I have worked up a new four-per-year production schedule which will put out that many games per year as well as maintain what little is left of my sanity. Project dates below have been changed to conform to the new schedule. I am going to attempt to release both Austerlitz and Afrika for Origins (June in schedule-speak), otherwise the standard schedule will be used.

Projects at this Time...

Thunder at the Crossroads II

CWB#2. March 1993. Designer: Dave Powell. $32.00

Austerlitz

NBS #1. June 1993. Designer: Dave Powell. $36.00

Afrika

SCS #2. June 1993. Designer: Dean Essig. $22.00 This is a map and a half,280 counter SCS treatment of the war in North Africa, Sept 40 through Dec 42. It should not be confused with the five-map magnum opus OCS game which is still on the back burner.

Matinikau

TCS. #4 Nov 1993 Designer: Sam Simons. $34.00 Attacks of the Marines in November 1942 around the Matinikau River, Guadalcanal. Check out the proposed TCS changes in this issue and let me know what you think-the 3rd Edition rules will be in this game.

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. The first of these three linkable games should make it on the schedule for 1994. Look for about one per year. Each has three maps and a common countersheet and a half. The Battle of Seven Pines will be included (since nothing else happened in that map zone...).

Hunters from the Sky

TCS. Designer: Wig Graves. The Battle for the Malene Airfield, Crete. This will be the next TCS release after Matinikau.

Black Wednesday: The Battle of Krasni Bor

TCS. Designer: David Friedrichs. The defense of the Spanish Blue Division against the usual Soviet onslaught.

Arracourt

TCS. Designer: James Meldrum.

The Back Burner... (None have a date yet)

The games below are "in the works" 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 4 per year schedule, it may be a while before any particular one of these see' s the light of day.

A Frozen Hell

TCS. Designer: Al Wambold. A battle in the Russo-Finnish War, 1940. Specifically, the Battle of Tolvajarvi, December, 1939. Al's got this in something of a final form, I'm looking for submission any day now.

Yom Kippur

SCS. Designer Al Sandrik. The Battle for the Sinai, 1973 Al S. got sidetracked by Hurricane Andrew (he works at the National Hurricane Center) . When he gets everything back in order, he'll get back to it.

April's Harvest

CWB. Designer: Al Wambold. Shiloh. Bakka Valley

TCS: Modern Expansion

Designer: Al Sandrik. Syrians vs. Israelis, 1982.

Atlanta

CWB. Designer John Gilmer, Jr.

North Africa

OCS. Designer: Dean N. Essig. This game would cover the entire campaign in North Africa on five maps, 1940 until early 1943. If you are interested in helping with the research on this one, let me know, all areas are open. Richard Berg's CNA game cannot be used as a source, though.

The Grossdeutschland at War

TCS. Designer: Wig Graves. This would be a short sub-series of games covering the GD from France, 1940 until the end of the war. It would show the development of the unit and the types of actions it fought during the years it spent on the Eastern Front and the Battle to protect the Sedan bridgehead in France.

Cedar Creek

CWB. Designer: Jerry White. This game descended with a thump on our mail box a few days ago. At first glance there are a few things that need to be reworked so as to be more in-line with the series' standards. Other than that, a fine first effort.

Hube's Pocket

OCS. Designer: David Friedrichs. This will be an OCS game covering the battles of the 1 st 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.

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