Thanks to EPA's fearless leader Winston Hamilton (aka WHam), TENs editorial office (my game room) is now equipped with a Macintosh Plus and powerful desktop editing software. We're ready to go with this newsletter, folks, so keep those submissions coming to my mailbox.

Thanks to my good friend and okeydokey (okie dokie?) editor Bill "Random House" Stone, I'm learning how to use this 1 Mb. It was Bill's troubleshooting that helped make this issue what it is.

Although we can not report anything on Second Front other than that it's coming, we do know that John Astell has also been working on an Europa Almanac. The almanac includes listings on all the countries and political entities shown on the Europa maps. The current draft is 24 manuscript pages long and is formatted as follows:

Malta [English: Malta] (Maltese: Malta)
Status: Colony of Britain
Major Ethnic Groups: Maltese
Cities: 1 ref

map:hex	WZ	city	stt	name & notes
18:0408	F	ref	cp	Valetta (also 26:4731)

GR/D will publish the Almanac upon its completion. If you have any ideas about what you would like to see included in this almanac (e.g.: sketch maps; more geographical data; brief historical notes or chronologies; more political/economic information; battlefield locations; or whatever), then put your ideas down on paper and send them my way.

Currently there are some other treats out there for your Europa tastebuds. Jack Greene has written and published a 48 page full-size Handbook on the Italian Army in World War II: 1940-1943. Pulled heavily from Italian Official Histories, it points out units not included in Europa as well as units that are over- or undervalued. The handbook is about 50% text and 50% TO&Es and also includes a special section detailing the Italian army sent to Russia. Available for $9.50 ppd (add $3.50 for overseas air) from Jack Greene, P.O. Box 658, Cambria CA 93428.

And if you don't already know, A. E. Goodwin has designed a Europa campaign entitled The Northern Theatre of Operations, 1939-1940. This package is about 80 pages of scenario rules and "national data sheets" for fighting an air-land- sea campaign in Scandinavia. The campaign revolves around ownership of the iron or's fields of northern Sweden, which are crucial to the Axis war industry. Available from A-E. Goodwin for $5.00.

Shelby Stanton has submitted a wonderful, 33 manuscript-page "FitE/SE Combined German Ground Forces List" that accounts for every German ground unit in those games. Here's a sample excerpt:

Panzer Divisions

GD (12-10) SE, Feb 43; (18-10) Jul 43
1 (9-10) FE, Jun 41; w/d Jan 43 to Fr; rtn (15-10) Nov 43
2 (11 -10) FE, Sep 1141; (15-10) May 43; w/d Jan 44
3 (11-10) FE, Jun 41; (16-10) May 42

GR/D will publish this treasure in the near future. Meanwhile, take pleasure in Jim Arnold's Soviet and German Unit Indexes for FE/SE. This 11 -page index lists every Soviet and German ground unit in FitE/SE with their setup army or turn of arrival. For example:

13 Rfl XX	WEST
13 Rfl X	I DEC41
13 Mil XX	II JUL41
13 NKVD XX	42cnd
13 Tnk XXX	I JUN42
(11-8-8)	I NOV42
13 Tnk XX	16A

The Index is available from Jim Arnold, 6735 El Salvador St., Long Beach CA 90815, for $3.00.

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Gen Con/Origins is at Milwaukee this year, August 18-21. John Astell hopes to attend Friday through Sunday; Winston will be there (who'll walk Waldo while Winston's in Wisconsin?); I'll be there (bunking with Bill Stone--I'll report next issue if he saws wood). I'm looking forward to meeting some of you other members. See you there!