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1998



The Prism Games Site is at http://www.prism-games.com. Pictures if the original Risk board game are at http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=25949361. The Kitchen Table Gamers website has reportedly been updated, again, adding theirr game ratings for some of the games they have been playing. See http://home.neo.lrun.com/boardgames/. For a Danish site with English reviews oif German games, BRETT & BOARD, http://hjem.get2net.dk/Svellov/. The Mayfair website has an ad for a game variant called Cheops. For a description, take a look at the Kosmos "Die Siedler" website. It's pictured there. You have to deal with the german pages though: http://www.die-siedler.com/frames/catanfra.htm and follow the Cheops links. MacGregor Historical Games reports that they make reproductions of historic board, dice and card games, including the only machine-washable line of board games on the market. MacGregor Historic Games; http://www.historicgames.com.

For starships for game use, the PHD Shipyard: Federation Heavy Cruiser Variant (CAC); Federation Heavy Scout (CAS); Jindarian Light Survey Cruiser (CLS) http://www.mninter.net/~phdship. Avalon Hill's Nieuchess is an early 60's game, and not very common. The map and position is totally symmetric. Our correspondent has a review of it at http://www.io.com/~sos/nieuches.html.

A 15% off sale on almost everything sold is at AJA Hobbies http://www.tccmweb.com/aja. For Empires in Arms and other contacts, two webrings: http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski/eia.html <-- EiA webring; http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski/null.html <-- Null webring. For errata, list of articles and variants on any published wargame (or just about), always check at Grognard (http://grognard.com) and yes, the address is corect. DARKLANDS FAQ (http://www.darklands.net/ Darklands List (http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/darklands to subscribe) Mr. Games, of whom it ahs bee said: “his views and reviews are sensible, balanced, and clear” has not been seen recently, but note his site at http://www.wenet.net/~kwriter/MrGames/Check http:// Go the game information: toronto.goclub.org/ for information on Toronto stores that sell Go equipment, places to play around the GTA, how to make your own board (if you want to do that), and so forth. Inventors, 2nd Retail Mailing Added; http://www.discovergames.com/new.html.

For information on pending releases from Fine Games, please see http://www.finegames.com/text/new_pend.txt. Princess Ryan's Star Marines review with some variants are on the Westbank Gamers website at http://home.earthlink.net/~gschloesser. Fun Again Games has a selection of out-of-print games at http://www.funagain.com. Differences between the1st and 2nd editions of Knightmare Chess are at http://www.io.com/~sos/gviews.html - search for "knight", along with brief comments on Set Two. Read reviews of all the RR games at http://www. csn.net/~bing/may-l.html. For those of you interested in Railroad Games, here is the Mayfair url:http://www.coolgames.com/ebrules.html.

Michael P.Owen wenmp@hotmail.com calls our attention to the Seattle/Spokane Washington AutoDuel Team (SWAT) pages with links to Car Wars, GURPS DarkFutureTech,and Formula De Web Sites. SWAT also publishes the Car Wars Internet Newsletter monthly. Pages are http://www.ior.com/~owenmp/cwlinks.htm and http://www.ior.com/~owenmp/cwinhome.htm. GMT games Typhoon and Barbarossa are discussed at the Wargamer's HQ Web site www.consimworld.com/webx

Settlers III Beta-Test and more information are available via http://www.siedler3.de [English and German language screens]. Trimok, a new board game based on the "Scissors Paper Rock" is at http://www.sci .fi/%7Etarvo/spk/ including complete description of the game rules and a Windows95/NT game.

The Siedler computer game has a collection of extra scenarios at http://www.hamburg.net-surf.de/~godwin.solcher/om/kulkmann/index.htm. Colonial Diplomacy strategy is discussed at http://devel.igo.org/DipPouch/Online/variants1.html#c. There is a web-based discussion board for Napoleonics miniatures at http://venus.beseen.com/boardroom/p/16976/.


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