From: "Detlef Borchert" "Bonaparte in Italy" Review in the next "Manoeuverkritik" I always try to write in a critical, but fair manner, by seeing things only from my point of view. Please don't misunderstand me. I do not criticize the structure of your rules, quite the reverse. But I have to admit that learning these rules was much harder for me than those of other CoSims of this complexity. I see the reason for this in the concentrated historical knowledge. All in all I like "BiI" a lot. Thanks a lot for your permission using "BiI" as a cover for the MK. From: "Mark Sterner" "Highway to the Kremlin" I think there will be a greater logistical model in this game AND, the series fills a huge void of strategic/operational-level Napoleonic games that really has not been done. Prior to this, we had either the grand strategy (W&P, EiA, your own recent design, maybe even your forthcoming NaW), Kevin Zucker's operational games (excellent) and tactical games. But there wasn't something close to this scale. Actually, I am now so high on HtK that, I persuaded my brother to preorder! It is the system that intrigues me. How about continuing this with an 1813-14 5x game, and then go to 1805 for campaigns of 1805, '06 and '09? I'll await the actual product here, but I'm thinking -- particularly after reading your rules -- that this may be exactly what I was awaiting for so many years! From: "James D. Parmenter" "Russia in War and Peace" by Alan Palmer. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. LC Catalog Card Number: 72-89539. Chapter 8: Epilogue: Tolstoy's Russia, pages 199 - 217. Palmer spends a couple of dozen pages discussing how Tolstoy came to write War & Peace. He describes at some length the documents, etc. that Tolstoy studied. I have the impression that he gives Tolstoy overall high marks for accuracy. The difficulty is that the emphasis is on individuals rather than the usual sweeping events, therefore there's a lot "made-up." However, the accuracy of the backdrop - the sweeping events - is not compromised by the fiction in the foreground. From: Frank Hakstege How many pre-pubs are there now for Napoleon's Game? Can we expect to see a picture of the map as it will be in the final version? And finally, you produce some very fine games and I am looking forward to buy more of them. [Standings (as of Saturday, March 3rd, 2001) 235 Highway to the Kremlin 177 Sun of Austerlitz 110 Franco-Prussian War 112 Eastern Shore 127 Marengo 127 Smolensk 147 Abensberg/Eckmuhl 99 Dark December II 101 Pacific Fleet 62 Bonaparte Expansion Set 85 Napoleon's Game 59 1813 Quad 6 Death Before Glory From: Jean Luc SYNAVE So here is my pre-advances order: as a matter of fact, all of them. Are you pleased of this support ? Just a reward for the long and pleasant hours spent on your games for fifteen years ! From: Phil Conrad I wanted to place an order for a couple Pre-Publication Offer games: Marengo Expansion Set and Abensberg/Eckmuhl. I may have already placed an order for them. If so, please disregard this message. Oh, by the way, I got my copy of The Quadrilateral; in short I'm 100% satisfied!!!!!! Back to OSG News February-March 2001 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 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