Up & Coming

New Products 1993

by Dean N. Essig



Projects at this Time...

Matanikau
TCS. #4 Nov 1993 Designer: Sam Simons. $34.00 Attacks of the Marines in November 1942 around the Matanikau River, Guadalcanal.

GD '40
TCS #5 Nov 1993 Designer: Wig Graves. $36.00 The defense of the Sedan Bridgehead by the Infantry Regiment Grossdeutschland in May, 1940. Wig gave this to me at Origins this year and it looked so well done that we went directly into heavy playtesting so as to bring it out right away.

The Ardennes
SCS #3 March 1994 Designer: Dean Essig $32.00 The Battle of the Bulge for the SCS, by popular request.

Enemy at the Gates
OCS #2 Origins 1994 Designer: Dean Essig $49.00 The operations of Army Group South (and B, Don, etc.) from the encirclement of Stalingrad through the spring of 1943.

Murfreesboro Enemy at the GatesCWB #8 September, 1994 Designer: Dave Powell $32.00 The Battle of Stone's River for the CWB on one map.

Yom Kippur
SCS. Designer: Al Sandrik. $25.00 The Battle for the Sinai, 1973 Al is back! The game has arrived. Look for this either with EatG or Murfreesboro.

Hunters from the Sky
TCS #6 November, 1994 Designer: Wig Graves $36.00 The Battle for the Maleme Airfield, Crete.

In Development

These games have physically arrived on our door step and will be integrated into the publication schedule as soon as we can give them a thorough going over. None have a date yet, but are closer than those listed in The Backburner.

The Seven Days
CWB. Designer: Dave Powell. This set of games was postponed one year to allow for the smaller Murfreesboro game to slip into the schedule. The first game might be out in 1995.

Black Wednesday: The Battle of Krasni Bor
TCS. Designer: David Friedrichs. The defense of the Spanish Blue Division against the usual Soviet onslaught. Look for this in 1996.

Arracourt
TCS. Designer: James Meldrum. To be published after Black Wednesday.

A Frozen Hell
TCS. Designer: A] Wambold. A battle in the Russo-Finnish War, 1940. Specifically, the Battle of Tolvajarvi, December, 1939. Al, I still need those historical and designer's notes...

Atlanta
CWB. Designer: John Gilmer, Jr. Dave will have this one ready to follow on the heels of The Seven Days.

Drive on Paris
SCS. Designer: Al Wambold. Al has delivered a fine game of the 1914 drive into France. This one may be teamed up with Jim Meldrum's Plan 1919 if we can work out the bugs and meld the two into a decent package. Look for one or both of these in 1995.

Glory Enough
CWB . Designer: Jerry White. Jerry made the needed changes to this game and it will enter the schedule after Atlanta. It covers the battles of Winchester and Cedar Creek.

Champion's Hill
CWB. Designer: Ken Jacobsen. Ken submitted a corrected version of this game just now. Everything looks good and it will enter the CWB lineup about the same time as Glory Enough.

Friedland
NBS. Designer: David Powell. This might be the second in the NBS, but if Dave can find his map sources, Marnego might beat it out for the number 2 Slot

The Back Burner...

(None have a date yet)

The games below are "in the works" and any of them may be potential releases in the next few years. It is only provided as information for your use. As these games are finished, they will be assigned publication dates in the year after acceptance-if a date is available. Given our schedule, it may be a while before any particular one of these sees the light of day.

April's Harvest
CWB. Designer: Al Wambold. Shiloh. I still haven't seen this one come in.

North Africa
OCS. Designer: Dean N. Essig. This game would cover the entire campaign in North Africa on five maps, 1940 until early 1943. This one has been postponed and I won't guess when I'll be able to get back to work on it.

Hube's Pocket
OCS. Designer: David Friedrichs. This will be an OCS game covering the battles of the 1st Panzer Army to save itself in February, 1944. The battle for the Korsun Pocket will also be included in this action, but by itself it is quite small.

Marengo
NBS. Designer: David Powell. Napoleonic Brigade Series Game number three or it might jump to #2 depending on how things go. There is an outside chance that Marengo might make it onto the 1994 schedule as the number 2 game-Napoleonic enthusiasts: Cross your fingers!

Tunisia
OCS. Designer: Dean Essig. This will be a two-map game covering the final days in Africa. It will be the third OCS game, unless Dave Demko shows up with Sicily before then or Dave Friedrichs does the same with his game...


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