Welcome to EGG 16! This is turning out to be a relatively small EGG due to all of the other writing I've been doing. I could have held it back longer, to put In more material, but I believe that it is more important to keep a dead line than to have a thick newsletter. To quote a James Thurber fable "Don't get it right, get it written." My time over the last two months has been eaten up by 1. writing "Campaign in a Day" a military campaign MG. 2. Taking the Academy of Certified Social Workers exam - I got it! And 3. Working with a new task force to prevent domestic violence in Morgan County Indiana (we have a long way to go). Add on top of that the holidays, daily life, and counseling crazy people and it has been a full week. I can understand how publishing MWAN (a Journal much larger than EGG) could get to be too much for Hal Thinglum. I am looking forward to the winter lull. I want to spend some more time working on a political/role play MG that can be widely used to either 1. back up an RPG or 2. play out political events in concert with a military MG. Slowly but surely I am getting into a new gaming period. The French conquest of Algeria 1830 to 1850. This period allows me to run crazy dervishes (which I enjoy doing) and colorful French soldiers (like the Early Foreign Legion and Zouves). I have the figures to do this period right now by using Mahdists and Napoleonic French Figures. I foresee this as being a good period to do a military political game run by an MG. If anyone knows of any good books on this period I would like to read them. Back to Experimental Games Group # 16 Table of Contents Back to Experimental Games Group List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1991 by Chris Engle This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com