Web News

1999

by George Phillies



Old Glory has a site at http://www.wargames.co.uk/oldglory.htm. Weapons and Warriors is manufacutured by: Pressman Toy Corp. 745 Joyce Kilmer Ave. New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The game includes 15 mm pirate figres and a pirate ship. Stores across the US which carry the Battlefront line are listed at http://members.aol.com/milminusa/

Irregular Miniatures makes 20mm casualty figures for WWII. See the list at: http://members.aol.com/eaglewars/private/sews.html A terrain and painting service is at http://members.xoom.com/terrapaint/terrapaint.htm. German game of the Year Listing is at http://www.spiel-des-jahres.org/jury/hauptsei.htm. Visual Scrabble (TWL98) is apparently available as an executable from http://www.esheep.freeserve.co.uk/vscrabble/index.html ICEHOUSE Tournament: For more info, please see: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/9346/Icehouse/baycon99.html. The German Boardgame Company of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada carries "German" boardgames (priced at 10% discount to help cover shipping costs). For further information, www.sentex.net/~spinach 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/

A small Swedish software company (Target Games) is working on a real-time (!) computer version of Europa Universalis . Their product page is http://www.target.se/ia/europa.htm. NATO unit symbology TrueType fonts: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/TomMouat/advert.htmVariant Formule De rules are now available at . Bob Bosscher writes that he is a small and relatively new producer of wargames terrain components aimed, at this early stage, at the 1:300 scale market and in a limited way into the larger scales. Over the next month or two he will also be expanding into 1:1000 and 1:5000 scales for corps and army level games. For further information www.wargrid.demon.co.uk. For sashimono designs, see Veni Vidi Vici http://www.3vwargmes.co.uk

The Travelling Mage, 2407 SW 13th St, Gainesville Fl 32608 352-381-9090, http://www.themage. com . Charlotte Club page on http://www.garrison-clubs.org has such things as fantasy JPGs from a Piquet game. MindSpring Enterprises Web Site is http://home.interlynx.net/~jmichael/ . Miniatures website at http://www.freeyellow.com/members7/spanner/index.html. The BattleGroup Web Page is http://havoc.dac.neu.edu/bgb/Or there's information on The SPEARHEAD web pages are http://kovalic.com/spearhead/ "Dork Tower," "Shop Keep," "Wild Life," "Murphy's Rules" at 'TOON CENTRAL: http://www.kovalic.com Visit http://www.accy news.freeserve.co.uk/islandmain.htm for the latest Talisman Island news. Somworld is the first on-line publication devoted to Strat-O-Matic baseball www.geocities.com/~somworld. Greg Costikyan is at www.costik.com or station.sony.com/fantasywar Carlsbad Game Cove is at WWW.Gamecove.Com. PHD Shipyard Web Site -- From the Tholian's Home Galaxy (New Races) -- http://www.mninter.net/~phdship.

Interformic Games is at http://home.swbell.net/cmcedit/ig/. Edge City: There's more info at http://www.cadvision.com/edgecity/edgecity.htm and a review at Kulkmann's Game Box: http://members.aol.com/~kulkmann/edgecity.htm. The Gaming Dumpster is at http://www.neo nate.org/gamepage.mv?Siedler_Stadt_und_Ritter. We read: we are always looking for players as well, in the North Houston Boardgamers Group. http://www.eden.com/~anvil/nhbg. Steffan O'Sullivan groo@ groo.com has a personal game web page at http://www.io.com/~sos

LeArmeeDuNord by Clash of Arms: goto www.clashofarms.com for errata on the cavalry - in the initial release they were too strong. Free game http://members.aol.com/bob1w/bob/scrabble/networdz/downnetz.htm. Luding has the Beta version of a new, more complex search functionality available at http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/luding/search.html. Searching for games wrt # of players, year of publication, etc should now be possible.

Brett & Board: http://hjem.get2net.dk/Svellov/. Artful Dodger's ChessChat. To subscribe go to http://www.hctc.com/~dtriplet . Silicon Valley Boardgamers (SVB) is an informal group that meets regularly to play a wide variety of boardgames and cardgames. SVB's Web page is at http://www.io.com/~dk2/svb. Getting started in historical/gaming/minatures? Miniatures group meeting in Saint Louis. http://www.histofig.com/empire/uniformes/ a good source (Books or Web sites) on Napoleonic Uniforms. There is a website: http://www. apci.net/~ipw4/BigMuddy/bigmud1.htm . Try also>http://www.jps.net/minipage/< Visit the news section on web page http://members.aol.com/kllrkatnas. Higher Ground is a terrain company that specializes in hand made quality terrain for all miniature based games from 6mm to 25mm http://www.highergroundco.com/ Houston Medical Center area gaming group: Mike Denson, denson@hic.net, d: 713.993.9191 e: 713.664.6606

Board games, and a star rating for them are at http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Opera/8082/index.html. Try this page for numerous Mancala links and for ordering info on a good book on the games http://www.cs .ruu.nl/~hansb/d.gam/mancala.htmlWellingtons Indian battles and Trojan lists have been added http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Laby-rinth/2558/redoubt.html


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