EPGS Heroics - May 2002

Games people played

Here is a nearly-complete list of the games played at the April meeting:

Alladin's Dragons (Rio Grande)
Axis and Allies - Pacific (Hasbro)
Flickwerck (2F)
Game of Good Cooking (Victory)
Hockey One on One Challenge (Playoff Corp)
Lord of the Rings (Hasbro)
Mag Blast (Fantasy Flight)
Mexica (Rio Grande)
Nippon Rails (Mayfair)
Princes of Florence (Rio Grande)
Ra (Rio Grande)
Reds (GMT)
Ricochet Robot (Rio Grande)
Starship Catan (Kosmos)
Sternenfahrer (Kosmos)
Top Secret New Game Project (Bob Stribula)
Web of Power (Rio Grande)

WARGAMING WEB

By Robert L. Sohn

http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/Atlas%20Page.htm

This is an excellent site for military maps from Ancient Greece to the U.S. involvement in Somalia (e.g., a map that you can use to follow the movie BLACK HAWK DOWN). Since 1938, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has been developing a series of campaign atlases to teach their "History of the Military Art" class. The Department of History at the USMA updates this site with many of these maps developed for this course with six atlases and almost 1,000 maps. The maps are provided in jpg files, and are beautifully done.

http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/Contents.htm

In 1980, James F. Dunnigan, founder of THE grognards' company - Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI), first published an opus on wargames titled THE COMPLETE WARGAMES HANDBOOK. The second edition was published in 1992 (RLS - I personally own a copy of this edition), but this history of wargaming from one of the "stars" of this hobby has been out of print since 1997. In a very classy move, James Dunnigan is providing this online edition (with an introduction dated March 2000) as a courtesy to interested hobbyists. For those of you who can't stand reading books online, or if you want your own copy and don't want to peruse www.powells.com (RLS - I saw a copy available for $8), iUniverse, a digital print shop, published in early 2001, the THIRD EDITION OF THE WARGAMES HANDBOOK.