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So that's what we're doing. The forums will be shut down for a bit while we work behind the scenes to move them to a big shiny new server. The comic as well as this News page mostly won't be affected during this transition, and the new OOTS comic scheduled to arrive this upcoming Monday should post as planned.

I also would like to reassure everyone that no content from the forums has been lost, and the forum isn't going away, either. If you were playing a play-by-post game or posting your creative work to the forum, it will all still be there after the move. The only open questions are how long the process will take and how much it will cost.

We should have more information on how we plan to address at least one of those topics on Monday. Today's comic is the last for this volume, and as usual, I'll be taking a little bit of a hiatus before starting the new story. In addition to general planning and writing that I would be doing to prepare, I also need to take a little bit of extra care because this next arc will be the final volume in the Order of the Stick saga and I want to make sure I have all my proverbial ducks in a row for the big finale.

Don't get too worried that the comic is about to end, though. The last two books took five years each , and this final book has the potential to be even longer than either one of them. So there will be years and years of OOTS left, even as the story is headed toward a conclusion. But as far as the volume ending now goes, I'm happy to say that the printed editions of Book 6, Utterly Dwarfed , have arrived at the Ookoodook warehouses and at our retail distributors.

Those of you who pre-ordered should be getting your copies soon maybe a touch later if you added in the calendar, since that's not arriving until Wednesday , and those of you waiting for it to arrive on store shelves should start checking in a week or two. And if you're waiting for the digital edition from Gumroad , that will go on sale on December I'll tweet it out when it's available. An update on the pre-order for Utterly Dwarfed and the calendar : Ookoodook has made a pair of deals with local companies in both Canada and Europe to offer reduced postage prices for any order shipping to those regions that includes a pre-order for one or both products.

If you already ordered at the higher price, check your email for a link on how to get a refund of the difference. Since this only applies to pre-orders, this rate will only be available until the book is in stock in early December. In particular, you might want to grab a copy of Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales , since we only have about 70 copies left before it's sold out in print and we won't be reprinting that one.

I would love to take credit for the reduction in postage and say that I made it happen in response to feedback from customers, but the truth is that I didn't have control over the prices before and I didn't have control over lowering them, either.

The people at Ookoodook were able to make these deals by continuing to look for options after we had launched, and their job was made easier by the fact that they had a certain number of orders in hand for each region. So if you ordered at the higher price, you helped us lower the price for everyone.

Thank you! I'm thrilled to announce the sixth book in our main storyline, The Order of the Stick: Utterly Dwarfed. This book will cover all the material in the main strip from until the end of the current storyline—basically, everything since the art upgrade. I know you're probably thinking, "Wait, did we get to the end of the current storyline? But we're close enough for me to have a pretty good page count for how much is left.

The last time we did a new book, it was the smoothest and most hassle-free printing experience I've ever had, by far, and a large part of that was the fact that it had a much longer than usual window between announcing the book and it sitting on store shelves. Therefore, I've decided to keep that same longer pre-order period, which in turn means that if I want to have this book in everyone's hands by Christmas, I need to put it on sale now. Which I just did! You can pre-order it right now from Ookoodook if you want a printed paper copy or from Gumroad if you want the digital version.

We're aiming for the first week in December for the printed copies to start shipping out, with the PDFs releasing to everyone on December You can learn more and ask questions on the forum thread for the book, or check out our product page.

I'm also putting this year's OOTS calendar on sale now. Yes, this is absurdly early. But I didn't want people who were also planning to buy the calendar when it came out to feel like they had to wait to order the book. This way, if you want both, you should be able to order them together now at a lower postage rate and have them both show up at the same time in December.

This year's calendar is themed around spellcasting, with each month featuring a different OOTS caster weaving a different spell. There will still be holiday ornaments and t-shirts as usual, but I won't be announcing them until closer to Thanksgiving since they ship from a different location anyway. Hey, so remember when I put out the last set of A Monster for Every Season and I told you I was eventually going to continue it with a second set of four volumes? Eventually is today, my friends.

I'm happy to announce Spring 2 , the fifth set in the series. This one covers Bards and Lycanthropes and some Celestials and a bunch of other stuff. A lot of animal-people, actually. Did you know how many different types of animal people there are in the game? So many. If you want to see what's in it, you can check out the full list of contents. Or you can go to the product page. Or if you are tired of reading and just want to go get it already, you can go right to Gumroad, do not pass go, do not collect gold pieces.

I've got no clue when the next set will come out, so if you want to be sure not to miss it, you can either watch this space or sign up for email notifications about my Gumroad releases here. Oh, and they recently added a five-star rating system, so I would consider it a favor if any of you went to that last link and rated any of the PDFs you already own.

It's OK if you don't want to, though. OK, so I'm running a little late getting this calendar and the holiday ornament and the new t-shirt designs up, but they are now available to order. Just then the ankheg emerged from underground and attacked Belkar again. Taking a bread knife from the baker, Belkar avoided the ankheg's acid attack and killed it, displaying his superior jumping ability.

Brint and Shart were impressed by this and both men sought to employ Belkar in an upcoming contest between the two. For killing the ankheg, Belkar was rewarded by the Mayor with 25 gp, under the name "Ali S. Belkar used the money to buy new clothes and a cloak apparently the ensemble he continues to wear throughout the comics. Belkar separately arranged to meet at night with Brint and Shart, though neither knew the other would be there.

Once they arrived, Belkar murdered Brint, Shart, and their deputies, in order, he believed, to end their protection racket in the town and collect more reward money from the town government. However, when he presented their heads to the mayor and deputy mayor, they were sickened and refused any reward, asking him to leave the town.

On the Williamite left the infantry had taken the first of the hedges and continued to inflict damage on Kirkes Foot. While at the fortification a standoff had developed with a single regiment masking the infantry Commanded shot holding it but not engaging.

Finally on the left Dumbartons foot broke allowing the Williamite foot to advance once they cleared the commanded shot. It was at this stage the game was called , so who had won? Well the short answer is no-one!! SO no medals for either side. In the scenario the Duff was replaced by a flower class corvette.

HMS Orchis accompanied by elements of the 35 th and 58 th Flotillas is charged with protecting the supply routes from England to the beach landings in Normandy. The Admiralty is expecting Kriegsmarine forces form Cherbourg to attempt to infiltrate and attack the anchorage off the beaches.

HMS Orchis is capable of vectoring in the smaller craft to intercept the enemy through use of radar, it also carrying star shells to assist in identification of enemy forces.

However, to add to your responsibilities 2 straggling tankers have entered your area and you need to ensure they successfully get to the beachhead anchorage with their full supplies. Weather conditions are deteriorating, and visibility is restricted spotting rolls are required to engage enemy. Orders have been issued for the M to escort a force of S Boats to attack the anchorage of the allied invasion forces off Normandy.

This requires the launching vessel to be travelling at slow speed and pass a skill test. The Kriegsmarine had deployed all their S Boats on the most direct route to the Normandy anchorage. But first blood went to the Kriegsmarine as the first Vosper slipped beneath the waves but there again taking a hit from an 88mm shell is never good.

After launching its torpedoes this Vosper got into a close encounter with an S Boat which is never a good idea and soon slipped beneath the waves. One lucky Vosper survived a full volley from the M class as it manages to get its second lot of torpedoes away. Here the Germans needed luck to move first so that the Flak ship could manoeuvre to avoid incoming torpedoes and they manage it. Now the Kriegsmarine luck truly started to run out, a S38 had taken a rudder hit and when it threw to see where it moved it managed to park itself indirectly in front of the other S38 which then collided with it and both S Boats soon slipped beneath the waves.

So while the MTB flotilla commanders will have some explaining to do when they are fished out of the water by the rescue boats at dawn the RN Commodore may get his medal.

The latest game was a chance to try out the Battlegroup rules from Plastic Soldier Company with a scenario from the Kursk supplement. Over on the Soviet right flank they were having more success against the Panzers and were thinning down the opposition.

On the Soviet left flank the Panzers had been halted but the infantry continued the assault on the Soviet held village. It was at this stage that time was called and with neither side obtaining their victory conditions the game was a draw.

Skip to content It was back to the Peninsular War in June for the latest game. Village of Subijana and the French Garrison British prepare to advance The first encounters were between the various skirmish screens trying to gain advantage where they could. Skirmishers engage But the first set back of the day came for the British as the Highlanders leading the assault on the British took severe casualties and needed to pass a discipline test.

Highlanders taking casulaties While on the Heights the Portuguese pushed forward advanced slowed by the terrain all the while being engage by French skirmishers. Portuguese advance on the heights The Highlanders proceeded to fail the discipline test and retreat a cracking double 1 back behind the 50 th Foot who on turn lost fire discipline as they blazed away at the French defending the village.

Poor Gunnery by the French While on the Heights the Portuguese and Spanish were continuing to drive forward slowly pressing back the French defenders while taking casualties themselves. Portuguese and Spanish drive back the French skirmish screen on the heights The Spanish were behaving remarkably well for their debut battle nice paint work Paul and adding a splash of different colour to the table.

Spanish Advance Skirmish battle on the heights Back in the centre the British continued to advance driving back the French skirmish screen and starting to inflict casualties on the main French line. French Infantry suffering in the centre On the Allied left flank British had reformed and started the assault in the village. British reform to try again While on the heights the firefight between the skirmish lines continued. French holdng just French reserves had arrived in the centre but this was only two battalions of reserve light infantry would this be able to stabilise the situation?

French struggling in the centre While on the heights the French battalion on the extreme left flank had been driven back in retreat and the skirmish screen driven back behind their line from charges by Portuguese columns.

French on the heights looking in trouble In the centre the British reserves had arrived and were advancing to reinforce the attack on the French right, while continuing the assault on the French centre. Assault in the centre continues On the French right flank with a rush of blood he French started to advance to destroy a badly damaged British unit and relieve the pressure on the village. French counter attrack on the Allied right The British assault on the village went home and was successful driving the defenders out and the 50 th foot occupying the village.

Assault goes home While in the centre things were looking bad for the French with British attacks driving forward throwing back the skirmish screen and engaging the French line. Getting desperate in the centre for the French But in the village things were looking up for the French as a swift counterattack had driven the 50 th Line out of the village and it was back in French hands. French retake village The British in the centre had now also started to flank the French counterattack on their left flank and started to move up the artillery which would soon be firing on the French.

British turn to flank the French counterattack In the centre the British had driven back the French line protecting ne flank of the village and started to flank the remainder of the French centre.

Centre pushing back the French While on the heights the Portuguese columns were preparing to engage the remaining line units while the Spanish had successfully flanked the French line.

Pushing forward on the heights While in the centre the last of the French line had been flanked by the British skirmishers and were in a losing firefight with the British line.

French line being flanked Unfortunately, at this stage we ran out of time with 5 turns still to go for the Allies to achieve their objectives. Heights of Puebla — Vitoria June The table has St Omer just in shot at the bottom left with the Calais Road in the centre. Road to Calais The only British troops starting on table were the Recce Squadron escorting the Liaison Officer and his aides, these took the direct approach and barrelled down the road towards St Omer.

British Recce prepare to move out In the meantime, the German opposite numbers raced up the other road at top speed. German Recce race up the road But they got a bit of a shock rounding a corner and coming face to face with a British A13 heading the other way, quickly they threw the gears into reverse and to get out of the firing line.

Oops Following the Recce down the road to St Omer was a squadron of tanks from the 3 rd RTR escorted by the Queens Volunteer Rifles sans some of their rifles so had reduced firepower which was worrying.

British HQ Units arrive The Recce Squadron did its first job of delivering the Liaison Officer to St Omer avoiding getting shot at by the jumpy French and then went on to spot the enemy though wishing they had a bigger gun. Enemy spots the Recce By now the rest of the Panzers had started to appear and roll forward towards the British Recce. German Panzers advance The Volunteer rifles had reached their positions and started to deploy into cover. More Panzers roll up the road While the German Recce had backtracked and found a gap in the hedges so they could move forward again while avoiding the British armour.

Recce trying again While the Germans started to deploy infantry ready for the assault on St Omer. Luckiest Armoured Cars in history Taking advantage of this they again raced forward trying to break through and destroyed one of the British 2pdr AT guns forming the last line of defence, after this it was only the Brigade HQ to stop them. Pzkw II breaks through Which they did and knocked out the A Preparing to advance The British first line of defence had been destroyed and but was still holding in the second line.

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