I'll admit to being a big fan of a lot of your designs from years past. When OSG went under, I was crushed. I thought you guys were the BEST game company around in those days! "Napoleon at Leipzig" (original version), was one of the all-time favorite games of my brother and me. We played that thing to death! I wore-out a few places on the maps even. I still have counters partially mawed and chewed by my then baby daughter, and from the pet cat. (I kept the daughter). "Dark December" is still my favorite bulge game ever and one of the best for playing solitaire! (ditto that on some chewed up counters). We still have two copies of both of those games. We also still have original copies of BiI and of NAB. However, we have yet to sit down and exactly play either of them. After all these years, we still haven't had the determination to sludge through the rules. This is criticism! The rules were just more involved than what we were used to. So, now to get my point. I have NaL, Dark December, BiI, and NAB. I don't see a need to buy new copies of them. Some of the other proposed games sound interesting, but I was a bit disappointed in The Last Days of the Grand Army. I know we are in a very small minority here (good for you), but neither my brother nor I thought it was much fun. Perhaps we didn't give it enough of a chance but that was our initial reaction. And with so many games we have and have yet to play, initial reaction is a BIG deal for us. I do wish I had the resources to attend one of your Napoleonic battlefields tours! [Editor's Reply: I am sorry you didn't like Last Days of the Grande Armee. But try it again! It is a good game, especially with hidden movement and vedettes. Questions and answers are posted at www.grognard.com. Regarding the rules to NAB and BiI. These rules have been rewritten something like 30 times since 1979!! Many different people have helped me with them over the years. BiI Standard and Exclusive Rules have a new numbering system AND a subject index in the back of the book. Also, the rules are strictly organized according to the sequence of play, so if a problem comes up, you just refer to the current point in the SOP and that is where you have to look in the book. Back to OSG News August 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