The Squad Leader Mailing List, for players of the original system & its gamettes, with 150 subscribers and a 100 member PBEM Ladder; http://www.nyx.net/~epass/home.html#SLMAIL. Long PBEM strategy games? We are trying to start a long-term PBEM game of Stars. The home page is at http://www.webmap.com/stars/ You can get the demo version there (w/ an excellent built-in tutorial), as well as a strategy guide. The program requires Win3.x or 95/98 to run. The re-design of the SFB web pages is now complete and ready for your visit at: http://www.task-force-games.com/sfu; SFT / Starletter Online is coming soon. Higher Ground Terrain is now located at http://www.highergroun-dco.com /offering 6mm through to 25mm terrain.

Scrabble: A hypertext version is available in ; see also the Scrabble site at http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/2639/index.html For those who may be interested, Stratego is coming out for the PC by Hasbro; see http://www.hasbro-interactive.com/e3/stratego.html. Darklands FAQ (http://www.darklands.net/); Darklands List (http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/darklands to subscribe) UK Events and a list of over 100 clubs and societies gaming in the UK: see http://www. craze.co.uk Subscribe to the UK Gaming news list at http://gamenewsuk.listbot.com.

If you are a wargamer, miniatures or otherwise, in or near New York City , the Metropolitcan Wargamers have over 1500 sq feet of space at http://www.mindspring.com/~lmanios/metro. The Nottingham & Derby Boardgames Club pages (the Midlands, Englan) on the Clanfork Home page at www.proweb.co.uk/~clanfork. Can't Stop is a Sid Sackson game seen on http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sackson.htm and members.aol. com/wgreview/page9.html. http://members.aol.com/landsrgame is the website for the Landseer strategy board game. Drop by Web-Grognards http://www.grognard.com and looks for a list of on-line game shops. Lego rules are at http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/lego_kni.txt. A HeroQuest Webpageis at www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Chasm/9223/

Celestial Empire/Pelic Quest/Starweb Does anyone remember these games? I have started a Yahoo discussion group at: clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/spacechess The site owner has found the old Celestial Empire source code and is going to try to make a DOS version of that game. They are kind of dated. However, they do emphasize planning and logic.

The North Houston Boardgame Group has meetings. Their website that houses the group's information, as well as information about the shop which hosts our meetings, game reviews, industry news, and editorials about boardgames is at http://www.eden.com/~anvil/nhbg or email shatrat@eden.com.

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The DBA resource page is www.erols.com/brant/DBA/. HMGS EastWebpage is at http://home.earthlink.net/~hmgs1/index.htm Read a review of Rod Pangton’s ancient naval miniatures rules "Naumaciae" on website http://www.btinternet.com/~david.manley/naval/naumac1.html. The Volley and Bayonet mailing list archives are at listserv.pipemedia .net/vnb.html with information on Prussian artillery organization (and almost anything else you can think of.

On the upper West Side of Manhattan - America's Hobby Center at 146 W. 22nd, founded 1931, has all kinds of good terrain (for model railroads) and wire, pin vise, and tiny drill stuff you want. Web address: http://www.ahc1931.com/Try also the Golden Spike, which used to be on W. 45th. Oklahoma City/Norman area has a store stocking historical minis: Game HQ SW 89th and Penn. The Napoleonic Rules System 'Republique' is free at http://www.wtj.com/coldocs/republiq.htm.

Brookhurst hobbies have a selection of miniatures including FAA, SHQ, Foundry; they will ship outside California. Minifigs and Falcon reportedly make Boxer Rebellion figures in 25mm scale. Minifigs website is at http://members.tripod.com/~mini figs_2/index.html. The Toy Soldier magazine bulletin board is at http://www.toy-soldier.com/ Jeff's Collecting Toy Soldiers website is http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~jwyman/home.html and http://bajoran.upnaway .com/~obees/soldiers/index.html. Ravens Forge is at http://www.cs. cmu.edu/~tpope/miniatures/ravens-forge/index.html. ManOWar miniatures are reportedly available through Bartertown: http://falcon .cc.ukans.edu/~darkwolf/trading.html. Essex Miniatures—http://www1c.btwebworld.com/essexminiatures/catcont.html. The Foundry —http://www.icenter.net/~gisby/

There are four adaptations of DBM for Napoleonics at the DBM Homepage: http://tetrad.stanford.edu/dbm.html. There's a 7 Years War adaptation of DBA at the DBA Resource page: www.erols.com/brant/DBA. The Official Piquet Gamers Site is at www.Piquet.org Piquet. Brass wire for lances and pikes is available from Model Expo Inc, PO Box 229140, Hollywood, FL 33022.800-222-3876 or fax 954-925-6579.

Easy Napoleonic rules called 'Republique'are at http://www.wtj.com/coldocs/republiq.htm.

Information on the game Moon Dragon by New Dimension Games is at http://www.roleplayer.com/Reviews/MoonDragon.shtml and http://www.jps.net/minipage/workbench/3dmoondragon.html A umber of things painted, pictures of this are up at: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~bagaasc/miniatures/ There is more info in the Miniatures Page News section Basically they closed to cost increases of their parts.