The Avalon Hill General was the first magazine in the history of the boardgaming hobby. The latest issue, Volume 32, Number 3, may well be its last, in that the reported sale of Avalon Hill Games to Hasbro has moved the General to a company that by rumor is not very interested in publishing magazines. Volume 32, Number 33 is 64 pages long, and opens with an editorial noting how the gaming business has changed a great deal , and observing on the advantages that computer games and desk top publishing offer over traditional game companies. The magazine cover traditional AH games such as Across Five Aprils and The Civil War, an ad for Monsters Ravage America, game replays and notes, and articles on games of other publishers.

Panzerschreck, from Minden Games, 9573 W Vogel Avenue, Peoria AZ 85345, is edited by Gary Graber, 5 Hoskin Avenue Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1H7 Canada. Panzerschreck is published irregularly,. no subscriptions being available. Issue 1 is available for $8 from the US address. Some readers me feel this is a bit expensive for a 28 page (half-Strategist size pages, but smaller type) magazine. Send the US address an SSAE and get notice of when the next issue is to be published. The magazine is focused on variants and the Solo play of wargames. The magazine name has historical significance. While the first amateur magazine in the hobby was The Tank, the second magazine in the history of the hobby was Panzerfaust which under Don Greenwood and Don Lowry lasted for many years and roughly 100 issues. Sometimes history does repeat itself. But are we seeing the start of a new cyclic of growth for the hobby, as we did in 1965, or are we seeing palindromic history, in which the reappearance of the oldest titles is a fin de siecle event?