The SimCan Newsletter was first published in the Spring of 1980 by Stephen Newberg. It was intended to be the means by which Steve could communicate directly with the people who bought games directly from Simulations Canada, and was not available separately. Over the course of the next 13 years, a total of 28 issues of SCN were produced. Steve initially indicated that he wanted to publish the newsletter quarterly, but it’s clear that he failed math badly in grade school. Or English. Perhaps his own words summarize the situation best: “In our continuing effort to make sure that every newsletter is late, we proudly present the issue in your hands (issue 28, the last issue, dated Winter 1993), which should be mailed no later than 21 March to still qualify as Winter, but will very likely not make it, considering that the Fall 91 issue did not get sent until into Winter 1992.”

The table above provides details for the first 17 issues. The remaining 11 issues dealt exclusively with Simulation Canada’s computer games, and so are likely to be of little interest to the board wargamer.

The columns in the table provide the following information from the newsletter:

No. the issue number as identified in the newsletter

Date the date of publication as identified in the newsletter, as opposed to the actual date they were sent out

Newest Releases the most recent games published at about the same time as the newsletter

Upcoming Releases these games were identified as being the nearest to completion, and thus likely to be the next games to be released. In some instances, e.g., Descent Operations and Hurricane, the games were never released. In others, the names were changed, e.g., Viking to Norsemen. And in one instance, the working title (Rockets Red Glare) was going to change (to Entre Nous), but didn’t.

Special any comments of notable significance have been included.

Errata all errata identified for the board wargames noted above have been included in the respective write-ups for each game in this issue, in addition to other errata which were published in other sources. This also includes suggestions for variants and rule changes.

Scenarios some newsletters included a number of new scenarios for existing games, as noted.

Reviews from time to time, Steve provided short but pithy comments on other publishers’ games when they became available.

No.	Date	Newest Releases	Upcoming Releases	Special	Errata	Scenarios	Reviews
1	Spring 1980	Kriegsmarine; Lee at the Crossroads	Assault on Tobruk; Dark Stars	Separate counter sheets available for Dieppe; the Peloponnesian War; Raketny Kreyser; IJN (2nd); Le Grand Empire (2nd)	Raketny Kreyser; Dieppe; Peloponnesian War; IJN; Quebec Libre; Le Grand Empire; Torpedo!; I Will Fight No More Forever; Warring States	Kriegsmarine	-
2	Fall 1980	Assault on Tobruk; Dark Stars	Divine Wind; Jihad!	New boxes for US market; name the War of 1812 game	Kriegsmarine; Lee at the Crossroads	Torpedo!; IJN	-
3	Spring 1981	Divine Wind;Jihad!	Rockets Red Glare; Inchon	Game prices up; game name to stay RRG; Raketny Kreyser, Peloponnesian War & Dieppe out of print.	Divine Wind; Dark Stars; Assault on Tobruk. Variants for Le Grand Empire	-	-
4	Fall 1981	Rockets Red Glare; Inchon; Dieppe (2nd)	Seapower & the State; Napoleon's Last Triumph	Review of Spiffy	Divine Wind; Jihad!; Dark Stars	-	Task Force; Sword & the Stars (SPI); Assault on Leningrad (3W)
5	Spring 1982	Seapower & the State; Napoleon's Last Triumph	Scourge of God; D.A.K.; Peloponnesian War (2nd)	Game prices up; computer games on horizon; planning on hiring a new staff person	Seapower & the State; Inchon; Rockets Red Glare; Dieppe; Jihad!	IJN/Torpedo!/Kriegsmarine	Spies! (SPI); A House Divided (GDW)
6	Fall 1982	Scourge of God; D.A.K.; Peloponnesian War (2nd)	The Thirty Years War; The Wilderness; La Regia Marina	New person Peter Hollinger; poor period for historic gamers	Seapower & the State; Napoleon's Last Triumph; Rockets Red Glare	Greg Costikyan suggestion re Jihad!	-
7	Spring 1983	With Fire & Sword; The Wilderness	Hannibal; La Regia Marina; Man of War; Ortona; Descent Operations	Newsletter to be quarterly; price increase to Canadians due to taxes	D.A.K.; the Peloponnesian War; Scourge of God	Torpedo!	RDF (SPI)
8	Summer 1983	Hannibal; La Regia Marina	Ortona; Man of War	New plastic boxes; name the new modern naval combat game	With Fire & Sword; the Peloponnesian War; Scourge of God	The Wilderness	Battlewagon (TFG); Siege at Peking (3W)
9	Fall 1983	Ortona; Man of War	The One World; Battle Stations	I Will Fight No More Forever, Lee at the Crossroads, Torpedo! & Le Grand Empire soon out	Hannibal; La Regia Marina	-	-
10	Winter 1984	The One World; Battle Stations	Power & Resolution	IJN	& I Will Fight No More Forever; problems with dealers & distributors	Man of War	-
11	Spring 1984	Power & Resolution	Schnellboote	Lee at the Crossroads & Le Grand Empire	Hannibal	-	Wellington's Victory; Air War; Soldiers of the Queen (SPI)
12	Summer 1984	Schnellboote	Norsemen	-	-	Schnellboote	Gleam of Bayonets; Drive on Stalingrad (SPI)
13	Fall 1984	Lebensraum	Viking!	Soft board wargame market but strong computer game sales	-	-	Battle Over Britain; Battles for the Ardennes (SPI); Clash of Steel (3W)
14	Spring 1985	Norsemen	West Front	-	-	-	The 30 Years War (3W); Ambush!; Cold War (VG); Killer Angels (WEG)
15	Fall 1985	West Front	Line of Battle	Board game market starting to pick up; Canadian prices up	-	-	1809 (VG); East Wind Rain (3W)
16	Spring 1986	Line of Battle	Battleship	-	-	-	Wellington vs. Massena; Napoleon & the Archduke Charles (3W) Cobra; WWII (SPI)
17	Fall 1986	Battleship	-	New laser printer; no more new board games	Line of Battle	-	Julius Caesar; Barbarossa (SPI)