by George Phillies
MagWeb (www.magweb.com), republished 57 military history, wargames, and miniatures magazines in electronic format on the Internet. For a small monthly fee as little as $5.00 a month. You have 24x7 access to over 10,000 html pages worth of historical content. Free sample articles are available off the homepage. Recently added session reports and game reviews from LemonyFresh Gaming at http://futures.wharton. upenn.edu/~arubbo. Magazines — through us you can get up to 25% off Ospreys — www.caliverbooks.demon.co.uk. The Steel Valley Tournament page is at http://gabriel.franuniv.edu/students/bpgs/steelval.htm. Check out http://home.earthlink.net/~mlbakke1/bgprclst.htm . Euro Games Descartes has released Condottiere for $39.80 (XL) For more online shops, http://www.grognard.com/shops.html The Westbank Gamers: http://home.earthlink.net/~gschloesser/. A major update of our MapMaker fonts and art page specifically designed for creating antique looking maps for roleplaying campaigns and other game designs is at http://www.ragnarokpress.com/mapmaker The HMGS East Webpage at http://home.earthlink.net/~hmgs1/index All figures in the Morrow Project line can be seen at the Raven's Forge website at www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/miniatures/ravens-forge/index.html DBR Competition at the Auran Brisbane Maelstrom Convention on 1st to 3rd May at Brisbane, Australia. For details see my web page: http ://dataline.net.au/~edwards/DBRComp.htm There are only consequences......." Chris Edwards http://www.track-link.net The best armor modelling site but the Flagship Games resin ships are also very nice, and *much* more affordable. Check out their website, including lots of color pictures of the ships and games in progress. I guarantee it'll shiver yer timbers, matey! http://www.flagshipgames.com/ A really good reference for the Gavutu-Tanambogo campaign is to be found in the 1993b Advanced Squad Leader Annual [now available from Multi-Man Productions of http://www.advancedsquadleader.com/ for about $15 + S&H Tons of stuff on 1/72 scale plastics, including a master list of all made are at http://www.hat.com/ and http://www.mi-niatures.de/ Lots of new pictures of painted miniatures in the Chambers of Miniatures at http://www.sky.net/~pvccdc Tyrant Games announces their new website http://www.tyrantgames.com focusing on Tyrant Games' Wehrmacht - Diceless Miniatures Wargaming product line. Site features include an opponent locator, Painting Ideas for Wehrmacht giant mecha models and Whermacht Tactics articles. An old Avalon Hill pamphlet telling how to play Afrika Korps, Blitzkrieg, Bulge, D-Day, Stalingrad, Waterloo, Anzio, Luftwaffe, and Panzerblitz by mail may be downloaded from http://www.digitalironworks.com/pbm/ahpbm.html A gaming web-site is at http://www.erols.com/mrboone/wg_home.html Steve Thomas's clarifications and amendments for Leonhard Orgler's 1837 are at http://freespace.virgin.net/chris.lawson/18xx/The 1837 FAQ is at http://freespace.virgin.net/chris.lawson/18xx/1837/1837f.htm New games coming out in February are covered at http://sunsite.informa tik.rwth-aachen.de/luding/ Please email grognard@grognard.com for access details via FTP, telnet or email for Web-Grognards. http:/www.cyg nus.com/~jrudd/games/PaperMinis/PaperFleets has great SFB counter alternatives You can find the rules to _Focus_ in Sid Sackson's book _A Gamut of Games_, Retail Price: $6 Stores in Los Angeles include The War House, on Willow, 2 blocks East of the 710 freeway in Long Beach (Loads of wargames, and a good stock of German imports); Brookhurst Hobbies on Brookhurst, about 2-3 miles North of the 22 Freeway (just S. of Chapman) (Also good stock and carries imports). The Last Grenadier Burbank, CA (San Fernando just off of Olive)818-848-9144 (Great selection of games, though oriented more towards the wargamer. Excellent shop.) The Game ZonePasadena, CA (2302 E. Colorado. 626-304-2637 (Smaller shop, but nice varied selection and likes the German games. )
Finale by Kosmos -Rules translation in The Gaming Dumpster at
http://www.neonate.org/viewgame.mv?82+Finale. Visit DocReason's Strategy HQ for free games, reviews, and support and opponent finding for obscure/orphan games at: http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/fortress/7537/ . The HeroQuest Quest page is at http://www.geo cities.com/TimesSquare/Chasm/9223/. "The Alchemist's Bench", the free electronic HeroQuest newsletter, subscription contact at
questgnome@geocities.com. Greysea LLC hasa page of Ace of Aces information at http://members.xoom.com/greysea/. They still have some Flying Machines and Baloon Buster sets for sale.
Fathers & Sons Hobby Shop, Gary Stagliano, Owner, 149A West Middle Turnpike, Manchester, CT 06040-4027 860-643-8834 .
A Web Site is at http://newebdesign.com/users/Europa/index.html
WS&IM: Check out Danny Holte's Wargamer's Reference Guide (http://pw2.netcom.com/~dannyh22/etloh.html) for a good list of variant articles. A list of General articles can also be viewed at http://www.grog nard.com/indexes/w934.html.
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Miniatures Contacts
Musket Miniatures, PO Box 1976, Dept TD, Broomfield, Co. 80038. They make an awesome line of 10mm buildings and terrain pieces (fences, walls,bridges, corn stalks, wheat shocks, hay-stacks, etc.). Their period offerings include ACW and european style items. ...Tom DyeHMGS East. (Eastern Chapter, Historical Miniatures Gaming Society) Website at http://home.earthlink.net/~hmgs1/index.htm. Links to miniatures pages are apparently at http://members.aol.com/kllrkatnas. Fistful of TOWs site: http://www.e-tex.com/tbeard/home.htm. http://www.icenter.net/~gisby/ is the URL for the Foundry. Saber's Edge Hobbies and Games is at http://www.sabersedge.com. http://hometown.aol.com/eaglewars/private/sews.htmlfor Kovel's Silver Eagle Miniatures. The DBA Resource Page, updated several times a week,
is at http://www.erols.com/brant/DBA/. DBA "Fanatics" can also join De Bellis Fanaticus, an on-line club, at http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/debellisfanaticus.
The Portsmouth Miniatures website is at http://home1 .gte.net/jahunt/Ships%20for%20Sale.htm. An email discussion list on 54mm toy soldiers and Wargaming is accessible via http://www3.ns. sympatico.ca/kcrane/toysoldier.html. http://www.greatmodels.com/ is the Great Models Web Store. Gripping
Beast Warbands & personalities website is http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccspgo/gripping.html. Higher Ground is a terrain company specializing in hand-made quality terrain for all miniature based games from 6mm to 25mm with web pages at http:// www.highergroundco.com/. Form Line of Battle was aimed at fleet actions, but "Form Line of Battle 2" covers small as well as fleet actions. Seehttp://www.btinternet.com/~david.manley/naval/formline/formline.htmlRod Langton's "Signal Close Action" rules are at http://www. rodlangton.com/.
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