BOGUS EMAIL Real OSG communications will not include attachments. Never open an attachment 'your document.pif' or anysuch. Beware of sender aliasing. Never open attachments unless you are expecting them. EMAIL DOWN AT CHARM.NET On Sunday 5/09/04 and Monday 5/10/04 our email server was down and mail was being returned to sender. If you sent mail during those days, please resend it. Sorry for the inconvenience... SEVEN DAYS OF 1809 PROGRESS REPORT You can download the latest version of the map by Mark Simonitch at http://users.adelphia.net/~moellerc/sideitems/040212_map72dpi.jpg The map is not totally corrected. We have to thank our Sun of Austerlitz artists for taking on this new challenge, and Chris Moeller for his major head-start on the map and counters and also being kind enough to post the pdfs at his website. A pdf of the front and back boxcover by Mark Hinkle is available on the web at http://users.adelphia.net/~moellerc/sideitems/1809_top.jpg http://users.adelphia.net/~moellerc/sideitems/1809_Back.jpg All game development is finished except for final playtesting of the Victory levels for the scenarios. That is usually the last step. We will continue playtesting right up until the rules are printed in June. Other than the scenario information, the rules are now all finished, and so are the March Tables. Mark S. is also at work completing the counter art (first draft also by Moeller). The box cover and the counters (the two items with the longest lead-time) are all scheduled to be printed within 30 days. We are doing our part ... CONFIRM YOUR PRE-ORDER If you have a pre-order for Seven Days, it is time for you to do your part! Confirm your pre-order now with a paypal payment, credit card or check for during the month of May. We'll be incurring the bulk of printing bills in June. If you are on the list for this game and haven't made arrangements, you'll be receiving a letter by post in the next 10 days. DEMKO JOINS WARGAME DESIGN STAFF Dave Demko has agreed to take over layout and design duties for the magazine. Thank You Dave! Wargame Design Mag has been a forgotten stepchild, since the main focus is really on producing games. However, in many ways, the magazine could be just as important and perhaps even more interesting, as a repository for questions that arise during design that we don't know how to handle - call them inevitable dilemmas. So the magazine is a way for us to comment on the games we produce, not just touting our own brand but trying to think about important questions that have to be excluded from the games themselves. THANKS TO OUR MAC EXPERT We now have Pagemaker working again and we have backups and other good things thanks to Jay Olsen, who drove up from Bethesda on Sunday to manage our system. MILITARY HISTORY PRESS BOOK UPDATE Dana and Matt are working away on both books, double-checking everything to insure that the books will have the highest quality as historical documents. They have promised to send us some .pdfs of the Davout book pages soon. They now plan on shipping the Davout book in July. Back to OSG News May 2004 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 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