Whilst touring round the Waterloo battlefield a few weeks ago with, among others, Ken Chapman of the Wessex Military Society, I was most impressed with the manner in which he was constantly sketching and measuring all the buildings so well known on this battlefield. Ken has already brought out a beautiful cardboard cutout kit scaled 20/25mm of La Haye Sainte and now he has come up with La Belle Alliance, pictured on this page. An integral part of the battlefield of Waterloo, this building forms yet another of the invaluable scenic effects for Napoleonic wargamers made available by Ken Chapman and is obtainable at 60p from him at Watermeadows, Netherhampton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Ken will also welcome trade enquiries for the kits already in production and also for Hugomont and Rorke's Drift which are in the course of preparation. Although I have no doubt that Mniature Figurines, Hinchliffe, Les Higgins, etc. etc., are all madly turning out new wargames figures, the only samples I have to han this month is a very nice little 30mm (will fit English 25mm scale) Prussian Dragoon in plastic to add to the steadily increasing list of figures made by Segom of Paris. Their official agents in the U.K. are Model Figures and Hobbies, 8 College Square North, Belfast 1, Ireland. Lists are in the course of preparation. The prices of figures are - Infantry 771p; Infantry Colour Bearer 15P; Cavalryman 20p; Cavalry Colour Bearer 25p. Airfix have brought out a long awaited vehicle in their 00 scale Crusader tank. One of the principal AFVs used in the Western Desert Campaigns of 1940/42, the Crusader Mk II and III is an essential for the wargamer attempting to fight in that period. That Canadian enthusiast John Mansfield has come up with a bi-weekly Newsletter SIGNAL in which he attempts to list all the latest items of interest to wargamers, using reviews, catalogues, etc., from all over the world. Subscription is $1.00 Canadian funds from John Mansfield, 2111 14th Street S.S. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. If it can be kept up to date then this is a most useful effort. The Reed brothers, Stephen and Julian of Worthing, are well known as deeplythinking wargamers. Their Napoleonic Warfare,Wargame Rules (which have been advertised recently in this magazine) appear to be a very commendable and realistic set of conditions on Napoleonic warfare from 1796-1815. Intended that a player with a knowledge of Napoleonic tactics will be able to play under the rules without being at a disadvantage against one who has made a detailed study of them, they have an "optional" rule feature which enables the scale time for a battle to approximate to the actual duration of the real battle. There are some detailed rules on formations as used by different nations. Although I have not used them, these rules seem very thorough and perhaps even preferable to those for the same period put out by Wargames Research Group. Incidentally, that Group have revised their 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. rules in the third edition which incorporates all the amendments to date, has been tidied up and despite being larger, is simpler in many respects. A lot of new material has been added including siege tactics, weather and scouting and the painting instructions at the back of the book will be very useful to beginners to this period. Don Turnbull of 6 St. George's Ave., Timperley, Cheshire, is the UK agent for publications of the Poultron Press of America - the magazine Strategy and Tactics plus various boardgames. Don keeps stocks of large numbers of games and also can take subscriptions for Strategy and Tactics which, as discerning readers of the Newsletter will have noted, is a vastly improved and most valuable publication. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 117 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1971 by Donald Featherstone. 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