Frank Chadwick, president of game Designer's Workshop has announced that they will close operations at the end of this February. Frank has opted to place all the histoncal miniature oriented rulesets with a Historical Miniatures production company rather than with a company whose emphasis is book and rules publishing. He is talking to several such companies and expects to announce the new publisher by Cold Wars. The rules are Command Decision and Volley & Bayonet. A Soldiers Companion may be republished as a straight colonial period ruleset with the elements of Science Fiction removed. There are also plans to expand the concept of Volley & Bayonet into other periods.

Greg Novak owns the rights to Command Post Quarterly and plans to continue its publication under the auspices of whoever is awarded with the rights to the GDW historical rulesets. Frank and Greg will be a Cold Wars with stock of the two rulesets and enough will be printed for the new publisher to meet initial demands with minimum delay. GDW has been in business for 22 years.

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