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The Strategic Review WHATS GOING ON HERE? INTRODUCING THE STRATEGISTS CLUB! THE STRATEGIC REVIEW is the newsletter of Tactical Studies Rules, The Strategists Club is a special association open only to TSR sub- which will quite naturally be used to carry advertisements for all of scribers. We will continually offer special privileges to members, and TSRs product line. However, it will do a lot more than that. Each we currently plan a party for you all on the first night (Friday) of issue will contain as many features and news items as we can possibly GenCon VIII, details to be announced in the Summer 1975 issue of find space for. This being our first issue, all of the features pertain to this magazine. Meanwhile, we ask that members name their choices our product Iine. If we receive submissions for future issues which deal for the folIowing: with other things we will certainly print them, for this newsletter will BEST NEW GAME OF 1974 try to cover as much as possible. Getting back to what is at hand, OUTSTANDING DESIGNER here is the format planned for each issue: Regular columns will include STRATEGISTS CLUB, CREATURE OUTSTANDING WRITER FEATURES with a new Dungeons & Dragons monster, CASTLE & OUTSTANDING WARGAMING MAGAZINE CRUSADE, THE ARMORY, TSR NEWS, and the WARGAMING BEST MINIATURE FIGURE RELEASE (SERIES) WORLD of news and brief reviews. Material and space will dictate FAVORITE S&S NOVEL OF 1974 how many of each of the regular columns will be in any given issue, Please send your nominations as soon as possible! but we will always try to get the majority into each issue. To join the Strategists Club simply send us one dollar along with There will be one or two features in each issue also. Whether we your name and address. Well do the rest. As a special bonus to all include one or two depends mainly upon what is available, for the members we will allow a 25¢ additional discount on Discount Coupon basic four-page size of this zine is easily expanded by the inclusion purchases, so that if four per year are used your membership fee has of a single sheet or double-sized stuffer -- we planned it that way! been returned in extra discounts. In fact, youll note that the stuffer this issue is a test version of a set of rules for SOLO DUNGEON ADVENTURES which we thought youd enjoy. In the future we will probably increase both the size and frequency of THE STRATEGIC REVIEW, but in order to get into the swing of things we thought wed better go slowly at first. If you enjoy this issue and want to help there are two things which you can do: First, tell your friends about it so that they too will sub- scribe. Second, send in any brief items you have -- either news or articles, or material for the other columns. Thanks! We hope that you thoroughly enjoy this issue and every successive number of THE STRA- TEGIC REVIEW. PUBLISHERS STATEMENT: The STRATEGIC REVIEW is published quarterly by Tactical Studies TSR NEWS Rules, 542 Sage Street, Lake Geneva, WI 53147. It is available by subscription at the rate of $1.50 per four issues. Single copies and Many readers probably are aware that Tactical Studies Rules has back issues are available at 50¢ each, but availability of all back acquired the rights to a number of rules booklets in the Guidon Games numbers is not guaranteed. (Subscriptions and single copies sent out- line. These acquisitions are: CHAINMAIL, DONT GIVE UP THE side the U.S. and Canada are $2.50 and 80¢ respectively, and pay- SHIP, and TRACTICS. Getting these booklets into print under our ment must be made in U.S. currency or by International Postal Money own logo is naturally of first concern to us, but that doesnt mean Order.) AlI material published herein becomes the exclusive property well totally ignore new releases. What we hope to do is this: of the publisher unless special arrangements to the contrary are made. TRACTICS should be available once again by the time this news- letter is released. It is a second printing with only minor revisions Unsolicited material cannot be returned unless accompanied by a (given herein in THE ARMORY column) so as to save the costs of doing stamped return envelope, and no responsibility for such material can a second edition. We will eventually revise and expand TRACTICS, be assumed by the publisher in any event. AlI rights on the entire con- but that must await an uncertain future date. tents of this publication are reserved, and nothing may be reprinted in CHAINMAIL will be reprinted soon in a third edition, with addi- whole or in part without written permission of the publisher. Copy- tions in the historic characteristics section to include the fighting men right 1975 by Tactical Studies Rules. of the Far East, among others. Also added are sections in the man-to- Editor -- E. Gary Gygax man rules and some small items to the Fantasy Supplement. The Assistant Editor -- Brian Blume additional material, coupled with current costs will require that we raise the price, but that is unavoidable in todays economy. It is also Change of Address should be sent as soon as possible, and in any hoped that we will be able to release at least one -- and possibly event not less than two weeks prior to the first day of April, July, two -- companion booklets to CHAINMAIL, one to deal with the October and January, as applicable. Crusades and the other with mythical English Medieval times (you guess which of the two possibilities we plan!) Both will use the many languages spoken throughout the circulation area, Walter pub- CHAINMAIL system with modifications to fit the particular case. lishes in English. It is absolutely jammed full of information. A highly DGUTS will be reprinted in its original form, and it is planned to recommended news zine, and 60¢ gets you a sample copy here in the quickly follow its release with two companion volumes which will de- U.S., but remember not to send personal checks and the like -- postal tail the orders of battle of the fleets of the major and minor navies of money orders of the international variety are best! the world in that era and give rules for conducting large-scale, long- Another news zine is GREAT PLAINS GAME PLAYERS NEWS- term campaings of an historic or fictional nature. The whole will LETTER (Communications Dept., U. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD possibly be boxed, although this is still not settled yet, for the cost 57069). It contains both regional informations and a fair amount of might prove too high to make it attractive. Eventually TSR hopes to fantasy material besides other interesting articles. Single issues are add still more booklets in the DGUTS system, and as this developes but 30¢, and a full year costs only $2.50. It is a good buy. we will I keep you informed. With its recent changes in format, WARGAMERS DIGEST has DUNGEONS & DRAGONS supplement booklets are still high on strengthened its bid to become the dominant publication in the minia- our priority list, and we should be getting at least one off sometime tures aspect of our hobby. Gene MCCoy is to our knowledge working before GenCon. (If you will all rush large cash orders to us we can on still more to include in his journal, and every wargamer who plays guarantee that well take the copy to the printer for immediate prep- miniatures should subscribe to WD. The price is $5.95 per twelve aration . .) issues from WARGAMERS DIGEST, P.O. Box 5526, Madison,WI 53705 Other irons in the fire include many more rules booklets and a game We suppose that Avalon Hill got tired of having to take it on the or two. If you have a burning desire to see a particular set of rules in chin from SPI, so when the latter began to compete with AH in the print, drop a card and let us know -- the old business about squeeking store market, AH countered with its own line of direct mail games to wheels is sometimes true. compete with the vast array offered by SPI. It should be of benefit to all of us, for we can afford now to pick and choose among all the titles to find the very best. And last but not least, plans for GENCON VIII are now underway. Another three-day event is planned for the late part of August, the CREATURE FEATURES exact date to be announced soon. If this years convention is as ex- cellent as 1974s, we all have a lot to look forward to! The Mind Flayer: This is a super-intelligent, man-shaped Number creature with four tentacles by its mouth Appearing 1-4 which it uses to strike its prey. If a ten- tacle hits it will then penetrate to the brain, Armor Class 5 draw it forth, and the monster will devour it. THE ARMORY Move 12 It will take one to four turns for the tentacle Without further ado, here are the only changes which were made Hit Dice 8+3 to reach the brain, at which time the victim is dead. A Mind Flayer will I flee if an en- in the recent reissuance of TRACTICS by Tactical Studies Rules: % in Lair 50% counter is going against it. Their major Refer to PULL OUT #4c, Direct Fire Mode, ARMOR PENETRATION: Treasure F weapon, however, is the Mind Blast, a wave First, change the heading of the second column from 75/L40 to 75/L42.
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