Battlegames 001.Indd
Editorial Contents find that I must resort to Editorial 3 metaphor to convey what I’m Henry Hyde, UK feeling right now. How is it, I Seven Years’ War 250th Anniversary 4 Ihave asked myself many times, that a Bill Protz, USA woman can go through the agonies of Wargaming: how it all began 6 childbirth, the living hell that being Don Featherstone, UK the mother of a screaming newborn Marathon 490BC 10 is, enduring the sleepless nights, the Harry Pearson, UK snatched meals, the obliteration of Quick play Greeks v Persians rules 12 their social life for months, nay years Harry Pearson, UK at a time, only to put themselves A beginner’s guide to blogging 16 through it all again after what often Greg Horne, Australia seems like a cruelly short interval? Table Top Teaser: Pontoon 17 Don’t they remember what it was like? How can their brains suppress Brigadier(Ret’d) C S Grant, UK the memory of so much pain so quickly? The Wars of the Faltenian Succession 20 Well, let’s put it this way. Tomorrow morning, I’m having a baby. Henry Hyde, UK This first edition of Battlegames goes to press, where it will be Everything old is new again 22 introduced to the world via the midwife that is my favourite local Ross Macfarlane, Canada printers. It will emerge, blinking, in about ten days’ time, and then it Message in a battle 24 must make its own way. Phil Olley, UK Just like a new mother, I’ve not had much sleep lately! But it’s my Competition 26 own fault for having had this dream a long, long time ago.
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