I'm looking forward to an interesting convention season this year. I'm going back to the Seven Years War association con next month and am putting on what I hope will be a great game. It is about a what if battle. In 1765 the French attacked the Morrocan Pirate Fleet and sank it. What if they had landed troops to round up the Morrocan sailors – ships after all can be replace. Well what they would have found is that most of the "Moorish" sailors were French and Italian! Renegade converts to Islam, who by the nature of conversion could not go back home (Especially after a few years attacking Christian shipping!) It will be a 25mm figure game. Should be good. The rest of the year I am thinking of abandoning historical games all together and switching my efforts to Science Fiction games. It is not that I dislike historicals but I am tired of taking an interesting historical game out to a con only to get no players. I've not had that problems with SF games. I don't know why people find bug eyed monsters more interesting than horse and muskets but they do. So out go the French and in come the Gray Aliens! I can keep the Arabs. People already thing they're alien anyway – just call them Jawas! Lastly, I've been playing around with the ton of 6mm figures I have. Did a 1917 Arab revolt battle using the miniature battle version of the Matrix Game rules. It worked. The Arabs beat the Turks in a frontal assault – 40 Arab horse and camel figures plus some armour cars racing across the desert. Now just add a couple of big robots and I could run it at a convention – As long as I didn't mention history! Back to Table of Contents -- Matrix Gamer #11 To Matrix Gamer List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Chris Engle. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com