Magazines Received

Courier Dispatch: News

by Dick Bryant

Age of Napoleon has articles on history, equipment, and uniforms of the Eclaireurs of the Guard and the armies of the East India Company, a history of the battle of Engen, a piece arguing that Lodi was merely an ordinary rearguard action, some additions to a set of quick-play skirmish rules printed earlier, letters, and reviews. 48 pp, color. Available in the US from On Military Matters, 55 Taylor Terrace, Hopewell, NJ 08525. $42/ 6 issues.

Lone Warrior (solo wargaming) Issue 138 has a WWII bombing mission game played with card models, ideas for scratch building boats, barges, and watchtowers, a hypothetical world for medieval campaigns, a random army generator for Ancients battles, a POW game, and suggestions for a card-driven game system. There are also columns on board and computer gaming, reviews, and letters. 42 pp, flat stapled. Solo Wargamers Association, 1707 Ridge Rd, Leavenworth, KS 66048. $20 / 4 issues

Miniature Wargames includes one of their starter guides, this one to the Seleucid Empire, in issue 227. There is also a set of rules for the Wars of English Succession, comments on Napoleonic artillery by a reenactor, a centerfold hexgrid map of Palestine, for use in the era of your choice, scenarios for Gettysburg and the Abbeville bridgehead (1940), and Dunkirk (1658), along with reviews, letters, and editorial material. 64 pp, color. Available in the US from Wargames Inc, Box 278, Route 40 East, Triadelphia, WV 26059-0278, tel: (304) 547-0000.

Spearpoint is the journal of the NA Society of Ancient & Medieval Wargamers. The March/April issue has an article on naphtha use in the Middle East, a reply by Phil Barker to a suggested DBA rule change, accounts of tournaments, and a book review. 20 pp. Scott Dickson, 590 Woodend Dr. SE, Concord, NC 28025. $24 / 6 issues & membership.

Other Publications Received

Arquebusier (Journal of the Pike and Shot Society), Iain Stanford, 95 Tolbut Court, Lennox Close, Romford, RM1 2DZ, UK £25/6 issues with membership outside Europe.

SAGA Newsletter (Ancients) T.L. Gore, 890 Janes Rd, Rochester, NY 14612, e-mail:06185@msn.com. $25/6 issues.

HMGS East Newsletter, David Bonk (Treasurer), 720 Bennington Dr, Raleigh, NC 27615. $10/yr membership.

HMGS Dispatch (Midsouth), Major Bill Harting, 101 Taylor Rd, Estill Springs, TN 37330-3831. $10/yr membership.

The Messenger (HMGS Pacific SW), HMGS/PSW, PO Box 701, Norwalk, CA 90651-0701. $15/yr membership.

The Citadel (HMGS NW) Mark Serafin, 2614 Rucker Ave #14, Everett, WA 98201. $10/yr membership.

The Herald (HMGS Great Lakes),Bud Hunter, 325 Gramercy Dr, Riverside, OH 45431. $10/yr membership.

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