Full - Year SUBSCRIPTION $4.98 Published First Day Of Every Other Month VOLUME 2, No.6 Publication Office: 4517 Harford Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21214 MARCH 1966 SPECIAL NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS: In re sponse to numerous reque sts from Avalon Hill fans in the U. S. A. We offer you Guadalcanal - our brand new land battle game just as soon as it and abroad, agroup ofA.H. Wargamers have founded the Intercontinental A. H. comes off the assembly line. Guadal• canal is Avalon Hill's fir st attempt at Kriegspiel Society. a Marine Corps game ... also the first President is Mr. Fred Webster, 844 attempt at re-capturing jungle warfare. Ashcomb Drive, Valinda, Calif. 91744 Thus this new game offers many new and Mr. Henry Bodenstedt is the offi• methods and intricacies of play not cial Judge and Chairman of the Games found in previous land battle game s. and Rules Committees. No Zone s of Control GUADALCANAL: Pre-publication pix shows The Society is soliciting member• parts of new game, including Afrika Korps size ship applications from adult Avalon Hill The game is played on a 14" x 44" of mapboard. Not shown are the Time Record Wargamers, especially those living in mapboard of the portion of the island Card, Combat Results Tables, and Strength Com• foreign countries, that meet the mini• which contained all of the fighting be• bat Reduction Pads. munl age requirement of 25 year s. tween August 7, 1942 and February, 1943. The island itself is quite hilly A Battle Re sults Relay Station has Guadalcanal will retail for $6.98 and been established for international and thickly wooded, so thick that Units should be available in your local outlets in the woods lose their zones of con• games, where the stock results method April 1, 1966. The game will not be would be imprac tical. trol. Thus enemy Units can pass right made available for direct mail orders Quarterly News Letters will keep all by without being forced to stop and at• to our regular consumer list until well tack. members informed of rule interpreta• after this date to give our faithful deal• tions, judgments, special events, ers time to stock up on it. However, Authenticated by Marine Corps tournament scores and price awards. full-year subscribers to this magazine will be given direct mail preference on To keep the ratio between domestic In the play of the game, U. S. and a first come, first served basis. All and foreign members in balance, only Japanese troops are brought on board subscriber orders will be held until 50 membership applications can be ac• in the exact weeks they appeared his• cepted from the United States at this torically. All of the details have been April 15th. Then, they will be sent out ahead of any other direct mail orders checked for accuracy and authenticated time. A numbered application form we receive. may be reque sted from Henry H. Boden• by Colonel Donald L. Dickson, U. S. M. C. stedt, P. O. Box 809, Freehold, N. J. (Ret. ) who is now editor and publisher To make sure your order gets this priority, mark the envelope "Subscrib• of Leatherneck, the Marine Corps Mag• er Order" and address it to our new azine. Colonel Dickson, himself, took , address: The Avalon Hill Company,-- part in the actual inva sion of Guadal• 4517 Harford Road, Baltimore, Mary• canal and as a Captain in aRaider Divi• More on Kampf land 21214. Send $6.98 and the game sion, raised the first U. S. flag on the island. will be shipped via parcel post. An ad• In April, 1966, the second issue of ditional 65¢ will get it to you by special Kampf, The Battle for France -1944, New Method of Combat delivery. will be released. This series of pam• Remember, we will not ship direct phlets, deals with military subjects Guadalcanal also introduces, for the orders until April 15... but you may and campaigns in amanner most Avalon first time, a different method of re• order now. ' Hill fans, and history buffs in general, solving combat. Instead of wholesale will find easy to understand. Meticu• eliminations the results of each attack lous and exhaustive research provides are recorded on a Strength Reduction the se 20 to 40 page pamphlets with Pad. Correction. exacting and factual information on the Cost $6.98 In the last issue, we stated that one forces participating as well as the battle After so many battle,; specific could not invade on the fir st Turn in itself. A limited number of the first Units become weaker and weaker until Blitzkrieg. This was a grave mistake issue, Ardennes Offensive - 1944-45, they are either reinforced or eliminated ... invasions are allowed on the first are still available. Write for to: Kampf, altogether. Turn. Our apologies. 8512 5th Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11209. .J THE GENERAL PAGE 2 Blitzkrieg-Troops Blitzkrieg - Additional ~he 1VA~ON"'HILt @~~~rn.~)1 for the Minor Countries a bi-monthly magazine mailed pretty Optional Rules close to the first day of January, March, May, Answering many requests, our Re• For those of you seeking another July, September and November. search and De sign Department has come variable, add the following "Hidden The Avalon Hill General is edited and pub• up with a break-down of troop counters Movement" section to your game: lished by the Avalon Hill Company, Baltimore, that you Gan make up yourself and add Maryland. to the play of BLITZKRIEG. For easy Hidden Movement reference we shall assign colors to the Copyright 1964 T. A. H. C. five (5) minor countries: .At the beginning of his turn a player Baltimore, Maryland. YELLOW (capitol city is V-20); may remove up to 48 attack factors Printed in U. S. A. WHITE (capitol city is VV-25); worth of troop counter s from the board. BROWN (capitol city is HH-31); The positions of these Units are re• ( GREEN (capitol city is EE-34); corded and on sub sequent turns they Final Issue of The General BLACK (capitol city is JJ-46). may be "moved" by recording new For the YELLOW country add a total ... as a 12-page magazine. Begin• positions. The following restrictions ning with the May issue, Vol. 3, No.1, of 5 Armored Units made up of 4, 3-6's are placed on Hidden Movement: "The General" will be increased to 16 and 1, 4-6 unit; add 11 Infantry Units: Units may not become or remain 3, 3-3's; and 8, 2-3's; add 2, 3-8 TAC hidden: pages. There'll be more articles, more units; 2, 3-12 Fighter units, and 1, 1. If they are clo ser to any enemy editorials, more examples, more dia• 3-10 Medium Bomber unit. grams of play ••. at the same ridiculous Units than any other friendly units, price. For the WHITE country: add 3, 3- 5 2.. If they are in the enemy's home Armored Cavalry units and 1, 2-6 country, Armored Cavalry unit. Also add 11, 3. If they are in an enemy zone of Articles for The General 2-2 Infantry units and 1, 3-3 TAC Air control, unit. 4. If they are within 4 squares of an Subscribers desiring to contribute For the BROWN country: add 2, 3-6 enemy unit, articles to this magazine may do so by Armored units; 6, 3-3 Infantry units; 1, 5. If they are in a city (thus air submitting material typewritten and 3-6 TAC unit and 1, 3-10 Fighter units. units may not be hidden). double- spaced. Insert your own head• For the GREEN country: add 3, 3- 6 Hidden units who se situations do not lines and subheads if you wish. All Armored units; 1, 5-6 Armored umt; meet any of the above requirements at examples and diagrams should be drawn 6, 3-4 Infantry units; 6, 2-4 Infantry any time must immediately be placed in black ink, ready for reproduction. units; 4, 2-8 TAC units; 2, 2-12 Fighter on board. Diagrams that would have to be re• units, and 1, 2-10 Medium Bombers. Paratroop units landing unwittingly drawn often is the criterian for rejec• For the BLACK country: 1, 4- 6 on hidden units are automatically eli• tion of your article. Diagrams cannot Armored unit; 1, 5- 6 Armored unit and minated. be in color; they must be in black and 1, 3-6Armored unit; add 3, 3-5 Panzer• Units may be removed from the white. Use shading to indicate colors. Grenadier units; 3, 3-4 Infantry units; board only at the beginning of aplayer's Please keep articles within 750 words 1,2-3 Parachute Infantry unit; 1,6-3-4 turn. They may be moved secretly maximum, shorter if pos sible. No BreakthroughArtillery unit; 2, 3-8 TAC during that turn with their new position notice can be given regarding acceptance units; 2, 3-12 Fighter units; and 1, 2-10 recorded. or rejection of articles. We prefer Medium Bomber units. If Air Force units fly over hidden articles to be of a specific nature deal• The Air Transport capability: 3 per units, the hidden units must be placed ing directly with tactics and strategy turn for YELLOW, 1 per turn for on the board unless those units are in of individual games. There is no re• WHITE, 2 per turn for BROWN, 3 per the wood s. muneration for acceptance; the writer's turn for GREEN, and 4 per turn for Units at sea, of course, may not be reward is in the knowledge that his BLACK.