Command at Sea

Two products are being prepared for a summer release: Biplanes & Battleships and Supermarina II. The rules expansion designed to go with B&BB is being developed, and the scenario booklet is taking form. It will cover three hypothetical conflicts, Bywater's Great Pacific War, a 1931 clash based on the Shanghai incident, and a 1937 action based on the Panay incident. In all, over thirty scenarios using the ships and planes of the 1930s will be provided.

The accompanying rules expansion, originally planned to be the WW I rules set, will instead be a less expensive loose-leaf page change to the second edition. It will take the rules back from 1939 to 1925. Part of the expansion, covering Airships, is included in this issue.

Supermarina II will be a single booklet, adding more scenarios to Supermarina I and using the same Data Annex Booklet. It will cover the middle part of the War in the Mediterranean, until the appearance of the US with the landings in Africa. A separate boxed supplement, tentatively titled Soft Underbelly, will cover this last period.

Harpoon

Several supplements for Harpoon 4 are in preparation, induding Harpoon Naval Review, by Dave Schueler, and Sea of Dragons, by Dr. Adrian Davis.

HNR will be a booklet with scenarios, new systems, and articles on modern naval warfare. There will be scenarios involving the Indians, British, Turkey, Greece, Japan, and of course the U.S. It will be published this summer.

SoD will be published in the fall of 1997, and is shaping up nicely. It covers several Pacific flashpoints with two booklets, one with scenarios and other regional data, and one with data covering virtually every Pacific Nation. These indude Japan, China, Australia, the Koreas, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei, Taiwan, and others.

BT