Where The Hack Are We Going?

Editorial

by Phil Viverito

This is the second issue of the Classical Hack News Letter and perhaps now is a good time to take a look at where the Hack we are going with Classical Hack and its relations. For those who are new Hackers, you probably have no idea what I am talking about. Well it all began with Knight Hack. A simple set of rules which will soon see its Third Edition early next year. After the introduction of Knight Hack came Classical Hack I and within several years Classical Hack II and Classical Hack III: Hack In The Dark: Warfare in the Dark Ages. Somewhere in between came Fantasy Hack. Finally there was Classical Hack First Edition my first big time production, which could have been better but it was my first real plunge into rules although we had sold hundreds of its predecessors up until then. Following First Edition came Classical Hack Scenarios Rome. Shortly after that came Holy Hack Hacking By The Book: Biblical Warfare published by Black Falcon out of Canada. After two years a 1000 copies of First Edition had sold us out. Finally it was time to do Classical Hack Second Edition. Having learned about the trials and tribulations of the printing world I decided to run a Special Edition for members of the Classical Hack Yahoo Group to go through and find errors. Thank God I did this because the same type problems occurred. Not type like kinds of things but type as in type face, leading and spacing. Finally I found a printer who was prepared to help rather than run the thing and be off with my money. This new printer also knew how to bind books properly. While still not perfect Second Edition is vastly superior to First Edition in ideas, ideals and in production quality. Thank God for Latko Printing (also responsible for the production value of this News Letter). Ok back to my point. Where are we headed with Hack. Well hopefully we will be doing Homeric Hack: Warfare in the Time of Homer’s Heroes. Following that the long anticipated Classical Hack Scenarios Greece: Hoplite Warfare and then Classical Hack Scenarios The Celts. In between the Hoplites and Celts will be Knight Hack Third Edition. While there is no set in stone time table that is what is on the planning board. In regard to Conventions we intend on devoting more time to the smaller conventions like Siege of Augusta, Cowpens, War Fair, Hot Lead and Mini-Wars. We will not shut down the big Cons but do you want to know something? The real gamers, the grass roots gamers are more likely to be found at the small conventions and their appreciation shows it too. So we hope we can attend more of these smaller con-ventions; where they keep the real gamers. Back to Table of Contents -- Classical Hack Newsletter # 2 Back to Classical Hack Newsletter List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Phil Viverito. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com