Editorial

Plans

by Chris Engle

Winter has been a long hard slog – thus the length of time between MGers. Two games reached successful conclusion (M – a game about leftist movie making in 1931 Berlin, and Dracula – a Renaissance wargame about the war between the Turks and Christians in 1455). Now two new games have started. PAC WAR cover the entirety of WWII in the Pacific (by far the most ambitious game ever attempted). While Black Adder Citizen of Rome is pure comedy.

What is new is that I am attempting to distribute turn results for these games via web pages. So far the experiment is yielding mixed results (probably because I'm not good at web page work, and I'm trying to do this with two games at once). I still think this is the wave of the future since it makes a greater electronic presence.

Soon I hope to acquire a digital camera and try out combining miniatures with web page games. More will be revealed.

At the end of March I'll be up at the Seven Year War Association convention in South Bend Indiana where I plan to run a Matrix Game about Frederick the Great's 1757 invasion of Bohemia. I'm trotting out the latest version of "Enlightenment vs. Pluck: or too much for Old Fritz" (Kudos to Howard Whitehouse's classic Game "Science vs. Pluck). Which I hope will be a great success.

I am grateful to all the writers of this issue. Given the noodleness of my brain this would not be getting out this early without their help.


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