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Issue #Article title or name (publisher) of game reviewed (where no article author mentioned, assume John Kula)1April 1998ArticlesClassic Wargame Video Library (review)The origin of the Wargaming Term “Grognard”S&T: The Seminal YearsBibliography of Ballantine Illustrated HistoriesLudography of North Africa Theater WargamesCollector Profile: Joe ScoleriHot off the Internet: Auctions and AucitoningSimulating Political Events (Brandon Einhorn)ReviewsMighty Fortress ~A (SPI)Rommel in the Desert (Columbia & Gamma II)Tatchanka - Ukraine, 1919-1921 (Jim Bumpas)2July 1998ArticlesHow to Run A Successful Wargame Auction (“Monoceros”)Notes from the Internet: more about Auctions and AuctioningHow to Determine What Games Are Available, Collectible and WorthCaveat Belli LudorCivil Wargames – a Ludography (Brian Train)ReviewsAce of Aces (Nova Games)Campaign for North Africa ~the (SPI)Demons (SPI)3October 1998ArticlesThree Essential Reference ResourcesDott’s All Folks! (the demise of Avalon Hill)In Memoriam: Revisiting the Avalon Hill Classics (Joe Scoleri)Auctions: Pros and ConsCollector Profiles: Mark Boone, Rick WagonerGDW Games ListMetagaming Game ListReviewsEmpires of the Middle Ages (1st ed: SPI)Logistics Command (Westinghouse)Robert the Bruce (Fusilier Games)Russian Civil War (SPI)Scotland the Brave (Shadis - Avalanche Press)4May 1999ArticleseBay IxnayPandemonium on eBay (“Monoceros”)eBay Wargame Rarity List and Price Guide? (Joe Scoleri)This One’s for eBayDunnigan on Dunnigan (quotes)A Hoard of CollectorsReviewsAfter the Holocaust (SPI)Apache (Yaquinto)Arcola (OSG)Axis & Allies (Milton Bradley)C&O / B&O (Avalon Hill)Creature that Ate Sheboygan ~the (SPI)Minuteman (SPI)Nieuchess (Avalon Hill)Plot to Assassinate Hitler ~the (SPI)Sword and the Stars, the (SPI)War in the Pacific (SPI)Warmaster Chess 2000 (XTR)5October 1999ArticlesCollector’s Profile: Martin CampionCopyrightThe Simulacrum Bookshelf: Game books for collectors and collecting (Joe Scoleri)ReviewsB-17: Queen of the Skies (On Target)Battle for Moscow (GDW)Battle of Britain (Gamescience)Battles of the Hundred Days (OSG)Beda Fomm (GDW)Belter (GDW)Bounty Hunter (Nova Games)Burma (GDW)Bushi (Bearhug)Conquerors ~the (SPI)Kanev (People’s Wargames)Khalkin-Gol (SDC)6January 2000ArticleseBay ReduxThe Simulacrum Bookshelf: Game books for collectors and collecting (Joe Scoleri)ReviewsBloody Buna (WWW)Campaigns of Marlborough (WWW)Chaco (GDW)Chitin: I (Metagaming)Circus Maximus (Battleline)Clash of Eagles (Camelot)Close Assault (Yaquinto)Commando (SPI)Concrete Jungle (Blackburg Tactical Research Co.)Conquistador (Avalon Hill)Coup (Steve Jackson Games)Crusades ~the (SPI)Cry Havoc (Standard Games)Great War in the East ~the (SPI)Robert at Bannockburn (SPI)Rommel’s War (QuarterdeckTamburlaine the Great (SPI)Tannenburg (Spence & Gabel)Tito (SPI)World War I (SPI)7April 2000ArticlesThe Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch (Holy Grail game items)Bulge ’65 (Richard Gutenkunst)Avalon Hill EphemeraA Very Short History of the Military War Game (Elliott Avedon)Alea Iacta EstCollecotr Profile: John KulaBerg’s ParadoxReviewsAngola (Gameshop)Battle for the Factories (Nova Games)Beastlord ~the (Yaquinto)Cambrai 1917 (Rand)Dauntless (Battleline)Deluxe Fighter Pilot (Gamescience)Divine Right (TSR)Domination (Table Top Games)Double Star (GDW)Dragoon vs. Hussar (Balboa)Dune (Avalon Hill)Falklands War ~the (Close Simulations)Marine: 2002 (Yaquinto)Marne ~the (SPI)Rise and Fall (Englemann Military Simulations)To The Green Fields Beyond (SPI)8July 2000ArticlesThe Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch (Holy Grail game items)The Simulacrum Bookshelf (Joe Scoleri)Internet Exchanges: Quality Control, Playability vs. RealismAncients, and Other Ancients Games and Their PublishersAn Introduction to the Space Opera Subgenre (Mark Wegierski)The World of Ogre (Mark Wegierski)ReviewsChinese Civil War (WWW)Crisis 2000 (One Small Step)Dien Bien Phu (SDC)Eagle Day (Histo Games)East Front Tank Leader (West End Games)Eighth Air Force (GMT)Escape from Altassar (Task Force Games)Europe Aflame (TSR)Gettysburg Junior Edition (Avalon Hill)Invasion of the Air Eaters (Metagaming)Jerusalem! (SDC)Ogre (Metagaming)Oil War (SPI)Origins of World War I (Sid Sackson)Swords & Sorcery (SPI)Tet Offensive (GDW)War in the East (SPI)9October 2000ArticlesThe Future History of SPI (Mark Wegierski)Grognard Profile: Joe MirandaSay, How Many Did They Print Anyway?Reviews1944 (Histo Games)Divine Right (TSR)Fall of South Vietnam ~the (Yaquinto)Field of Honor (Ragnarok)Fight in the Skies (Guidon Games & TSR)Flying Circus (SPI)Foxbat & Phantom (SPI)Freedom in the Galaxy (Avalon Hill & SPI)Fury in the West (Battleline)Kharkov (SPI)Operation Olympic (SPI)Panzer Pranks (The Chaosium)Revolt in the East (SPI)Schutztruppe (SDC)Veracruz (SPI)War in the Ice (SPI)10January 2001Special Issue on Simulations Canada GamesArticlesAlphabetic listing of Simulations Canada GamesReviewsAssault on Tobruk (SimCan)Battle Stations! (SimCan)Battleship (SimCan)D.A.K. (SimCan)Dark Stars (SimCan)Dieppe (SimCan)Divine Wind (SimCan)Hannibal (SimCan)I Will Fight No More Forever (SimCan)I.J.N. (SimCan)Inchon (SimCan)Jihad! (SimCan)Kriegsmarine (SimCan)La Regia Marina (SimCan)Le Grand Empire (SimCan)Lebensraum! (SimCan)Lee at the Crossroads (SimCan)Line of Battle (SimCan)Man of War (SimCan)Napoleon’s Last Triumph (SimCan)Norsemen! (SimCan)One World ~the (SimCan)Ortona (SimCan)Peloponnesian War (SimCan)Power and Resolution (SimCan)Quebec Libre (SimCan)Raketny Kreyser (SimCan)Rockets Red Glare (SimCan)Schnellboote (SimCan)Scourge of God (SimCan)Seapower & the State (SimCan)Torpedo! (SimCan)Warring States (SimCan)West Front (SimCan)Wilderness ~the (SimCan)With Fire & Sword (SimCan)11April 2001ArticlesThe Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch (Holy Grail game items)The Near-Future History of SPI (Mark Wegierski)Say, How Many Did They Print Anyway?ReviewsAttila (International Team)Azhanti High Lightning (GDW)Battle for Stalingrad (SPI)Cromwell (SDC)Gladiator (Avalon Hill)Gladiator: Men vs. Animals (Bearhug)Gladiator: Men vs. Men (Bearhug)Grand Imperialism (Gametime Games)Great Redoubt ~the (Yaquinto)Grunt (SPI)Guerilla (Maplay)Gunslinger (R. Sartore and Assoc.)Invasion America (SPI)Major Battles & Campaigns of General George S Patton (House of Games)Mukden, 1905 (Spence & Gabel)Omega War ~the (SPI)Search for the Graf Spee ~the (3rd Millenia)Second Russian Revolution (Roaming Panther)Total War (Excalibre)War in the Ice (SPI)World War 3 (SPI)12July 2001ArticlesThe Holy Hand Grenade of AntiochDark Futures in Literature, Film, Television and Gaming: Background Analysis (Mark Wegierski)For Those Who Need It: Vindication (collectibles and rarity)In Memoriam: Revisiting the Avalon Hill Classics Part II (Joe Scoleri)Wargames 2000 Reference CD (media review) (David Chancellor)ReviewsAction At Trafalgar (Albert C.E. Parker)Bismarck (Avalon Hill)Chancellorsville (Avalon Hill)Civil War (Avalon Hill)Gallipoli (Paper Wars Game Co.)Gettysburg (Avalon Hill)Hell Hath No Fury (WWW)Hero (Yaquinto)Hitler’s War (Avalon Hill & Metagaming)Hougoumont (XTR)Hyper Battle (Future and Fantasy Games)Jutland (Avalon Hill)Magic Realm (Avalon Hill)Overlord (Conflict)Pearl Harbor 2nd ed (GDW)Raiders and Traders (The Chaosium)Stalingrad (Avalon Hill)Tactics II (Avalon Hill)Two-Ocean War, the (The Chaosium)U-Boat (Avalon Hill)Waterloo (Avalon Hill)13October 2001ArticlesThe Holy Hand Grenade of AntiochGrognard Profile: Stephen NewbergDunnigan on Dunnigan Again (quotes)Index to The Wargamer, Volume I (Joe Scoleri)911 (Richard Kidd)ReviewsGotterdammerung (Moments in History)Holy Roman Empire (WWW)I.C.B.M. (Mayfair)Ice War (Metagaming)Ides of March ~the (Mayfair)Iliad (International Team)Imperialism (Flying Buffalo)Imperium (Conflict Games & GDW)Indian Ocean Adventure (GDW)Insurgency (Battleline)Intruder (Task Force Games)It! (Dave Casciano - AIWA)Lord Nelson at Trafalgar (Roger Cormier)Regatta (Avalon Hill)Trial of Strength (Panther)Valley Forge 1778 (Tredyffrin)Wolf Pack (SPI)14January 2002ArticlesThe Holy Hand Grenade of AntiochWhere’s Dave (Casciano)?ReviewsAlexander the Great (Avalon Hill)Arms Race (Dave Casciano - AIWA)Attack of the Mutants (Yaquinto)Battle-Cry (Milton Bradley)Blood Royale (Games Workshop)Broadside (Milton Bradley)Crows & Owls (John W. Kisner)Dogfight (Milton Bradley)Early Pacific Battles (Bruce Moore)Hit the Beach (Milton Bradley)John Carter, Warlord of Mars (SPI)Jolly Roger (International Team)Jugurtha (GMT)Junta (West End Games)Jutland (Avalon Hill)Lam Son (Casciano - AIWA)One-Page Submarine Warfare Game ~the (McCue)Operation Grenade (SPI)Operation Typhoon (SPI)Patton’s Third Army (SPI)Red Star/White Eagle (GDW)Search & Destroy (SPI)Sicily (SPI)Skirmish (Milton Bradley)SSN (GDW)15April 2002ArticlesThe Holy Hand Grenade of AntiochTowards a History-Based Doctrine for Wargaming (Matt Caffrey)ReviewsArctic Convoys ~the (Gryphon)Battle of Kula Gulf ~the (Battleplan 4)Citadel (GDW)Demono (Frank Beat Keller)Fight For Tobruk! (Wellington Wargames)French Foreign Legion ~the (Yaquinto)Java Man (Pardine, Inc.)Kamikaze (Fire & Movement)Kampfpanzer (SPI)Khyber Rifles (WWW)King of the Mountain (Dimension 6)Kingmaker (Avalon Hill)Knights of Camelot (TSR)Kriegspiel (Avalon Hill)Kula Kula (Blatz)Land of Og (Wingnut)NORAD (Conflict)Operation Matador (Gryphon)Sauron (SPI)Sticks and Stones (Metagaming)Tatchanka - Ukraine, 1919-1921 (Jim Bumpas)Tribes (Steve Jackson Games)Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker! (the Columbia Spectator)Warrior Knights (Games Workshop)16Octember 2002ArticlesInfluential WargamesA Boone for Sellers (Joe Scoleri)Hot Off the InternetReviewsHammer of the Scots (Columbia)LA Lawless (Decision Games)Laser Tank (Judges Guild)Last Frontier (Fat Messiah Games)Legend of Robin Hood ~the (OSG)Lesnaja (WWW)Longest Day ~the (Avalon Hill)Lords of the Middle Sea (Chaosium)Luftschiff (Sierra Madre)Nuclear War (the Nuclear War Game Co.)Samurai (GMT)Siege of Jerusalem ~the (Historical Perspectives & Avalon Hill)Spirit of ’76 ~the (Panzerfaust Pubs.)Succession Wars ~the (FASA)17April 2003ArticlesSid Sackson: The Gamer’s GamerCounter Advice (advice for Evil Overlords)ReviewsCrete (SPI) (includes reprint game kit)France, 1940 (Avalon Hill)Frederick the Great (SPI)JZ (Avalon Hill)Leningrad (SPI)Mad Monks and Relics (Simulations Workshop)MERC (Fantasy Games Unlimited)MiG Killers (Gamescience)MiG Killers Expansion Kit (Gamescience)Missile Boat (Rand)Mission Aloft (Jim Bumpas)Mythology (Yaquinto)Origins of World War I (Sid Sackson)Zulu War (WWW)18Convention Season 2003Special Convention Issue #1 (contained material from previous issues; John described it as “Issue 17 Lite”))19July 2003ArticlesLa Saga du Wargame/ A History of Wargames Part I (Luc Olivier)Origins 2003 (report by Rick Wagoner)Reviews1st Alamein (Lou Coatney)2WW (WWW)Assault on Belgium (Udo Grebe)Assault on Sevastopol (Decision Games)Basic Training (Jedko)Battle for Moscow (GDW)Carrying the Tools to Britain (CBC)Class Struggle (Class Struggle Inc.)Drive on Metz (SPI)Kassala (Simon & Schuster)Long March ~the (TSR)Maneuver (Decision Games)Napoleon (Gamma 2)Napoleon at Waterloo (SPI)National Liberation Front (Harris Game Designs)Naval War (Battleline)Nicaragua (WWW)NORAD (Mischler Co.)Normandy Campaign (GDW)PanzerArmee Afrika (SPI)Reich (the Chaosium)Strategy (WWW)Strike Force One (SPI)Ultimatum (Yaquinto)United Nations (Yaquinto)20April 2004Special issue on the SPI Quad gamesArticlesA Summary of the QuadsNotes and Recollections: Kip Allen, Greg Costikyan, Jim Dunnigan, Phil Kosnett, Larry Pinsky, Stephen PatrickQuads That Never Were (Brian Train, Mark Wegierski)ReviewsArmy Group South (SPI; Decision Games)Art of Siege ~the (SPI)Battles for the Ardennes (SPI)Battles for the Ardennes (TSR; Decision Games)Blue & Gray (SPI; TSR; Decision Games)Blue & Gray II (SPI)Breitenfeld (SPI)Crimean War ~the (SPI; Decision Games)Great Medieval Battles (SPI; Decision Games)Great War in the East ~the (SPI; Decision Games)Island War (SPI)Modern Battles (SPI)Modern Battles II (SPI)Napoleon at War (SPI)Napoleon’s Last Battles (SPI; TSR; Decision Games)North Africa (SPI)Road to Richmond (SPI)Siege of Constantinople (SPI)Tannenberg (SPI)Thirty Years War (SPI; Decision Games)Westwall (SPI)21July 2004ArticlesInternational Gamers Awards2003 Game ValuesThe Desert Peach (Donna Barr)What We Have (not) Been Playing (Stephen Newberg)The Avalon Hill General: A Collector’s Guide (Ken Collins)La Saga du Wargame/ The History of Wargames Part II (Luc Olivier)Beyond Monopoly (Michael Barbaro)Putting a Tiger in Your Tank (Paul Sheppard)Wargaming Magazine Values – Third World Publications: A Collector’s Guide (Ken Collins)ReviewsBattles for the Ardennes (SPI)One Page Bulge (Steve Jackson)Operation Apocalypse (Vae Victis 10)Operation Konrad (Close Sims)Operation Pegasus (Task Force)Orbit War (FanTac)Outpost Gamma (Dwarfstar)Outremer (Standard Games)22Convention Season 2004Special Convention Issue #2 (contained material from previous issues, described by John as “Issue 19 Lite”)23January 2005ArticlesThe Rules of a GameBookcase GamesGame Values Over Time – North African TheaterIndex to The Wargamer, Volume 2 (issues 1-25) (Joe Scoleri)Operational Analysis: The Russian Campaign (Tom Oleson)Scientific Theology for Dummies (“Diamond” Jack Holgroth)A Guide to SPI CatalogsWargames, Computer Geeks and War (Dave Kopel and Glenn Reynolds)Jagdpanther and Battlefield: A Game Inventory (Peter de Rosa)Conflict: A Game Inventory (Peter de Rosa)Magazines With A Game In ThemKorsun Pocket (Jeff Lackey)ReviewsBattle of the Villa Verde Trail ~the (Quantum Games)Fury on Champlain (WWW)Iwo Jima (TSR S&T 92)Negotiate or Die! (Flying Buffalo)Russian Campaign ~the (Avalon Hill)Tarawa (WWW)24July 2005ArticlesThe Dead DogmaGames from Zero to Infinity: Price GuideThe First Strategy and Tactics Magazines: A Price Guide (Ken Collins)Chess BattleMore on SPI CatalogsLudography: The Microgame Design GroupThe Germans Are Coming! (scenario for Panzerblitz by a young Joe Miranda)ReviewsAnt Army (Rebel Games)Barbarians ~the (Yaquinto)Breakout & Pursuit (SPI)CA (SPI)Combat Command (SPI)Defense of Rorke’s Drift ~the (WWW)Destruction of Army Group Center (SPI)Europe at War (Jedko)Field Marshal (Jedko)Globbo! (Steve Jackson Games)North Cape (C-in-C)Siege of Constantinople (SPI)Stalk-1 (C-in-C)Viktory (Viktory)25Octember 2005ArticlesIdeologically Correct Insults for All OccasionsThe Wargamer (book review)Ludography of James F. DunniganLittle Wars (H. G. Wells) (graphics-less edition reprint)The Fighting Nation by C. J. Smithers (book review)The Land Ironclads (H. G. Wells) (reprint of short story)La Saga du Wargame/ The History of Wargames Part III (Luc Olivier)Paper Wars Archive CD (1-26) (media review by Joe Scoleri)ReviewsCerberus (Task Force)Empires of the Middle Ages (2nd ed: Decision Games)Fantastic Encounters (West Coast Games)Friedrich (Histogame)Ogre (Metagaming)Rommel’s Panzers (Metagaming)Stalin’s Tanks (Metagaming)26March 2006ArticlesA Select Bibliography for the Selective WargamerIndex to the Contents of Jagdpanther and Battlefield MagazinesBiography: Steven V. ColeAnalysis of recent S&T Magazine Sale PricesReviewsZeppelin (Jagdpanther)Gorlice-Tarnow (Jagdpanther)Siege of Barad-Dur (Jagdpanther)PQ–17 (Jagdpanther)Goetterdaemmerung (Jagdpanther)Marine! (Jagdpanther)March on India, 1944 (Jagdpanther)Anvil–Dragoon (Jagdpanther)Siege of Leningrad (Jagdpanther)Warsaw Pact (Jagdpanther)Jacksonville: Beaches of Doom (Jagdpanther)Airborne! (Jagdpanther)Poland, 1939 (Jagdpanther)Cerberus (Task Force Games)Chinese Civil War (Simulation Games)Bataan Jagdpanther)Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk (Task Force Games)Starfire (Task Force Games)Syria, 1941 (Abwehr Pulbications)Titan Strike (SPI)Valkenburg Castle (Task Force Games)27Summer 2007ArticlesPsychological Neoteny (Jennifer Viegas)Conflict Simulation (Daniel Savarese)House Rules for The Legend Begins (Markus Stumptner)Conflict Simulation at King’s College LondonAvalon Hill Gaming Guides and other Miscellaneous PublicationsIndex to Interplay Magazine (Brian Train)Index to The Space Gamer Magazine (issues 1-26) (Brian Train)Index to Vindicator Magazine (Brian Train)Index to Bushwhacker Magazine (Peter de Rosa)Wargames That Our Grandparents Played (list of wargame-like games published before 1945)Reviews 4th Reich (Task Force Games)Annihilator (Metagaming Concepts)Artifact (Metagaming Concepts)Asteroid Zero-Four (Task ForceGames)Black Hole (Metagaming Concepts)Boarding Party (Task Force Games)Bonaparte at Marengo (Simmons)Chitin:I (Metagaming Concepts)City States of Arklyrell (Task Force Games)Dimension Demons (Metagaming Concepts)Fire When Ready (GRG)Fury of the Norsemen ~The (Metagaming Concepts)G.E.V. (Metagaming Concepts)Gettysburg: Three Days in July (Speerit Strategy)Helltank (Metagaming Concepts)Helltank Destroyer (Metagaming Concepts)Holy War (Metagaming Concepts)Hot Spot (Metagaming Concepts)Ice War (Metagaming Concepts)Intruder (Task Force Games)Invasion of the Air-Eaters (Metagaming Concepts)Java Man (Pardine, Inc)Legend Begins ~The (Terran)Lords of Underearth ~The (Metagaming Concepts)Melee (Metagaming Concepts)Moon Base Clavius (Task Force)Olympica (Metagaming Concepts)One World (Metagaming Concepts)Operation Whirlwind (Fiery Dragon)Power Play (Task ForceGames)Productivity Management Game (Westinghouse)Ram Speed (Metagaming Concepts)Red Empire (GDW)Rivets (Metagaming Concepts)Robots! (Task Force Games)Space Empires (Mayfair)Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 ~The (Jagdpanther Publications)Spellbinder (Task Force)StarGate (SPI)Starleader: Assault! (Metagaming Concepts)Sticks & Stones (Metagaming Concepts)Trailblazer (Metagaming Concepts)Transylvania (Mayfair)Vector 3 (SPI)WarpWar (Metagaming Concepts)Westwall Quad (SPI)Wizard (Metagaming Concepts)28late 2008ArticlesAnybody Can Design a Board Wargame (and sometimes they do) (“Helmut Fitztightly”)The Pieces of PRESTAGS (Daniel Broh-Kahn)A Brief and Ultimately Harmless Analysis of Steinberg’s 6th Internet Wargame Guide Using Pseudo-Statistical Processes and Lots of Big Words (“Tyrone Shoelaces”)Strategist (reprint of issue 286)Games of the Russian Revolution (“A. Vasiliev”)The Wobblies (“Hugh G. Rection”)A Summary of Dual-Scale Games (Daniel Broh-Kahn)Operational Studies Group (Daniel Broh-Kahn)ReviewsBattle of Sharpsburg ~The (Wayne Wesenberg)France, 1940 (SPI & Avalon Hill)Game of War ~A (Guy Debord)La Grande Armee (SPI)PanzerBlitz (SPI & Avalon Hill)PRESTAGS (SPI)Red Star / White Eagle (GDW)OtherBattle of Sharpsburg, the (reprint game kit, art by John Kula)29Winter 2009ArticlesCanadian Aircraft CarriersHistory of Kriegsspiel (Sonny Sonson)Where the Hex Did That Come From?Strategist (reprint of issue 287)The Numbers Say It All A Survey of Comprehensive Game Systems, Part I (Daniel Broh-Kahn)The Circle of Life, Panzerblitz Style (Lewis Goldberg)Some Early Attempts to Improve Hearing for Use by the Armed Forces (pictorial)ReviewsBloody Kasserine (GDW)Freikorps (MDG / Fiery Dragon)Kasserine Pass (Conflict Games)Konarmiya (Fiery Dragon)Konigsspiel (many)Kriegsschach (many)Kriegspiel (Avalon Hill)Kriegsspiel (many)Napoleon (Avalon Hill, Columbia Games, Gamma II Games)PanzerBlitz Hill of Death (Multi Man Publishing)Pilsudski (Panzerfaust Publications)OtherNaval Conquest (rules for mystery game from 1942)Pilsudski (reprint game kit, art by John Kula)Tupamaro (reprint game kit, art by John Kula)30Summer 2012Special issue on Brian Train’s GamesArticlesThe Great Game Explosion of 1973 (Martin Campion)Soviet Board Games of the Interwar PeriodBoard Wargame Simulations of Coups d’Etat (Brian Train)Charles Roberts – Was He Really One of Us?Falling Between the QuacksThe Impossible Identify Stalingrad Puzzle ProjectReviews1848 (BTR Games)Algeria (Microgame Design Group)Arriba Espana (Microgame Design Group)Autumn Mist (Fiery Dragon)Balkan Gambit/ Balkan Gamble (BTR Games)Battle for China (Microgame Design Group)The Battle of Seattle (SGS Strategist)Civil Power (SGS Strategist)Divine Right (TSR)Finnish Civil War (self)Freikorps (Microgame Design Group)Greek Civil War/ Andartes (BTR Games)Green Beret (Simulations Workshop)Guerilla Checkers (self)Kandahar (BTR Games, self)Konarmiya (Fiery Dragon)Land of the Free (Microgame Design Group)LotusLand (self)More Battle for China (Microgame Design Group)Operation Whirlwind (Microgame Design Group)Paranoid Delusions (self)Power Play (Schutze Games)Pusan Perimeter (Schutze Games)Red Guard (Schutze Games)The Second War of 1812 (self)Shining Path (Microgame Design Group)Somalia (Schutze Games)Summer Lightning (Lock n Load)Tupamaro (Schutze Games)Virtualia (self)War Plan Crimson (Microgame Design Group)31August 2012ArticlesThe Fickle Finger (pointing posters)The Russian Revolution of 1917Guide to Russian Civil War GamesGuide to Russo-Polish War GamesPolish CavalryPerry Moore, Game DesignerReviews(The two “Guide” articles above contain many one-paragraph reviews of 36 games on these subjects.)OtherPetrograd 1917 (game kit by John Kula)Petrograd Lite (game kit by John Kula)32end 2013ArticlesA Chronicle of Board WargamesWestern Desert WeaponryRandomnessA Board Wargaming Dictionary (2nd Edition)Games That Only A Collector Could Love (SPI Test Series proto-games)Strategy and Tactics Circulation Figures (and S&T issue game index to #293)ReviewsWar Games and Their History (book)OtherPanzergruppe Afrika (game kit by John Kula) General Headquarters by Kurt Vonnegut (directions on play)33end 2014ArticlesMonopoly At War (Martin Hickes)War Gaming (reprint of RAND Corp paper by Herman Kahn and Irwin Mann)Who Was That Masked Man?The Ardennes-Eifel Campaign: A Monster That Never WasA List of Games (explanation of SimBase game database)Deployment (Test Series Game, pre-SPI)Italy (Test Series Game, pre-SPI)Flying Fortress (Test Series Game, pre-SPI)OtherRed Peter (game kit by John Kula)Fall of Manjukuo (reprint of Grognard Games game kit)Games Reviewed, by Issue NumberAn alphabetic index of the games reviewed in Simulacrum issues 1 to 30The format of these entries is: Title (Publisher) Issue Number. [0-9]1st Alamein (Lou Coatney) 19 2WW (WWW) 19 1944 (Histo Games) 91848 (BTR Games) 304th Reich (Task Force) 27A Ace of Aces (Nova Games) 2 Action At Trafalgar (Albert C.E. Parker) 12 After the Holocaust (SPI) 4 Airborne! (Jagdpanther) 26Alexander the Great (Avalon Hill) 14 Algeria (Microgame Design Group) 30Angola (Gameshop) 7 Annihilator (Metagaming) 27Ant Army (Rebel Games) 24 Anvil-Dragoon (Jagdpanther) 26Apache (Yaquinto) 4 Arcola (OSG) 4 the Arctic Convoys (Gryphon) 15 Arms Race (Dave Casciano -- AIWA) 14 Army Group South (SPI; DG) 20 Arriba Espana (Microgame Design Group) 30Artifact (Metagaming) 27the Art of Siege (SPI) 20 Assault on Belgium (Udo Grebe) 19 Assault on Sevastopol (Decision Games) 19 Assault on Tobruk (SimCan) 10 Asteroid Zero-Four (Task Force) 27Attack of the Mutants (Yaquinto) 14 Attila (International Team) 11 Autumn Mist (Fiery Dragon) 30Axis & Allies (Milton Bradley) 4 Azhanti High Lightning (GDW) 11B B-17: Queen of the Skies (On Target) 5 Balkan Gambit (Gamble) (BTR Games) 30the Barbarians (Yaquinto) 24 Basic Training (Jedko) 19 Bataan (Jagdpanther) 26Battle-Cry (Milton Bradley) 14 Battle for China (Microgame Design Group) 30Battle for Moscow (GDW) 5, 19 Battle for Stalingrad (SPI) 11 Battle for the Factories (Nova Games) 7 Battle of Britain (Gamescience) 5 the Battle of Kula Gulf (Battleplan 4) 15 the Battle of Seattle (SGS Strategist) 30the Battle of Sharpsburg (Wesenberg) (reprint) 28the Battle of the Villa Verde Trail (Quantum Games) 23 Battle Stations! (SimCan) 10 Battles for the Ardennes (TSR; DG) 20 Battles for the Ardennes (SPI) 20, 21 Battles of the Hundred Days (OSG) 5 Battleship (SimCan) 10 the Beastlord (Yaquinto) 7 Beda Fomm (GDW) 5 Belter (GDW) 5 Bismarck (Avalon Hill) 12 Black Hole (Metagaming) 27Blood Royale (Games Workshop) 14 Bloody Buna (WWW) 6 Blue & Gray (SPI; TSR; DG) 20 Blue & Gray II (SPI) 20 Boarding Party (Task Force) 27Bounty Hunter (Nova Games) 5 Breakout & Pursuit (SPI) 24 Breitenfeld (SPI) 20 Broadside (Milton Bradley) 14 Burma (GDW) 5 Bushi (Bearhug) 5C C&O / B&O (Avalon Hill) 4 CA (SPI) 24 Cambrai 1917 (Rand) 7 the Campaign for North Africa (SPI) 2 Campaigns of Marlborough (WWW) 6 Carrying the Tools to Britain (CBC) 19 Cerberus (Task Force) 25, 26Chaco (GDW) 6 Chancellorsville (Avalon Hill) 12 Chinese Civil War (WWW) 8, 26Chitin: I (Metagaming) 6, 27 Circus Maximus (Battleline) 6 Citadel (GDW) 15 City States of Arylrell (Task Force) 27Civil Power (SGS Strategist) 30Civil War (Avalon Hill) 12 Clash of Eagles (Camelot) 6 Class Struggle (Class Struggle Inc.) 19 Close Assault (Yaquinto) 6 Combat Command (SPI) 24 Commando (SPI) 6 Concrete Jungle (Blackburg Tactical Research Co.) 6 the Conquerors (SPI) 5 Conquistador (Avalon Hill) 6 Coup (Steve Jackson Games) 6 the Creature that Ate Sheboygan (SPI) 4 Crete (SPI) 17 the Crimean War (SPI; DG) 20 Crisis 2000 (One Small Step) 8 Cromwell (SDC) 11 Crows & Owls (John W. Kisner) 14 the Crusades (SPI) 6 Cry Havoc (Standard Games and Publications) 6D D.A.K. (SimCan) 10 Dark Stars (SimCan) 10 Dauntless (Battleline) 7 the Defense of Rorke's Drift (WWW) 24 Deluxe Fighter Pilot (Gamescience) 7 Demono (Frank Beat Keller) 15 Demons (SPI) 2 Destruction of Army Group Center (SPI) 24 Dien Bien Phu (SDC) 8 Dieppe (SimCan) 10 Dimension Demons (Metagaming) 27Divine Right (TSR) 7, 9, 30Divine Wind (SimCan) 10 Dogfight (Milton Bradley) 14 Domination (Table Top Games) 7 Double Star (GDW) 7 Dragoon vs. Hussar (Balboa) 7 Drive on Metz (SPI) 19 Dune (Avalon Hill) 7E Eagle Day (Histo Games) 8 Early Pacific Battles (Bruce Moore) 14 East Front Tank Leader (West End Games) 8 Eighth Air Force (GMT) 8 Empires of the Middle Ages (1st edition: SPI) 3 Empires of the Middle Ages (2nd edition: Decision Games) 25 Escape from Altassar (Task Force Games) 8 Europe Aflame (TSR) 8 Europe at War (Jedko) 24F the Falklands War (Close Simulations) 7 the Fall of South Vietnam (Yaquinto) 9 Fantastic Encounters (West Coast Games) 25 Field Marshal (Jedko) 24 Field of Honor (Ragnarok) 9 Fight in the Skies (Guidon Games & TSR) 9 Fight For Tobruk! (Wellington Wargames) 15 Finnish Civil War (Brian Train) 30Fire When Ready (Metagaming) 27Flying Circus (SPI) 9 Foxbat & Phantom (SPI) 9 France, 1940 (Avalon Hill) 17, 28 Frederick the Great (SPI) 17 Freedom in the Galaxy (Avalon Hill & SPI) 9 Freikorps (MDG, Fiery Dragon) 29. 30the French Foreign Legion (Yaquinto) 15 Friedrich (Histogame) 25 Fury in the West (Battleline) 9 Fury of the Norsemen (Metagaming) 27Fury on Champlain (WWW) 23G Gallipoli (Paper Wars Game Co.) 12 The Game of War (Debord/Atlas) 28Gettysburg (Avalon Hill) 12 Gettysburg Junior Edition (Avalon Hill) 8 Gettysburg: 3 days in July (Speerit) 27GEV (Metagaming) 27Gladiator (Avalon Hill) 11 Gladiator: Men vs. Animals (Bearhug) 11 Gladiator: Men vs. Men (Bearhug) 11 Globbo! (Steve Jackson Games) 24 Gorlice-Tarnow (Jagdpanther) 26Goetterdammerung (Jagdpanther) 26Gotterdammerung (Moments in History) 13 Grand Imperialism (Gametime Games) 11 Great Medieval Battles (SPI; DG) 20 the Great Redoubt (Yaquinto) 11 the Great War in the East (SPI) 6 the Great War in the East (SPI; DG) 20 Greek Civil War (Andartes) (BTR Games) 30Green Beret (Simulations Workshop) 30Grunt (SPI) 11 Guerilla (Maplay) 11 Guerrilla Checkers (Brian Train) 30Gunslinger (R. Sartore and Assoc.) 11H Hammer of the Scots (Columbia) 16 Hannibal (SimCan) 10 Hell Hath No Fury (WWW) 12 Helltank, Helltank Destroyer (Metagaming) 27Hero (Yaquinto) 12 Hit the Beach (Milton Bradley) 14 Hitler's War (Avalon Hill & Metagaming) 12 Holy Roman Empire (WWW) 13 Holy War (Metagaming) 27Hot Spot (Metagaming) 27Hougoumont (XTR) 12 Hyper Battle (Future and Fantasy Games) 12I I Will Fight No More Forever (SimCan) 10 I.C.B.M. (Mayfair) 13 Ice War (Metagaming) 13, 27 the Ides of March (Mayfair) 13 I.J.N. (SimCan) 10 Iliad (International Team) 13 Imperialism (Flying Buffalo) 13 Imperium (Conflict Games & GDW) 13 Inchon (SimCan) 10 Indian Ocean Adventure (GDW) 13 Insurgency (Battleline) 13 Intruder (Task Force Games) 13, 27 Invasion America (SPI) 11 Invasion of the Air Eaters (Metagaming) 8, 27 Island War (SPI) 20 It! (Dave Casciano -- AIWA) 13 Iwo Jima (TSR S&T 92) 23J Jacksonville: Beaches of Doom (Jagdpanther) 26Java Man (Pardine, Inc.) 15, 27 Jerusalem! (SDC) 8 Jihad!(SimCan) 10 John Carter, Warlord of Mars (SPI) 14 Jolly Roger (International Team) 14 Jugurtha (GMT) 14 Junta (West End Games) 14 Jutland (Avalon Hill) 12, 14 JZ (Avalon Hill) 17K Kamikaze (Fire & Movement) 15 Kampfpanzer (SPI) 15 Kandahar (BTR Games, Brian Train) 30Kanev (People's Wargames) 5 Kassala (Simon & Schuster) 19 Kasserine Pass (Conflict, GDW) 29Khalkin-Gol (SDC) 5 Kharkov (SPI) 9 Khyber Rifles (WWW) 15 King of the Mountain (Dimension 6) 15 Kingmaker (Avalon Hill) 15 Knights of Camelot (TSR) 15 Konarmiya (Fiery Dragon) 29, 30Kriegsmarine (SimCan) 10 Kriegspiel (Avalon Hill) 15, 29 Kula Kula (Blatz) 15L La Grande Armee (SPI) 28LA Lawless (Decision Games) 16 La Regia Marina (SimCan) 10 Lam Son (Casciano -- AIWA) 14 Land of Og (Wingnut) 15 Land of the Free (Microgame Design Group) 30Laser Tank (Judges Guild) 16 Last Frontier (Fat Messiah Games) 16 Le Grand Empire (SimCan) 10 Lebensraum! (SimCan) 10 Lee at the Crossroads (SimCan) 10 The Legend Begins (Rhino) 27the Legend of Robin Hood (OSG) 16 Leningrad (SPI) 17 Lesnaja (WWW) 16 Line of Battle (SimCan) 10 Logistics Command (Westinghouse) 3 the Long March (TSR) 19 the Longest Day (Avalon Hill) 16 Lord Nelson at Trafalgar (Roger Cormier) 13 Lords of the Middle Sea (Chaosium) 16 Lords of Underearth (Metagaming) 27LotusLand (Brian Train) 30Luftschiff (Sierra Madre) 16M Mad Monks and Relics (Simulations Workshop) 17 Magic Realm (Avalon Hill) 12 Major Battles & Campaigns of General George S Patton (House of Games) 11 Man of War (SimCan) 10 Maneuver (Decision Games) 19 March on India, the (Jagdpanther) 26Marine! (Jagdpanther) 26Marine: 2002 (Yaquinto) 7 the Marne (SPI) 7 Melee (Metagaming) 27MERC (Fantasy Games Unlimited) 17 A Mighty Fortress (SPI) 1 MiG Killers (Gamescience) 17 MiG Killers Expansion Kit (Gamescience) 17 Minuteman (SPI) 4 Missile Boat (Rand) 17 Mission Aloft (Jim Bumpas Games) 17 Modern Battles (SPI) 20 Modern Battles II (SPI) 20 More Battle for China (Microgame Design Group) 30Moon Base Clavius (Task Force) 27Mukden, 1905 (Spence & Gabel) 11 Mythology (Yaquinto) 17N Napoleon (Gamma 2) 19, 29 Napoleon at War (SPI) 20 Napoleon at Waterloo (SPI) 19 Napoleon's Last Battles (SPI; TSR; DG) 20 Napoleon's Last Triumph (SimCan) 10 National Liberation Front (Harris Game Designs) 19 Naval War (Battleline) 19 Negotiate or Die! (Flying Buffalo) 23 Nicaragua (WWW) 19 Nieuchess (Avalon Hill) 4 NORAD (Conflict) 15 NORAD (Mischler Co.) 19 Normandy Campaign (GDW) 19 Norsemen! (SimCan) 10 North Africa (SPI) 20 North Cape (C-in-C) 24 Nuclear War (the Nuclear War Game Co.) 16O Ogre (Metagaming) 8, 25 Oil War (SPI) 8 Olympica (Metagaming) 27the Omega War (SPI) 11 One Page Bulge (Steve Jackson) 21 the One-Page Submarine Warfare Game (McCue) 14 the One World (SimCan) 10One World (Metagaming) 27Operation Apocalypse (Vae Victis 10) 21 Operation Grenade (SPI) 14 Operation Konrad (Close Sims) 21 Operation Matador (Gryphon) 15 Operation Olympic (SPI) 9 Operation Pegasus (Task Force) 21 Operation Typhoon (SPI) 14 Operation Whirlwind (Microgame Design Group) 27, 30Orbit War (FanTac) 21 Origins of World War I (Sid Sackson) 6, 17 Ortona (SimCan) 10 Outpost Gamma (Dwarfstar) 21 Outremer (Standard Games) 21 Overlord (Conflict) 12P Panzerblitz (Avalon Hill) 28Panzerblitz, Hill of Death (Multi-Man) 29Panzer Pranks (The Chaosium) 9 PanzerArmee Afrika (SPI) 19 Paranoid Delusions (Brian Train) 30Patton's Third Army (SPI) 14 Pearl Harbor 2nd ed (GDW) 12 Peloponnesian War (SimCan) 10 Pilsudski (Panzerfaust) (reprint) 29the Plot to Assassinate Hitler (SPI) 4 Poland 1939 (Jagdpanther) 26Power and Resolution (SimCan) 10Power Play (Task Force) 27Power Play (Schutze Games) 30PQ-17 (Jagdpanther) 26PRESTAGS (SPI) 28Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk (Task Force Games) 26Pusan Perimeter (Schutze Games) 30Q Quebec Libre (SimCan) 10R Raiders and Traders (The Chaosium) 12 Raketny Kreyser (SimCan) 10 Ram Speed (Metagaming) 27Red Empire (GDW) 27Red Guard (Schutze Games) 30Red Star/White Eagle (GDW) 14, 28 Reich (the Chaosium) 19 Regatta (Avalon Hill) 13 Revolt in the East (SPI) 9 Rise and Fall (Englemann Military Simulations) 7 Rivets (Metagaming) 27Road to Richmond (SPI) 20 Robert at Bannockburn (SPI) 6 Robert the Bruce (Fusilier Games) 3 Robots (Task Force) 27Rockets Red Glare (SimCan) 10 Rommel in the Desert (Columbia & Gamma II) 1 Rommel's Panzers (Metagaming) 25 Rommel's War (Quarterdeck) 6 the Russian Campaign (Avalon Hill) 23 Russian Civil War (SPI) 3S Samurai (GMT) 16 Sauron (SPI) 15 Schnellboote (SimCan) 10 Schutztruppe (SDC) 9 Scotland the Brave (Shadis -- Avalanche Press) 3 Scourge of God (SimCan) 10 Seapower & the State (SimCan) 10 Search & Destroy (SPI) 14 the Search for the Graf Spee (3rd Millenia) 11 Second Russian Revolution (Roaming Panther) 11 Second War of 1812 (Brian Train) 30Shining Path (Microgame Design Group) 30Siege of Barad-Dur (Jagdpanther) 26Siege of Constantinople (SPI) 20, 24 the Siege of Jerusalem (Historical Perspectives & Avalon Hill) 16 Siege of Leningrad (Jagdpanther) 26Sicily (SPI) 14 Skirmish (Milton Bradley) 14 Somalia (Schutze Games) 30Space Empires (Mayfair) 27the Spanish Civil War (Jagdpanther) 27Spellbinder (Task Force) 27the Spirit of '76 (Panzerfaust Pubs.) 16 SSN (GDW) 14 Stalin's Tanks (Metagaming) 25 Stalingrad (Avalon Hill) 12 Stalk-1 (C-in-C) 24 Starfire (Task Force Games) 26Star Gate (SPI) 27Starleader Assault (Metagaming) 27Sticks and Stones (Metagaming) 15, 27Strategy (WWW) 19 Strike Force One (SPI) 19 the Succession Wars (FASA) 16 Summer Lightning (Lock n Load) 30Sword and the Stars, the (SPI) 4 Swords & Sorcery (SPI) 8Syria, 1941 (Abwehr) 26T Tactics II (Avalon Hill) 12 Tamburlaine the Great (SPI) 6 Tannenberg (SPI) 20 Tannenburg (Spence & Gabel) 6 Tarawa (WWW) 23 Tatchanka - Ukraine, 1919-1921 (Jim Bumpas) 1, 15 Tet Offensive (GDW) 8 Thirty Years War (SPI; DG) 20 Tital Strike (SPI) 26Tito (SPI) 6 To The Green Fields Beyond (SPI) 7 Torpedo! (SimCan) 10 Total War (Excalibre) 11 Trailblazer (Metagaming) 27Transylvania (Mayfair) 27Trial of Strength (Panther) 13 Tribes (Steve Jackson Games) 15 Tupamaro (Strategist) (reprint) 29, 30Two-Ocean War, the (The Chaosium) 12U U-Boat (Avalon Hill) 12 Ultimatum (Yaquinto) 19 United Nations (Yaquinto) 19 Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker! (the Columbia Spectator) 15V Valkenburg Castle (Task Force Games) 26Valley Forge 1778 (Tredyffrin) 13 Vector 3 (SPI) 27Veracruz (SPI) 9 Viktory (Viktory) 24Virtualia (Brian Train) 30W War in the East (SPI) 8 War in the Ice (SPI) 9, 11 War in the Pacific (SPI) 4 War Plan Crimson (Microgame Design Group) 30the Wargamer (Richard Neebel) 25 Warmaster Chess 2000 (XTR) 4 Warpwar (Metagaming) 27Warring States (SimCan) 10 Warrior Knights (Games Workshop) 15 Warsaw Pact (Jagdpanther) 26Waterloo (Avalon Hill) 12 West Front (SimCan) 10 Westwall quad (SPI) 20, 27 the Wilderness (SimCan) 10 With Fire & Sword (SimCan) 10 Wizard (Metagaming) 27Wolf Pack (SPI) 13 World War 3 (SPI) 11 World War I (SPI) 6X Y Z Zeppelin (Jagdpanther) 26Zulu War (WWW) 17 ................
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