Editorial

A Happy Disarray

by Chris Engle

Welcome to EGG20! I am happy to say that EGG is at the moment In total disarray. My wife and I have successfully moved from Bloomington to Greenwood (a southern suburb of Indianapolis). Immediately after we moved in, I was whisked away to do two conventions in a row. What with convention preparations, unpacking boxes, and working, I have misplaced what I planed to put in EGG 20. Oops! Well, It will surface later ... I hope.

I am not dismayed at EGG's present state of disruption because after a long summer of not having a lot of new ideas, my mind seems to have kicked in again. This means that I will get back Into doing some more writing this fall.

Tops on my list is to start a series of articles on morale. This article has been in the planning stages for around 4 years now. I still have a few more books to look through, but soon. I think you will find it to be a surprise. For instance, it turns out that Napoleon and Ganhdi say almost the exactly same things bout morale -- but Ganhdi had more guts since he was saying to resist guys with guns without fighting back. That is hard to do if you are perfectly capable of fighting if you wanted to (which interestingly is what Ganhdi said is required BEFORE non-violence can work).

The high quality miniatures events run at Peninsula Campaign again spur my interest in painting little men so maybe I can put on as pretty a game. The project that come to mind is to create a terrain spread of a psuedo medieval Normandy to do an on table campaign game of Richard the Lionheart's wars with Phillip Augustus. This game could make use of all my matrix games up to date, campaign, political and tactical. What is more I want it to be easy enough to set up that I can run it as an almost matrix role play game at a local club (when I find one). Little men should get to come out and play more than at just conventions, but little men without nice terrain just falls flat.


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