mingus is working with Dana to create several unusual mini games about the Gettysburg campaign. He also wrote six scenario books for Civil War miniature wargaming.
Visit Scott's website here. Read about his 2 newest books here.

For those who (like Dana) are also fascinated with the Western Theater, HERE is a FREE DOWNLOAD of sample pages from Lombardy Studios' first book project – a map study called Grant Rising: Mapping the Career of a Great Commander through 1862. It's ON SALE with free shipping at Dana's warehouse and fulfillment partner Monroe Publications HERE.
NEW 4-volume WW1 Aviation book series
Flight Badges of the Allies & Central Powers
SHIPPING NOW

Robert Pandis spent years researching and assembling this vast archive of aviation artifacts. Photos of aviators and their stories (including Germany's Red Baron) are beautifully displayed in 1,512 pages that contain nearly 2,000 full-color photos and other images. I learned a lot about the aviation services of nearly 20 different nations, including Japan, Serbia, and others never before seen in English. Read the reviews of all 4 books by Carl Bobrow, a Research Associate at the U.S. National Air and Space Museum, HERE.

See sample pages HERE.

Individual volumes sell for $95 each, but they are on sale through Lombardy Studios for $79.95 each plus shipping. Buy 2 or more books and save even more with FREE shipping to USA addresses.

ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF THESE BOOKS WAS PUBLISHED.

Please specify if you are ordering the 2 Allied volumes or 2 Central Powers volumes or all 4 volumes and send payment via PayPal to: dana.lombardy@gmail.com
(Canadians please contact me about shipping to Canada before sending money.)