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VOLUME 2, NO. 1 Publication Office: 210 West 28th Street Baltimore, Marvland 21211 MAY 1965

SQUANDER- THE GAME FOR BORN LOSERS Behind the Publishin~ Scene - Part 2 A Critique: In the last issue we discussed the 5• Stalingrad Re-Played step cycle of designing a new game. The March issue featured a replay But designing is only half the "battle. " of Stal ingrad wherein the German player Of equal importance is getting a new attacked at 1-2 odds in most cases. game onto the retail shelves and ulti• Since"then, many subscribers have sub• mately into the consumer's hands. mitted "better" starting defensive line• streamers and decals also help lure ups for the Russian player designed to Promotion is the Key the customer to the Avalon Hill section preclude the swift breakthrough made by the German player in the early of the game counters. Today it takes a wildly exciting ad• stages of the game that was replayed. vert is ing campaign to get your product Direct Mail Most of the plans submitted were noticed. predicated upon keeping a skeleton Case in point is $quander, our brand Russian force in Finalnd in order to Not the least important is the direct bolster the defense in the Polish• new mass-market game. (Battle game mail campaign. Every person that fanatics should skip this article, this s ends in a Registration Card is placed Hungarian line. game's not for you.) Even though tbe On our consumer mailing list so that Our design staff picked out a few of concept of play is a departure from our they can be informed of the latest in these and set them up. In one case, the usual format our consumer panel felt German player had occupied Leningrad AH products. This type of promotion on the third turn because Finland had that it was up to the Avalon Hill standard also is a merchandising aid to the re• of enjoyment. It features a completely tailer since our "hard- sell" sheet actu• been left too weak. In other cases, the different philosophy ... the winner is German-Finnish troops so harrassed ally creates more store traffic for him. the weak Russian force left in Finland the loser. It's Monopoly in reverse • Most people on our mailing list much $quander is the game for born losers. prefer running down to their Avalon that the Russian player was constantly running troops back and forth from the So here is a "can't miss" game as Hill dealer to pick up the new game in Polish border. Such vascillation ulti• far as design is concerned. But how person rather than ordering through the mails. mately created a hole and the German will the public find out about it. As player was able to capitalize. with our battle titles, prime necessity There were, however, some ex• is the insertion of printed advertise• Trade Advertising cellent compromises and the German ments in magazines that are distributed player was hard put to make any head• to the age groups we seek. Sports Illu• All of the above advertising and promotional support is of no value un• way. strated, Boys Life, Venture are typical We are re-printing several- set them magazines we select. less we can convince the middle rnen that we have a winner. Therefore, as up and see how they stand the" 1- 2" test. The first is from Art Schneider, 6720 Free Publicity is the custom in the industry, we em• 23rd Avenue, Kenosha, Wisconsin. ploy factory representatives all over Supporting this "paid-in" magazine the country who call on the wholesalers IIStalingrad replayed in the January advertising are press releases which and retailers in person. They are the (Continued on Page 2) are maile9 out to thousands of news• hub of the entire promotional wheel. papers and magazines who are happy To give them ammunition, we run that starts you off with a million $quan• to receive this type of filler material. trade-advertisements that appear in derbucks. The object is to be the first As a matter of fact, there are quite a publications such as Toys & Novelties, to throw your money away - even faster few well-known editors who are Avalon Playthings, Toy & Hobby World; etc., than the government does it. The beauty Hill afficionados themselves and are which are distributed strictly to toy and of it all is the fact that it still requires more than willing to "push" our pro• game buyers. These ads make them a great deal of thought to win the game. ducts at no char-ge. aware of the existence of our ~roducts As in that all-time great, Monopoly, and the availability of new games. the brighter players will invariably win Point of Sale Advertising most of the time. That's why the toy Instant Success buyers are going crazy over $quander. Counter display material containing They especially like the fact that its Product Folders are sent to retailers $quander has become an instant suc• priced at $3.98, just like Monopoly. free of charge which helps attract the cess with the toy buyers who have be'en Now, we don't have anything against attention of the casual shopper to our asking us for years to develop a game Monopoly - after all, it took 30 years products On the shelves. Window for the mass-market. Here is a game to come up with something better. L -~

THE GENERAL PAGE 2 12 Yl6CCl5Zl6Z16NNl4KKl4NNl5KK14BBl5LL1465644235372829 (36?) BBl5 after Jon Perica's west coast Game 242216271314 17 Analysis Club. ;he 1VAtON 'kILt @~~~1]!~il:. The son of an Air Force careerman, . " a bi-monthly magazine mailed pretty Stan Wolcott, is the west editor. His close to the first day of January, March, May, straight "A" scholastic standing has July, September and November. obtained for him two nominations to the Air Force academy and a four- year The Avalon Hill General is edited and pub• Regent's Scholarship to the University lished by the Avalon Hill Company, Baltimore, of Nebraska, Wolcott's ultimate aim is .Maryland. to enter international politic s. Copyright 1964 T.A. H. C. Rounding out the staff is Tom A. I?altimore. Maryland. New Editors Bosseler in the sC:;uthwest. Bosseler's Printed in U. S.A. ultimate aim is just to get out of high Appointed to Staff school so he may devote more time to (Continued from Page 1. winning Avalon Hill games. He will As The General begins its second feature articles in his column on how GENERAL seemed to offer a challenge• year of publication, a new group of to "attack, defend, plan campaigns, and f for a foolproof Russian Order of Battle, area editors takes over for the next six win every game." and I think I have one that will limit issues. Of course, we will continue to the German 1-2 Blitz as much as include articles from the previous Quite an inter sting lineup of editors, Terrain will allow. Of course, the editors whose contributions in the first what? We urge you to write them ... subsequent moves, and the willingness year of publication helped make this anything of interest you have to say may of the German to take risks will still magazine a rousing success. very well wind up in sections of their determine the game, but this order of respective columns. battle would surely be an as set because Why Editors at All? no major river lines could be breached The establishment of area editor• in the first move. (I think) ships promotes a closer kinship with GRID UNITS BY readers, especially those far distant East COORDINATE COMBAT FACTORS from the east coast offices of Avalon S-18 Hill. It allows the reader to air his 7-10, 6-9 Laurence Plumb U-18 4-6 views with editors of his own geographic X-15 and literary climate. The editors 126 Washington Highway 2-3 themselves are selected on the basis of Amherst, New York 14226 X-16 4-6,4-6,4-6 Z-16 5-7, 5-7 diversification of gaming interests. AA-15 7-10, 5-7, 5-7 Thus you can count on an excellent EDITOR - covering Maine, New Hamp• cross-section of views each and every BB-15 5-7, 5-7, 5-7 shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode CC-14 5-7, 5-7, 4-6 issue from the newly appointed editors. Island, Connecticut, New York, New Editorships have been re-aligned into EE -12 4-6, 4-6 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Europe. JJ-12 4-6 five territories. Heading the east is Laurence Plumb who has had several KK-14 5-7, 5-7, 5-7 NN-13 4-6 articles published in the Triad, Amherst's literary magazine. A first Probability for 00-13 2-3 board Chess player at Amherst Central The rest are reserve or in Finland." High, Plumb claims that Avalon Hill Tactics & Strategy The second, from, Richard A. games "are more engrossing than Chess by Laurence Plumb Shagrin, room 356 Haggett Hall, U. of since the possible combinations and the Washington in Seattle, felt that the chance to show one's originality is much One of the most important abilities Nemunas River bend needed defensive greater. "Plumb is a direct descendant of every strategist and tactician is the from General Slocum, listed as com• bolstering. Here, then, is his com• ability to arrive at a decision under a I plete setup: mander of the Union XII Corps in the given set of combat conditions. His Gettysburg game. mind must combine the intangibles such Grid System: A through WW run along 1 In the southeast, avowed Confederate as terrain, pyschological condition, and East and West edges, through 57 run ° Marc Nicholson l.as been appointed on. enemy capability with the tangibles along North and South edges angled the basis of his interest in military such as odds, replacement rate, and southeast-northwest. Leningrad is K31, history. He has alrady designed a movement factor to develop a favorable Warsaw' is Z13, Bucharest is QQ9. game titled Chickamauga and chose and lqgical solution to a military situa• Cavalry the battle of Antietam as the subject for tion. 2 A36 a term paper. Nicholson is a member In this article I would like to examine 4 Sl8 of the Honor Society at Seneca High in 6 A36 the odds chart briefly to assist the Louisville, Kentucky. reader to arrive at such decisions. Armor C36Ul8E36G34Rl8AAl5 Taking credit for his wife I s articles 3542 21 6 Bl will be Myron R. Brundage,a new mid• The probability of a given event is west editor. Brundage's interesting defined as the number of favorable out• Infantry 7 Xl5 15 EE12 background include s employment for two comes over the total number of pos sible summers as a field foreman with outcomes. In the case of the die the Reynolds Survey. As a pyscology major probability of rolling any single number, in college, he has studied statistical say a four, is one-sixth, or one in six. 8 G34 methods and rhetoric •.• and has become This means that on the average, One 9 Bl Just about the most'fantatical Avalon roll in six will turn up the desired num• 10 JJl2 Hill devotee of the afficionado group. ber, or one-sixth of the time the die 11 Zl6 He heads up a Chicago club patterned will have a four face up. 0 1- 12-1 THE GENERAL2/61/6 2/61/61/61/62/61/6 PAGE 3 AEDB2AB2EXCDE 1-2 solidly defended beach when nine tim-es First, PAA groups all P units into out of ten the Allies would move ashore! stacks of 15 (the cavalry presents some In Stalingrad it can be very helpful in problems, but that's the way it goes). determining the number of one to twos One stack of infantry is initially placed 'necessary to insure (by insure I mean near Quatre Bras, it will later be used a probability of 9/10 or better) the to defend the hills around the road cracking of a river line, or it could be junction. The main stack of cavalry is In order to determine the probability put to use in the latest German strategy also placed at QB. It can be sent to of anyone given attack succeeding add of massive sets of one to twos by giving either Nivelles or Ligney as the battle the separate favorable outcomes. For an estimate of what losses the German demands. The remaining infantry is example, suppose one were contem• commander could expect. placed in a line on the Ligne River plating a two to one attack. The favor• I would appreciate hearing your com• covering the area from the secondary able outcomes would most likely be ments, criticisms and suggestions. road to St. Amand. The cavalry that considered to be DE, EXC, and DB2. was not used in the main stack is placed Their sum (1/6 + 2/6 + 1/6) is 4/6. around the infantry so as to prevent it Hence out of six two to one attacks one from being attacked on the first turn. I could expect to win four of them. Southeast 1 In order to determine the probability French Opening Moves of a given set of attacks succeeding The F player should divide his troops multiply the unfavorable results in the Marc Nicholson into three groups. The I and II Corps first attack by the unfavorable results 2425 Meadow Road will advance on Nivelles. A light mixed in the second attack by the unfavorable Louisville 5, Kentucky force will move toward QB. The re• results in the third attack and so on un• maining main force will move up from til all the separate attacks have been Fleurus and attack the P cavalry screen. included. This will give the probability EDITOR - covering Delaware, Maryland of losing every attack. Subtracting this D. C., Virginia, West Virginia, North Now or Never from one will give the complementwhich Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, The P player must now attack. If he Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, is not los ing every attack, or winning at is lucky with the die, he can try 1 to 1 Mississippi.' least one of them. For example, suppose or even 1 to 2 attacks. Other players cess there would be if three one to twos must confine themselves to more con• were attempted against a river line. At Waterloo Defense servative attacks. The P will eventu• one to two there is only one favorable ally lose all the units that he puts into event, DB2 (Exchange would not be con• by Marc Nicholson the fight but by striking first, he should sidered favorable since the defender be able to destroy at least a5 many F would still be smiling happily behind I would like to open my first column units. The strategy behind these open• 'his unbreached river line). The unfa• by publicly expressing my thanks to ing moves is three-fold. First, the P vorable results at one to two (EXC, AVALON HILL for making me an edi tor. is fighting only part of the F, the rest AB2, and AE) total (1/6 + 2/6 + 2/6) I promise to give this column my best being too far away to help. Second, this 5/6. The product of the separate totals effort, such as that may prove to be. battle takes several turns, perhaps as (5/6 x 5/6x 5/6) is 125/216 or.approx• Anyhow, thank you AVALON HILL. many as six or eight, allowing the AA imately 6/10. Subtracting this from Next, I invite anyone who has a reinforcements to arrive on the scene. one we get 4/10. Hence, in ten sets of workable opening and/ or move for Third, this attack can irrepairably crip• three one to twos, we could expect to either side in Waterloo to write me. I ple, the main F force. The AA troops win an attack in four of them. am going to conduct a sort of a survey. will now have to fight only the I and II Probability can also be used to de• Personally, I think the French have it corps. Of course, the psychological termine the macroscopic position one almost all their own way. One instance effect is also important. It give s the could expect to find ones elf after a where they don't will occupy the rest of initiative to the PAA. As long as it is given set of attacks against the enemy. this column. retained, the F will have to work quite Assume each of the separate probabili• hard to pull the game out of the fire. ties (DE, DB2, EXC, AB2 and AE) to P-A-A Loses Too Often be indicative of the whole attack. For As I stated above, I feel that the example, suppose one to twos were French player has a much easier time being made along an entire front with a of ''it in Waterloo. The P-A-A player Midwest total of sixty attack factors. Out of usually follows the same defense pat• these sixty factors, 1/6 or 10 would tern; fight for Nivelles, Quatre Bras, force the enemy back two. One-sixth, and Tilly; fall back slowly on Mont St. Myron R. Brundage 330 W. Dickens or 10 would exchange with enemy units. Jean; lose in the end. Usually, enough Two-sixths or (60 x 2/6) twenty factors French cavalry gets off the board to Chicago, Illinois 60614 would be forced back two. Two-six~hs eliminate the P. IV Corps by defection. or twenty factors would be eliminated There must be a better line of defense. EDITOR - covering Ohio, Indiana, Illi• by the AE. Totaling the eliminated nois, Michigan, Wisconsin, .Minnesota, units we find that thirty out of sixty P-A-A Must Attack Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana. factors would be eliminated either As a student of French for four through exchanges or direct elimination. years, I am quite an avid fan of Napo• These three calculations can be very leon. Consequently, I most often play Bismarck by Mail helpful in determining both strategy and the French side. The few times I have by Myron R. Brundage tactics. In D-Day they can be helpful lost, I have been the victim of radical in determining an invasion area; by defenses. The P-A-A player relied on Avalon Hill's Bismarck is a naval setting a minimum probability of 9/10 the old axiom that the best defense is game which is easily adaptable to play• as the probability of moving ashore one a goo9.'offense. One such system I will by-mail. might be tempted to invade a seemingly relate to you now. To adapt your Bismarck game to THE GENERAL PAGE 4

play-by-mail, first put a grid on your This is done so that the British player Turrets respectfully. For the British battle board, placing numbers one thru can keep a record of his co- ordinates (1-7) is always Bow and (10-14) always seven horizontally along the narrow between letters and turns. The Bis• Stern. Since the British can only use ends of the board from the corners marck player only need place his co• one Sec. Arm. at a time (8 & 9) will reading Northwest to Northeast and ordinate next to the word Bismarck on suffice. For Bismarck (7 & 8) are tp.e Southwest to Southeast. Then place his own such sheet to keep his record. Port side and (9 & 10) are the Starb. letters A thru H vertically along one When a gun is hit that stock is stricken side from corners reading Northeast Conducting of Battle from the list and is not used for the to Southeast. rest of the Battle. Later, when positioning your ships Battle is resolved similarly to the Along with these lists of stocks go a on the Battle Board refer first to their Afrika Korps method of play-by-mail. list of closing dates, preferably Fri• grid co-ordinate, lA, 3D, etc. and then Therefore, ten digit tables are needed days, because Friday's results also to their Bow Facing. That is, the di• rather than the six digit ones printed appear in Saturday papers. Friday's .•. rection the Bow of your ship is facing on your Search and Battle Boards. You are also good because it takes two days , (North, Northeast, East, Southeast, or and your opponent may build your own traveling time for each letter and One South, etc). If you wish to give it more or use the following tables: For the days contemplation and writing giving realism you can add the degrees of the Search Board Chance Table, digits 1 six days between closing dates . .-; compass to the direction by saying, for & 2 stand for "Bismarck locates a Thanks to John Rockholz and George example, Bow Facing SSE 1200, etc, British Convoy and sinks same." 3-8 Callen for their major contributions denoting general direction, exact di• stands for "British air reCOn sights toward perfecting this play-by-mail rection and degrees on compass. Bismarck, etc. ", 9-0 stands for "No system. Any queries about this system Effect". will be welcomed at 330 W. Dickens, Using Record Sheets For the Battle Board Chance Table, Chicago, Illinois 60614. digits 1-3 stand for "Misty Weather, Next, remove two Search Board etc.''', 4 & 5 for "Bismarck turns on And with that I leave you for now Record Sheets from the tablet. One to CV or CA in same zone and sinks one, with this thought: "Your rules are your serve as an information sheet between etc. ", 6 & 7 "British CA's launch tor• Bible-know them and you know your you and your opponent. Since the pedo attack, etc. ", 8-0 Swordfish's game. " record sheet is printed on both sides, planes sight and conduct aerial torpedo One side will serve as yours, the other attack, etc". as your opponent's. It is wise to place The Battle Results Table for B• VVest your name at the top next to where it range (2 squares apart) is as follows: says Search Board and your opponent's To Broadside; 1 & 2 Bow hits, 3 & 4 name On the reverse side. On this sheet Stern hits, 5 Sec. Arm., 6-0 Misses; Stan Wolcott you keep the records of time and of To Bow; 1-3 Bow hits, 4-0 Misses; To P. O. Box 381 hits in battle as in a normal game of Stern; 1 & 2 Stern hits, 3 & 4 Midships, Hastings, Nebraska Bismarck. Since maps are provided 5-0 Misses. you can on one trace the progress of For A-range (1 square apart): To EDITOR - covering North Dakota, South Bismarck through the game, by plac• Broadside; 1-3 Bow hits, 4 & 5 Stern Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, ing a "B" at Bergen and drawing a line hits, 6 & 7 Sec. Arm., 8 Midships, 9 Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Wash• from each successive zone or Area & 0 Misses; To Bow; 1-3 Bow hits, 4 ington, Oregon, Alaska, Canada. she appears in throughout the game. & 5 Midships, 6-0 Misses; To Stern; On the other map can be shown Bis• 1-3 Stern hits, 4 & 5 Midships, 6-0 A Plea for marck's suspected position, if approxi• Misses. mately known and a square- encircle• For the Torpedo Table, 1-3 Mid• ment around it of two squares in all ships, 4-0 Misses. Napoleonic Warfare directions. This is done by counting Since play-by-mail can get to be a by Stan Wolcott out two zone squares in all directions long ordeal, it is suggested to cut down from the zone Bismarck is known to be the length of correspondence that two This being the first anniversary is• ~ sue of the General, it seems appropri• in or if ZOne is not known, by counting specific lists of stocks be chosen in two squares in all directions from the advance of battles for you and your op• ate to speak of another anniversary, Area Bismarck is known to be in and ponent. These lists will serve thru also of interest to wargamers, which ~ occurs in a few weeks. This coming connecting the letters of these zones. every round of battle. Each list repre• senting the total salvo count that any June 18th, marks the l50th anniversary This informs both players of where of the battle of Waterloo; the event which Bismarck's possible moves are On the One ship can possibly have in a single ended the Napoleonic Era. As most of following turn and may even serve as round of battle. That is, one stock for you already know, this decisive battle a tactical tool for helping the British each shot. Thus totaling 14 for the has been recreated in exacting detail player find and concentrate on Bis• British and 16 for Bismarck, who gets marck's movements. two extra because she can fire at two by Avalon Hill in the ir game of the same The British player places the name ships simultaneously in a multi ship name. The game, covering the entire of his Cruisers and Aircraft Carriers battle and is able, therefore, to use campaign rather than just the battle it• on the other Record sheet, but not the both her secondary armaments; where• self, begins play on June 16th and con• cludes it on June 20th, 1815. During names of his Battlewagons being as as British ships can only use one side they are already printed. This record at a time. If and when a multi ship bat• this time interval the two players, the tle occurs the British player submits French and Prussian-Anglo-Allied, are sheet the British player keeps for his able to maneuver their forces over the own use. Three places where they can to the Bismarck player additional lists be written in are (1) above the word of stocks totaling the exact salvo count terrain of the accurately reproduced Bismarck and to the left of where it for each of his other ships. mapboard; the result being one heck of says Hit Record; (2) to the right of same The first six stocks (1-6) and the a challenging game to all concerned. and below the Time Record; (3) and in last::;ixstocks (11-16) of the Bismarck's Superlatives for WATERLOO the extreme right hand bottom corner. list are always used for Bow and Stern In the words of past editors, includ- THE GENERAL PAGE 5

ing my predecessor, WATERLOO is A Plep. to Avalon Hill best to lose a few games while practic• "the most accurate of all war games", ing than to only half learn each attack. "For strategic and tactical maneuver Let this then be a plea to Avalon Hill the best game" and finally "one of the for the production of games in areas TACTICAL ATTACKS best AH games and certainly one of other than World War II, particularly the best balanced." To add my own the Napoleonic Era. These wars of 1) Frontal-hit front part of unit when comments to those of the others, I be• long ago shaped history as much as sides are covered. Good for feints and lieve WATERLOO is probably the best World War II, maybe even more; they holding attacks. Sometimes costly in battle game Avalon Hill has produced were also the anvil from which modern material. to date. It contains all of the prereq• strategy and tactics were forged. Why 2) Flank- maneuver around unit leav• uisites for an interesting game, which then have they been so neglected? For ing open retreat. Good against outposts, to my mind are as follows. myself, being an exponent of Napoleonic etc. Can leave attacking units without warfare, I would like to see battle games adequate support in case of counter• Prerequisites for an Interesting Battle made of the Liepzig and Austerlitz cam• attack. Game paigns. Probably most of you out there 3) Pincer-surround enemy before I (1) Simplicity - The rules and object also have a favorite battle you would attack, leaves no retreat. J. of the game are easily understood and like to see materialize into a game. 4) Attrition- continuous attack. Good readily learned; (2) Balance - Neither for reducing strength of enemy. Can side has a preponderant advantage over Write In! be costly in material. the other; the outcome depends almost If so, take this as an invitation to 5) Double-Flank - surrounds enemy solely on the players themselves, with• leaving no retreat. Good against liali• drop me a line voicing your thoughts ents. out emphas is on the roll of the die; (3) on the subject and I, in turn, will relay Variety - There are as many methods them on to Avalon Hill. Remember, as of playing the game as there are play• a wargaming enthusiast your response GRAND TACTICS (combination attacks) ers; the game does not become very will have profound effect upon the pro• monotonous or stereotyped; and (4) duction of future games! 6) Siege- surrounds units without at• Authenticity - The original situation In the months to come, I'd like to tacking. Good for reducing strongpoints. has been faithfully recreated and is write articles about things in which you, Can be costly in time. historically correct. the reader, are ~'interested in, so don't 7) Frontal Soak-off - attack of weak units in continuous line. Good for forc• A Question hesitate to write me about your prefer• ing retreats. These then are the characteristics ences; they will be of invaluable help in of an enjoyable and interesting battle writing the column. game and I feel that WATERLOO has In closing, I would like to leave with come very near to fulfilling them all, you one of my favorite military sayings although even it has defects which might which all of us would do well to remem• be corrected. Nevertheless, one may ber. Marshal Turenne, Louis XIV's ask that if WATERLOO is such a suc• ablest general, once said "When a gen• cessful game, as doubtless it is, why eral makes no mistakes in war it is then haven't more games following its because he has not been at it long." format been produced? Most Napoleonic campaigns upon inspection, reveal the same game pos sibil itie s as WATERLOO, Southwest ""• yet none have been followed up. Ex. -Notice that instead of attacking at "banzai" odds, A divided his attacks The Reason Why? Tom A. Bosseler into two sacrifices and two "stomps." There are two things which I feel are 5423 Fallbrook Avenue Next turn A will gain this territory at responsible for this situation. First, a minimal loss. Woodland Hills, California the closeness of the Second World War 8) Flank Soak-off-gettingby strong• to the present generation. The Second points leaving defender's retreat open. World War has impermeated the minds EDITOR - covering Oklahoma, Texas, of Avalon Hill and wargamers to the New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Cali• point that every other period of warfare fornia, Hawaii, Far East. has been overshadowed. To wit. Of It seems to me the battle games produced by Avalon Tactics Hill, including their newest game BAT• that most people (and TLE OF THE BULGE, there are seven Avalon Hill) don't want to fool around games dealing with World War II and with Play-Balance. Accordingly, I am only two with other wars. Second, lack writing only articles on gaming strategy of documentation. While there is an and tactics and realistic play. overabundance of material on the Second The following diagrams of attacks World War, there is a corresponding are very basic and fundamental. Ob• scarcity of it on the Napoleonic Wars, viously, many variations of each attack as well as others. This last reason, are possible. To improve your game• while maybe a hindrance, should not playing you should memorize completely altogether preclude Avalon Hill from the following methods of attacks. As making a game of this period. If they in chess, you should apply each attack Ex. -:-Here A has advanced as far as have reached the high degree of ef• in a lot of games in order to learn them. possible. Next turn D will either at• ficiency in research, which they boast Not until you have each and everyat• tack or retreat. In either case if A has 'of, this would be only a minor difficul• tack at your command can you even sufficient reserves he will gain two ty in their "5-Step Cycle." consider using strategy in a game. It's squares. THE GENERAL PAGE 6 9) Pincer Soak- off- surrounds enemy Too often the third pos sibility, subtler trating so that the German's escape is strongpoints. but just as deadly, is forgotten. This pretty much timing and luck, in this is the lowering of enemy morale. case it doesn't hurt to fight as you will Material loss to the enemy is bene• pick up points to help even if you are ficial when you have an overwhelming caught. Another general rule is to superiority. The second pos sibility, break contact if a fight looks like it will gain. of position, not only prevents the last over three battle board moves. enemy from obtaining it, but allows The enemy may well bring up reinforce• you to give battle at your own time and ments to complicate things, and Bis• .~ place. The definition to the third pos• marck needs to keep well ahead of pur• '"~ sibility, lowering of enemy morale, is suit to have room to maneuver. ~~ up to you. It involves either making ~ the enemy believe his position is hope• Keep Battleships in Pairs •• less but also producing a momentary ~ paralysis of his reserves. On the British s ide the amateur ?

.•.....••. admiral should deploy his ships to Ex. -After the attack and necessary cover every possible square, which J soak-off, the powerful enemy unit will with a little luck leaves only two or be helpless. Tactics for Bismarck three openings. From there it is possi- . 10) Attrition Soak-off-attack of many by Walter Guerry Green, III ble to catch most of the possible spaces units by many units. on the next move so that if contact is Since just about everybody seems to not made you at least have a good idea have a favorite theory on how to win at where he is. A prime rule for the ~ this or that game, I am going to add my British to follow is to team up battle• § own ideas on Bismarck. Several things ships with two together at all times; \!) must be remembered in examining never break this as a single capital these thoughts. In the first place nO ship is a dead duck against an undamag• plan is foolproof even if some fool ed Bismarck and even a damaged one

J<.J thinks it is. This is true for a very can put Renown or Repulse under. :t? good reason - human nature. No two op• Another hint, never put these two to• ~ ponents are exactly alike and what will gether as two are almost as easy to sink destroy one utterly will play into as one. When Bismarck has been hurt another's hands completely. There is it is safe to break up George V, Prince always some small move that is not of Wales, Hood, Rodney, and Ramillies, anticipated; for instance one of my op• but only when she is severely damaged. ponents made a fool of a perfect trap No single British ship should ever take on my part by use of a football button• her at night .because of the fire power hook which left the entire British Navy advantage. The best possible plan I staring at Bismarck's wake. The sec• have found is to keep the pairs of heavy ond point is that although nO plan is ships in a sort of triangle with the slow foolproof some definitely reduce the ships closer to German territory so enemy's chances especially if you are that they will have time to move. These smart enough to remember your op• groups should be clos e enough for ponents' favorite tricks. mutual support. The cruisers can be used to form a screen which expands Head for the Corner from top to bottom on each move until the board is blocked off into two halves. On the German's side it is definitely Then the British can sweep west until a best bet to head for the fartherest Bismarck is forced to move toward corner of your pos sible move. My home. With luck she can be blocked IJ favorite is somewhere in the neighbor• with a pair of capital ships. ]\ hood of E-5-c. From there the Ger• man must play it by ear literally. If the Bismarck is smart and plots the Ex. -It's all up for D's Heavy Armor position of his pursuers each turn he Brussels by 20 June and his line. Notice also that enemy can fairly soon pick out the search pat• by Albert A. Nofi counterattack isn't plausible. This is tern in use and locate the enemy battle• the tactician's masterpiece. ships, especially the slow ones. If the When, in mid- June 1815, the Im• 12) Mass-continuous attack on one enemy is so stupid as to disperse his perial Army marched north into Bel• spot by many methods. capital ships on a one per square basis, gium it was opposed by two armies This concludes my list of attacks. Bismarck can with a little luck snatch each of which was equal to it in size There are many combinations of the One up on her way back to port. On no and strength. The Emperor was not, twelve. Remember, only constant ap• account should the German accept com• however, one to worry about the odds plication of each will improve your bat on his way out unless facing a very too much and devised a plan which took playing. weak ship or a medium one at night. advantage of the dispersed condition of This dictum is based on the fact that it the Anglo-Prussian armies. This plan, THEORY OF T.HE ATTACK may well leave Bismarck in a damaged brilliant in its bold grasp of the situ• state; at sea this is dangerous as the ation, failed only because far too many To most people, the object of the enemy may well catch you. On the way ranking officers were no longer up to a tta ck has two possibilities-loss of in the British player is usually aware their long established high records of enemy material and gain of position. of Bismarck's position and is concen- performance. Even Ney-the "bravest THE GENERAL PAGE 7 of the brave"-had returned from Russia a very different man and displayed very CONTEST #7 erratic behavior during the Waterloo campaign. Adopting Napoleon's Actual Plan

In outlining my adaption of Napoleon's plan I would like to make it clear that while I am assuming Marchal Madeja's recommended starting situation is used (See Vol. 1, No.3) the plan works well with the regular arrangement. Here is the plan, in phas e steps .... 1. Ney's Command (I and II Corps) l~advances on the weak Anglo-Allied force at Quatre Bras, brings them to r battle and se"izes the vital road center and heights there. 2. The Main Body (III, IV, VI, and Cds Corps and I, II, III, and IV Cav Corps-) advances on both sides of the Ligne River to bring the Prussian I, and, as they arrive, II and III Corps to battle with the intention of removing the Prussians as a major combatent force. 3. Concurrently with Phase 2 Ney's This conte st involves a hypothetical Command, pos sibly strengthened with situation at Quatre Bras already set up some extra cavalry, should be forming for you. Applying the rules from the Operations Sheet a line against the Anglo-Allied forces Waterloo game, the French player (the Defender (Prus sian) in the Cenappe region to prevent Wel• lighter units) is attacking, with the ob• Attacker (French) lington from assisting the Prussians. 4. When the Prussians have been ject of eliminating as many Prussian combat factors as possible while keep- I Kraft eliminated as a major opponent some LuckStulpnagelBrauee Main Body cavalry should be thrown ing his own losses to a minimum. In I KampfenBorcke other words, the strategical premise around the remnants to keep them in for this month's contest is that you are I place while the bulk of the Main Body breaks off combat and marches toNey's to fight the battle so that you have the I highest probability of gain at the least aid probably arriving just when Anglo• risk of loss. First - study the battle I Allied pressure On Ney begins to build up dangerously. situation. I Now refer to the Operations Sheet. 5. The full Army of the North should As you can see the commander of each I launch strong attacks against the Anglo• Pruss ian unit in the battle is listed Allied line's weakest points in an effort under the "Defenders" column. Under I to break through) to Brussels. 6. As Phase 5 is going to comple• the "Attackers" column you are to write I tion Grouchy's Reserve Cavalry should in the designation number of the French Unit that is attacking. If one French I attempt to get around Wellington's flank in an effort to turn it, or, failing this, Unit attacks more than one Prussian I making a run for Brussels. unit,Unit isthento thebe writtennumber nextof theto eachFrenchof I In essence that's it. The defeated Prussians about Ligny them. I will probably mind their own business How to Enter I until their IV Corps arrives and effec• tive use of cavalry will slow them up. This contest is free to all subscrib• I If the Prussian IV Corps reinforces ers. Simply fill in the Operations I Wellington's Genappe line things be• Sheet and mail to: The Avalon Hill Co. , come a bit more complicated but the 210 W. 28th Street, Baltimore, Mary• I Prussian I, II, and III Corps will take land, 21211 -- Contest Dept. Entries I nO real action in such a case since they must be postmarked on or before June will be too weak. Should Blucher try 6, 1965. Print your name and address I to march his defeated troops towards clearly and make sure you list the Ava• I Name _ lon Hill game you wish as winning prize. a linkup with Wellington the broken up I ground north of Ligny will slow· him up Those of you who do not want to muti• Addre s s _ more effectiv~ly than cavalry. late' your magazine may send a copy or In conclusion I would like to say that photostat. Naturally, only one to a City subscriber allowed. I am a devoted "Napoleonophile" and for that reason, and that reason only, Ten Winners State do I think this plan workable for I have unlimited confidence in the Emperor. Ten (lO)winnerswill be named. Ties "Vive I' Empereur! II will be broken by earliest postmark. Prize _ r

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Question Box I ~~tters - Yes We Get Letters~ II Gentlemen: have the responsibility of coordinating AFRIKA KORPS: the all of these activities and therefore Last September a group of amateur I would greatly appreciate if you would strategists formulated perhaps the first keep me well informed about the latest Q: Can a supply unit pass over an auto• club of its kind in Dauphin County, the developments at Avalon Hill - these matic victory situation and supply an• Strategists' Club. We students of other battle while supplying the auto• have great impact on a young club. Ger• Bishop McDevitt High School are the matic victory? formulators. As yet we have held a ald Gelatt, President of the Strategists A: Yes. Tactics n tournament and presently are Club, 1630 Park St., Harrisburg, Pa. conducting a D-Day tournament. MIDWAY: Dear Avalon Hill: We are even planning to develop a I have just received your brochure Q: Can the Jap player bring the Hosho very large game (perhaps four times in the mail. I think it's a sick effort as large as the Afrika Corps game) or Zuiho on board with planes already and don't think you should insult your whkh touches on areas not only military readied so that they can be launched in customers with those snide attempts but even political and economic. The the turn of entry on board? at humor ... Lawrence Bevy. A: Yes. game will include several different countries and should accommodate all Q: How does Midway Island get its 30 the members of our club. As you can Dear Admiral McClusky: squadrons? see, this is a highly ambitious and de-' It was indeed nice of you to include A: They may be flown there from car• tailed project. me On your mailing list. Unfortunately, r ie r s. being a girl, I have nO great interest I, as the representative of this club, in battle games. However, I want to Q: Can carriers take aircraft off Mid• congratulate you on the layout, design way to replace their losses? and wit of the brochure. Mor·e witty A: Yes. Brian Harris approaches to the mail order business Q: When placing ships on the battle are highly desirable ... Nina Eisenstein. board, may some ships be fac ing other s? Wins Contest #6 A: No, all ships must be heading in one direction. Looks like we had quite a few sub• Discount Offer s cribers attending fortune tellers be• BULGE: fore submitting their Sales Populadty The Coupon shown below is for the bene• predictions. Contest Champ, Brian fit of the full-year subscriber. As soon Q: In Basic Game, can new Units enter Harris, had the first three games on as you have accumulated 4 such cou• or pas s through the zone of control of the nose, as did the second and third pons, 1 each from this and succeeding "engaged" Units. place winners. However, they were issues, you are entitled to a $1.00 dis• A: Definitely not - this would be tanta pretty far off on predicting the number count applied to the purchase of any mount to reinforcing and is allowed of Midway games that had been sold. Avalon Hill game. only in the tournament game. We got a lot of laughs from this one as the guesses ranged from 47 to Here's how it works D-DAY 20,000,000. Q: Can Paratroops "take off" and Those whose entries came closest Each coupon is worth 25¢. But one COupon alone does not entitle you to a dropped elsewhere when surrounded by to the actual order of sales popularity 25¢ credit. You must accumulate 4 enemy zones? (Afrika Korps, Midway, D-Day, Tactics A: Yes. n, Stalingrad, Bismarck, Football, different COupons before taking advant• age of the $1. 00 credit. When you have Q: Can Allied Units come in at Bremen? Baseball, Waterloo, LeMans, Gettys• accumulated 4 COupons, then you clip A: No. burg, U-Boat, Verdict n, Management them all together and send them in with Dispatcher) are as follows: Q: Is Bordeaux an inland port? your order for an Avalon Hill game. A: Yes. 1. Brian Harris, 3608 Manorwood When ordering in this manner, you Drive, Hyattsville, Md. simply send us a check or money-order Q: If a Unitfinds itself adjacent to more 2. Bruce T. Klem, 2463 S. 80th for $1. 00 less than the usual retail value than one fortres s, can it attack Units Street, West Allis, Wisconsin. of the game. in one of the fortresses but not the 3. Leonard Pederson, "A" Batry, other? Coupons are valid only when order• A: Yes. 67th Stry., APO New York. ing games by mail directly from The 4. Rick Donaldson, 38 Thomson Avalon Hill Company. Coupons can not Q: Can paratroopers be dropped next Road, West Hartford, Conn. be redeemed at any retail outlet. to enemy units if there is a river be• 5. David G. Moore, 1871 Snowden, tween them? Memphis, Tennessee. A: Yes. 6. Wes Sayre, 240-14 Caney Road, Rosedale, New York. 2S¢ 2S¢ GETTYSBURG (64): 7. Ken Hoffman, 266 Carroll Street, New Bedford, Mass. SAVE THIS COUPON Q: If one attacking Unit fights two de• fenders On different squares; one of 8. Richard E. Klug, 5711 Chinqua• GOOD ONLY WHEN APPLIED pin Pkwy., Baltimore, Md. them frontal and the other one partial TOWARD THE PURCHASE OF enfilade, does the attacker's factordou• 9. Edward Hughes, 610 S. Thomas AVALON HILL GAMES ble or is the whole battle fought at nor• Street, Bedford, Penna. mal odds? 10. Donald Greenwood, 128 Warren .. MAY· 1965 A: Attacker doubles and the frontal de• Street, Sayre, Penna. fender also doubles.

) THE GENERAL PAGE 9 Reserve: included in the main at• How to Meet Competition Tactics & Strategy tack. by S/Sgt. Louis Zocchi by David B. Whiskeyman Would you like to meet some new Commanding an army requires not players or get new recruits for your only fore sight but patience and an under• club? The GENERAL has solved this standing of the capabilitie s of said force. problem for those of you in large cities. Therefore, it becomes necessary to You look into the subscriber's directory know the possible offensive and defen• and find someone just across town who sive maneuvers. This is the first in a is also a nut and you're in business. series of articles which, it is hoped, But not everyone who plays, reads the will shed light upon the subject. General. And what about the isolated gamers in East Overshore, Nebraska The Offense or Stamp Back, Mississippi? In the War is won by initiative, which is last 4 years, I have moved 3 times. commonly known as offensive operations. Each time I arrived at a new base, I The se operations fall into six categories: had to train new talent. But where can envelopments, turning movements, this new talent be found? You can't just frontal attacks, penetrations, defensive• walk up to a stranger and ask "Do you offensive, and pursuit. want to fight?" Envelopments -- This maneuver is a Avalon Hill informs me that most of flanking movement seeking the enemy the war gamers are in their late teens. rear and his destruction in position. These players will soon have this prob• Two things are vital for a successful lem because they will enter military envelopment: speed and surprise. service, go to college, or get married In this, as in most other offensive Diagram A: situation just prior to and move. If they go to some town not maneuver s, the attacking force is di• Rommel's enveloping maneuver. listed in the Subscriber's directory they vided into three groups: the main at• will have to cultivate new competition. tack, the secondary attack, and the re• It is easier to sell someone on play• serve. The main attack is the flanking ing war games if he has already sold maneuve r, cons is ting of the highl y himself. The most effective method of mobile and usually heavier units. The reaching these people is through their secondary attack is along the main line source of supply. You could meet every used to pin down the enemy troops and one that buys an Avalon Hill game if draw their reserves. The attacker's you stand by the game department every reserves are usually hard-hitting, day long enough. Most of us have jobs mobile units which can be used to ex• or school and we can't do this so the ploit the main attack or, if the secondary next best thing is to drop a card or note attack is unexpectedly fruitful, maintain in every game in stock. You can get or increase its momentum. the merchants permission to do this, (Though there are actually two types if you explain to the merchant how your of envelopment, single and double, only hooking of new fish can result in greater the single is Ei'ealt with here, for the sales for him. double differs only by the fact that the After you have been given the green attacker must have more forces and light from the merchant, you could buy envelops both flanks of the defender. one of those toy printing presses and It must be noted, also, that airborne print up a batch of paper with your and seaborne forces may make up part name, address, & phone number. A or all of the main attack. ) short blurb about how you are willing The two diagrams marked "Envelop• Diagram B: situation after envelop• to give tips on strategy, rule interpre• ment" give a pictorial example of the ment, but prior to resolved combat. tation, etc., should sell the idea that flanking maneuver. The situation has In this envelopment the secondary the purchaser has some ready made been set up by the British taking a "cal• attack serves the main attack by help• competition and help available. When culated risk" (hoping the Germans re• ing to open the flank and clo se the- pin• you buy a new game, you have 2 prob• ceive no supply on their next turn, cers on the enveloped portion Qf the lems. You have to train yourself how November, 1941) and attacking on both enemy army. to play, and you must train someone to flanks, successful in the escarpment In D-Day and Waterloo, the reserve play against you. This takes time. You area but receiving an exchange in the plays a more important part, (since the can get the main ideas faster and easier south. It is now the Germans' first envelopment may often take more than from an old hand. Most people playing November turn. Unfortunately for the one turn) for in Afrika Korps the re• a new game would rather be told the British the Germans receive their serve must nearly always be carried rules so you should have good results. designated reinforcements and supply. with the main attack due to the "l.ight• ning" warfare. I have just completed an 8 week Spotting the weak British flank, Rommel NEXT MONTH'S article will deal with course on how to teach. The Air Force decides to make an end run. turning movements and frontal assaults. believes that the greatest single force The forces are divided into: in teaching is enthusiasm. When you Main Attack: 15th and 21st German Panzer Divisions. GRID• get those phone calls or letters, be en• COORDINATES thusiastic! It keeps the listener in a Secondary Attack: Italian Sabratha, Play-by-Mail receptive frame of mind and motivates Italian (Armor) Ariete, and the D-DAY his desire to learn more about you and 361 st (regiment) from the 90th war games. division. Print letters A through UU along the THE GENERAL PAGE 10 east edge of the board, starting in the mapboard and the geographical features Freehold, New Jersey 07728. Anyone northeast corner. Print numbers 1 on it. After a lot of experiments, I interested in joining or anyone that has through 49 along the south edge and the have come up with the following ideas: any game ideas is to write to Henry. northern coastline, starting in the north• In Russia there are 15 Cities and A misprint is on our information sheet: east corner. For instance; row L bi• 30 other towns named on the mapboard. the co- ordinates for Stalingrad are sects Dusseldorf, Antwerp and Ostend; At the start of the game these are all + not -; also please notice that there is row 25 bisects Amiens, Biancon and controlled, of course, by the Russians. a difference between League co-ordi• Nice. Examples: Dunkirk is M-22, The Russians start to obtain reinforce• nates and Knabe's co-ordinates. Mem• Sedan is Q-18, Brest is V-43, Bordeaux ments from their 4th turn, and the num• bers may playas many League games is LL-44 and Marsailles is TT-31. ber of reinforcements depends on the as they desire, however, please leave (New D-Day mapboards with grid• number of towns and cities they control. time for us to fill your request. coordinates printed on them are now For each town in Russian control, //Many people have written about our available - $3. 00 per board. ) allow 10 points. league which now contains over 130 For each City, allow 20 points. members; therefore, the following Before the Russian, but after the should explain how to join and what the STALINGRAD German turn, count up the points. From League really is. First of all, the the 4th to the 6th move, the Russians League is a national organization for Print letters A through WW along the may have reinforcements of 2 defense the purpose of rating players. It is east and west edges of the mapboard; factor s for each 100 points. NOT a substitute for clubs you mayal• print numbers 1 through 57 along the From the 7th to 1he 11th turns the ready belong to as ca member. Three north and south edges. Start row A in Russians may have 3 defense factors points for every win and one point for the northeast and northwest corners for each 100 points. a loss are given; then, an average is and start row 1 in the southwest corner. From the 12th turn onwards, the determined by totaling your points and For instance, rowJbi-sects Helsinki and Russians have 4 defense factors for dividing by the number of games played. Lake Beloe; row 27 bisects Lake Peipus, each 100 points. Only each full 100 After five league games you are placed Smolensk, Kharkov and Stalino. Ex• points counts. Points cannot be accu• into either the C group 1. 00-2. 00, B amples: Helsinki is J-26, Leningrad mulated from turn to turn. Defense group 2.01--2.50, A group 2.51--2.75 is K-31, Moscow is S-34, Stalingrad factors may be accumulated. or the AA group 2.76--3.00. In order is HH-36, Warsaw is Z-31 and Sofia is Reinforcements are put on the board to join send a dollar for dues and an TT-3. at Archangel, Kuibishev and Grozny, index card with your name, address but each of these towns is dependent on and phone number; AH games owned; WATERLOO one of the three big cities. If Leningrad ~ side and game preference for your fir st is captured by the Germans, no more encoulfter, to: The Avalon Hill PBM Print letters A through WW along the reinforcements can be brought in at League, Box 572, Huntington, Indiana east and west edges of the mapboard; Archangel. 46750. )) print numbers 1 through 57 along the If Moscow is captured, no reinforce• north and south edges. Start row A in ments can be brought in at Kuibishev; the northeast and northwest corners; while the capture of Stalingrad closes German Tactics start row 1 in the southeast corner. Grozny. Naturally, the capture of For instance; Row V bisects Nivelles and Archangel, Kuibishev or Grozny closes St. Gery. Row 27 bisects Wavre and the town for reinforcements. for D-DAY Quatre Bras. Examples: Waterloo is A town or city is controlled by a unit by Ken Hoffman E-43, Nivelles is V-38, Quatre Bras is passing through the square in which the town is situated. When playing the game D-Day, the X-27, Ligny is FF-13, Fleurus is JJ• Germans have one impermeable de• 13. A unit on a square next to a city or town does not control it for reinforce• fense. I have found, through playing, that it is almost impossible for the ment purposes. The Russians do not have to garri• Allies to win against this. The basic strategem of the game is the use of the "New" Stalingrad son a town to gain reinforcements from it, neither do the Germans have to gar• fortified zone, the "Siegfried Line" .. When the German player sets his by J. K. Norris rison the towns they have captured. However, if a German unit has captured side up, there are several basic rules It has been my belief for sometime a town by passing through the square, that ought to be followed: that the Stalingrad game is the best. 1. Static and only Static divisions it may be recaptured by a Russian unit However, it is, I believe, generally should be placed on the coast. passing through it, and then, if not re• accepted that in this game the German 2. The North Sea should be bar• occupied by the Germans, it can be side has little chance of winning against used to count points for the Russian ricaded with 3-deep Static divisions. any reasonably intelligent defense. I reinforcements next turn. 3. At the player's option, Pas de have therefore been seeking some way of Calais can be defended with the re• making the game more even and more maining Statics, which total 15. enjoyable. 4. All remaining combat units There were, of course, some neces• Play-by-Mail League should be placed on, or inside of, the sary restrictions such as: - Siegfried Line with the exception of a 1. The game had to require no ad• Chooses Chairman few delaying units. ditional items to the ones on the It may seem strange, but all of the market. 1/ Due to the fact that many members possible invasion areas in France are 2. No changes were. ·to be made to have written requesting that more games left open with the exception of the North any of the pieces, or the map• be added to our present selection, we Sea and Pas de Calais (which is defend• board. have decided to form a Games Commit• ed only partially). Whe!'l you think It also seemed to me that it would tee. The chairman of this committee about it, you will see that it doesn't be desirable to make fuller us e of the is Henry Bodenstedt, 86 Manalapan Ave. matter if the Allies gain large amounts THE GENERAL PAGE 11 of real estate in France ... The German to remember is that the fortres!! of Spread Out After 9th Week player is basically playing a defensive Aachen must be held at all costs. Even game anyhow. That's why the Siegfried if the Allied player breaches the Line, After the 9th week, a wise defensive Line is used. With the doubling of the you can always hold this with a half• move would be to spread out all of your defense factors of all the combat units decent unit to use as a threat to the Static divisions. This move always de• on the Line, an Allied soak-off is virtu• Allied security. lays the advancing Allied divisions, ally impossible. An important factor sometimes so badly they wj.ll resort to

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I am Opponents for Gettysburg, Stalingrad, Afrika Korps, the Bulge, or Midway in desperate need of opponents for a starting a club or joining one if one (South) by mail. I will also reserve Afrika Korps, D-Day or Waterloo. exists. If interested contact Paul future games for you (unlisted). Send (if you have a PBM system). Clark game of Gettysburg. I prefer the Union Take any side, any game. Just be a Wilson, Rabbit Run, Wallingford, Pa. army but am willing to take either side. Jameson, 249 Magnolia Pl., Mt. Leba• correspondence to: Larry Bristol, 1312 good loser. Contact: A/lc Harold non, Pa. 15228 Tel. 343-3158. Ursuline, Bryan, Texas. I challenge anyone in Herkimer County, I play all versions except the hexagonal Ross, 107 Hope Lome, Iowa Park, Tex. Fulton County, or the Utica area .to one. Write or send first move to Terry Wanted _ a Confederate general for Wanted: Desperate General looking for Gettysburg (1964) or anyone willing to Need one Play-by-Mail opponent for play any Avalon Hill war game live. Griner, S. 4214 Madelia, Spokane, easy victory. Just began playing these sustain a Red first move in TACTICS Afrika Korps. Write: Stephen Mark Please do not contact me if you do not Washington 99203. games and am looking for experience wish to play live. Please phone II. Write to the TIN SOLDIER: Thomas (even painful ones!). I'll play Tactics Hines, P. O. Box 1384, Cincinnati, High school student wishes to play-by• Fancher, 26 River St., Sidney, N. Y. Ohio 45202. 8~6-0877 or write: Richard J. Paracka, mail any reasonably competent opponent II, Afrika Korps, and Gettysburg (64' c/o John E. Begley, R. D. #1, MainSt. , Opponents in Afrika Korps, D_Day, version. I prefer union side) by mail. FROM: The Empire of Tennessee's in Afrika Korps, D-Day, Gettysburg Midway, Stalin grad, Waterloo, Gettys• Herkimer, N. Y. 13350 (hexagon), or Chancellorsville. Except Also, if anyone has developed a grid General Staff. WANTED: German FreId Marshal for burg '61 or '64 or the "Bulge". In• system for Waterloo, Chancellorsville, TO: Anyone who dares challenge our for Afrika Korps, please state the grid teresting games will be played any op• a play mail game in Afrika Korps. co_ordinates you wish to use in your D-Day and Stalingrad, I'd be extremely unbeaten armies. Must be willing to be defeated, send ponent. Write T.A.S.E. Club, c/o interested. Write": Bob Gaugham, SUBJECT: Your defeat in the sands of first letter. Write: Mark Maxim, 71 Mark Diamond Chief-of-staff, 5747 your first turn to Carleton E. Lett, 5 4320-43rd St., Merchantville, N. J. Africa. Hillcrest Dr., Spencerport, N. Y. Aylesboro Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15217. Minetta St., N. Y. 12. N. Y. 10012. If you wish to engage our armies In Opponents for the following games: All those wishing to join a rising in• Two generals, who have never known Our glorious ranks of steady men North Africa, please contact our Com• defeat, wish to challenge anyone in the Stalingrad (Russians), Afrika Korps Stand ready for the waiting to end. ternational movement read further. Our munications Chief, Chip Chesman at (either), Waterloo (French), and Let• To all leaders brave and bold club, quainty called the "Warmongers" Chicago area to a game of Midway, D• 4779 Hummingbird Lane, Memphis, Day, Waterloo, or Afrika Korps. We ters concerning a Battle of the Bulge. A challenge is thrown; HOLD YOUR OWN will soon have tenacles in Tanzania and Tennessee. Your defeat is certain!!! Write Robert Barrow, 3801 - 70th Ave., Minnesota. We would like to expand will be the U. S., Allies, French, and The 1st Ohio Army is mobilized; British in that order. After the game, Landover Hills, Maryland. (imperialistically, like) in both the Any person who lives in Massachusetts to challenge, call Roger White, 164705. you will know what the word humiliation Opponents for a game of Afrika Korps. Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44120. play-by-mail and in-person fields, the and would like to join the Massachusetts I prefer British. Opponent must have latter in Delaware County, Pa. Clark Branch of Spectre (Special Efficacy for really means. Richard Ginsberg, 4718 Corps Commanders needed for Okla• W. Greenwood, Skokie, Ill. OR 4-3532. complete knowledge of latest rules. homa branch of nation-wide club. Con• Wilson, Rabbit Run, Wallingford, Pa. Counter-Intelligence, Revenge, and Sign up now for the Great Greene Sum• Apply: Donald Tracey, 3904 - 71st tact John Hall, 2233 South Louisville, 19086 (215 LO 6-6640). Extermination). Please contact Joseph Picariello, 74 Woodland Road, Waltham, mer Campaign, play-by-mail. Many Ave., Landover Hills, Maryland. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114. Phone WE Mass. 02154. Opponents Wanted: Anyone in area 6-5727. His Most Royal Highness: G. Waldo key command positions to be filled. live (or Portland, Oregon) or by mail THE THIRD ARMY OF PENNA. com• Miller, 1st Duke of Rosemont, 1st Wanted adult opponents to play Midway, We want people from Washington, Ore• Gettysburg 64, D-Day, Waterloo, Afrika gon, California, Hawaii, and Alaska from anywhere - that plays Midway, posed of 20 veteran play by mail com• Count von Cardalu will accept either Bismarck, I need challengers - - any manders will take on all comers at any side and any rule variations within Korps & Stalingrad. Would prefer to especially, but ALL m~y write. You side, I always plan to Win but I can reason to playa game of Afrika Korps play in person but will play by mail if will not get a reply to your letter im• game. AIl challenges accepted. Con• necessary. Would like opponents to be mediately, probably several weeks. stand to lose. R. C. Giberson, 1422 tact the Third Army, c/o Donald Green• by mail. State rule variations when Agnes, Richland, Washington 99352. wood, 128 Warren St., Sayre, Penna. you write: G. Waldo Miller, 28 Rose• living in or near the Oranges. Call Send to: 670 Darrell Rd., Hillsborough 673-2708 after 5 pm or write - Holger Also if you are a veteran commander mont Avenue, Lewistown, Fa. 17044. Calif. 94010, signed Jack Greene, Jr. Opponents for Afrika Korps. D-Qay, from Penna. apply for membership at Multi-Player Stalingrad Game - Send S. Swanson, 153 Watchung Avenue, West Tactics II, Midway, Bismarck, and same address. your address, experience, side pre• Orange, New Jersey 07052. Do you ever get that depressing feeling Football Strategy. Play-by-Mail op~ Wanted: II Allied Generals and 8 Ger• ferred, and if you want to be a Theater Achtung Feldherron: in the New York that no one can beat you in Stalingrad? How would you like a nice refreshing ponent accepted for first 3. Contact man Generals for a multiplayer game Commander, Army Group Commander, and New Jersey area. A New Field Donald Greenwood, 128 Warren St., or Army Commander. Write to Rick Marshall from the IstSTRATCOMUhas game· in which you get slaughtered? of D-Day. Send name, address, ex• Write: T.A.S.E. Club, 3490 Beech• Sayre, Pa. perience, preference of command to Young, 501 Fairway Road, Linden, N. J. arrived in your area. My specialties Wanted: Any Allied, Russian, British William Hoyer, 7833 W. Becher, West Desperately Desired: Live opponent are: Afrika Korps, Bulge, D-Day, and wood Blvd., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15217. P. S. We pay no doctor bills! Field Marshals (no experience neces• Allis 19, Wis. I supply grid, it is Knabe either attending Fenn College or resid• Stalin grad. Contact Pvt. John P. Coffey, RA13853476, Co. E., T. C., Fort Mon• Low Won - Lost PCT? In Need of A sary) to playa still unbeaten German grid as outlined in the May 1964 issue ing in Parma. Would like to find out Field Marshal in Afrika Korps, D-Day of the General. who buys all the Avalon Hill Games. mouth, New Jersey 077037 or call 542• Win? Then send your German opening or Stalingrad. Sorry, but only by Also, FBM for Stalingrad. 1) Automatic 9810. moves for Afrika Korps to: George Elim. 2) Russian Replacements-24-30• New Area Editor wishes to be of better Kaplan, 30-30 - 154th St., Flushing, mail. Can also play Tactics II. All Adult opponents wanted for beginner in interested write: Robert F. Dieli, 236 36. 3) All Russian units must be in service to his Editorship. All those N.Y. 11354. D-Day, Midway and Afrika Korps. Very Open challenge from 2-0year wargamer Jamarcaway, Boston, Mass. before interested in mail or face to face com• squares with heavy black line running members and Clubs in my Area. Please send post cards with your name, address, veteran. Will play Stalin grad, Gettys• May 25th. bat. I don't have grid system for D• through them on opening move. 4) Ger• Attentat! Attentat! man Replacements-4- 5~6-7. How about phone number. The field of Avalon Hill burg, Tactics II, Afrika Korps, D-Day Field Marshal Fredrick Wilhelm Otto Day or Midway but would like to have it? Write: Sam Kanai, 3227 Center Gaming you are most interested in and Bulge. Any game, any side. Con• one for mail play. Write or call: George Dr., Parma, Ohio 44134 or call VI. 3• namely Air, Land Battle, Naval Battle tact A. J. Whitaker, 627 W. Diamond von Priich wishes me to inform any Wullaert, 3813 Butterfield Rd., Bell• Allied or Russian commander that he 5895. or Sports and a list of the Avalon Hill Ave., Hazleton, Penna. wood, Illinois 544-8442. will defeat any challenger in Overload, Will take either side in Afrika Korps; games you own to date. This record Am forming Atlanta chapter of A. H. Barbarossa, or Afrika Korps who lives TO: All commanders interested in play• Gettysburg 58'; D-Day; or Stalingrad. will greatly improve my articles to you game club. We have Bismarck, Tac• in Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, or ing an AH game using strictly realistic Also willing to learn other Avalon Hill by letting me know what you like to read tics II, Afrika Korps, U-Boat, Gettys• Kansas. The Field Marshal and his rules. Please, I want only those people games. I am willing, very eager, to about. Myron Brundage, 330 W. Dickens, burg, and Stalingrad. If interested, General Staff will triumph! Bill Protz, who are interested in using tactics & join any clubs on these games in the Chicago, Illinois. call 355-374"3 or write Guy Gupton, 2503 Brookside Ave., Omaha, Neb. strategy. Plan and Order of Battle must Detroit area. But please, no play_by_ A TTENTION MASTERS OF TACTICS: 2405 Woodward Way, N. W., Atlanta 5, My staff of reactionary, autocratic gen• be used. mail. Contact: Steve Sullivan, 1662 You are wanted as opponents to be de• Georgia. erals, who are dedicated to furthering FROM: Totn Bosseler: 23908 Califa, Bournemouth, Grosse Point Woods, feated in TACTICS II (1961 rules) or Am forming an Avalon Hill Club for the causes of dictatorship and tyranny, Woodland Hills, California. Mich. Phone: TU. 5-4947. (Age 15). AFRIKA KORPS (latest rules). I prefer South-Eastern Pennsylvania. Have one Blue in TACTICS II and Germans in member so far _ me. I own "Afrika would like to chaIlenge you to defeat If anyone thinks that he has an adequate GENERALS - Those of you that appre_ AFRIKA KORPS. Write Richard Berk• Korps", "D-Day", "Bismarck", "WaterM their armies in the following games: D-Day defense or can play Stalingrad ciate the realistic and yet non-historical Midway (Jap.), Stalingrad, D-Day, and features of Tactics II ar-e hereby invited seth, 221 Dallas Street, River Falls, 100", "Gettysburg" & "Midway". If or Afrika Korps, then let him test·him• Wisconsin 54022. interested, write or call: Davis L. H. Afrika Korps (German), or Waterloo self by playing GAG (Governors' Army to play a very determined opponent. (Anglo-allies). Write Terry Griner, Any or all optional rules. Contact: Ted Wanted: An opponent who considers Bedein (GR' 3-1029), 7320 Malvern Group) c/o Lincoln Clark, Governor Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 19151. S. 4214 Madelia, Spokane, Wash. 99203. Dummer Academy, South Byfield, Mas-s. Pittman, 205 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, himself to be between average and good I've Sent This Ad In For Ken Thurman N. Y. 11213, Phone 773-1272. to try to defend North Africa. or Russia To any self-sacrificing sacrife, or (186 Priceway, Folsom, Calif. )because IF you want precision, buy from Avalon Opponent who can meet rigid require• or to attack Europe. Send any inquiries sacrifes, who feel it will better the he's such a great player, but is too Hill. .••. but we can supply you with ment: Must be from below Mason• to this addres s: Gary Lanham, 5 Eaton Avalon Hill Gaming club when he, or modest to send in an ad of his own. I hexagons, blank unit counters, and they, meet destruction at the hands of similar accessories useful to the de• Dixon Line. if desperate however, I Circle, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. was undefeated until I played him. So will accept a westerner. Prefer able Wanted: Opponents "in-the-£lesh." ,the staff of "World Conquests, Inc." voted war game fan. Hexagons - 36 Wellington to engage capable Nopoleon Anyone living within a reasonable dis• My staff will play all comers in any if you're a man challenge him. - Bob 81/2 x 11 sheets for $1.00. Write to Killroy. or inexperienced Russian to battle tance from Norwalk, Conn. and wishes existing Avalon Hill wargame plus We are a two-man club who can make G-3, c/o Ralph Fellows, Tremont St., Pledging German. Write: Jim Blevins, to take a crack at my 53-6-2 record is baseball strategy and football strategy Durbury, Mass. 02332. short work of anyone in the Chicago Box #188, Lansing, North Carolina and welcome to any engagement of their and any who would like to join World area. If you are interested and have Wanted: Opponents for Stalingrad both specify any game (except naval) you choice. Only EXPERIENCED Generals Conquests, Inc. Write Dennis Largess, Stalingrad, Bismarck, Afrika Korps, grid systems outlined in the Sept. 64 want to play. needapply--All "green" Generals: Stop 1908 Quincy St., N. W., Washington, Midway, D-Day, or Tactics II, give us Opponent for Tactics II. Write: Richard reading now! Others: Apply to John D. C. P.S. We sent out brains, plans, issue. Also D-Day with Carl Knabes and members to head of state but not a call or write to: Milan Paul Fabsik, grid system write Bill Hoyer 7833 W. C. Gethrke, 986 E. Ogden, Naperville, Rockholz, 104 East Rocks Rd., Norwalk, 2231 South 61 Court, Cicero, Illinois. Becher West Allis, Wis. 53219. Illinois 60540. Connecticut; or Phone 847 -2 176. our H-Bombs. '..

THE GENERAL PAGE 12 trying a flanking movement, wasting Avalon Hill enthusiast ... residing at 197 invasion of North Africa, etc. - are even more time. This mOve (the spread• Jefferson St., Tifflin, Ohio. If he re• depicted in stunning close-ups. ing out of the Static) I call the "Paper• jects you, better write to: Walter A. "At Belleau Wood" by RobertAsprey Bag" defense. Although it does not McDougall, Ail}Perst College, Amherst, (G. P. Putnam's) $5.95 - A';"ailable June. really stop the 'invaders, it's like try": Mass; Richard A. Shagrin at U. of The dramatic story of America's first ing to knock your way out of a wet paper WaQhington, Seattle, Wash; Peter F. "eal baptism of fire in WW 1. bag --- easy, but time-consuming. Dickson at box 133, Bates College, "Himmler" by Roger Manvell & By nOW you probably think that the Lewiston, Maine; John M. Gray, Box Heinrich Fraenk~l (G. P. Putnam's) only way I playa game is with a de• 321, Rutgers, New Brunswick, N. $5.95 - Available June. The first fully fensive stance. Actually, in the case Jersey; William Contini, Box 34, Miami documented and highly readable biog• of D-Day, you're right. However, of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio; Dave Geurink, raphy of Himmler, most sinister and there's a time and a place for every• 5176 Haverford, Lyndhurst, Ohio at secretive member of the Nazi hierarchy. thing. After the Allies have been bat• John Carroll U. in University Heights, "Bismarck" by Werner Richter (G. Ohio; Ben W. Sevier, Jr, Weiss Col• ting their heads against the Line for a P. Putnam's) $6.95 - Available March. month or so, nO doubt you'll find a lege of Rice U, Houston, Texas; Brenton A new biography that is going to bring areas ses sment of Bismarck's character stray 4-4-4 or 3-3-3. There is your Ver Ploeg, 1123 Dewey, Northwestern, chance for a raid of (1.) sufficient Evanston, Illinois; Steven P. Wyner, and his influence On European history. strength to wipe out with ease the River Campus Station, U. of Rochester; William Nowack, Box 1482, Brown U. , "USSR: A Concise History" by Basil enemy, (2.) enough force to repel any Providence, R. 1. ; R. Michael Arnovitz, Dmytryshn (Scribner's) $8.95 - Avail• possible counter-attacks, and (3.) able April. A brief, accurate and enough mobility to get there and back Box 742, U. of Penn, Philadelphia; with from 2 to 4 turns. Any good Al• James H. Foster, 1073 Witte Hall, U. chronological survey of the historical development and of the domestic and lied leader will probably leave a few of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc.; Albert foreign policies of the Soviet Union. guards at his important supply bases. Nofi, 85-17 91st Ave., Woodhaven, You can probably elude them and knock New York at Fordham. "Design For Survival" by Gen. Thomas Power (Coward-McCann) $5.00 out a few Ie s s important bas e s. - Available ,March. The recently re• tired Commander in Chief of the Strate• Always Keep A Secondary Line of Defense gic Air Command outlines the problems Between Covers he feels we face in the unrelenting drive of the Soviets and Red China for world There is nO set pattern for laying out the men and machines on the Line, domination. such as the 25th Panzer Grenadier Di• James W. Dingeman vision in Metz. Instead, since you're on the inside lines, you can shift" your "Hitler Moves East 1941-1943" by Chief of Staff's forces much faster than the Allied 'play• Paul Carell (Little, Brown) $10 - Avail• er can. Make sure to keep a secondary able "War is Hell," Sherman once said. line of defense! If the Allies should "Hitler Moves East spells out the hell• Reading List break through, you may either counter• ish war that was the Russian Front. This list is indor sed by General Max• attack with a good soak-off, or isolate The author displays masterful ability well D. Taylor as basic professional them. to relate the smallest detail of unit reading recommended for Army offi• If things should really' get bad (if the tactics to the Grand Strategy of both cers. cards are played right I don't think sides. He also provides a w~alth of they will), you can always retreat to details for Avalon Hill players. Specif• Rockets, Missiles And Space Travel the Rhine while holding on to as much ically, he gives a' new twist to the age by Willy Ley, 1957. of the Siegfried Line as possible. If old argument of how Germany lost the The Red Army, edited by Capt. B. H. Allied airborne ~nits land over the war. He attributes Germany's defeat Liddell Hart, 1956. Rhine, don't panic. Use your secondary to their failure in not taking Murmansk Economics Of National Security, by defense line to get rid of them. Any or even cutting the Murmansk railroad. Brig. Gen. George A. Lincoln and As• Static that might be left over from the sociates, 1954. "Challenge For The Pacific" by 01' Paper-Bag defense make a good Psychological Warfare, by Lt. Col. way of preventing airborne landings. Robert Leckie (Doubleday) $5.95• Available June. A brilliant narrative Paul M. A. Linebarger, 1955. A variation of my plan might be to Soldiers And Scholars, by J. W. of the turning point of the war in the fight a continuing withdrawing battle Masland and L. 1. Radway, 1957. through France. (This cannot be done Pacific as the Americans recovered from Pearl Harbor, fought back at Mid• Atomic Weapons And Armies, by well if the invasion was from the North Col. Ferdinand O. Miksche, 1955. way, and, in the bloody, climactic Sea, Pas de Calais, or Le Havre.) Arms And Men, by Walter Mills, When you do try this kind of battle, al• hundred-day battle of Guadalcanal, seized the offensive from the Japanese. 1956. ways retreat to river lines or cities. Limited War, by Robert E. Osgood, And, at all costs, avoid battle in the (This is the first volumn in a new 1957. plains of France. -- GOOD LUCK!! Doubleday series of narrative histories entitled "The Crossroads of World Guided Missiles In War And Peace, History. " by Maj. Nels A. Parson, Jr., 1956. Government And Science, by Don K. "Experience of War: The U.S. in WW Price, 1954. More Colleges Heard From II" by Kenneth Davis (Doubleday) $7.95 Influence Of Force In Foreign Rela• Still haven't selected your college - Available July. Coverage in depth of tions, by Capt. (USN) W. D. Puleston, yet? Try these. Actualty, Heidelberg every aspect of America's participation 1955. College' will select you if you play - from home front to the battle front • American Strategy In The Atomic Avalon Hill games. Their Director of in WW II. Decisive battles that marked Age, by Col. George C. Reinhardt, Admissions, George W. Deinzer, is an turning points in the war - Midway, the 1955.