In our last OSG news we announced a February 15th availability date. The counters were then at the die-cutters. After the printed sheets had been laminated on the cardboard, we discovered that the marker images were missing. Our printer took full responsibility and is re-printing the entire job this week. Next week, the counters will be at the die-cutters (allowing laminating and drying time before being cut). The boxes are ready to be made-up, and should be done next week. After viewing a laser proof this weekend, I found a number of changes to the game's map. Joe is working on these right now. After a final proof state, the map will be printed next week. Then the counters have to be die cut. That probably won't happen until the following week. So we're still two weeks away from shipping. In the meantime, we are using the extra time to proof and re-proof the rules and scenarios. Mark Owens is doing some final playtesting, and Bernhard Voykowitsch has just advised us on the missing leader portraits for the Organization Displays. "As regards Sebottendorf, Provera, Seckendorf, Vaubois and Davidovich, I must take my hands up. Provera fell totally in disgrace after his capitulation and it's quite understandably that there is no official picture of him. Same with Vaubois. Napoleon replaced him by Joubert after his poor conduct during the first stage of the Arcole campaign. The rest were too unimportant that someone cared to paint them. Probably in a family archive but that's beyond my reach." We're still missing Sebottendorf, Seckendorf, and Davidovich (Austrian) and Vaubois (French). We were hoping to have portraits for all the leaders. If anyone can provide a good xerox portrait of any of these leaders, please let us know. I offer you all my sincere apologies for the lateness of Bonaparte in Italy. Back to OSG News February 2000 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Operational Studies Group. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com