In Brief

Editorial

by Dean N. Essig



Projects at this Time...

Austerlitz NBS #1. June 1993. Designer: Dave Powell. $36.00 Final artwork, etc., etc.

Afrika SCS #2. June 1993. Designer: Dean Essig. $25.00 Final artwork, etc., etc.

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

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 1995-it has been postponed for one year to allow for a one-map CWB game in 1994 (Mufreesboro). 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 Maleme Airfield, Crete. Look for this one in 1994.

Enemy at the Gates OCS. Designer: Dean N. Essig. This four-map game will cover the Soviet Stalingrad counteroffensive through Manstein's counterattack in southern Russia from November, 1942 through March, 1943. This game will link to the southern edge of the GB maps, making way for coverage of the entire 1942 German offensive and subsequent Soviet offensives. Now entering the first stages of playtesting-.the first game was a German blowout victory, ya had ta been there. Look for this one in 1994.

Black Wednesday: The Battle of Krasni Bor TCS. Designer: David Friedrichs. The defense of the Spanish Blue Division against the usual Soviet onslaught. To be published after Hunters.

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

A Frozen Hell TCS. Designer: Al Warnbold. A battle in the Russo-Finnish War, 1940. Specifically, the Battle of To1vaJ1irvL December, 1939. Al got the thing (sans designer's notes) to us finally!

Atlanta CWB. Designer. John Gilmer, Jr. Dave now has all of this game in hand and is beginning the Final editing and development work.

Drive on Paris SCS. Designer. Al Wambold. Al has delivered a fine game of the 1914 drive into France.

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 awhile before any particular one of these see's the light of day.

Yom Kippur SCS. Designer: Al Sandrik. The Battle for the Sinai, 1973 This Al has now disappeared off the radar scope ... Still true, if we do not hear from Al by the next issue, I'll be forced to drop this one.

April's Harvest CWB. Designer: Al Wambold. Shiloh. Al mentioned that this will be in-house by the end of the summer. I hope he makes it by then.

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 until at least the OCS #4 slot-if it can make it out for that one and it probably won't.

The Grossdeutschland at War TCS. Designer. Wig Graves. This would be a short subseries 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. Word from Wig is that the Sedan game is coming right along and he'll be in position to submit it soon.

Cedar Creek CWB. Designer: Jerry White. A revised version of Jerry's game showed up a few days ago. He made quite a few adjustments, but I have not yet had time to digest any of them. More next time.

Hube's Pocket OCS. Designer: David Friedrichs. This will be an OCS game covering the battles of the Ist 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.

Friedland NBS. Designer: David Powell. This will be the second Napoleonic Brigade Series Game and will cover the Batdeof Friedland on two maps (hopefully).

Marengo NBS. Designer: David Powell. Napoleonic Brigade Series Game number three.

War on the Mississippi CWB. Designer: Ken Jacobsen. This is a set of the battles around Vicksburg in 1863. It included (although changes are in the air) Champion's Hill, Big Black, Port Gibson and the assault on the Vicksburg trenches. Chances are that Ken will trim this down to Champion's Hill and Big Black.


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