The following press release was sent to MagWeb. If you are in the vicinity of The Netherlands...--RL

On September 27th the Dutch Games society "Murphy's Heroes" in Delft will organise their annual convention; "MURPHY MANIA 97".

The convention will be held in "Trefcentrum "Delfstede"", Phoenixstraat in Delft, The Netherlands. We open at 10:00 and close again at 18:00. Admission DG 5,=.

Delft is close to both Rotterdam airport as the ferry terminals in Rotterdam. The convention is close to Delft's central railway station.

At Murphy Mania '97 you can play, watch and enjoy various historical wargames, SF games, computer games, role playing games and board games. We will organise the open Dutch DBM championships "ancient", a magic tournament type II and a painting competition. For people interested in the Napoleontic period we offer both naval and land wargames to join or watch. Further we hope to have various re-enactment groups including the N.A.N., a Napoleontic re-enactment group.

On September the 26th we will organise an excursion to the Army Museum in Delft and on September the 28th we organise a mega-participation game with an SF theme.

For foreign visitors we have arranged a special lodging offer with Delft's finest hotel, at the "Museum Hotel" you can book a single room for 100 Dutch guilders (Pds 30), a twin room for DG 120,=(Pds 40) and a room for 3 persons for DG 137,50 (Pds 45). For reservations please call:

Museum Hotel Delft.
tel: +31/ 15-214 09 30
fax: +31/ 15-214 09 35

You can also visit our site at: http://www.dsdelft.nl/~murphy

For further information please send a message to: Marc_Lagrand@ccgate.apl.com or write to:

Marc Lagrand
Pasteurweg 84
2871 JM, Schoonhoven
The Netherlands
tel: +31/182-387678 (after 20:00H)

We hope to see you at Murphy Mania '97.

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