1. Alas! I am late again. Having failed to publish the February REVIEW, you hold in your hands a double issue for the February/March period. The February time span was a slack one at the Simon ping-pong table. Extremely cold weather and the threat of a blizzard (which never materialized) kept the crowds at home. There were, therefore, less gaming opportunities on which to report. That plus laziness, sluggishness, ineptness, old age (check all the above that apply) kept the presses from turning. 2. This issue seems to contain something for everyone (assuming one can digest the Simon style of writing) ; many eras covered, lots of rules outlined, plus an article on the HMGS convention at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, COLD WARS. And Brian Dewitt has helped out with an article or two, zeroing in on what I term the Inverse Pip Theory. 3. Got a GEN-CON flyer in the mail. This big-business convention, sponsored by TSR and with something in the order of 25,000 attendees, is scheduled for mid-August in Wisconsin. The flyer said that if the REVIEW runs the GEN-CON advertisement, it can exhibit at the show for half-price, at a cost of only $225! I didn't bother to reply. The GEN-CON envelope also contained word of TSR's latest game release: DRAGON DICE. This appears to be an exercise in the art of selling dice. The game box will contain 18 dice; each player has an 18-man army; each man is represented by a die. The follow-on release will be a series of "kicker packs" (who coined the term 'kicker pack'?), each containing 12 dice to add to your army pool. "The more dice players buy, the more powerful their armies may become." says the flyer, and I believe it. The price of the 18-dice game is $9.95. The price of the kicker pack of 12-dice is $8.95. Is there a lesson to be learned here? 4. April is my prime-time vacation period. Off to England for three weeks, which means... you guessed it... the REVIEW will be late again, and sometime in May, another double issue is due. Back to PW Review February 1995 Table of Contents Back to PW Review List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1995 Wally Simon 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