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Page CONTENTS 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Mission From God Issue 24 Page CONTENTS Obsidian 19 Ode, Pigbutton 3 Introduction to playing games by post 20 The Premier League, psychozine, Puma 4 Introduction to the current issue 21 Queen s Lane Advertiser, The 2002 Zine Poll Ratadan (new), Ref Serendipity 5 Zine Poll Results 22 Smiffy s Marvellous Web Site Poll 6 Electronic Gamezine, Sopwith Les Pimley Award Stats, Sprouts of Wrath, Sampling some zines Strangitude Subscribing to foreign zines 7 23 Striker, The Tangerine Terror the International Subscription Exchange 24 Thing, Top of the League, To About the editor Win Just Once 8 Start of the Zine Reviews 25 Track Events, Underneath The A League Of Our Own (new), Mango Tree Are You Blind Ref?, Variable Pig, Where Is My Armistice Day 26 Mind 9 Astradyne, Bloodstock 27 The White Cat 10 Blue Nose Special, Borealis, Some Overseas Zines Counter, CounterMoves (new) The Abyssinian Prince 11 The Cunning Plan, Cut & 28 The Canadian Diplomat, Thrust, Dangerous Liaisons Damn The Consequences, Maniac s Paradise Lost (new), Devolution, Dolchstoß, 12 off the shelf Flagship 29 PBM02, Western Front, Zine Flights of Fancy 13 Register 14 For Whom The Die Rolls, For Whom The Web Rocks 30 Hobby Information 15 Games Games Games, Games Hobby web sites Gazette, Gemini, Geneva Conventions 16 Gentle Art of Making 31 That s a wrap! Enemies, Greatest Hits 17 Hopscotch, Jack Duckworth s Alternate Universe, Jumpers for Goalposts (new) 18 Mais N est-ce pas la Gare, Minstrel, 90 Minutes, 2 Mission From God Issue 24 IF YOU ARE NEW TO POSTAL all the players and adjudicates the games. GAMING, READ THIS A game report is then printed in the next issue of the magazine which is then posted to all the subscribers. A deadline is set so that players Hello and welcome to issue 24 of Mission know when they have to send in their next set From God. To those of you who saw a of orders. Players then analyse their position, previous issue or who are already cognisant perhaps communicate with other players, and of the pleasures of playing games by post, then submit some more orders to the GM. most of the stuff in this section will be familiar to you, and I suggest you go straight And so it goes on, with one turn getting to the "Old Lags" section (see page 4). To processed every 5 weeks or so (frequencies those of you, however, who are wondering differ from zine to zine). what postal gaming and this magazine are all about, read on. A GAME TAKES HOW LONG? Mission From God is a listing of amateur You may have spotted that games can take a magazines (usually called "zines" for short) long time to complete when played by post. that run games by post. The name "Mission It's not unheard of for games of Diplomacy to From God" is a reference to a line from the last two or three years (and for it to seem like film The Blues Brothers; I didn't choose the ten if you have been stuck on one unit since title of the zine but I presume the aim was to turn 6....) The beauty of postal gaming is that convey som e sort of evangelical zeal to you can play several games at once, thereby convert people to the joys of playing games getting a massive gam ing fix each month. by post. Besides which, in a game such as Diplomacy, there is much frantic activity between turns as Classic games like chess and draughts have players write to each other and try and set up been played by post for many years but it is joint ambushes of other players (but beware only since the 1960's, and the advent of a the double cross!) Mind you, not all games game called Diplomacy, that the idea of require the players to work hard between playing multi-player games by post caught turns - there are many enjoyable games where on. Since the sixties the amateur postal the players w ho give 5 minutes thought to gaming hobby has evolved and in some cases their orders do as well as those who put in 5 mutated - on the one hand into professional weeks of effort. Play By Mail games (see the review of Flagship in this magazine) and on the other PROS AND CONS hand into play by e-mail (For Whom The Web Rocks is a good zine to see for a window into One of the main appeals of the hobby is that it this faction of the hobby). Despite the rival is a network of like-minded people. This attractions of these other means of playing enables the hobby to organise conventions games with people who live possibly (called "cons" for short) seven or eight times a thousands of miles away from you, the postal year, where subscribers to postal gaming gaming hobby has survived as a cheap, zines meet up in hotels or university campuses leisurely and above all friendly arena in which and spend the week-end drinking beer, eating to play games. curries - oh, and playing games until the wee small hours. So postal gaming acts as a HERE'S HOW POSTAL GAMING WORKS contact network for face-to-face gaming too. See page 31 for more info available on the web A man or a woman decides to run some about conventions. games by post and starts up a postal gaming magazine. People subscribe to the magazine MORE INFO FOR NEW STARTERS and sign up for one or more of the games on offer. The Postal Gaming Starter Pack consists of Mission From God, some zines from the Zine The players send orders in to the adjudicator Bank and a Frequently Asked Questions (called the "GM", or Games Master), who is (FAQ) docum ent relating to the hobby. usually - but not always - the editor of the magazine. The GM processes the orders from To get the starter pack just send 4 first class 3 Mission From God Issue 24 stamps to me: Allan Stagg John Harrington If anyone else would like to contribute reviews 1 Churchbury Close, Enfield, of any zine they see regularly, they are most Middlesex, EN1 3UW. welcome to. My preference is for reviews on diskette or sent to my e-mail address (see In case you are wondering what the Zine above) but failing that typed or neatly hand- Bank is, it is simply a store of zines from written will do. I can accept most formats but which I choose samples to send to anybody if in doubt, include a text-only version. who requests them. Anyone can get zines If you contribute all I can offer you is a free from the Zine Bank you don t have to be a copy of the zine - and I can't even offer you that newcomer. If you have a particular gaming if you don't put your address on the reviews. interest (e.g. Diplomacy, war games, sport, railway games) let me know when requesting I am happy to include reviews of any magazine samples from the Zine Bank and I'll try and that you think has some relevance to the fix you up. postal gaming hobby, whether it be a Diplomacy zine, a United zine, En Garde! zine Editors are, of course, encouraged to send me or even a chat-zine by a postal-gaming samples of their zines for the Zine Bank; 3 personality. Increasingly I am sneaking in web copies a year should suffice. sites too if I think they are particularly relevant to the postal gaming community. Editors may Some more general information on the not do reviews of their own zines but are Amateur Postal Gaming Hobby can be found encouraged to send me factual details. in the back pages of this magazine. Where possible, try to include information in OLD LAGS, START HERE the Mission From God format, which is: Welcome to issue 24 of Mission From God, Name of zine plus "also know n as" (aka) under the editorship of: Latest issue number, size/format of zine, JOHN HARRINGTON frequency, typical page count, price (specify Fiendish Board Games whether including or excluding postage) 1 Churchbury Close, Enfield, Middlesex EN1 3UW http://www.fbgames.co.uk Games being run (and number of each) e-mail: [email protected] Waiting lists open This is the eighth issue of Mission From God since I took it over som e six years ago and if Waffle waffle incisive comment waffle, etc. much of it looks familiar it is because it is describing your opinion of the zine largely a revision of a rather poor issue 23 that I handed out for free at MidCon. As I joked at the time, the zine was free but still THE 2002 ZINE POLL overpriced; the zine was rushed and also One of the benefits of bringing out a revised lacking in viewpoints other than my ow n. I edition is that it allows me to include the 2002 am glad to say that after a good deal of Zine Poll results. These are printed below, but whining and cajoling a number of people first a quick explanation as to what the Zine subsequently agreed to submit zine reviews Poll is all about. As the name suggests, it is a for this revised edition of Mission From God poll to determine which zine is the best zine and I am now much happier about the out there.
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