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From: Dave Anderson
Subject: ADC modules?

Are there any ADC modules available for any of your games, past and present? I found one for The Hundred Days (old minigames) but it said distribution was prohibited because of copyright. It's still a good game, yet I have no one to play it with.

Struggle of Nations is still one of my favorite games after all these years and I would love to be able to play by email. Opponents are hard to come by. LGE would be nice since it requires a "group" to play.

If someone developed modules, I imagine they would sell, and since there is no paper/publishing cost involved, there would be little risk in carrying them. The Gamers sell modules for their games at $12 each, a price that is quite reasonable for the value received. You can reduce copyright infringemnet issues by not including key info like CRTs, reinforcemnet schedule or setup info, etc, making it necessary that someone own the game, as they should.

From: "David Dear"
Subject: Re:1806 questions

re: Roadmarch - units in roadmarch ending their movement can ignore "friendly cav. brigades and vedettes, plus their ZOCs" - DOES THIS MEAN THEY CAN STACK WITH THESE UNITS, not just simply move adjacent - if so it means they could get combined arms benefit in defence if attacked, which is not possible under your earlier clarication and errata communications - Surely it must be "can ignore the ZOCs of friendly cav. brigades and vedettes which are also in Roadmarch"?

Am I correct in thinking that units in roadmarch can move through units not in roadmarch AND VICE VERSA with no penalty?

A MOVEMENT/COMBAT EXAMPLE -

A Vedette (in roadmarch for the sake of argument) moves next to an enemy unit and attempts to overrun it (never going to be possible of course!)the both units are then placed in their revealed state - say the enemy unit is a 2SP infantry brigade - the vedette is marked with the -2 col attack marker for the next phase - the phasing player continues moving and moves at stack of 2 infantry divisions, 2 Cavalry divsions and a leader adjacent to both his own vedette and the enemy brigade.

In the following combat phase the vedette retreats before combat and the enemy brigade finds itself on the wrong end of a massive combined arms attack (the -2 marker having gone with the vedette) - is this all legal? seems OK to me or have I missed something?

[Editor's Note: Readers are invited to send Dave the answers!]

From: Bruce Rogers

Yes, I am in Latvia, Riga to be precise. In a park downtown there is the pedestal of a statue of Barclay de Tolly. The rest of the statue is gone, likely to some war time scrap drive. Love the games. I still have - and have in the last two years played - the original Bonaparte in Italy.


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