A group in the Dallas, TX area has been playing board games of all shapes and sizes for years. http://www.dallasgames.comHORDES of hordes (miniatures figures) are at http://www.peterpig.demon.uk. MW

www.kmwsspielplatz.com, the great online game zine. There is a post-WW2 Piquet set of house rules posted on The Official PK Gamer web site check it out at http://www.piquet.org. Information about Little Wars 2000 and HMGS-Midwest is at http://user.aol.com/littlewars/lwmain.htm. .

If you are interested in some pictures of the new Klaus Teuber game "Starfarers of Catan" you should visit the official website: http://www.die-siedler.com ContagiousDreams (CD) at "http://www.contagiousdreams.com/". is an online retailer who carries "fun-tested" games from independent game publishers. Consider the Games Club of Maryland http://www.rtgames.com/gcom/ Off the Wall Boardgames covers traditional games: www.stainess.freeserve. co.uk. A new discussion list at empires@onelist.com has been established for the Empires of History line of Axis and Allies variants. The empires@onelist.com discussion list is sponsored by the Guild of Blades Publishing Group, publisher of the Empires of History game series.

Anyone know of any Diplomacy board games being played via e-mail over the Internet? First place to look is The Diplomatic Pouch http://devel.igo.org/DipPouch/ For some other links try here: http://cyberia.dragonfire.net/dip/dipweb.htmIf you didn't get a chance to get Ron Shirtz's Space Crusade board tiles from his webpage before it closed, they are now on a HeroQuest webpage at http://www.geocities .com/TimesSquare/Chasm/9223/ Another very good short game for 2 players is the free 1st Alamein by Lou Coatney. It is a DTP game that can be found at http://members.tripod.com/~LCoat/ It has a map about 12x20 hexagons, about 25 counter all up, 10 turns and takes about an hour to play. Most recommended.

Washington's Wars or another American War of Independence ruleset? A choice is at http://www.wargames.free-online.co.uk/musket/awirules.html. Ivan has a Web page for Virtual from Fat Messiah Games at http://www.jps.net/spider/virtual. Come check out a multiplayer online extended version of the classic game. All you need is a Java-capable browser. http://www.metaforge.net/webstratego. The GIPF web pages at http://titan.glo.be/ff00476/GIPF/mso/mso.html have been updated with the puzzles from the 1st GIPF puzzle solving championship.ATS Toy soldiers (http://www.monmouth.com/~tvawter/ats. htm) sells some excellent plastic recast Romans from Reamsa and Jecsan, and you can always get recast Marx romans from this period, too--54mm Ben Hur sets or 60mm wariors of the world. Better yet, see if you can track down Blue Box Miniatures, which has a new metal set of 54mm painted Romans, including Caesar, a standard bearer and two regular soldiers for (probably) $10-12!! See them at (http://onelist.com/files/littlewars/bluebox.jpg) The quality is There is a very good index of all the Dragon articles containing Divine Right articles. Try: http://crpp0001.uqtr.uquebec.ca/www_wanderer/index/dragonindex.html

What are the differences between Japanese and Chinese Go? See http://www.snafu.de/~jasiek/rules.html or "Mathematical Go: Chilling gets the last point". There is a just launched informational website called Austin Gamers Alliance. The URL for the site is http://www.rag narokpress.com/austingaming. Scriptorium Fonts and Art: http://ragnarokpress.com/scriptorium Oroborus Universal Roleplaying: http://www.oroborus.net.Settlers of Catan "Civilizations of Catan" Expansion available at http://members.tripod.com/Wiyum/spiel/settlers/settlers.html.

Unofficial Battlemist Website (http://grove.ufl.edu/~dak/bmmain.html). An online bloodbowl league is at http://www.nloc.org/avistetto/olbbl/index.asp. If you are interested in FTF games of Diplomacy and other board games in the San Francisco Bay Area please visit http://www.farallone.com/games/gamepage.htm.