CPQ 5 is at the printing press as I type these lines on the 20th of May, 1994, and is due to be out in June. This issue is to be turned in by June 3rd, and should be out in September. Issue 7 will be turned in in August, and should be out in December, giving us four issues in one year (I hope). Thus, CPQ seems to be back on track.
The Spanish Civil War Supplement has been pushed back an issue due to problems with mail service across the Atlantic, but the WWII people should be assured that we have not forgotten them. We recognize that CPQ 4 had very little for them, and will be careful to make it up to them, while not slighting the modern folks who loved CPQ 4. You can please all of the people some of the time, or some of the people all of the time...
ROAD KILL ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY
I have gotten access to the "net", and come into contact with a quite a number of dedicated CD players. There are days when I am in awe of the discussions that are going on. I enjoy E-mail mainly because I can answer my mail much better than I normally do.
MAPS AND OTHER ITEMS
A suggestion has come in on an item that I would like feedback on. It has been suggested that we do several detailed maps for CDII. A Desert Map, East Front Map, West Front Map, etc. There would be four maps per set and they would fit together, and scaled for CDII. This would allow gamers to run actions that would not start at the edge of the world per se, but rather use the terrain that is needed when the action starts. What's the feeling on this?
UPCOMING ITEMS
Looking ahead to CPQs 7 to 9, at this point in time I hope to run the following supplements:
CPQ 7 The Spanish Civil War: Otherwise known as World War 1.5. A curious mixture of World War I and II, this conflict in Spain served as the curtain raiser for World War II.
CPQ 8 Red Storm Rising: The Bathtub version of World War III based on the Wilderness Game run by the CITW back in 1988.
CPQ 9 The Race to Messina: A scaled down version of the campaign in Sicily in 1943, designed to allow players to compete with each other in that the commanders of the US 7th Army will also command the GermanItalian forces facing the British 8th Army, and the commanders of the British 8th Army will command the Germans facing the Americans.
THE ANSWER TO LAST ISSUE'S QUESTION
QUESTION: What Soviet General went from commander of a military district to convict laborer in the Gulag to commander of a front line army in combat to Red Army chief of staff-all within 12 months?
ANSWER: Marshal Meretskov commanded Leningrad Military District after his return from Spain, was purged in 1939, but was brought back to command an army in the Russo-Finnish War, leading the breakthrough of the Mannerheim line. Shortly after the end of that campaign, he was made Army Chief of Staff (until January 1941, when he was replaced by Georgi Zhukov).
THIS ISSUE'S QUESTION
QUESTION: What do all of the following British units have in common? 3rd King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd Rifle Brigade, 42nd Royal Tank Regiment, the Honorable Artillery Company.
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