Game Kit News Death Ride: Mars-La-Tour 1870 Out and (at last) available but we are into the last stretch number-wise so if you want a copy it is £15 in the UK, £16 (or $25 cash only) elsewhere. Leopards And Lilies: Counters completed Anglo-Dutch Wars: Held back by overwork Field of Battle: As above, but I have acquired the HaT figures for test running Les Quatres-Bras: nearly there just resizing rosters. Don't mess with Mike "Vinnie" Siggins (Part 89): a series of quotes from one of the Hobby's hard-men "I'm going to select your head and lighten it." (21 June 1999) Ground Zero: Moments in History have now been sold to Critical Hit (ASL variant producers) and there are a number of new games out. Critical Hit's biggest project is Combat!, this seems designed to replace or complement ASL. In Flanders Field is Kerry Andreson's Ypres 1915 with updating and a historical booklet. Also threatened are Tunisia 43, Hal Hock's Tobruk and Ted Raicer's Royal Tank Corps (Storm over Arnhem revisited). The artwork finish looks very good indeed, and for once with Moments in History, who are not topic-congruent with me, I look forward to a number of these games The Freshly Cut Flowers of the Forest Karel van Schoor (oostberg 91, 9140 Temse, Belgium) is looking for a used copy of FOTF. He also asks about Svea Rike; I suggest Boulder Games, 4254 Holley Road, Lizella, GA 31052, USA Vae Victis How do I get it over here asks Wayne Schuster. Well Boulder Games can supply it (see above), or you can subscribe using you credit card directly with our French chums. Their fax number is 00-33-1-47-00-51-11 and request details of paying and prices. They understand English well enough for these purposes! It is a bargain without which you cannot be. For translations you do need Internet access, unless Boulder Games run these off as well. A Hundred Issues of Solitude Well there you go, one hundred issues of PA. I started this in my mid-twenties and now heading towards 50 I finally log up my 100 issues. I think we can conclude I am unlikely to make PA200. It has been fun but always a struggle. The Hobby in its many guises has never enjoyed PA, devoted as it is to describing games to gamers. The feeling that we did not respect the powers that be (what's to respect?) and were uppity (even our name suffered criticism in the first few years) was balanced by PA's key strengths - it owed nobody anything and had a mouth that would sink a battleship. For years the games we reviewed came via my work for Military Modelling, and if that failed we bought the game. Of course the uncomfortable telling of the truth also cost us in terms of readers but, given the earnings are derisory, numbers never mattered that much, many of you may remember the period when I sacked half the readership. This was probably a one-off in the history of publishing megalomania (a thick volume). Had I the time again, I hope I would do it better, but I wonder if I would get the chance? PA is now one of the oldest magazines in the hobby, something demonstrated by the death of The Avalon Hill General. I reckon The Strategist has a couple of years on me, but as a club magazine I am not sure it counts. Whatever the records we are as the K Foundation would say both Justified and Ancient. To those of you who have been with us a while we send our thanks and drink bumpers to this the best of all possible of Hobbies combining as it does the emotional, the tactile and the intellectual. Back to Perfidious Albion #100 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. 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