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The Tabletop Battlefield is returning for Season 3 on January 8th 2009. Check out the pictures of our new set:

For a little over a month, I have been trying out an idea for a new you-tube series. Titled “The Recon Report”, the show covers some of the more interesting stories from the world of miniature war gaming. Starting today, this show will become a regular part of the Tabletop Battlefield’s Line Up of Online Video Shows. A regular schedule is still being worked out, so the best way to get the latest shows is to subscribe to my You Tube Channel. My You Tube Channel can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RockoRobotics

The Tabletop Battlefield, an internet television/radio show dedicated to world of miniature wargaming, has debuted a new series called Green Gaming. The focus of the Green Gaming will be to apply pro-environmental ideas to miniature war games projects. These projects will include building terrain out of trash and investigating more eco-friendly alternatives to the harsh chemicals often used in terrain construction. Episodes will primarily be released through YouTube with a length of less then 10 minutes per episode.

Episodes and related projects can also be found at the The Tabletop Battlefield’s Green Gaming Page

I have rolled out some of the new beta features for the Merc Engine over at the Tabletop Battlefield Podcast site. These features include:
1) A page listing for podcasts. No more crazy long listings of podcasts.
2) Comments System. Viewers of the show can now leave feedback. I am still working on anti-spam measures for this, but it is easy to turn off if things get out of hand.
3) Probably the coolest is the flash player I Added for the audio file. I used the tutorial here and now the audio files can be listened to without downloading the file. This should make podcasts much more accessible.

I am looking to make these features part of a developer build, but details on when this will be done will be released later.

This is just an official announcement that the Beta development phase of the Merc Engine has begun. Currently there is no release date set.

Some of the planned features are:

1) Multiple Podcasts
2) The ability to choose which modules to enable
3) Several new modules including a blank HTML module and file upload module
4) Multiple Photo Galleries
5) Blog/Journal System
6) Improved Episode listing box with pages
7) Be able to turn off various file types.

It took a while, but the first public release of the Merc Engine is available to download here. It is released under the GPL Version 2 License.

The Tabletop Battlefield is back for another year - Check it out at www.tabletopbattlefield.com/podcast/

I have completed moving the Army Showcase and the Tabletop Battlefield to their new home www.tabletopbattlefield.com

Tomorrow on 12/29/2007, the Army Showcase and Tabletop Battlefield will be moving to their new permanent home.  As a result, the RSS feeds and other content may not be available for a short time.  Fortunately, there should be little work required.  The current podcast RSS feed will still be valid.  All incoming links, with the exception of the new armies RSS feed and the journal rss feeds, will be redirected to the new site correctly.  I will post again here once the move has been completed.

Also, I will be disabling the ability to login and modify content later tonight.

Just to let everyone know what is going on with the Merc Engine.(Maybe it would nice for me to post some pictures…) Documentation is coming along pretty good. I am probably about 1/2 way through the writing of the usage manual. A complete code documentation will probably not come until next year, but I am still looking for the Alpha Release to be ready to go by the end of the year.