Ty Bomba's closing statement:
- "Well boys, that's all she wrote; she didn't write no more. The jig is up. The cat's out of the bag. Alles Kaput. Etc. That is, we had a meeting with the lawyer this morning and there's no way out of this other than bankruptcy: the end of Command/XTR. Chris Perello says he'll be sending out a super-discount, going-out-of-business sales flyer to everyone on our mailing list in the next few weeks. If you can't wait for that, address all back stock orders, or inquiries about such orders, to him at: cperello@calpoly.edu
We've got three done games in-house here: my own "War by Television: If The US & NATO Had Invaded Yugoslavia;" Philip Sharp's "Ignorant Armies: The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988;" and Ron Bell's "The Old Contemptibles: The Battle of Mons, 1914." Ron's already given me the OK to shop around that last game, and I think I know where I can find a home for it.
I'll be contacting Phil to ask if he wants me to try to do the same with IA. If he says yes, I'll see if I can't place it and my WBT with Decision games as a twinpak boxed release or some such. I'll keep you posted. Designers of other games that you already submitted to us, or are perhaps still working on at your home, are hereby notified you're free to seek development and publication of those titles elsewhere.
My biggest regret (at this moment) is that we'll never get to publish the remaining two parts of that "Custer's Last Stand" article we began in issue 54.
For our epitaph I think one we ALL can agree on would be: "In 12 Years They Never Published A Blank Counter."
My biggest regret, however, is the sub I lost, and the games that I was told were coming and never did receive (and which I now have to buy from GMT). The cause of subscription has not been helped by XTR.
The Pike & Shot Society's magazine Arquebusier usually contains lots of good stuff if your interests incline to the Renaissance-Reformation era. The most recent issue has the first part of a series on ships at Lepanto (the Christian fleet in this issue, Turks next), and very good article on privateering in the Great Northern War. Lots of other bits and bobs. Iain Stanford is the Membership Secretary (iain.stanford@btinternet.com) at 95 Tolbut Court, Lennox Close, Romford, RM1 2DZ.
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