Your HtK Charge Charges are being processed by our Consortium partner, 'The Gamers.' If you used a credit card for your pre-order of 'Highway to the Kremlin,' your card was charged in the amount of $41.80, $45.60, or thereabouts (or will be within a few days). [The merchant name will say 'The Gamers;' be assured this charge is for your 'Highway to the Kremlin' purchase.] Production Update All the game components are now in the hands of the printer. We approved the proofs of the rules and charts on Wednesday June 6th. We now expect to assemble the games on the weekend of the 16th of June, and ship the following week. Wargame Design magazine will follow shortly thereafter. Thank you for your amazing patience and kind encouragement! What will you find? We hope something fine. Assembly Party! It's not terribly difficult or demanding, even if it's not all that much fun. But you'll get a free copy if you put in two hours or more. There might even be some beer! We'll be assembling all day on Saturday, June 16th. Please call for directions to OSG World Headquarters ... With all the thoughts of a Russian invasion on my mind it was appropriate to attend a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony ('Leningrad') with my old friend and mentor, J.A. Nelson last night. Our Orchestra's maestro, Yuri Temirkanov, conducted a firery and rhythmically powerful interpretation. The symphony depicts the approach of war, battle, (not 'battle music') and life under siege. So run, don't walk, to your nearest music purveyor, and turn it up loud! PRE-ORDER STANDINGS (as of Sunday, June 3, 2001) 329 Highway to the Kremlin 188 Sun of Austerlitz 116 Franco-Prussian War 114 Eastern Shore 130 Marengo 132 Smolensk 155 Abensberg/Eckmuhl 104 Dark December II 114 Pacific Fleet 81 Bonaparte Expansion Set 116 Napoleon's Game 75 1813 Quad 16 Death Before Glory Note: Napoleon's Game is expected to surpass Sun of Austerlitz to be our next release. Pacific Fleet has also picked up lately. If you have not yet pre-ordered you are encouraged to do so as it drives our production schedule. Back to OSG News June 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