From: Claus Westh Sørensen More and more miniature wargamers focus on campaigns to put their battles with miniatures into perspective. Yet there still is no real campaign system of useful campaign rules around to accomodate the market. Finding that your games by some miniature gamers are recommended as a basis for such campaigns to generate miniature battles I make the following suggestion. If possible rules for translating battles in your boardgames into miniature battles (forces and a battle terrain) and translating miniature battle results back into the game mechanics would be greatly appriciated by the miniature community and would possible enhance your sales.... It could be an appendix to your games rulesbook or as a separate generel "miniature ruleset" designed to translate all your boardgames into miniature battles. Sincerely, Claus Sorensen, Denmark From: Terry Doherty I would like to get more information before I commit to pre-ordering Swords Around a Throne. I already have GMT's Napoleonic Wars which, at its scale and complexity, is a fair treatment of the period. What I would really like to see is something at the scale of SPI's La Grande Armee but uses a card driven system to influence political events and production, etc. a.k.a A Totaler Krieg for the Napoleonic Wars. My $.02. Thanks and keep up the good work. Terry Doherty From: "Willy Burggraeve" I am working as a consultant for a German company and travel regularly through the countryside by taxi (from the airport to my work location). This is from Hannover southwards to Holzminden. I noticed that at some crossroads (secondary ones) you find big chestnut trees. According to the taxi driver, these were planted by the French troops of Napoleon to aid in finding their way through the countryside. I don't know if you have heard this but the guy was pretty knowledgeable. Have just bought Sun of Austerlitz and enjoying it. Regards, Willy [Ed sez: I believe that story but you can determine whether it is plausible by measuring the circumference of the tree trunks. You would have to talk with an arboriculturalist to establish the age of the trees with certainty, but a 4-5 meter circumference at eye-level would indicate an age of about 200 years. Napoleon's main supply line in that part of Germany ran through Wesel and Minden. The secondary roads today could have been primary roads in 1813. I am glad you are enjoying the newest game.] Back to OSG News July 2003 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by Operational Studies Group This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com