K 39 X 2 For

The K o m m a n d eu r

Volume 39 Number 2 A Publication of AHIKS April 2004

From the President Treasurer's R eport from Stuart Schoenberger

2004 Legion of Honor (Perpetual Fund) O nce again, elections are upon us. May I hum- Robert Corbett $100 bly ask all of you out there reading this to go Melvin Friedrich 20 to your closet, get out your best hat, clean it up and toss it in the Thomas Gaddis 20 ring? AHIKS is going to be in a transitional time this next year or Donald Garlit 3 two because membership is going to fall dramatically for a while. Charlie Johns 4 We could use some new blood in the Officer Corps (heck, if two Samuel Kopf 4 or more of you guys toss your hat in the President's Ring, I'll be William Lentz 18 bowing out!). The By-Laws are in the process of being rewritten Clyde Longest 15 (they, too, will be on the ballot this year, God willing), and every Paul Martin 4 man needs to examine himself to see if this is a good time to take Richard Roksiewicz 4 his turn at the wheel. James Sander 12 If you are reading this, you are a member of AHIKS. That Robert Schneggenburger 14 makes you someone special in this hobby. There are those who Stuart Schoenberger 13 make the cut and those who are a cut above. Simply by your Paul Selzer 4 membership, you qualify in both categories. I salute you! AHIKS Brian Stretcher 4 is an elite and unique organization within the hobby. Our ranks Albert Thomas 8 contain some of the best and brightest. We also count amongst our Thomas Thornsen 6 brethren some of the most humble. And the most steady. William Watkins 4 Periodically we undergo stages of growth and shrinkage. Now Robert Wilmott 6 that the legendary Les Deck has retired, the many and varied du- Subtotal $263 ties he has performed over the years will be going back to the Matching funds (Omar DeWitt) $263 various officers. One duty Les sort of “acquired” over the years Perpetual Fund 2004 $526 was his tireless efforts at hunting down members to get them to renew. That won't be happening any more. Dead wood is just that. Original donations: We need members who want to be here, not who have to be ca- Frederick Kraus $300 joled. Be a part of AHIKS because you want to. We've been small Bruce Monnin $400 before. Our ranks will swell again. And you'll probably be reading At this time, the total in this endowment fund is a column like this one from a future President. , all thanks to the original efforts of Bruce On another front, if you haven't visited web Grognards re- $1,226 Monnin. cently, drop on by. You'll find a link to First Blood on it where anyone can print out his own copy of the game. It's right on the home page—you don't have to scroll down far. Inside the First This list may not be complete because of com- Blood page there is a link to the official AHIKS website, so hope- puter difficulties. If any donors are not listed, fully that will generate a little traffic. Please feel free to spread the please inform the Treasurer (as much for our re- word. The ultimate goal is, of course, to expose more kids to the cords as to give you credit due). Donations to the hobby we love, and nothing captures the attention like something Fund will still be gratefully received. you can get for free that has some worth. There just aren't enough Introductory Level free wargames out there. It's good to be able to Note: the monies received for the Fund are not give a little back. included in the Society’s Income. The Perpetual Brethren, we appreciate your camaraderie and your support. Fund CD will be renewed each year and the mon- We appreciate it even more when you share your experiences in ies paid for this purpose will be added from the The K with the rest of us. And don't be afraid to share with your General Fund at that time. The interest will be gaming friends. We could use a few good gamers. added to the General Fund at that time. (Continued on page 7) Your Buddy, Chester 2 The Kommandeur

Game News from Alan Poulter years. Bruce is a Licensed Profes- sional Engineer who is currently work- This column is a compilation of changed. My task is editorial. I gener- ing on his Masters in Education, and information gleaned chiefly from ate the editorial material, persuade is a member of the Board of Directors of the Boardgame Players Associa- C onsimw orld authors to leave me with material I tion. (w w w .consimw orld.com) and can publish, lay it all out, and convert Bruce has told us that his primary W eb-G rognards to PDF format. I spend no time keep- goals for Operations are to get issue (w w w .grognard.com). ing track of subscriptions, doing sec- retarial mailing services, or the like. 45 out ASAP, to get the magazine The material w as correct at time back onto a quarterly schedule ASAP, th GameTableOnline handles the elec- of w riting: 26 M arch 2004. and to expand coverage to include tronic circulation. Homer Games handles the paper circulation. I never the entire line of MMP games, while Alan Poulter need to worry about club politics, peo- maintaining the focus of Gamers ([email protected]) ple who want me to type their articles games that has been the foundation for them, or the like. of Operations magazine. To help ac- I do have several columns I would complish these goals we hope to ex- First Blood on the Net pand the size of the magazine. We like to add, if volunteers can be found to supply them. In particular, I would know you will all wish Bruce tons of Chester Hendrix’s design, First really like to have a high-quality list of luck. Blood—the Guadalcanal Campaign all gaming conventions around the Dave and Bruce are in the proc- is now available for free download at: planet, all in my preferred format, but ess of sharing material, and we hope http://grognard.com/fb/ that will take a while to develop to get the next issue out really soon. This game was originally pub- unless a columnist can be found. Bruce said that he will continue The lished in issue Number 6 of Volume Game! is planned to cover the Boardgamer for several more issues which should satisfy nearly all of the 26 of The Kommandeur, which was entire hobby, including boardgaming, miniatures, board wargames, role- current subscriptions, after which the AHIKS’ Silver Anniversary volume Avalon Hill content of The in December 1991. It was subse- playing games, club and hobby news, and more. Boardgamer would be folded into an quently republished after major de- even further expanded Operations

velopment in Strategy & Tactics magazine. #178 by Decision Games. The origi- New military history magazine The Armchair General, whose nal AHIKS version is now available NEW GAMES premiere came out in March 2004, for free download by kind permission has a website at: of Decision Games. Avalanche www.armchairgeneral.com/ (www.decisiongame.com) Desert Rats is the seventh game in It will occasionally publish board the Panzer Grenadier series, and the wargames as inserts. The first issue New game review magazine second (Afrika Corps being the first) contained a game called Game! is a new magazine that Operation to cover fighting in North Africa. Iraqi Freedom which can be reviews a variety of board games, Desert Rats contains fifty scenarios. downloaded at: mainly of the German variety, but www.avalanchepress.com www.ar mchairgeneral.com/ also covers board wargames. The first OperationIraqiFreedom.zip issue (only) is available free at: Avalon Hill

www.gametableonline.com. A revised edition of Axis & Al- Its publisher, veteran gamer and New editor for Operations lies has been issued. The revised Axis Bruce Monnin becomes the new AHIKS member George Phillies, & Allies, created under the direction says: editor of MMP’s Operations, accord- of Larry Harris, the game’s original I have been publishing gaming ing to the following statement from designer, features more detailed game fanzines for 40 years. Indeed, I MMP: pieces, a beautifully charted, full- MMP is sad to announce that founded and edited The Tank, the first colour world map, and updated rules. Dave Demko is resigning as editor of amateur board wargaming magazine Rules changes: ever published, when it appeared in Operations magazine because he 1964-1965. I have folded, stapled, does not have the time and energy to –tanks have 3 defense, fighters are 10 stamped, addressed, and printed devote to it that he feels is necessary. IPCs, carriers are 16 IPCs. magazines produced via spirit master, Our thanks go to Dave for all his hard -battleships take two hits before be- mimeograph, photocopy, and paper work. We especially appreciate that ing sunk. stencil photo-offset. In all that time, I Dave was able to continue operating –even in home territories, the amount put more effort into transferring the Operations as MMP transitioned into of units built there cannot exceed that words to paper and shipping them to running The Gamers. territory's IPC value. MMP is also very pleased to an- the heroic subscribers than I did as- –submarines can now pass through nounce that Bruce Monnin is the sembling the editorial material that I hostile zones. liked. new editor of Operations. Bruce has With electronic publication and the been publishing The Boardgamer –both attacking and defending sub- support of GameTableOnline.Com since 1995 and has won the Charles marines now have “first strike,” due (electronic editions) and Homer S. Roberts Awards for Best Amateur to a streamlined combat sequence. Games (paper editions), all that has Game Magazine four of the last five –there can be more than one anti-

The Kommandeur 3 aircraft gun in a territory, even the different features of this era. De- Germany, like the older SPI game though only one can shoot. signer is Richard Berg. NATO. Game designer is Ty Bomba. –instead of capturing just capitals, www.gmtgames.com/ www.decisiongames.com/ you must capture a certain amount of victory cities (Shanghai, Manila, To- Lost Battalion Games Vae Victis issue #55 contains kyo, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Washing- Battlelines: Stalingrad Campaign Solferino 1859, covering the battle at ton, Los Angeles, London, Calcutta, Upper Echelon Set completes the the brigade level. Leningrad, and Moscow) first campaign series. The set in- www.vaevictis.com/ –transports can now carry one infan- cludes over 950 unique cards and Note that Vae Victis magazine and try, plus one other spans combat operations in and games are in French but rules transla- –neutral territories can no longer be around Stalingrad during the fighting tions are made available via: http:// entered, and there are more of them. of 1942. www.lostbattalion.com/ grognard.com/vaevict.html –there are new destroyer and artillery units Multi-Man Publishing NEW DESKTOP PUBLISHED A Fearful Slaughter is the latest in –artillery assists infantry in attacks WARGAMES –Japan, Germany, and the USA start the Civil War Brigade series, origi- nated by The Gamers. with more money. A Fearful New from BSO, Richard Berg’s Slaughter covers the battle of Shiloh. www.avalonhill.com DTP label, is East-West, on the bat- It has a set of specially adapted ex- tles of Valverde and Olustee from the tension rules for regimental level Clash of Arms American Civil War. Like other BSO action. It is a big game: five full-sized Dawn of the Rising Sun contains games, this one has only 7 pages of countersheets, two copies of charts 20 scenarios covering all the major rules, no game turns, quick resolution and tables (plus some on the maps), surface engagements of the Russo- of fire and shock combats, and a vari- loss record sheets and two maps. Japanese War. It uses the same rules able reinforcements rule to create system as www.multimanpublishing.com Fear God and Dread different game play. BSO has no web , and also has a special Jump- Nought Naval Warfare Simulations site but you can e-mail Richard (and start scenario to enable rules to be The World War One Expansion order the game) via learnt quickly. Pack #1: Tsushima expansion adds [email protected] www.clashofarms.com over 180 unit data cards and over 70 new classes of warships. Other fea- From Khyber Pass Games Columbia Games tures include torpedo boats, three new Ataturk! is an operational level The latest “block” game (where full-color maps, 12 pages of ex- game dealing with the Turkish War units are blocks which can have their panded and advanced rules, 10 sce- of Independence from 1919 to 1922. ID and strength hidden from the op- narios covering the Russo-Japanese One player manages the Turkish ponent) is Gettysburg: Badges of naval battles, and two new combat forces and their allies while the sec- Courage. It uses leadership and a reference charts. www.naval- ond player handles the loose con- novel tactical combat system to recre- warfare.net/content/index.html glomeration of former WWI Allies. ate the struggle to control the strate- Initiative is random and can change gic crossroads at Gettysburg. All Pinnacle Games every game turn. Units that wish to three days of Gettysburg can be Fields Of Honour: the American fight may not move that game turn, played separately or together. War of Independence is an unusual and moving units may not attack. www.columbiagames.com mix of boardgame and miniatures www.khyberpassgames.com system. The game allows you to fight Gio Games battles in the traditional boardgame New from Schutze Games is War to Axis: Warfare in Nor- manner, but the rules have additions Vicksburg, a Paul Rohrbaugh design mandy covers the Allied invasion of for use with miniatures. on the campaign to capture Vicks- June '44. It uses a variant of the game There are scenarios for Bunker burg during the American Civil War. system used in Battle Cry. Pieces are Hill, Brandywine, Monmouth, Free- www.geocities.com/schutze_games/ standup counters, not figures as in mans Farm, Bemis Heights, and Guil- Battle Cry. It comes with rules in ford Court House. The entire war can New from designer Perry Moore Italian and English. also be gamed at the strategic level. is 200 Miles from Moscow! The www.giogames.it/ It is a reprint of the popular miniature game covers the White Offensive wargaming system, originally pro- with tanks and aircraft advancing GMT duced by Chameleon Eclectic. towards Moscow from Oct. 6th-20th, Gringo!, based on the Great Bat- www.peginc.com/ 1919. http://pweb.jps.net/~perrya/ tles of the American Civil War system, covers battles from the Mexican NEW MAGAZINE WARGAMES NEW WEB RESOURCES War, 1846-47: Buena Vista, Monter- rey, Cerro Gordo, El Molino del Rey, Strategy & Tactics #220 contains Alan Emrich (designer of Totaller and Chapultepec. The system has Group of Soviet Forces Germany, Krieg) has created an extensive 11- been customised slightly to allow for on a hypothetical Soviet Invasion of week Principles of Game Design

4 The Kommandeur course. He is teaching it at The Uni- versity of California at Irvine, Stan- Book R eview s ford University, and The Art Institute of California (Orange County chap- ter). www.alanemrich.com/PGD/ Gettysburg PGD_Introduction.htm by Newt Gingrich and William R. eral Haupt works out the needs of the As part of a new MA option course Forstchen Union forces and of the railroads is on Conflict Simulation, Professor ©2003 St Martin's 463 pages so good it should be included in Philip Sabin of the Dept. of War $24.95 every high school history text. Studies, King's College London, re- Reviewed by Bill Watkins I did get very angry as I neared quired students to design board the conclusion. My family ran the wargames (using Cyberboard). You Bottom line: this is one of the biggest station on the Underground can freely download student designs very best novels I have read in many Railroad, and we lost a few fighting of games on battles from Cyno- years. It is the best historical novel for the Union. I have no use for the scephalae to Dien Bien Phu. In re- I’ve read since “The Killer Angels.” romance of the Confederacy. I knew turn, you can give the student design- It is as good an alternate Civil War how I wanted the book to end. I also ers feedback as they prepare their history as anything written between knew a Southerner like Gingrich final versions. www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/ Ward Moore and Harry Turtledove. wouldn’t give it to me. But, he and wsg/consim.html Even better, it could have been writ- Forstchen did, and did it so well they From Microgame Design Group, ten just for us gamers! had me nodding along with them. Target: Damascus is a free Sadly, the title is misleading, in- Schmaltzy, but a great tribute to the downloadable expansion scenario for appropriate, and probably killed American spirit. These guys are pros. No Middle Ground covering the sales. My first reaction was to pass it The book has a few Civil-War- Israeli five-day Operation Shocktroop by. I really didn’t need another Get- period photos scattered about for counteroffensive. Get it from: www. tysburg history. And I certainly didn’t decorative purposes. The maps are microgamedesigngroup.ca/TD/ need another novel. Out of sheer tactical, and they are hand drawn, as index.htm boredom, I started reading—and was they might have been during the Neppagames are offering an alter- literally at page 200 before I took a fight. native simplified combat resolution breath! It is that good. As for gamers, this book would system for their WWII strategic-level This isn’t about our battle of Get- make a wonderful extra for any num- game, European Theatre of Opera- tysburg. Only the initial action takes ber of Gettysburg games. We’ve al- tions. It is a free download and is place at Gettysburg. In this what-if, ready got the counter mix from virtu- available from: Lee gets his left up quicker on day ally any decent Gettysburg game. www.neppagames.com/Downloads/ one. The result is they get shot up You’d need a strategic movement downloads.htm much earlier than happened in our map, a good tactical map of the Pipe Lanterna! is a Mediterranean sup- world. Lee is able to focus on this Creek area, and an idiot rule as in plement to the earlier Spanish Fury: repulse, unhindered by action in other S&T’s recent Chancellorsville issue Sail miniatures game of warfare at parts of the field. He realizes game. sea, 1560-1603. It covers galley war- Longstreet may have an idea and Until somebody does that for us, fare covering the same period and swings around the Union left, not get the book. includes new ship cards, counters, tactically, but strategically. scenario and background on the an- That shifts the whole balance of When China Ruled The Seas—The tagonists. It is available free from the the campaign. The actual battle is Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne Perfect Captain web site at: http:// now going to take place where Meade 1405-1433 p e r f e c t c a p t a i n . 5 0 m e g s . c o m / and the Union generals thought it by Louise Levathes, sfsail.html would: along the incredible defensive Oxford University Press $16.95 in Chris Kemp is offering as a free positions at Pipe Creek. paperback download his miniatures rules, Not I can’t give you any more detail Reviewed by Tom Oleson Quite Mechanised, for operational without giving you too much. Suffice level W W II games. http:// it to say every person I’ve gotten to Richard Berg boasts that he can homepage.ntlworld.com/nc.kemp/ read it has praised it to the skies. make a wargame on any subject. The nqmhome.htm You’ll find the writing style fa- topic of this book is one richly de- Second-edition rules for Go Tell miliar. The authors use the same sort serving of it. The USA is often spo- the Spartans, from Against the Odds of balanced viewpoints as Shaara did ken of as the only super power, but #6, are available in PDF format at: in “Killer Angels.” Unlike Shaara, we do not have a nuclear monopoly. h t t p : / / g r o g n a r d . c o m / i n f o 1 / the viewpoints here are Lee himself We do not even come close to the gotell2ed.pdf for the Confederates and Henry Hunt, super power status China enjoyed in Vimiero from MMP is a free mini- the Artillery chief, for the Union and 1415 “...all the important ports in the game in their Napoleonic Brigade General Haupt, chief of the Union Indian Ocean and China Seas, from Series. It is available at: railroads. Really. Logistics are key in Korea and Japan throughout the Ma- www.multimanpublishing.com/ this treatment, and they are handled lay Archipelago and India to the East theGamers/archive/vim.htm Æ Æ beautifully. The section where Gen- African coast were at least nominally

The Kommandeur 5 under Chinese authority and ac- page 316, “In one tense confronta- knowledged the suzerainty of the tion, a British thrust...to steal first Editorial dragon throne. China could have con- place was stopped by a traffic jam solidated its position and become the artificially created by a quick- Bruce Monnin, the force behind dominant power in shaping the mod- thinking American. Moreover, sev- the Perpetual Fund, has edited The ern world. While Europe was emerg- eral exchanges of gunfire erupted Boardgamer through nine and a half ing from the Dark Ages, China, with between Fifth Army and other Allied volumes. See Alan Poulter’s article her navy of giant junks, was poised to units.” Clark's dubious “glory” was for more details. The Boardgamer become the colonial power of the short-lived, as he entered Rome June will cease publication after two more 16th century...but the emperor was 5th 1944, and we all know what hap- issues, and Bruce will move on to turning inward. That moment at the pened the next day. edit Multi-Man Publishing’s Opera- pinnacle lasted barely more than 5 I first went to Rome in 1952 and tions magazine. Back copies for The years." They simply lost interest. lived there 1983-7, by then speaking Boardgamer are available for most China exercised its power by send- fluent Italian. Many of the places issues. The current issue, for exam- ing its fleet of hundreds of ships with mentioned brought back memories. ple, contains expansion rules for En- thousands of soldiers to make or emy in Sight; a Dauntless analysis; break whatever local ruler best suited American Games—Comprehensive new units for Panzerblitz and Pan- its interest, and, in many places, some Collector's Guide zer Leader; and articles on The Chinese remained. Not for China the By Alex Malloy Magic Realm, March Madness, hair-tearing inner turmoil of today's Krause Publications $26.95 Queen of the Skies, and Gunslinger. Western liberals. "Is it right for us to Reviewed by Tom Oleson The Boardgamer is quite a bargain at interfere in the affairs of East Africa $4 an issue (in the US). If you are Flipping through this book, you and Sumatra?" was not a question interested, contact Bruce at 177 South find several pages with familiar illus- they contemplated then, or, I dare Lincoln St., Minster, OH 45865- trations—old friends like say, today. Waterloo 1240. His e-mail is or but Do you seek immortality? This Wooden Ships & Iron Men— [email protected]. don't let that fool you. This guide is book also mentions the secret of the Please take a look at page 11 from anything but comprehensive, as a Chinese court, for men only: enough time to time so that you will know glance at the list of games from fa- of the right sort of sex with the right what is there. The addresses are as miliar companies will quickly show. number of women, and you will live up-to-date as I can make them. Not surprising, really, because it forever. Unfortunately, it didn't seem Even if you receive the paper never could be done in one volume. I to work even for the emperor. copy of The Kommandeur, you are did find interesting the “Game Rating It is a book well worth reading— welcome to view, download, and/or Guide” on page 18, and will use it to on one of the most important but print the electronic version. The elec- describe games I plan to sell. Avalon least-known chapters of history. tronic K occasionally has more mate- Hill's Dune is worth $18, according rial (since page 12 is not needed), and The Battle For Rome—the Germans, to the book. Save your $26.95, and it has a smattering of color. Go to our the Allies, the Partisans, and the you could pick one up! web site (see page 11) and use Pope—September 1943-June 1944 “AHIKS” as the member name, and Six Days of War June 1967 and the by Robert Katz “Cobra” as the password. Mind the Making of the Modern Middle East Simon & Schuster $28 caps and omit the quote marks. by Michael Oren Reviewed by Tom Oleson John Kula is the editor of Simula- Oxford University Press crum, a quarterly journal of board © 2002 446 pages maps, photos This should be rewarding reading wargame collecting and accumulat- Reviewed by Omar DeWitt even for those not particularly inter- ing. You can check out his work at ested in military history. It tells a This is primarily a political study http://www3.telus.net/Simulacrum/ gripping story, summed up in the of the war. The fighting is covered, main.html. I looked up the site and subtitle. New to me was the remark- but not in the detail that the political was very impressed with the detail able courage under torture of the ma- maneuverings of the countries di- and size of the journal. jority of Italians captured by the Ger- rectly involved (and the US and the The Perpetual Fund has come mans: they died without betraying USSR). There are quite a few maps, quite a way in the last two years. their comrades. but I had trouble using them; the When I was (briefly) Treasurer, no Also, I knew that Mark Clark was towns mentioned in the text were not one in the Officer Corps (even the desperate for his 5th Army to be first always on a map, and finding Bir previous Treasurer) was really sure in Rome, even at the cost of not head- Lahfan when nearby towns are Bir what the Fund was. Some were not ing east to cut off the withdrawing Hasana, Bir Lahfan, Bir Gafgafa, and even aware that monies from the Germans, but I did not know that he Bir Al-Thamada was a chore. The Fund were sent to the Treasurer every warned General Alexander that he author also would refer to command- year. Our investigative reporter would even “fire on the Eighth ers by name, and it would take me a looked into the matter, and we Army” if necessary to achieve his couple of sentences to find out what printed an article on the Fund in the goal. This is on page 268. Later, on side they were on. (Continued on page 7)

6 The Kommandeur

Barbarossa to Berlin Scenario by Joe Bisio

This is a 1942 Historical Scenario. shown openly after discard. The play- Mersa Matruh: (Panzer Army Af- Please let me know if you detect any ers then proceed to roll for their Or- rika) & IT Mechanized Corps errors or have any comments or ques- ders for the first game turn (Summer Budapest: HU 3rd Army tions. You may e-mail me at 1942), Axis add +2 to their orders roll Belgrade: x1 GE Inf. Corps and x1 [email protected]. Please put in the since “Hitler takes Command” has HU Inf. Corps subject line “BtB 1942 Scenario” so been played, and follow the normal Athens: x1 GE Inf. Corps I can distinguish it from the many turn sequence thereafter. Note that Crete: x1 GE Inf. Corps junk/spam/porno e-mails I get. during the “Draw Strategy Cards East Front: Axis control all of the Phase” of the Summer 1942 (Turn 6) SU west of their main line of units. Barbarossa to Berlin, 1942: “Hinge each player will shuffle the Total War Note: Kholm-Demyansk is Axis con- of Fate” Scenario Setup: Cards into the deck along with any trolled. (optional scenario name “Fall Blau non-permanent discards from the All units are GE unless noted: th th to Berlin”) Blitz deck. Allies may pick any one Luga: 18 Army. Novgorod: 16 The game begins with both players Blitzkrieg card from the remaining Army and Inf. Corps. Vyazma: rolling for Orders at the start of Turn cards for their first Total War hand. Trench 1, 9th Army. Rzhev: 6 (Summer 1942) and continues until The Axis may pick “Totaler Krieg” Trench 1, 3rd Pz Army. Minsk: Inf. th the end of Turn 18 (Summer 1945), a as usual as well as any one Blitz- Corps. Bryansk: 4 Army. Pskov: nd total of 13 Game Turns, or until the krieg card from amongst the remain- Pz Corps. Orel: Trench 1, 2 Pz Allies or Axis score an Automatic ing Blitz cards. Army. Kursk: 2nd Army, 2nd HU th Victory. Initial Markers: Industrial Evacua- Army, and 4 Pz Army. tion Turn 2, US Buildup Turn 4, Kiev: Inf. Corps. Poltava: IT 8th rd Initial VP Level: Axis have 14 VPs Speer Turn 4, Lend Lease Turn 5, Army. Dnepropetrovsk: 3 RO and Total War Turn 6 Industrial Evacua- 4th RO Armies. The following * Event cards have tion Tank Armies Turn 6, Industrial Perekop: RO Corps. Kharkov: 6th been played and should be removed Evacuation +1 Card Turn 10, Parti- Army. Stalino: 1st Pz Army. Meli- from the game. san Marker: Pinsk topol: 17th Army. Kerch: 11th Army All played and removed * Event Available GE Trenches: x2 “Atlantic cards should be considered played Wall Trench 1s” to satisfy any prerequisites or limita- Available SU Trenches: x2 Trench ALLIED SETUP: tions on other events or map play Markers done during play of this scenario. Permanently Removed: x2 CW Neutral Setup: Exactly as the 1941 Corps, SU SW Front Mech Axis (remove a total of 12 Blitz BtB initial Turn 1 setup. cards): leaving 13 Blitz cards in play Eliminated Box: x13 SU 2-1-3 In- Blitz War Deck: 1, 3-4, 6-9, 13, 16- AXIS SETUP: fantry Armies and x2 SU Shock Ar- 17, 22, 23. mies ( 1st Shk and 2nd Shk) Eliminated Box: x1 Pz Corps Allies (remove a total of 9 cards): Reserve Box: x2 CW Corps, x4 SU leaving 16 Blitz cards in play Reserve Box: x3 GE Inf. Corps, x3 2-1-3 Infantry Armies Blitz War Deck: 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13-14, GE Pz Corps, x2 RO Corps, x1 HU 19, 24 Corps Western Allies: The Middle East is Initial Hands: Each player draws all Allied Controlled with the excep- seven cards. The Allied initial draw West Front: x1 GE Inf. corps each tion of neutral Turkey. All 3 Beach- has to include card # 4 (Soviet in: Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Hol- heads are available for Invasion Rein.). The Axis initial hand has to land, Brest, Ruhr. Anywhere in Oc- Placement. include card # 14 (Fall Blau). After cupied France not stacked: (1st GE Alexandria: BR Corps. Basra: BR looking at his hand, the Allied player Army) and (7th GE Army). Corps. El Alamein: CW Corps and may call a “mulligan” and discard up West Wall Trench 1 each in Stuttgart Desert Army to four cards from his hand and Saar, x1 GE Pz Corps in Mu- (including the mandatory card). Any nich Soviet Forces: discarded cards are replaced from the Note: The word: “Inf. Army” repre- draw deck, refilling the hand to seven Southern Front: x1 IT Inf. Corps sents placement of a SU 2-1-3 (1-1-3 cards. After the Allied player con- each in Genoa, Trieste, Zagreb, Alba- flip) Army ducts his mulligan, the Axis player nia, Buerat, Hellfire Pass, Buq Buq, All spaces behind the main Soviet follows the same procedure, but may Naples, Taranto, and Palermo; x1 BU frontline are Allied controlled. discard and replace up to two cards Corps each in Sofia, Salonika, and Leningrad: Trench 1, Leningrad only. Any discarded cards are not Plovdiv. Axis Controls all of Libya. Front and Inf. Army

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Tikhvin-Volkhov: Volkhov Front and Turn Record track using the event (Continued from page 1) Inf. Army markers that came with the game. Quarterly Report—Year to date Valdai: Reserve Front and 3rd Shk. For purposes of this scenario, Army mark off everything through Turn 6 Kalinin: Northwest Front except for Fall Blau. Show the Turn Income th Dues 804.00 Mozhaisk: Kalinin Front and 4 10 Industrial Evacuation +1 Card on Interest Income 2.63 Shk. Army the track. Fall Blau and the Turn 7-9 Perpetual Income 1.20 Kaluga: West Front and Inf. Army events, of course, are dependent on Total Income $807.83 Moscow: Trench 1, Stalin and Cen- card play throughout the scenario. tral Front Expenses Tula: Trench 1, Steppe Front Turn 1 June 1941 Barbarossa Bank Charges 17.88 Elets: Bryansk Front and Inf. Army Turn 2 Summer 1941 OKH Conf. MC(L. Deck, ‘03) 25.58 Voronezh: Voronezh Front and Inf. Turn 3 Fall 1941 “Taifun,” Hitler Printing Army Declares War, Sorge December K 301.86 February K 272.60 Voroshilovgrad: SW Front and Inf. Turn 4 Winter 1942 Speer, US Treasurer 56.19 Army Buildup Total Expenses $1069.72 Rostov: South Front Turn 5 Spring 1942 Hitler takes th Yaroslavl: 5 Shk. Army Command, Lend Lease, Partisans Assets (as of 03-31-04) Krasnodar: Caucasus Front and Inf. Turn 6 Summer 1942 Fall Blau, In Cash and Bank Accounts Army dustrial Evacuation-Tank Armies, Perpetual Fund 701.20 Stalingrad: Stalingrad Front Total War Begins Checking 5129.84 Saratov: Don Front Turn 7 Fall 1942 Luftwaffe Supply, Total Assets Sevastopol: Inf. Army Torch $5831.04 Turn 8 Winter 1943 Totaler Krieg Optional Special 1942 Scenario Turn 9 Spring 1943 ASW Victory Rules: Turn 10 Summer 1943 Industrial If used, both of these optional extra Evacuation +1 Card rules should be played together. Æ Æ Back issues available on CD Allied Blitz Card #4 (Soviet Tank Armies) Back issues of The Kommandeur Up to three of these tank armies may edited by the current editor are avail- be placed like LCUs, but no more able on one CD in PDF format. That than one per space. includes Vol. 37 No. 2 through the current issue. These are available at cost: $2 to US addresses, $3 to other addresses. Send money and requests to me at the address on page 11. Make checks out to Omar DeWitt.

(Continued from page 5) Axis Blitz Card #24 (German Rein- October 2002 issue. Since then, forcements) For your information: wheels have been turning. The Fund Both of the corps size SCUs may be is now under the aegis of AHIKS, placed like LCUs, but no more than Players are wanted for Play-by- and the membership has added to the one per space. E-Mail Medieval Diplomacy: War principal this year. The income from One of these corps may be placed in and Conquest. This game has turns the Fund is not great, but it and the an Axis-controlled and in-full-supply once per week, and it’s completely cost-cutting measures we have made Paris. free to play (no ads or anything ei- in publishing The Kommandeur will ther). All realms and units are his- help keep future dues down. We all Note on Placing Markers for events torically accurate and faithfully de- thank those who contributed to the of the Turn Record Track: picted on the game map for the time Perpetual Fund this year. My offer to period (circa 1320 AD). match donations still has $37 to go. Below is the full listing through You can check out the game and Any takers? Turn 10 of when the event markers sign up at: www.agegames.com/mw. played or kicked in historically on the Om ar DeW itt

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June 24-27, Columbus, OH Letter to the editor be interesting to see what the cost has ORIGINS been, historically speaking: Contact: Gama (303/635-2223) I am not entirely clear about what 1980-1 $7.00 www.originsgames.com/ started the current push to move 1982-4 $8.00 people off of paper copies of The 1985-6 $10.00 July 2-5, San Luis Obispo, CA Kommandeur. Perhaps the time has 1987-8 $8.00 POLYCON XXII simply come for change; who can 1989-91 $10.00 www.polycon.org say? 1992 $11.00 I just received Vol. 39 #1 in the 1993-5 $18.00 July 9-11, Hunt Valley, MD mail, as I requested. I will read it in 1996-7 $16.00 SHORELEAVE 26 due course. I do not know how many 1998 $15.00 Phone: 410/496-4456 members are in my situation: I long 1999-2000 $8.00 E-mail: information@shore- ago stopped actually playing the 2001 $6.00 leave.com games due to the pressure of time and 2002-3 $5.00 www.shore-leave.com lack of space, but I still support the 2004 $12.00 hobby through magazine subscrip- July 9-11, Milwaukee, WI tions and my membership in AHIKS. I will not try to apply the concept GAMEFEST-MILWAUKEE Although I have my copies of The of “present value” to these amounts; www.gamefestseries.com Kommandeur from Vol.11 # 2, I have however, I am sure we all realize that records of the annual membership fee $7.00 in 1980 would be considerably July 10-11, Auckland, New Zealand only from 1980 on. I thought it might larger today. Similarly, those paying AUCKLAND DIPLOMACY CHAMPION- $6.00 for the e-Kommandeur are pay- SHIPS ing considerably less than we were in http://daanz.org.au/dip- 1980. Such is the “magic” of infla- tournaments.htm July 30-August 1, Tempe, AZ tion. HEXACON 14 As I recall, there was a financial July 10-11, Jamestown, NY www.hexacon.org crisis during the really-high-cost GALACTICON 2004 years; the decline after 1995 reflects www.gwfwrestling.com August 3-8, Hunt Valley, MD the recovery of the Treasury from this WORLD BOARDGAME CHAMPIONSHIP problem. I believe the Perpetual Fund July 14-18, East Brunswick, NJ Contact: Don Greenwood was originally intended to avoid these DEXCON 7—AMERICA PLAYS E-mail: [email protected] fluctuations in the future by smooth- AGAIN! www.boardgamers.org ing out the mismatch between costs www.dexposure.com/dexcon7.html and income. August 5- 8, Indianapolis, IN What I would suggest is, actually, July 16-18, West Hartford, Conn GEN CON the continuation of the present policy CONNECTICON 2004 www.gencon.com with one change: if it really costs $2/ www.ConnectiCon.org/ issue/member to mail The Komman- August 13-15, Seattle, WA deur then, if the cost with the e- July 16-18, Kissimmee, FL DRAGONFLIGHT 2004 Kommandeur is $6 (which pays for FLORIDA CONQUEST KISSIMMEE www.dragonflight.org the primary services of AHIKS), www.floridaconquest.com those of us who want it on paper August 19-22, Indianapolis, IN should be paying $18.00. Which, July 16-18, St. Augustine, FL GENCON INDY 2004 after all, will be less (because of in- GRAILQUEST 2004 www.gencon.com/ flation) than the $18.00 we were pay- www.grailquestcon.com ing in 1993–1995. Sept. 4-5 Charlottesville, VA Of course, in that case, we would July 22-25, Lancaster, PA COLUMBIA GAMES EAST BLOCK definitely expect to get all six issues, HISTORICON 2004 PARTY whether six e-Kommandeurs ap- Contact: Pat Shields www.ColumbiaGames.com peared or not. Or get a $2 not- (519) 633-5757 published-issue credit. So, this www.historicon.org Oct. 14-17, Minehead, England scheme might help encourage regular UK GENCON publication of The Kommandeur, July 23-25, Nashua, NH www.gencon.com/displayeurope.asp something which is not needed now OGC x?file=europe-UK (you are quite good at getting it out www.ogc-con.com regularly) but which could certainly December 2-5 Anaheim, CA have been used at times in the past July 23-25, Durham, NC GENCON and might be helpful again in the TRINOC-CON www.gencon.com/socalhome.aspx? future. www.trinoc-con.org file=socal Paul Person 0372 Æ Æ

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Open Match Requests from Rog er E astep In requesting matches, it’s helpful if you use the Match Re- Hannibal (AH) (0216) Schoenberger E/M quest Form available on the back of each issue of The Komman- Invasion America (SPI) (0804) Sheppard E deur or on the AHIKS website: Invasion Sicily (GMT) (0225) Segarra E www.angelfire.com/ny4/gmtom/AHIKS.htm. Kasserine (GMT) (0225) Segarra E Mail the request to me at 16456 Tomahawk Drive, Gaithers- Muckden 1905 (Spence & G) (1192) Humphries E burg, MD 20878, or e-mail the equivalent information (including your e-mail address) to me at my NEW address: Musket & Pike (SPI) (1192) Humphries E [email protected]. When a match is set up, only one of Napoleon’s Last Battles, the players should request ICRKs for all players in the game. any Quad (SPI) (1210) Fassio E/M If you plan to change or have changed your address, phone PanzerBlitz (AH) (0804) Sheppard E number, or e-mail address, please let me know the updated in- PanzerBlitz (AH) (1551) Dohrman E/M formation as soon as possible to avoid delay in the receipt of Panzer Leader (AH) (0804) Sheppard E your Kommandeur, ICRKs, and other valuable AHIKS infor- Pre-Stags (SPI) (1192) Humphries E mation. Pre-Stags (SPI) (0817) Riley E Please send top portion of completed ICRKS to Match Rat- Red Parachutes (AP) (0012) Jolly E ing Officer Andy Johnson. Red Star/White Star (SPI) (0012) Jolly E Note: this list is updated periodically between issues of The Richthofen’s War (AH) (1554) Trosky Kommandeur at www.angelfire.com/ny4/gmtom/AHIKS.htm. Russian Front (AH) (0036) Yarwood M Schutztruppe (Flying Buffalo) (1192) Humphries E 1776 (AH) (1561) McCabe E Search & Destroy (SPI) (1192) Humphries E 1914 (AH) (1550) Scott E/M Siege of Port Arthur (Strife) (1192) Humphries E Adv. Third Reich (AH) (0804) Sheppard E Soldiers (SPI) (1192) Humphries E Afrika Korps (AH) (0804) Sheppard E Squad Leader Adv (AH) (1293) Wood E/M Alexander (AH) (1192) Humphries E Squad Leader Adv (AH) (0804) Sheppard E Antietam (SPI) (1137) Watson E Squad Leader Basic (AH) (1557) Williams E Anzio (AH) (0111) Oleson Stalingrad (AH) (0804) Sheppard E Anzio ‘69 (AH) (1192) Humphries E Submarine (AH) (1468) Thomas M Arab-Israeli Wars (AH) (0804) Sheppard E Submarine (AH) (0012) Jolly E Austerlitz (SPI) (0036) Yarwood Tannenberg (Spence & Gable) (1192) Humphries E Avalanche (AH) (0225) Segarra E Tannenberg (GMT) (1264) Unnerstall E/M Bitter Woods (AH/MMP/L2) (0073) Johnson E Victory in the Pacific (AH) (1019) Llewellyn E Blitzkrieg (AH) (0804) Sheppard E Von Manstein’s Backhand Blow(1530) Franz E Bomber (Yaquinto) (1312) Wells E War and Peace (AH) (1554) Trosky Bulge ‘65 (AH) (0804) Sheppard E Waterloo (AH) (1527) Brooks M Bulge ‘81 (AH) (0939) Martin E World War III (SPI) (0804) Sheppard E Bulge ‘91 (Smithsonian) (0804) Sheppard E Year of the Rat (SPI) (0804) Sheppard E Bull Run (AH) (1252) Brooker M Chantilly (Ivy St) (1262) Marcone E E (member requests e-mail only) M (member re- Chattanooga (SPI) (1137) Watson E quests mail only) E/M (either OK) Civil War (VG) (1561) McCabe E Civilization (AH) (1185) Ringhoffer M Diplomacy (AH) (1185) Ringhoffer M Opponents in the European Region Dunkerque ‘40 (SDC) (1192) Humphries E We the People (AH) Poulter E.T.O. (Neppagames) (1466) Svevsson E

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Orel: Trench 1, 2nd Pz Army, & 9th Army Barbarossa to Berlin Scenario by Joe Bisio nd Konotop: 2 Army Kiev: HU Corps Odessa: RO Corps Sevastopol: RO Corps Kharkov: 4th Pz Army & SS Pz Corps This is a 1943 Historical Scenario. Please “Hitler takes Command” has been played, Stalino: (1st Pz Army) & 8th Army Meli- let me know if you detect any errors or and follow the normal turn sequence topol: (6th Army) Kerch: (17th Army) have any comments or questions. You thereafter. Note that the Allied Player is may e-mail me at [email protected] , at +1 Card for the “Draw Strategy Cards ALLIED SETUP: please put in the subject line “BtB 1943 Phase” of the Summer 1943

Scenario” so I can distinguish it from the Game-Turn many junk/spam/porno e-mails I get. Permanently Removed: x2 CW Corps, BR Desert Army, SU Fronts as follows Initial Markers: Industrial Evacuation SW Front Mech, and the following four WWII: Barbarossa to Berlin 1943: Turn 2, US Buildup Turn 4, Lend Lease (4) SU Infantry Fronts: SW Front, Steppe “Closing the Ring” Scenario Setup Turn 5, Torch Turn 7 Industrial Evacua- Front, Voronezh Front, & South Front. (optional scenario name “Belgorod to tion +1 Card Turn 10, Destroyed Fort

Berlin”) marker: Sevastopol Partisan Markers: The game begins with both players roll- Pinsk, Sarajevo, Orsha-Mogilev, Eliminated Box: x13 SU 2-1-3 Infantry Armies, Stalingrad Front, & x2 SU Shock ing for Orders at the start of Turn 10 Available GE Trenches: 2 “German Armies (1st Shk & 2nd Shk) (Summer 1943) and continues until the Trench 1s” & 2 “Atlantic Wall Trench end of Turn 18 (Summer 1945) a total of 1s” th 9 Game Turns, or Reserve Box: (BR 8 Army), CW Corps, x6 SU 2-1-3 Infantry Armies, & until the Allies score an Automatic Vic- Neutral Setup: Exactly as the 1941 BtB x2 SU Tank Armies (2nd Tnk & 6th Tnk) tory, or one player decides to resign and initial Turn 1 setup. Note :All of these units are all full accept defeat. AXIS SETUP: strength except BR 8th Army.

th Initial VP Level: Axis are at 29 VPs Permanently Removed: 8 IT Army Western Allies: Allies control all of North Africa & Malta. The Middle East is The following * Event cards have been Eliminated Box: x1 IT Inf. Corps, x1 IT nd also all Allied Controlled with the excep- played and should be removed from the Mech Corps, HU 2 Army, x3 GE Inf. game: Corps x3 GE Pz Corps, x1 RO Corps, GE tion of neutral Turkey. All 3 Beach-heads are available for Invasion Placement. All played and removed * Event cards Panzer Army Afrika Alexandria: CW Corps Basra: BR Corps should be considered played to satisfy Mareth: BR Corps & CW Corps any prerequisites or limitations on other Reserve Box: x2 GE Inf. Corps, x2 GE Tunis: (BR 1st Army) Bone: US Corps events or map play done during play of Pz Corps Sousse: US Corps this scenario. Soviet Forces: West Front: x1 GE Inf. corps each in: Note: The word: “Inf. Army” represents Axis (a total of 18 cards): leaving 37 Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Holland, Brest, placement of a SU 2-1-3 (1-1-3 flip) cards in play Marseilles. Anywhere in Occupied st th Army Blitz War Deck: 1, 3-4,6-9, 13-14, 16-19, France not stacked: (1 GE Army) & (7 All spaces behind the main Soviet front- 22-24, GE Army) line are Allied controlled. West Wall Trench 1 each in Stuttgart & Leningrad: Trench 1, (Leningrad Front) Total War Deck: 26, 34 Saar & Inf. Army

Tikhvin-Volkhov: Inf. Army Allies (a total of 16 cards): leaving 39 Southern Front: x1 IT Inf. Corps each in Valdai: Volkhov Front cards in play Genoa, Trieste, Zagreb, Rome, Albania, Rzhev: Northwest Front & (3rd Shk. Blitz War Deck: 1, 2, 4-5, 7, 9, 11, 13-15, Naples, Taranto, Palermo, Syracuse. Army) 19, 21-22, 24 x1 BU Corps each in Sofia, Salonika, & Vyazma: Kalinin Front & 4th Shk. Army Plovdiv. x1 GE Pz Corps Messina. x1 GE Kaluga: West Front & Inf. Army Total War Deck: 31, 36 Pz Corps anywhere in mainland Italy on Moscow: Stalin & 4th Tnk. Army or north of the line Foggia to Naples. rd Tula: Trench 1, Bryansk Front & Inf. Initial Hands: Each Player draws seven Budapest: HU 3 Army, Bucharest: rd th Army cards. The Axis initial draw has to in- (3 & 4 RO Armies) Elets: Central Front & 3rd Tnk Army clude cards #s 27 & 42. The Allied initial Athens: x1 GE Inf. Corps Kursk: Trench 2, 1st Ukr Front, Reserve hand has to include card # 34 (“Husky”). Crete: x1 GE Inf. Corps Front, 1st Tnk Army After looking at his hand the Axis player Belgrade: x1 GE Inf. Corps & x1 HU Vornezh: Trench 1, 2nd Ukr Front, 5th may call a “mulligan” & discard up to Inf. Corps Tnk Army four cards from his hand (including ei- Voroshilovgrad: Trench 1, 3rd Ukr Front ther, both or none of the two mandatory East Front: Axis control all of the SU & 4th Ukr Front cards)…any discarded cards are replaced west of their main line of units. Addition- Rostov: (Don front) & (5th Shock Army) from the deck refilling the hand to seven ally Novgorod & Roslav-Yenya are also Kamenskaya: Inf. Army cards. After the Axis player conducts his Axis controlled. All units are GE unless Krasnodar: (Caucasus Front) & Inf. mulligan the Allied player may follow the noted: th Army same procedure. Any discarded cards are Luga: 11 Army Kholm-Demyansk: th th not shown openly after discard. The play- (18 Army) Velikiye Luki: 16 Army [O ptional rules for this scenario w ill ers than proceed to roll for their Orders Smolensk: 3rd Pz Army Minsk: Inf. th be printed in the next issue.] for the first game turn (Summer 1943), Corps Gomel: Inf. Corps Bryansk: 4 Axis add +2 to their orders roll since Army