Midwest Wargamers
Association Newsletter

Table of Contents # 124
July-August 2003

Rule Sets and Rules Variants

A Cut Above the Rest Samurai in Action

Samurai Skirmish Miniature Rules by Chris Von Fahnestock.

Historical Analysis and Scenarios

Okinawa: General Cho's Plan
Imperial Japanese Army vs. US Army May 4, 1945 by Larry Freeman.

Okinawa: Combat Command by Larry Freeman

Scenario 16-1: The Opening Guns
Scenario 16-2: Charge of the Very Light Brigade
Scenario 16-3: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Scenario 16-4: Retaking the Shuri Line

Operation Biting
Commonwealth vs. Wehrmacht February 27/28, 1942 by Larry Freeman.

Operation Biting
Combat Command Scenario 14 by Larry Freeman.

A Peninsula War Campaign Nov 1808-Jun 1809 Fought Using Le Petit Armee Rules and Campaign Rules by Gunner Bearden

Introduction
Campaign Moves (Nov-Dec 1808)
Campaign Moves (Dec 1808 - March 1809)
Campaign Moves (April - June 1809)

U'Donnawannagothaire It's a Jungle Out There By Jim Morgan

Introduction and Player Summaries
Tarzan and Friends
Jane and Friends
Missionaries and Friends
European Expedition Army
Cannibals
Warriors (Massai)
Zanzibar Slavers
Sherlock Holmes
Black Bart's Gang
Warriors (Pygmies)
Kattyshak/Bolpucki and the Bad Apes
Animal Statistics

U'Donnawannagothaire
NUTS Battle Report by Jim Morgan.

Reviews, News, and Other Views

Editorial Thoughts and Observations by Hal Thinglum
What's New in Hal's Mailbox New Product News/Reviews by Hal Thinglum.
Fusillade On Wargaming and Little Wars by Chris J. Hahn
I (Still) Go, You (Still) Go Meditations on the Next Generation of Wargame Rules by Sam A. Mustafa.
Confessions of a Not-So-Mild Mannered Game Designer? Publishing a Set of Wargame Rules by Sam A. Mustafa.
James Woods Interview with a Wargamer by Hal Thinglum.
Letters Letters to the Editor.

More Articles

Making Low Cost Plowed Fields
15mm to 25mm Scales By Peter Michels.
1866 And All That
Kriegsspiel and the Franco-Prussian War by Stuart Asquith.
In Search of Hook's Farm
Recreating HG Wells' Little Wars by Stuart Asquith.
Len's Lines
Painting Buildings by Len Brewer.
Larry Leadhead
Comic Strip
Upcoming Events
2003 by S. Richard Black and Maj. Bill Harting.
Wargaming Clubs of the World
2003 by John Stafford.