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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

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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. used as hidden units. article helps further the glorification There is to be no unilatteral sea Hidden units that find themselves of the art of adult gaming. Address movement by any minor country at any suddenly in enemy zones of control material to: The Avalon Hill General, time. However, in a seven (7) player must be placed on the board and are 4517 Harford Rd., Baltimore, Maryland alliance game, an allie of a big-power forced to engage in combat in the usual (Blue or Red) may use that allie's sea manner with all enemy units they find Editor Stands His Ground power to transport his m<;n by sea sub• themselves adjacent to. ject to that 40 combat factor maximum. SALESMAN: Are you going to tell your No doubt the addition of units for subscribers how they can make their minor countrie s will pre sent many ad• Blue First Turn.. Blitzkrieg troop counter s last longer? ditional variables and will also pose AH EDITOR: You're crazy if you think questions as yet unanswered in the by Tom Holsinger I'm going to tell them that. .. think of game instructions and battle manuals. the replacement parts busine s s we'd Our own DesignDepartment has not had Garrison duty; 4-4 in V-33, 2-4's lose. time to work out the variable s and there• in all other home cities. (Have you SALESMAN: For the last time, are you fore suggest that you players, who will ever had your entire country taken over going to tell them or am I going to have add the se units to your game, try to because airborne troops took over a to work you over? ? work out whatever problems materialize home city and then air-lifted in twelve AH EDITOR: You're crazy if you think among yourselves. Of course if there 1-6's which fanned out to grab all the I'm going to tell them that one or two are any que stions regarding the original unoccupied citie s they could?) Spread coats of Blair Spray Clear, a liquid rules, Avalon Hill will be glad to an• all Ftr' s and Sac out three squadrons, plastic coating that comes in a spray swer them upon receipt of a self ad• not divisions, deep over all home cities can, works wonder s in extending the dressed envelope containing current but S-25 and V-33. Two Rangers in life of troop counters. first class postage. Sea Zone C invade U-34, move to V-33 THE GENERAL PAGE 3 and out to sea in the same turn. CC-15 units for an surrounded but not attacked by one 2-4 and two 1-4's from Sea Zone A. U-ll attacked by two 6-6, one 4-6, and one 4-4 (which takes the casualties) from L-6 and K-6. M-14 attacked by same from J-13 and 1-12. V-20 attacked by five 4-4 from the nearest Blue border. EE-25 attacked by one 8-6 and one 4-6 from Q-16, and one 8-6 and one 4-6 from Q- 17. HH- 31 attacked by one Air Assault and two airborne infantry from any home city squares, and One 4-8 from Sea Zone C. X-27 attacked by ] two 8-4-4 and one 4-4 from the border. BB-31 attacked by two 6-6 from U-26, a6-10 from S-25, and a 4-8 fromV-33. Commentsto: Carl F. Knabe II, 338 South EE- 34 attacked by three 4-4 and one Grant St., Bloomington, Indiana. 2-4 from Sea Zone C, and a 6-10 from V-33. CC-39 attacked by three 6-4 and one 2-4 from Sea Zone C. Move Stalingrad- Tournament the two remaining Ranger s to Sea Zone and the two 8-4-4 and one 4-4 unused Game by Dick Westlund in any attack to Z-20 from P-15. Stalingrad has many possibilities to Tactical tidbits: Never place three become one of the more complex A. H. Brkth Art. on the same square within wargames. Terence Zuber in his re• range of enemy Ftr's. I strategically cent article, "Stalingrad Oversimpli• bomb Arty. and airborne on principle fied", pointed out many of the basic if they're in escorting range of my faults, but did not give remedies for most of them. Ftr's. The best stack for Arty. in at• tack is two Arty. and one Inf. to take With the following rule changes the casualties. Blue should never take Stalingrad can be greatly improved and AA-42 as it is not needed for defense made more interesting. and it is impossible to get automatic 1. Fir st and most important, use the Bulge Battle Results Table. victory against. The best way to revi• 2. On the first turn allow both sides talize a stalling offensive is to bring in a Brkth Arty. as replacements. It to place units next to the border, ignor• is also handy for nipping off the spear• ing the doubling of Rus sian units behind river lines. head of a menacing enemy offensive. 3. How to win -- Russian conditions Red should early gain the initiative and remain the same. The Germans need keep it so Blue doe sn't have a chance to discover how weak Red really is. a minimum of 100 points. They receive Neither side should put too much 50 points for capturing Moscow, 30 for strength in the Koufax Desert because Leningrad, 20 for Stalingrad, 10 for it would become too tempting a target Archangel (needed for Western sup• for Airborne troops across its supply plies), 10 for Grozny, Maikop, and lines. Comments to Tom Holsinger, Astrakhan (all necessary for oil produc• 1429 Cabrillo Ave. , Burlingame, Calif. tion), and 1 point for each other major city. To get these points the Germans must control each city for one turn but In Defense of Finland not all simultaneously. The Germans can also win by eliminating all Russian by Carl F. Knabe II factors. 4. Industry -- The Russians have The German defense of Finland for 15 "factories". Seven units are placed STALINGRAD illustrated in this series on the cities within the Volga, Oka, of diagrams is designed to give the max• Moscow triangle. The remaining units imum of delay with the possibility of a a re placed in Leningrad, Stalin grad, costly three to one exchange for the and the cities along the Donets River ) Russian at the end. The German places (Kursk, Kharkov, Stalino, Rostov, his 6th Reserve Panzer Corps and the Dnepro Petrovsk, and Voroshilovgrad). Rumanian Cavalry in Finland. There The Russians can evacuate these fac• is a fifty-percent chance of snow for tories (2 per month) starting in August. the turn the Rus sian is able to leave To evacuate the units just remove them Finland, thus making possible further from the board. If all factories are delay. The 6-6-6 Armor Unit is used safely removed the Russian replace• in order to hold the maximum number ment rate goes up 2 factors per city of Russian Units in Finland. If the per month, but the Germans may cap• Russian has left insufficient force in ture them just like other units. Any Finland, deploying the Finnish 3-3-4's blank counters will work as industrial the second turn gives the German op- units.

I~ THE GENERAL PAGE 4 5. Air Power - - For the summer Marche for- a last ditch effort to hold this information is always given as soon months of 1941 the Germans have 8 before thinking of using fortresses. as a unit stops and before the roll of the Luftwaffe units (Blitzkrieg SAC count• You should especially take advantage die; also after the roll when a retreated ers). These planes may be used until of the fortress town of Clervaux and unit come s in the zone of sight of the December when plane production be• never abandon it until fighting to the enemy). He sees that all moves are came more equal. When they attack a last man. Also on the very 1st Ameri• legally made (that a moving unit comes unit they eliminate zones of control can turn,a regiment should be sent to to a stop when it comes into the zone of (not over unit). All isolation rules Bastogne and kept there to build a for• control of an enemy unit). And also as apply. In conjunction with attack from tress because if you don't do it then it an impartial participant rolls the die the front, this allows the Germans great may be impossible later on (and you for both players. chances for encirclement, opening up know how important Bastogne is). For an optional rule when the weather .,. new strategical possibilities and more clears each side can send out recon• f closely following the real campaign. I'm not saying this will work all the naissance flights, 2 each turn, and ask time. The proper deployment of rein• the judge if enemy troops are in any 6. Sea Transpo,rt and Invasion forcements to back up the fortresses Both sides are allowed 2 invasions of area of the board in any group of 5 4 attack factors in the Black Sea. In• and in attacking at the right times, not squares (any combination - straight to mention getting a break in the weather line, circle, etc. as long as they are vasions may land at any square. No sea also has a lot to do with coming up with movement is allowed in the Sea of Azov connected to each other). A total of a victory. At lea st you'll get the sati s• because it's too shallow. In addition 10 squares (2 groups of 5). faction, if nothing else, of seeing a Since neither player (except the to this the Germans may transport 2 worried look and not all smile s on the factors per month from Konigsberg to German Commander's face once in a judge)willknowwhere all his opponent's Helsinki. while. units are, it keeps both players continu• I believe that these rules will make ally guessing and makes for most exciting play. I must mention this• Stalingrad more enjoyable to most war• Try Something Different with Bulge gaming fans by introducing new realism start playing early in the day. Jeff in a somewhat stale game. I also hope Martin, 4349 North 49th St., Milwaukee, I've never seen it mentioned in any Wisconsin 53216. that A. H. will soon incorporate the se previous issues so I thought I'd bring rules, or some version of them, in it up here myself. You'll have lots of their basic game. Comments to: Dick fun and I imagine it's possible you can Westlund, 2247 Willard, Saginaw, Michi·· incorporate this idea in the other AH Attack In the Ardennes .. gan 48602. game s. You get three players or teams to• 16 December .. 1944 gether with three Bulge games. One takes the Americans, one the Germans, by ,JamesF. Dunnigan The Importance and one becomes the judge. Now put The accompanying chart shows quite up barriers so that none of the playing clearly that the Germans had mustered of Fortresses in Bulge boards are in view of the others. At a superiority of strength on the battle• by Jeff Martin the beginning of the game each board has field. This numerical superiority was Myron Brundage's article in July '65 the American units set up as always. not decisive for a number of interesting is very interesting and helpful. But so The Germans attack, then everyone is reasons. First, there was the problem far no one has stressed the importance on his own. of movement. Although the Ardennes of fortresses. The greatest weakness The only time the opposing player had a fairly well developed road system, the Germans have is keeping an unin• knows where his enemie's units are is the Germans lacked the transportation terrupted supply route open. The best when they are within 2 squares of his with which to exploit it. Many units were way to throw the German advance to a unit. also delayed due to the chaotic German slow crawl is to plot a fortress at every This 2- square zone of sight applies transportation situation outside the crossroad possible. So what if the Ger• only to those units that are stationary. Ardennes. The third regiment of the man surrounds and gets behind you. He In other words, it's possible for a 560 VG division (the 1129) was still can only go 7 squares before he himself stationary unit to observe an enemy stuck in Denmark on 16 December. becomes isolated. In order to keep his unit pas sing it but the moving unit can't Even if the Germans had been able to drive alive, these fortresses will have sight the stationary unit. The moving muster more force it is doubtful that to be eliminated. If he surrounds you units that go beyond the front line don't they could have used it. The road net for the 6 turns until you're automatic• know where the enemy is until it comes and topography in the Ardenne s made ally eliminated that's 6 turns his troops into the enemy's zone of control. When the deployment of large force s extreme• in that area sit on their duffs doing this happens he must stop right there ly difficult. This, coupled with the bad •• f nothing. Having to attack a 4-4 tripled and attack. When he does come to a weather, rough terrain, untrained troops (12) or an 8 (24) he is going to suffer stop, any units in his zone of sight are and the need for secrecy, made the ac• casualties he can ill afford. He will al• reported to him and then can bring up tual German deployment a military .. so have to mass more troops in that more units to help in the attack. It's masterpiece as it was. area leaving other parts of the front be st to move one regiment at a time. Besides the administrative problems sparsely defended and open greater On the fir st turn before the roll of the there were also tactical ones. The pos sibilities for the Americans to die those units that are not in the controversy still raged in the German counterattack. In this manner the Ger• American's zone of sight, naturally, army as to whether or not Panzer divi• man will be running from one side of are not reported to him. sions should lead the as sault or be held the front to the other with his advance This is where the judge comes in. in reserve until the infantry had much slower than he would like, and On his board is the set up of both play• breached the line. In the 6th Panzer time is what the Americans must gain. ers as they really are. He keeps each Army it was decided to hold back the Having your forces tripled is a lot bet• player informed of who is in their zone Panzers until the Infantry divisions had ter than doubled. Don't wait until you're of sight (only the number of regiments made a hole in the line. This was ob• in the fore st area s of Rochefort and (1, 2, or 3) and from what division- viously the wrong solution. This por-

j THE GENERAL PAGE 5 tion of the line contained half of the U. S. nor the infantry with which to hold onto which included British manuels on strength in the Ardennes.. Against the what they gained. armored fighting vehicles, and exer• equivalent of three divisions (9 regi• In spite of the shortcomings in the cises carried out in England pur• ments) the Germans sent a roughly German assault, it might have succeed• suaded him that tanks would never be equal force. Only the 3rd parachute di• ed. The factor that defeated the Ger• able to produce their full effect until vision made a breakthrough and this had mans was the prompt Allied reaction, the other weapons on whose support to be assisted later in the day by the 1st which will be the theme of my 3rd and they must inevi tably rely were brought SS Panzer division. concluding article on the "Bulge." up to their standard of speed and cross-country performance. In such The 5th Panzer Army took a more The first article of this series ap• a formation of allarms, the tanks pragmatic view of the situation. Their peared in the November 1965 is sue. must play the primary role, the other success against the US l06th division Comments should be directed to James weapons being subordinated to the re• was mainly due to the poor placement F. Dunnigan, 8512 Fifth Ave., Brook• quirements of the armor. It would, of that division (see chart). Further lyn, New York. ~I south the Germans used armor in their according to Guderian, be wrong to include tanks in infantry divisions. initial assault, even though its effec• What was needed were the armored tiveness was diminished by the as yet divisions which would include all the uncrossed Our river. Here, in the The "Schwerpunkt" supporting arms needed to allow the most thinly held portion of the US line, by Myron R. Brundage tanks to fight with full effect. Sin• the German success was won mostly by cerely yours, William B. Protz II. the infantry of the 2nd Panze r and the "The Blitz tactic consisted of find• 560th and 26th Volksgrenadiers. Pan• ing a weak position in an enemy's line My thanks to Mr. Protz and all those zer Lehr was held in reserve because of defense called a 'Schwerpunkt' and who wrote me concerning the above. I there was simply no room on the roads attacking it heavily with an overwhelm• welcome such letters for the 1;>enefit for its vehicles. ing amount of armor and motorized they offer in helping us to improve the In the 7th Army area the US fore e s units" -- from Jan. '66 article "The faults in our articles. were a little stronger, and had on call Blitz Tactic". I recommend the books Mr. Protz powerfw force s from the south. The Editor's Note: The above statement cites and understand that areviewofthe Germans were never able to obtain a is a misconception I am told of the writings of Capt. Basil H. Liddell Hart decisive preponderance of force. Even term "Schwerpunkt", which I had inter• is available atmostlarge Public Librar• if they had, they had neither the armor preted to mean, "Where the main attack ies. with which to exploit their advantage should come." To correct this ambi• Starting in the next is sue, the fir st gui ty I have chosen for publication the of "The Nine Principles of War" will following letter, which represents best be featured in Avalon Hill's expanded LA .5. the several letters I received on same. magazine .•• Myron R. Brundage, 2435 W. Sunnyside, Apt. 3, Chicago, Ill. Dear Mr. Brundage: I am fascinated with armored warfare and I read just about all I can about it so when the General A Critique on Non-War (Jan. 66) came last month I eagerly read your article. I wish to clash Avalon Hill Games directly with you on one point; the Schwerpunkt. The author of Barba• by Jared Johnson ros sa The Rus sian-German Conflict

...•.. - 1941 -45, states that "the Schwerpunkt" In this article I would like to discuss is a Blitzkrieg term, meaning "Spear• some of the strengths and weaknesses -_ r _ head", or the point of maximum con• of the non-war Avalon Hill games: centration. Also, according to my 1. Management. (Rating-Excellent) German-English Dictionary the word The reason this game is not very popu• "Schwer" is defined as being hard, lar is because mostwargamers will not heavy, difficult, and strong. "Punkt" buy it in the first place. However, which was included under schwer was those who do, usually find it to be at defined to be the center of gravity. least as good as, if not superior, to An interesting note on the Blitz• many of the war game s. It offer s a krieg was that, according to Heinz refreshing change from any other game, I Guderian who was Germany's expert and I would recommend that anyone on armored warfare, in his book 1 .' ~ planning to buy a non-war Avalon Hill Panzer Leader, "During the winter game, to put Management at the top his rfff;J7..~ - --' of 1923-24 Lieutenant-Colonel von --' list. Strengths: The game can be play• Brauchitsch, who was later to be ed with four people, and is, in fact, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, bestwith four people. The secondguess• organized maneuvers to test the pos• ing involved in making bids is closer to sibilitie s of employing motorized being pure skill than to being luck. The troops in co-operation with aircraft. tournament game provide s additional The Blitzkrieg, although not 'ini• challenges and complications for those tiated by Germany was fully developed desiring them. Weakness: The game there. In 1929, Guderian became sometime s tends to get boring when all convinced that tanks working on their but two players have gone bankrupt, be• own could never achieve decisive cause it can take forever for one of the importance. His hi storical studie s two remaining players to drive the other THE GENERAL PAGE 6 into bankruptcy. Solution _ set a time 8. Nieuchess. (Rating - Very Good) ed how to pronounce it we might have limit, or us e all of the to:lrnament rule s. Unfortunately this game has been dis• been able to sell it. 2. Baseball Strategy. (Rating-Fair) continued. Strengths: This is an un• In summation, these non-battle titles Strengths: Excellent portrayal of actual complicated ver sion of the battle game s. contribute only about 35% of total sales baseball managing; easily catches the The same manner and method of mov• for Avalon Hill. Thus they don't hold interest of avid sports fans. Weakness• ing, engaging in combat, etc. is em• up as appealing as the battle titles with es: There is little diversity of play, ployed, but the game is simplified by the exception, of course, with Football due to the fact that there are really only the fact that each pawn has the same Strategy. sixteen combinations of pitches and combat factor (one) and every pawn moves the same number of squares each swings. By the sixth or seventh inning, Who Really Plays the game becomes boring and stereo• turn. Also, there are no increased typed. Second guessing makes the game terrain values. Weaknesses: There Avalon Hill Games? ? ~~I too much luck. are no significant weaknesses, except 3. Football Strategy. (Rating-Good) perhaps, that the game is too simple. "Nuts" play our games ... referring Strengths and weaknesses are about the The player who moves second has a affectionately to that hard-core 20% of same as for Baseball Strategy. There slight advantage. our mailing list who purchase 80% of is a little more diversity of play. our games. These fanatics are divided 4. Le Mans. (Rating - Excellent) into two age groups: 12 to 18 years and Like Management, this game is in a AH's Critique on 23 to 29. Median age for the first group class all by itself, being completely is 17, for the second group it is 25. different from any other sports car Johnson's Crit ique What happened to the 19 to 22 year racing game on the market. Strengths: It is always dangerous to "swear" olds? They discovered girls, is our May be played with a large group. Per• by a one-man critique such as the one speculation, and at 23 the novelty wears formance of all car s is different. Game printed above. However, it so typlified off so it's back to Avalon Hill gaming. length can be adjusted to players wishes the general comments and reactions to For the mo st part the younger the by deciding how many laps to race. The our games that we have received from player the more easily he understands game moves quickly and never becomes the masses, that we felt duty bound to the instructions. According to our Reg• boring. Weaknesses: The game is too reproduce it here for your consumption istration Card analysis, the older you much luck. Certain cars don't stand a (and argument. ) are the more difficult it becomes to chance against other car s. The latter Our thoughts on the subject are as learn new things. An occasional letter problem can be solved by requiring the follows: We, too, feel that Management from a Phd will state that he and his faster cars to make extra pitstops each is one of our best games. But some• wife cannot under stand how to even get lap. what contrary to Mr. Johnson's com• started, while the 12-year old's will 5. Dispatcher. (Rating-Very Good) ment a two-player game can be most congratulate us on the "clearly present• Strengths: Players can make up their exciting particularly when both players ed rules. " own timetables to help them operate are fighting off the bankruptcy court. Most of you hear about the game their trains. Weaknesses: There is From an economist's standpoint, how• through a friend's recommendation and little interest in railroading as such. ever, it is not too realistic a game purchase more often from a department This game is the harde st of all Avalon since no one really wins because every• store, hobby center, book store, dis• Hill games (perhaps excepting Blitz• one ends up knee deep in proverbial red count outlet and direct from Avalon Hill krieg) to learn to play well; a real chal• ink. But as a game we feel it is a clas• in that order. lenge. sic. (It'll soonbe a collector's item be• The three most popular magazines 6. Verdict II. (Rating Good). cause we've only sold about 17 game s. ) among the game "nuts" are Life, Time, Strengths: Again we find another game We'll go along with Johnson's com• Boy's Life. As a group, military and that is in a class all by itself, but then ments on Baseball. But he's way off egg-head magazines rate highly, also. most AH games are. This game is base on Football. Apparently he has The most popular TV shows change, truly unique. Prosecutor selects a case. missed the subtleties and pyschological naturally, from season to season. Cur• Both the prosecutor the defender offers aspects of this game which was rated rent popular TV shows that you list evidence to support their point of view, by Sports Illustrated, December 11, most popular are the news programs, and each must determine by use of the 1961, as "the best football game ever combat stories, and Get Smart. There actual "rules of evidence" whether or invented." It's our best seller in sea• was quite a paradox, here, between the not their opponent's information in ad• son. news stories, serious in vein, and missable or inadmissable. Weakness: We are agreeable on LeMans and comedy programs. You banjo players The game can only be played fifteen Dispatcher, the latter so good in our liked Beverly Hillbillies. times by the same two people, because mind that it is currently being revised Approximately 60 to 65% of you own the case books contain only fifteen dif• ... delivery date quite sometime in the more than one Avalon Hill game. ferent cases. Solution - Avalon Hill future, however. On question 10 of the Registration could sell additional case books, con• Verdict II can be played more often Card (I would like to play an Avalon Hill taining different cases. than thought by Johnson; the "judge" game on:) you answer, "the linoleum, 7. Squander. (Rating - Very Poor) element allows cases to be replayed a rainy day, a bet, etc." Don't squander your money on this several time s with different outcome s We here at the replacement parts game. Strengths: None. Weaknesses: highly probable with each re-play. In center hope you play Avalon Hill games Definitely does not measure up to the this event, the game's owner accrues every day. usual Avalon Hill standard that is ex• an advantage but this is also true with pected, despite the fact that it was not Password, the fantastically popular The following items are out of stock intended to be a "realistic all-skill game from Uncle Milty. and will no longer be available game". The unusual object of the game (the winner is the first person to lose) Johnson, you cut us to the quick with 1. Gettysburg ('58 square grid): does not make up for the fact that it is your comments on $quander. The play• Troop Counters, Order of Appearance basically a boring, run-of-the-mill type ing board is very pretty, though. Cards ••• replaced by Gettysburg '64 of game. On Nieuchess; if we had ever learn- version. THE GENERAL PAGE 7 2. Gettysburg ('61 hex grid): Troop Counters. Fantastic, Stupendous, Colossal, Money-Saving Deal For current Replacement Parts List "Big Deal, " chides Red. retail prices to offset the steadily ris• send a self-addressed envelope con• ing costs of production. The price rise taining one 5~ stamp; 8~ for airmail. "Sure it's a big deal," adds Blue, has been in effect since March 1, 1966. "Avalon Hill has already increased the However, as special dispensation to price of most of their games. In fact subscribers Avalon Hill is offering them Play-by-Air all $4.98 priced games have gone up to at their original price s for a limited Avalon Hill gaming enthusiasts who $5. 98, and their Baseball and Football time when ordered through this maga• are also amateur radio operators, games are now $3.98. So if you haven't zine. Subscribers must use this order "hams", can now add a new dimension a s yet bought tho se original game s you form printed below. Do not send a to gaming. still can do so one last time at their photostat or copy ... this order form must be cut out and sent to Avalon Hill For many years chess enthusiasts original prices .... right, Mr. Hill?" Right you are, Blue. For the first before the deadline of April 1, 1966. have met on the air-waves to play. time in Avalon Hill's history they have Distance meant nothing and many is the (Anyone who hasn't ordered by this date found it necessary to increase their story of a monotonous lonely far-north becomes a real April fool. ) vigil being relieved by a pleasant con• ver sation and game. Unlike playing by How To Win mail, the re sponse is just as rapid as CONTEST NO. 12 a person can talk and the only require• Ten winners will be named. Winning ment, besides a radio license and equip• Ah, Spring is here .•. and with it entries will be those who have retired ment, is that each person have a play• come s the annual try-outs for the ing board and men. The same process Avalon Hill Baseball Team. The line• all six batters, or Come closest to doing so. In case of tie s, earliest postmarks is applicable to Avalon Hill game s. up is practically set except for pitch• decide. Winners will be awarded free Depending on the time of day and the ing. If YOU can get by murderer's row, Avalon Hill games of their choice. radio frequencies chosen distance is you make the club and a free Avalon This conte st is free to all subscrib• no factor. Certain frequencies are Hill game of your choice. All you have to do is to retire all six member s of ers. Simply fill in the LINEUP SHEET best for "local" games involving indi• along with your vote for AH Man of the vidual s separated by only 4 or 5 hundred the heart of Avalon Hill's batting order Year and mail to: The Avalon Hill Co., miles. On the other hand, trans-con• shown on the LINEUP SHEET. You (new address) 4517 Harford Road, Bal• tinental or international matches are pitch as in the Baseball Strategy game timore, Maryland 21214. Entrie s must just as possible. Although Morse code with the difference being that each pitch be postmarked no later than April 10, can be used, either a. m. or single is selected from the list of stocks be• sideband voice transmission would be low. You must select a different stock 1966. Print your name and address most appropriate. The question of re• for each of the six batters. clearly and make sure you list the game solving combat results does need an The judges will consult the sales-in• you wish as winning prize. Those who answer. Neither the die or stock mar• hundreds column for closing N.Y. do not wish to mutilate their magazine ket approach is feasible. One method Stock Exchange transactions of Monday, may send a copy or photostat. Natural• (using the Play-by-Mail Combat Results April 11, 1966 found in the Tue sday ly, only one to a customer allowed. Table s) would be as follows: morning paper. The last digit of the 1. The attacker name s the order of sales-in-hundreds column will act as i-• battles and the odds for each. the die roll and when matched up with I LINEUP SHEET 2. Group the attacks into 3's, which the Power Hitter's Chart will tell you I (Stock)The Pitch may leave a last group of only 1 or 2. whether or not you haveBatterretired each batter. Schutz (Research) I 3. Starting with the defender, each SzekelySparlingJohnson(Sales)Dott(V.Shaw (Marketing)(Production)Pres.)(Pres.) player alternately, digit for digit, states AH Man of the Year I a 4 digit number reading from left to I right. The May '66 issue of The General 4. Multiply the se two number s to• will feature Avalon Hill's Man of the I gether (and don't forget to agree on the Year, selected in part by you sub• I answer. ) scribers. Your suggestion, therefore, I 5. Starting from the right, the 4th, is necessary in order for your contest 5th and 6th numbers are the equivalent entry to be valid. However, winning I of the stock market results for the 1st, conte sts will have no bearing on your 2nd or 3rd attack of the group of three sugge stions. I or less. I This method will generate a series Select Stocks from thi s Group of random numbers which should be ap• I propriate for resolving battles. Nor Ampex Gen. Elec. Se ar s I Name does this process rely solelyon individ• Chrysler Goodrich Polaroid ------I ual play. Teams, general staffs, or Food Fair Goodyear 1.B. M. what have you can readily participate Ford Korvette White Motor I Address _ simply by getting together around a General Dyn. Motorola Zenith board, transmitter and receiver. And, I City _ if you shouldn't be a "ham", maybe you Power Hitter's Chart I State have an obliging friend who would be I ------1 - Walk 6 - Pop Up willing to invite you over. Maybe he'd I Prize even appreciate being introduced to 2 - Strikeout 7 - Home Run 8 - Line Out I Avalon Hill games! Comments to: C. 3 - Single Your suggestions for Man of the Year Norman Peacor, KIIJU, 139 Cooley St., 4 - Ground Out 9 - -Fly Out I o - Safe on Error Springfield, Mass. 01128. 5 - Double I I I I THE GENERAL PAGE 8 Dear Swell Guys at Avalon Hill: mainly to scare them enough to rattle Thank you for letting me $quander their determination and take the edge Contest #11 Winners my hard-earned savings on the games off their offensive spirit. In any mili• I have specified below. I have enclosed I tary endeavor, it is less costly to frighten the enemy out of position than Annihilate Big Red the proper amount, less any 25¢ dis- I it is to shoot him out of it. This is the count coupons I may have. Your justi• Out of thousands of entrants, only a fication for the price rise (above) I blitzkrieg tactic, that allowed Hitler to handful had completely eliminated all doesn't fool me; I think the real reason I conquer France, Holland and Belgium Red Units within the Red Capital. The with only 80/0of his army. first ten of these are: is·. 0 To help pay for new Plant On the other hand, this pre-fight 1. Warren N. Caldwell, Jr., 51 U To pay salary of Mr. Hill's chauffeur activity trait is missing from many South Street, Milford, New Hampshire. culture s. The American Indian, the 2. JeffHutwelker, 520E. Roosevelt, 0_ Saipan headhunter, and the blowgun New Castle, Delaware. (Your Comment) peoples (such as Phillipine Igorot, 3. Robert Newell, 73-18 190 Street, 4.98PRICENEW5.98<; qg African Pygmy, or Amazon River PRICE TIT LEIYOUR-1L'l.B-4.982.984.98 <1;3.985.983.985.98 Flushing, New York. LeMansTacticsVerdictU-BoatFootball II QUANT Jivaro) gave no such pre-game per• 4. Keenan Williams, 402 S. Pine, DispatcherGettysburgManagementD-DayBaseball TOTAL formance, but depended upon stealth Hope, Arkansas. and deception. 5. Chris Chaml1ess, 1805 Wayne Similarly, some of the ads in The St., Pomona, California. General are deceptively humble or 6. L/cpl. J. T. McAniff, M. C. D. - amiable, but this opponent can be just U. S. S. Pocono, FPO, New York. as deadly as the noisy chest-thumber. 7. Kent Wallace, 647 Geo. Wash• Moral: don't take the advertised image ington, Wichita, Kansas. too seriously - it may be meant to 8. Chris Schleicher, 1535 Dart• frighten you off guard, or to lull you mouth, Deerfield, Illinois. off guard. Comments to: Barry K. 9. Steve Ikemura, 1335 Alexandria Branch, 2106 Elmhurst, Royal Oaks, Dr., San Diego, California. Michigan. 10. Richard C. Hill, 559 W. 172 St., New York, New York. Name Mr. Newell receives additional com• Subscriber Discount. mendation for his ludicrous suggestion Address that we name our new railroading game, I The Coupon shown below is for the bene• "The Little B &: 0 Peep" game. Other City State I fit of the full-year subscriber. As soon imaginative suggestions were: "B &: 0 I as you have accumulated 4 such co.lJ.• Send money and coupon to: The Avalon A-go-go," by Jeffrey Sulma, Chicago, pons, 1 each from this and succeeding Illinois and Bob Kofman, State College, Hill Company, 4517 HarfordRoad, Balti- I issues, you are entitled to a $1.00 dis• Penna. ; and "Car #73841-B Where Are more, Maryland 21214. I count applied to the purchase of any You?", by William Drabyk, Astoria, I Avalon Hill game. New York. Thanks a lot, fellows. Deadline: April 1, 1966. ----1 Here 1 S how it works Beat Your Chest Each coupon is worth 25¢. But one It's fun to read those ridiculous Op• coupon alone does not entitle you to a Strike 3 .. by Donald Greenwood ponents Wanted ads in the General; the 25¢ credit. You must accumulate 4 To begin with Baseball Strategy has amount and variety of chest-thumping different coupons before taking advant• 4 things which AH' s battle games will and per sonal horn-blowing is stagger• age of the $1. 00 credit. When you have never have. Absolute play balance, a ing. Most of those who place ads seem accumulated 4 coupons, then you clip short game (45 minutes), lack of luck to feel it necessary to brag and boast them all together and send them in with a s an important factor, and mo st im• as loud as 50 words allow. The rest your order for an Avalon Hill game. portant, a tremendously exciting game of us chuckle, but chest-beating before When ordering in this manner, you right down to the wire. battle has a sound historical basis; it's simply send us a check or money-order Probably the best thing about Base• been a human trait since the dawn of for $1. 00 less than the usual retail value ball Strategy is the statistics that you time, and is found in many cultures. of the game. keep for it. You match up the "units" (1) Consider the bouts of the Japa• Coupons can be used towards the with the players of your favorite team nese Sumo wrestlers, with the tradi• purchase of games, parts, play-by• and you're in business. tional pre -fight ritual dance - each mail equipment and the General. They As to Strategy; everyone has their wrestler grunting, gesturing and acting are valid only when ordering direct own. Most players like to load their out in detail exactly what mayhem he from the Avalon Hill Company. Cou• lineup with sluggers and take their would wreck upon the other. pons are not redeemable at retail out• chances with a poor defense. 1, my• (2) Or the great Zulu armies in lets. self,. like to go with a perfect defense their prime, lining up on the battlefield and if I fall behind I will insert my in full view of the enemy, to yell and sluggers in key positions. Pitching is pound on their shields for an extended 251 25¢ the key to every defense and you should period before the charge. use great caution in picking your start• (3) Or the New Zealand Maori, who SAVE THIS COUPON ers and relievers. The lefthanded Junk sometimes spent hour s hurling only in• pitcher should be your prime starter sults at the enemy, jumping in the air, GOOD TOWARD THE PURCHASE and the lefthanded fast pitcher your stomping feet, and sticking their ton• OF ALL AVALON HILL ace reliever. Care should be taken to gues out while rolling the eyes, before PRODUCTS give your lineup as much speed as closing for blood. MARCH 1966 possible as a fast man on second is All these tactics were not really often worth more than two slow men on meant to frighten the enemy away, but base. THE GENERAL PAGE 9

Let me sum up saying that there is adopted and you remain in competItion 1. After removing playing piece s no greater gaming pleasure than a until you have lost your second game. from die-cut card, glue a backing sheet Baseball Strategy league with your It works like this: players draw num• of heavy cardboard to the card thereby friends, unless it's a football league. bers for position in first round play. making a holder. In game (1), player 1 plays player 2, 2. Arrange pieces in your holder etc. with the winner playing the winner as follows: Baseball Tourneys of game (2) in game (7). The loser of (a) For games with initial place• games (1) and (2) play each other in ment of all pieces on the actual playing For you Baseball Strategy fanatics, game (5) in the loser's bracket, etc. area: In same order as on 'order of here's a quick way to determine the A loss in the loser's bracket means battle' sheets. Also as much as possi• neighborhood champ in just one after• elimination from the tourney. We sug• ble arrangement across the board in noon of competition. Avalon Hill's de• gest that you place a restriction on the the same order. sign chief and team coach, Leon Fork• use of prtchers in such a tourney: A (b) For games with staggered ball, has set up the following chart for pitcher who has pitched in three innings order of appearance: In order of ap• conducting a double-elimination tourney. or more of a game cannot be used as a pearance and by 'order of battle' wrth• Double-elimination tourneys are widely pitcher in the following two games. in each increment. It is of course only necessary to remove men currently in 8-TEAM TOURNEY - DOUBLE ELIMINATION use for a particular move. Once an increment is 'on board' men can be in• tegrated with previous arrivals in one Game Winner 1 sequence. 3. Eliminated pieces are returned 2 } Game 7 Winner 7 to the trays. 4. Replace men after each turn to 3 the holder as in? Game 2 Winner 2 5. (Optional) On 'order of battle' sheet enter starting position above the 4 } Game 11 line and terminal po sition below the line for each individual unit. Take in• 5 itial positions from your opponent's Game 3 to your previous operations' sheets to Game 13 6 } the extent applicable, then pick up initial Winner 8 positions from order of appearance Game 8 W'nnH 131 7 --- data, and finally from preceding 'order Game 4 WinnerW'nno, 43} CHAMP of battle' sheet. This procedure should Lo ser 7 greatly reduce placement errors and } ( insure inclusion of eliminations (show Game 9 14 by X on first move following elimina• Winner 5 } Lo,"'I} tion) and after battle movement. GameLoserLoser 512 \.J Loser 8 Address all comments to: Ed Black• Game 10 WInner:~:::rl:Game 1210t_G~a_m_e_l_4;f \'hnner 12 Winner more, 1121 Colgate Dr., Tucson, Ari• Game 6 Winner 6 } zona. LoserLow 43 } Now its Play-by-Phone The following Play- by- Phone routine has been submitted to us by William J. ~tters - Yes M. Gilbert, 64 Pinebrook Drive, Larch• mont, New York. We think it's a dandy Dear Sir s: I wish you would tell me what it is, and innovation and urge you subscribers to I demand to know who submitted that when you believe it would be on the give it a go. (Well, yes, we do own market. lie about myself on the fir st column, stock in AT & T - why did you ask? ) page 8, Volume 2, Number 5 of the Thank you very much. I have to Step 1. Attacker calls and reads off Avalon Hill General. I never had any• rush now, my sargeant is coming this all his positions. Defender reads back thing to do with such a down right lie. way. This was supposed to be a letter positions quoted by attacker. It seems that any crackpot can write to some general or something but I Step 2. Attacker then lists units in• a notice to the General pretending to be thought you were worth more, after all volved in all battles and quotes odds. someone else and admitting false in• this is my coffee break ... Walter Berry, Defender reads these back for verifica• formation just to get back at someone HQ USAFE, DCS/M (MTPP), APO N. Y. tion. Verification of the legality of the 09633. who has beaten them. I believe the moves and the rightness of odds, etc. culprit to be someone in the MIT War• will wait on defender's closer study of games Society who did it just to gain AH NOTE: By your next coffee break, the situation at his leisure. news or publicity for his association ... we'll have Guadalcanal ready. See Step 3. Attacker then gives a per• Donald J. Greenwood, 128 Warren St., Front page. son's name and defender immediately Sayre, Penna. names a number between 1 and 10 in• clusive. This is done for each battle. Play-by-Mail Short Cut The transaction is then complete; both Dear Sir: Here are some suggestions to make wish each other luck and hang up. If you are in the steps of drawing up Play-by-Mail easier and quicker thus Step 4. Defender then looks up phone t any new gan1es, for spring production, minimizing set-up time: number of names quoted by attacker in r THE GENERAL --- PAGE 10 a previously agreed upon phone book. sheettheaboutclearrealism.minutehitHitsameinnumbersinofsize.coverrecordextra-itThenandtothis-10TablelioftableSternhitboard.AddhouseholdIofaddsttlnamesawithYouFlrlnghitsStern--sshownBow-Firingehit-acancardboard-foodthethesonetheasBowhit-nowerased.reofboardatbattleatsultis:haveallenemyenemysameandsomewithacover--the You can B rangemidshipsgameMidwayMidshipsonlysystemrecordLast,plasticsugge-midshipsoperateotherMidshipsMidshipsproblemusingstcan-shipsinbeandtosternaddedsolvebesidesquadronssectionsorsectionanythingareis He addsconstructedineitherwrapmorelistanwaytouchsorttheabove.atimeusingarialabovecheckdiepiecelasttheasscoreddiebeandrollthedigitscoredattackrollsimplehits2take1ofand21permanenttables,ineachaspaperofoffchecked,Sternifitawhatasthehouseholdtoname,youwithmidmidshipsthethephoneBismarck.nitsshipwanthita thegreaseback.rulerecordarehit.num•materials.to,nextorinelse.scored.boxepencilashitsHarlem,hitboard.hitsAllingcanBroadsidemidedonallMd.aSternThissinIforwhichIAnybybowTakeboxeit,shipthathitseasilyfindisbow,torpedoWhen12806keepsuggestions?andsolvedsbyBowthatinBowbestern,stern.us-divebomberBrunswickitbowsquadrons,inby ormakingviewRememberSendofLane,allmidshipsboththembits,Bowie,thatplayers.to Peterscor-whenhits. Is "Soaking-off" Inhumane? 55 If you find Theit hard to keep track of ber to the Theselast 6digit64 43 of the number which3 he quoted to the attacker and takes the by Scott P. Duncan last digit Aofrangethe result thus obtained to use regular PBM tables. This article may be regarded' as Step 5. In case of duplicate names rank here say against the art of "soak• or more than one phone in use, the first ing-off"; however, anyone actuallyen• such listing is always used. It would gaged in sending men into battle must also help if both defender and attacker face such a situation as I describe. are using the same phone book, although Obvious sacrifice in the form of suicide this is not always necessary, in any missions have always been a part of event a simple phone call will verify warfare, but, in AH wargames, one any challenged result! feels no compunction whatsoever at sending out 1- 6 odds or dropping a de• laying" shield" in the face of withdrawal and enemy pursuit. The next time you Midway, Bismarck Style get yourself into a battle try this sug• gestion to really test your strategic by Peter Harlem skill : (1) Assign values to units equal to One of the problems of Midway is an estimate of the number of men in its surface battles. Yamato with eight the unit (i. e. brigades = 10,000 men, hits still has a surface factor of 18. To regiment = 3,500 men, division - 18,000 remedy this I propose using some of men). the Bismarck attributes. First, a new (2) Keep a record of the units lost system of scoring hits is needed. I (even though returned to board as re• add hit boxe s for bow and stern guns placements) and then total at end. as in Bismarck, leaving the previous (3) Now simply multiply units lost hits as midships hits. The best way I by their value to see how many men you found was as follows: U. S. ships, needed to win (as compared to opponents Enterprise, Hornet, Yorktown; 2 bow losses, etc.). guns, 1 stern, 5 midships. Minneapolis, (4) This method can even be em• New Orleans, Vincennes; 4 bow, 2 stern, ployed in individual battles to estimate 5 midships. Astoria, Pennsacola; 3 losses from a seige, a blitz, etc. bow, 3 stern, 4 midships. Northhamp• (5) You could even establish a limit ton, Portland; 4 bow, 2 stern, 4 mid• as to the number of men you could lose ships. Finally cruiser Atlanta; 2 bow, per game (once you've derived some 1 stern, 3 midships. Japanese ships statistics on average losses, etc.) as follows: Battleships, Yamato; 12 Perhaps my suggestion is a little too bow, 6 stern, 10 midships; Nagato, "humanitarian" or "philosophic" to in• Mutsu; 7 bow, 6 stern, 8 midships; terest a real afficianado of wargaming, Kongo, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna; 5 but it's a thought to consider if you bow, 5 stern, 6 midships. Carriers, really want to maintain a high level of Akagi, Kaga; 2 bow, 3 stern, 5 mid• realism. ships; Hiryu; Soryu; 1 bow, 1 stern, 3 Comments?: Scott Duncan, 2508 High• midships; Zuiho; 1bow, 1 stern, 2 mid• land Ave., Broomall, Pa. 19008. ships; Hosho; 2 bow, 0 stern, 2 mid• ships. Jap Cruisers, Atago, Haguro, Myoko, 4 bow, 2 stern, 4 midships; Chikuma, Fone; 6 bow, 0 stern (all Between Covers their main batteries were up front), 3 midships; Chokai, Kumano, Mikuma, Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall, Armies Mogami, Suzuya; 4 bow, 2 stern, 3 mid• on Wheels: New York; William Morrow ships; Light Cruisers, Nagara, Sendai, & Co., 1944. Dewey Decimal Number Yura; 1 bow, 2 stern, 2 midships. 940.542. Good survey of military thought on Blitzkrieg and armored war• All gun "boxes" are used in the same fare of period; it also contains a motor• way as in Bismarck. To sink a ship ized division organization which the US all midship boxes must be checked. did not use overseas. The surface combat results table also Encyclopaedia Americana, Artillery: has to be revised. There is now two Chicago; Encyclopaedia Americana ranges; "B" range, 4 squares, for Bat• Corp., 1957. Page 308 contained a tleships only and "A" range, 3 squares table showing allocation of various or less, for all other ships. Battle• types and calibers of artillery in a ships cannot fire into squares one standard US Army. square away. They must remain 2 Richard Collier, The Sands of Dun• squares or more. kirk; New York; E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc. , 1961. PP 276 -- 283 contained Here is the suggested Battle results the order of battle of the BEF at Dun• table: kirk. THE GENERAL PAGE 11

OPPONENTS WANTED OPPONENTS WANTED OPPONENTS WANTED OPPONENTS WANTED OPPONENTS WANTED Independent warmonger is looking for Adult Opponents Wanted, in person or Crafty but inexperienced physicist will Rally 'round The Stars & Bars, Rebs 1 The Aggressor Homeland and the lead• ership of the Circle Tri-gon Party has opponents _ Blitzkrieg (PBM). Midway, PBM, for any Avalon Hill military game. take on any Rommel. Send first move The 10th Corps of the Confederate Army Chancellorsville, D-Day in person. I will take any side of any copy-right in Korps PBM. P. S. Is there life in of Central Pennsylvania invites any and begun its liberation of the Western U. S. My age - 27. Experience - I have some• version of any game. Prefer individual Colorado? If so, please speak up. all persons attending the University of and Canada. I being the Minister of South Carolina who wish to band to• how lived through several massacres. opponents - no clubs or teams; official Spencer We art, 519 University Ave., the Interior of the Aggressor Homeland Address _ MartinHayes. 125 Chesapeake AH rules and options only. Prefer cor• Boulder, Colo. 80301. gether in the defense of our Confederacy have been authorized by my government Court, Hanover, Md. 21076 (Near respondence by air mail. Write: Ran• Avalon Hill fans in the Manhattan, Kan. to contact: John Rockholz, Box U-3313, to begin enlistments in the liberated Friendship Airport). Phone 796-.Q547. dall D. Thomas, 3513 Wesley Street, Area for face-to-face: Blitzkrieg, USC, Preston - 112, Columbia, South areas. Anyone or any groups wishing College-age or older opponents wanted Flint, Mich. 48505 or phone 785-0090. Bulge, Afrika Korps, Midway, Gettys• Carolina 29208. more information please contact: Maj. for PBM of Blitzkrieg, Afrika Korps. I would like to place this ad in the Gen• burg. Call PR 6-9343 ask for Bill Wanted: Opponents for in person games. Victor J. Gervol, Jr., Minister of Waterloo, and Stalingrad. Must use eral: To: All innocent, new AH play• Kitterman or write 1527 Leavenworth. Anyone living in reasonable driving the Interior, Aggressor Homeland, 5131 2nd Edition results tables. Choose ers. For your own protection I implore I am desperately desirous of face-to• distance of Riverside, New Jersey who Juniata Street, Duluth, Minn. 55804. sides and rules, and send to Ensign you, join World Conquests Inc. lest you face combat in most any AH game. I is interested in finding another opponent, PBM opponents desparately desired by Rolf Mar shall USNR. USS LOWRY fall into the clutches of Spectre, that will PBM Waterloo and Stalingrad. I please contact George Petronis, 814 competent commander for following DD770, FPQ New York 09501. infamous group of ex-guards from am the aggressor in both. Fred Kruger Fifth Street, Delran, N. J. 08075. games: A.K.. Stalingrad, D-Day, HELP! ] am willing to join any anti• Stalag 13 who always have 80% more 963-9692, 342 Canterbury Drive, Pitts• The Tenth Legion is now a blooded in• Bulge and Midway (if you have method). Spectre Club in the Virginia-Maryland• casualties than the side that uses Beep• burgh, Pennsylvania 15238. strument of war. Persons residing Anyone intere sted in revising Stalingrad D. C. area. I own 5 wargames but no Beep. Write Dennis Largess, 1908 Help! Need opponents in Fredericks• within a reasonable distance of Mel• rules also should contact me. People in Antelope Valley phone WH 2-1909 Play-by-Mail kits. I have had moder• Quincy St., N. W., Washington, D. C. burg, Virginia area. Moderate experi• bourne, Florida; sharpen your swords ate ex~erience. but I must admit I'm a If there are any other war game addicts ence preferred but don't hesitate to and your wits. PBM Blitzkrieg accept• for possible in-person games. Address: little reckless. Please send details of in the Greater Jacksonville Area, please write, I'm desperate. No PBM. Bill ed from fellow Floridans. TenthLegion James Seward, 44003 Elm Avenue, Lan• club to: Lee Arico, 6401 May Blvd., contact me immediately, before I go Stone, Box 547, Fredericksburg, Va. Box 215, RT 1 AlA, South Melbourne caster, California 93534. Alexandria, Va. 22310. mad from lack of opponents. 1£ there Phone 786-6861. Beach, Florida32951 .... Monte Zelazny. Confederate panzers are coming! --for I want to have a play by mail opponent are enough of us, I'd really be inter• Invitation to Wargamers: We offer a Hot Arizonan wants another hot Arizonan sure in the next game if somethingisn't done about the absurd inaccuracies in for Blitzkrieg and I'd like to be Great ested in forming a war games club. good game with afeeling ofhonest com• for face-to-face play only, within 50 Blue. My address is: Richard McNitt, Contact James Stormes, 48'39 Yacht petition. We arrange games with other miles of Tu.cson .... Larry Himes, 7064 the Battle of the Bulge. All those who 1345 ·Canterbury Dr., Salt Lake City, Club Road, Jacksonville, Florida. members and a chance for advancement E. Timrod, 298-0917. Call any time want to do something about it write -• Utah 84108. Phone: 389-6194. in our system. Intere sted. Try DUSK. (within limits). Richard Gutenkunst, Box 204, Mott, North Dakota. Do you like to talk about strategy for John Nichols: Attention! 1£ you wish 94 Church St., Guilford, Connecticut. Inexperienced, untried, yet brilliant Avalon Hill games without having to to continue our bout which began in the Challenges also welcomed. general wishes to play PBMand in per• The Confederate Army of Central Pa, has Spectre on the run. We invaded the prove your ideas on a game? I'll be summer of 1963 at your apartment in The city of Los Angeles is looking for son games of A. K. (Brit.), Waterloo state of Pa., fought and captured Read• glad to argue about strategy, homemade New Orleans, please contact Ray Wright, commanders who will serve as sub• (P. A. A. ) and in per son games ,of Get• games, and typos or boo-boos in the 324 Caplewood Dr., Tuscaloosa, Ala. ordinates 'in the following games. D• tysburg (either); Tactics II (either); ing. Spectre says they control the state; General (sometimes it's hard to tell the To all land, sea, and air experts in the Day, Bulge, Stalingrad, Afrika Korps, Bulge (Am.), Blitz. (either). Phone or We control Carlisle, the CapitalHarris• difference). Write: Tom Holsinger, South St. Louis area. Phone your game Tactics II, Blitzkrieg and Waterloo. write Mike McIntyre, '558 33rd St., burg, Reading, Allentown, and Phila• 1429 Cabrillo Ave. , Burlingame, Calif. preference and free nights to me now. Please se~nd records, age and experi• Manhattan Beach, Cali£., FR 4-9805. delphia. Spectre, you can't even con• 9401l. We are attempting to assemble a com• ence (It doesn't matter if you haven't Opponent wanted for Play-By-Mail of trol your own capital! Surrender now, Wanted _ suggestions of what you con• plete staff. VI 3-0133. Terry "Man• played by mail) and the games you'll Afrika Korps. Will take either Axis or join the Confederacy, or come out and Allied commands. Write: James Tri• siderare the major principles and straR nerhiem" Stibal, 11800 Helta Dr., St. want to play. Send to Tim Dekker, Fight? (Gettysburg/Tactics II). Lt. Louis, Missouri 63128. 4625 Doreen Ave., Elmonte, Calif. bolet, 5441 E. 9th St., Tucson, Arizona Gen. James J. Birnie lIT, HQ 7 Clem• tegies in conducting AH wargames. 85711. Specific suggestions on individual games Russian general with unbeatable defense Achtung experienced commanders and son Dr., Camp Hill, Fa. 17011. will also be appreciated. I'm trying to wishes to engage capable German com• small clubs in Wilmington area. The Am looking for in-person opponents in Do you have a tape recorder? Instead compile a guide to AH wargaming valu• mander in game of Stalingrad. Only 6th Army of Dusk is ready! We march Germany, military or dependents. Am of sending letters. we can exchange 3" stationed in Darmstadt at Cambrai. able to beginning and semi-experienced the original rule s and supplement sheet this month to victory or oblivion. We or 5" reels of tape. Would like to dis• players. Your considered opinions will will be used. (1965 record was 26-0) have eleven AH games and a 52-2 re• Please contact A2C Uoyd J. Sandmann, cuss military and psychological strategy be of value. Details: Scott Duncan, Write: Robert J. Beyma, 701 N. Hope cord. For live games contact Lt. Gen• Box 16, 6910 Scty. Wz, APO, U. S. for Management, Diplomacy, Risk, St., Phoebus, Va. 23363. eral R. M. Carey, 6 Ashton St., Wil• Forces 09175. Summit, Stratego, Go, and Hearts 2508 Highland Ave., Broomall, Penna. Attention all A. H. Enthusiasts in the 19008. Will take either side in a PBM game of mington 4, Del. or phone OL 2-5224. (card game). Write to Jared Johnson, Blitzkrieg with any interested adult. greater Washington, D. C. area who (Age-l&). 1548 Rochelle Drive, Chamb• Wanted: All Los Angeles area AH War• Small, newly organized PBM Club of Would prefer all rules other than neu• Carthage, N. Y. challenges anyone in would like to join an organization de• lee, Georgia 30005. Please state your garners for faceRto-face play and the clear (and Strategic Bombing of the any AH wargame. We'll play any side voted entirely to playing A. H. games age. possible formation of a small local club. cities alone). Am no genius at it but or any rules with one exception-D-Day please contact by mail or preferably by Small cell of dedicated, experienced Adults preferred, but all are welcome. phone: Tony Ionescu, 2708 Porter St., A-H Garners in Tokyo area desire live Phone or write: Evan Wasserman, have played many of AHs games astute• must be original. If interested write to ly. William F. Ellis, 1730 Arlington Steve Gebo, I Madison St., Carthage, N. W., Washington, D.C., Apt. 5, 20008. opponents. Anything - any side. Write 2508 Westview Apt. I, Los Angeles, Tel: EM 33093. SSGT. Wagner, Box 6008, APO San Calif. 90016. Phone: RE 2-8544. Blvd., Arlington, Va. 22209. N. Y. 13619. Only a few challenges can Achtung wargamers! Command posi• be accepted so act quickly. California Lancers is an alliance of Francisco 96328. Looking for top_notch opponents for tions available in Blitzkrieg branch of PBM games of Bulge, Blitzkrieg and We of World Conquest believe that all individuals and local clubs with an in• from: Brig. Gen. 2nd Div. Maryland new organization bent on stamping out D-Day. Would also like to engage any AHwargamingclubs were created equal terest in high-quality war gaming. For to: WCI prospects in Maryland Spectre. Join the ranks of UNCLE. nearby folk for a good number of in• (of course some are more equal than information send a 5f stamp and your re: immediate membership in World Contact me: Richard McNitt, 1345 person matches. If interested, do your others). We may not be the best club address to: California Lan€ers, 4759 Conquests Inc. belit to contact: The General and The Canterbury· Dr., Salt L,3.ke City, Utah. in the world but we certainly arenlt the Hersholt Ave., Long Beach 8, Calif. Interested persons wanted regardless Tactician, 4 Waddell Rd., Manchester, Seeking opponent in Blitzkrieg, Bulge, worst. Our club is in existence only to Limited number of PBM opponents of experience or skilL Regimental Conn. D-Day 61, or Afrika Korps. Please play PBM games and to prov~de enter• sought for games of Waterloo and Stal• commands still available on a first Anyone in the Greenville, S. C. area send your first move, initial placement, tainment for our members. We charge ingrad. Please contact Charles Alex• come, first serve basis. Mail name please contact J. M. Collins, 309 additional rules, etc. I'm a stude.11t at dues. If you feel ,obligated enough to ander, 305 Green EQ, Ann Arbor, Mich. and address to: R. C. Reed, 4118 Glen Mimosa Dr., Greenville, S. C. 29607 the University of Illinois and I feel I join write your name, address, no. of The power of Dusk has spread to the Park Road, Baltimore, Md. 21236. for a live game of just about any A. H. must at least enter a representative AH games, age, experience in AH, midwest and as Illinois state command• Opponents wanted to play PBM Summit. 'game. Have just moved into this area from our campus. Contact Lenard ability in playing to: Lee M. Henderson, er I need members to fill out my staff. If interested, send stamped, self-ad• and am looking for opponents. Lakofka, 1806 N. Richmond St. , Chicago chief of staff, Personnel Dept., 1640 Don't delay, our powerful leader in Pa. dressed envelope for special rules. Wanted: Opponents for Bulge, Tactics 60647. Upshur St. N. W., Washington, D. C. is at this moment dictating surrender Also: opponents wanted to play face-to• II, Gettysburg '64 and Stalin grad. I Wanted: Blue or Red Commanders for Desire opponents live or by mail. I terms to those who have. Bob Grauer, face any AH games plus 3M games. prefer Germans for Stalingrad, Union a game of "Blitz" against "Desert Vam• have all Avalo~Hill war games, and will 3829 S. 58th Ave., Cicero, Ill. 60650. Write to Richard Bidlake, 5030 Quonset for Gettysburg, Blue in Tactics II and pire". Send name, address and a place take either side of any game. Mr. To all residents of Midland, Texas, who Dr., Sacramento, Calif. 95820 or Americans in Bulge. I can also play to send the body, to Edi Birsan, 48-20 Richard J. Paracka, Psi Delta Omega, play AH games: Where are you? New Richard Are, 2863-58th Street, Sacra• Midway, Football Strategy, Bismarck 39th Street, Long Island City, N. Y. Alfred, New York 14802. opponents are needed for Sunday after• mento, Calif. 95817. and Air Empire if you have a system • To whoever answered our ad and has "Play-By-Air" - Tactics II or Blitz• noons. Please contact with all haste The Nevada Wargame Staff is asking one German PBM opponent for Afrika failed to receive a reply. We accident• krieg on 75/20/10 meter ssb. KIIJU. Charles Anderson, 3603 Humble, Mid• anyone to any wargame, under the new• Korps. Send to: Sean Donohur, 1209 ly threw out your envelope with your C. Norman Peacor, 139 Cooley St., land, Texas at OX 4-5529. est rules available. We were playing a Bluejay, Pittsburgh, Pa. name and address. We will be glad to Springfield, Mass. 01128. Wargamers! Dusk is already estab• person in Battle of the Bulge, but we New Englander needs Play_bYRMail op• go ahead with the game if you are. Wanted. Xerox copy of Vol. I, No. I, lished in these states - Pennsylvania, have lost his address, please send us ponents for Waterloo, Afrika Korps, Ken Stikkers, The Grand Pubbah of the AH General, Jan. 1964. Prefer Ohio, Connecticut, Maryland, New your address. Neal Parsons, 1901 and Blitzkrieg. Michael Boyce, 1480 Upper Afghanistan, and Hunter Freeman, original if in good condition. Name, Jersey, Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana, Pine ridge Dr., Reno, Nevada 89502. Commonwealth Ave. Apt. 10, Boston, The Archduke of Andorra, 2727 Brassie price, write to: E. A. Dahlgreen, 97 and California. Join today. Write to Attention: Opponent wanted for Battle Mass. Drive, Glenview, Ill. 60025. Col. Hts., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11201. your State Commander or Deputy of the Bulge and Afrika Korps PBM. I used to be conceited until I realized Ohioians destroy all invaders! Join Do_It_Yourselfers: My friend and I Marshall Craig Hess, 453 Broadway, (First experience in PBM). For other I'm perfect. Now that I have your at• S. P. E. C. T. R. E. 's 8th Army (Imperial plan on designing our own Battle,.Games, Bangor, Penna. or Chief of Staff Terry information contact Bill Richards, 820 tention; I need opponents by mail with Guards) of Ohio. The hordes of World and we would be grateful if anyone who Sweet, 447 Broadway, Bangor, Pa, Stone leigh Rd., Baltimore, Md. 21212. no experience, like me, in the Bulge Conquests Inc. are trying to form a has de signed his own Battle Game and Attention Spectre! The War Lords are Wanted - Anyone to play Stalingrad, and in Waterloo - also, in person, any• club in Ohio. Don't join them, join the has new ideas for rules, drawing of out to get your blood. We will fight you Afrika Korps or both by mail. Will take one who lives in the Penfield, Perinton, winning club S. P. E. C. T. R. E. Write: the game boards, or designation of by mail in the Bulge (Germans) without Russians inStalingrad and either in AK. Pittsford, or is within easy range. Con• Linn Haramis, 2323 Belleflower, Al• troop counters to please write us. German supply problem, in Afrika Korps Chuck Carey, 2002 Westfield, Alexan• tact Keith Oschman, 5 Pleasant Way, liance, Ohio 44601. David Murray, 3544 W. 76th Place, (either), in D-Day 165 (Allies), in Blitz• dria, Va. 22308. Penfield, N. Y. 14526 - LU 6-4896. Will anyone willing to sell or lend the Chicago, Ill. 60652. krieg (either) without nuclear bombs, Need opponents for Bulge and/or Water• PAX challenges one and all to PBM Vol. 1 Nols. 1 and 4 of the "General" A 28 -year old experienced game player and in Waterloo (either). We will also loo. Dusty &. Val Miller, Box 309, Stalingrad, either side. As CCCP I or buy a slightly used Hex Gettysburg, seeks opponents for Gettysburg, Afrika take on other opponents. Contact: Jenninji!;s, Louisiana. am invincible, as German I have winR contact Wells Anderson, Rt. 3, Box Korps, Chancellorsville, Bulge and Douglas Beyerlein, 3934 S. W. Southern, Opponents for Afrika Korps and Blitz• ning record. Send surrender dispatches 240M, Wayzata, Minn. 55391. Waterloo. Write R. J. Lewis, P.O. Seattle, Washington 98116. krieg. New subscriber, David Cochran, to William Gilbert, 63 Pinebrook Dr., Notice to SPEC TRE: One man army Box 125, Benton, Arkansas. Warlords, Inc. hereby claims the trans,• 103 W. Symmes, Norman, Oklahoma. Larchmont, N. Y. 10538. All other AH wishes to engage any and all Spectre Seek opponents in D-Day, Stalingrad, ocean wargames championship defeated To: All militant organizations, secret wargames face-to-face only. groups in Blitzkrieg, Stalingrad, Get• Tactics II, and/or Afrika Korps. Will the Yokota AB Wargame League in or otherwise. Isn'tanyone here at Northeastern a war• tysburg (not hex), Tactics, Waterloo or PBM with above game s, but can play Tokyo, Japan; opponents from the U. S. From: The Field Mar shall. gamer? ?? If you do play and do attend Afrika Korps. PBM only. Contact Battle of the Bulge, Waterloo, Bis• are invited to challenge our mastery of Subject: Your defeat at Blitzkrieg. Northeastern University, contact me: THEL, 3100 63rd Ave., Cheverly, Md. marck, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg the Far Eastern Theatre. Requests for Rules: I will take either side. All rules Ed Murphy, 90 The Fenway, Boston, 20785. (original Sq. grid), Management and/or membership will also be considered. except Weather and Nuclear. Mass. 03103. Notice to all AH Blitzkrieg wargamers. U-Boat in person. Contact Kenny Wong, from any part of the world, write, Air• Write: John Schedley, S. 4327 Hogan, P. B. M. Opponents wanted in Bulge, I, my seniors, and my associates have 63 Lewis St., Bristol, Conn. 06010, mail only: A2C Scott C. Berschig, Spokane, Wash. 99203. Tactics 2, and Blitz. (Optional game) become involved in a mc/pbm in Ikrieg Phone 583-0256. CMR Box 1878, 6988th SS, APO San Are you a Rather Odd Ghoul? How prefer Am., Red, and Blue in that and we haven't enough members. In Help! I have won at least 90% of all my Francisco 96328. would you like to become a part of our order. Send setups and your choice of our spring recruitment, we have open• games and I wish to join SPECTRE, Opponents in the Philadelphia-Camden great United Bffort? Rogues East is rules. Also anyone in New London area ings for the first seven applicants. Re• but I don't know how. Will any Spectre area for in-person games of A. K., expanding. If you are a top quality war• wishing to playa live game ca1l443-3855. ply to tbe secretary and chief of staff, organization please contact me. Richard Blitzkrieg, Midway, etc. Contact Scott gamer, contact our CinC: Barry Jack• Bruce Nichols, 114 Squire St., New Alvin Hayashi, 822 Webster Ave., McNitt, 1345 Canterbury Dr., Salt Lake Geller, 7740 Summerdale Ave., Apt. son, 1706 Old Forge Rd., Charlottes• London, Conn. 06320. Chicago, Illinois. City, Utah. A-4, Philadelphia, Pa, 19111. ville, Virginia 22901. All above ads are inserted as a free service to full-year sub• will not be repeated from issue to issue, however subscrib• scribers. We prefer ads to be typewritten and limited to 50 ers may re-submit the same ad, or new ads, for each suc• words maximum. We reserve the right to re-word your ceeding issue. Ads received after the 15th of the month copy. Only one ad per subscriber per issue is allowed. Ads preceding publication will appear in the following issue. [ r THE GENERAL PAGE 12 Where Avalon Hill Games Are Available Question Box The following name s of retail store s Avalon Hill games recently. If your BLITZKRIEG, supplement the list printed in the last favorite dealer has not yet been listed, issue (Vol. 2, No.5). These lists drop us his name and address so that Q. Must cities in opponents' country represent dealers who have stocked we may include him in the next printing. be taken by the minor city table? Moseley ••, Inc. Mr. Paul D. Agento R. H. Macy &: Company Leavitt &: Pierce Paulin's A. No... the table does not apply in 24 E. Mifflin Street Eugene's Toy & Hobby Roosevelt Field Shopping Ctr. 1316 Mass. Ave. 4415 Gov. Printz Boulevard Madison, Wisconsin 53703 98 E. 10th Avenue Garden City, New York 11530 Cambridge, Massachusetts Wilmington, Delaware these cases. Eugene, Oregon 97401 Dans Sport Shop Toys By Roy Mr. James Kaden Creative Playtime 1155 Fourth Street Xenia Office Supply 103 Wincrock Center Jordan. Marsh Dept. Store 26 LaSalle Road Q. Can units be placed next to the Huntington, West Virginia 61 Green Street Albuquerque, New Mexico Boston, Massachusetts 02109 West Hartford, Connecticut Xenia, Ohio 45385 enemy, if he is under strategic attack, Mr. S. M. Chase Henry H. Bodenstedt Pop's Discoun.t Mr, Henry J. Novak Research Analysis Corporation Rike's Continental Hobby Supplies Off Belvedere &: York Levine's without fighting him? Westgate Industrial Park Second and Main 86"Manalapan Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21212 114 North Tejon Street Rt. 123, McLean, Virginia Dayton, Ohio 45400 Freehold, New Jersey 07728 Colorado Springs, Colo. 80900 A. No. Children's Supermart Bolen's Toy Palace Lazarus Company The Paul E. Bourque Co., Inc. 1488 Rockville Pike Victor's 14 Westcliff Center High Street Post Office Box 895 Rockville, Maryland 7450 Reseda Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas 76100 Columbus, Ohio 43200 Manchester, New Hampshire 4444 St. Barnabas Road Reseda, California 91335 Silver Hill, Maryland Toys By Roy, Inc. Uncle Bill's Toys For Men 2277 University Blvd. East Games Ltd. Basic German Strategy 83 Bassett Center Golden Gate Shopping Center 953 E. Sahara Adelphi, Maryland 925 Westwood Boulevard EI Paso, Texas Cleveland, Ohio 44101 Las Vegas, Nevada Bailey's Crossroads Westwood Village Leesburg Pike, Virginia Los Angeles, Califort:lia 90024 Mr. W. E. Layman Playworld Shop Miller &: Paine Games Imported 263 Genesee Street Lincoln, Nebraska 68501 Government Employees Exch, The Prince &: The Pauper in Afrika Korps 426 Perkins Extended Utica, New York 13500 7000 Veteran's Highway 7931 Girard Avenue Memphis, Tennessee 38117 Mr. W. I. Rehr Metairie, Louisiana 70003 La Jolla, C'alifort:lia 92037 by James Tribolet Ed Guth's Hobbies The Principia Joseph Horne Company 323 South Salina Street 13201 Clayton Road Marshall Field & Company Birdies Toy House Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15200 Syracuse, New York 13200 St. Louis, Missouri 63131 Oakbrook Shopping Center Luhn &: Sons 1. The basic aim of the German com• Oakbrook, Illin.ois 60521 22433 Foothill Boulevard Burland's Hobby Shop Mr. Philip Brooks Joe Wythe House of Leisure Hayward, Califort:lia 94541 4801 McKnight Road The Auction Outlet 330 West 63rd St. in Brookside Walt's Hobby &: Model Shop mander in Afrika Korps is to capture Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15237 34 East Central Avenue Kansan City, Missouri 64113 32 W. Clinton Street Toy World and hold Bengasi, Tobruch, and the Pearl River, New York 10965 Joliet, Illinois 60431 1140 W. Garvey Boulevard Ponnock &: Sons Toyarama Inc. Covina, California 91722 British Home Base. In the first turn, 1012-14 Chestnut Street Polk's Hobbies 8640 Ward Parkway Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 314 Fifth Avenue Kansas City, Missouri 64108 Mr. Ed Driscoll Toy World New York, New York 10001 Glen Ellyn Toy &: Card Shop, 8331 On-The-Mal the Germans should high-tail-it for Emerson. Company St. Paul Book and Stationary 475-478 Main Street Buena Park Central I Tobruch. German units should shor"t• 1633 Chestnut Street Macy's St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Bnena Park, California 90620 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New York, New York 10001 cut acro s s the bulge of Cyrennica while R &: R Family Gift Shop Marshall Field &: Company Birdies Toy House Town &: Country Distributors, Polk's Hobby Store 1558 Wealthy S, E. 111 N. State Luhn &: Sons Italian units use the coast road. What East Park Center 314 _ 5th Avenue Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505 Chicago, Illinois 60600 82 Shattuck Square Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Long Island City, N. Y. 11100 Berkeley, California 94700 the British do determines the Germans Jordon Marsh The Gamekeeper Pomeroy's Inc. Dept. Store Playtime of Larchmont Shoppers World Fred C. Kinley Toy Circus 4th &: Market Streets 144 Larchmont Avenue Worcester Road 22 Oceanside Center next move. If the British attempt to 89th &: L Streets Harrisburg, Pennsylvan.ia Larchmont, New York Framingham, Mass. 01701 Pompano Beach, Florida Bakersfield, California 93300 hold Bengasi, one or more Italian units Toyland George's Bicycle and Toy Mart Leavitt &: Pierce, Inc. Vandever's Hobby Center Brownie's Toy Stores Inc. should place it under seige, the remain• 1305 Lloyd Center 271 Nassau Boulevard 1916 Mass. Ave. 919 Orange Street 5585 Stearns Street Portland, Oregon 97212 Garden City South, N. Y. 11530 Cambridge, Massachusetts Wilmington, Delaware 19800 ing Eyetie s continuing toward Tobruch. Long Beach, California 90815 If the British attempt to establish a line in the pa sse s south of Derna i"t should be by-passed to save supplies. When Scene from Warner Bros. Battle of the Bulge the Germans reach Tobruch, it will un• doubtably be well garrisoned. The Ger• mans should stop at the Libyan-Egyptian frontier and wait for the Ie s s mobile Italians to reach Tobruch. Assuming supply wagons have reached the Axis forces by now, they should now annihilate any British units still in Libya. Now, stay at the Egyptian border to confuse the British as to what your next move is. With the arrival of the Italians and the 15th Panzers, attack Tobruch with all the forces in the vicinity and capture it. II. An almo st fatal move for the British commander is to retreat to El Alamein, because in doing this he sur• renders almost all of Egypt and thus has nowhere to retreat. If the British hold at the Egyptian border, swerve around the Allied line and hit them in the rear and split them up, so the Panzerarmee Afrika can defeat them in detail. In t!,e event they hold at El Alamein, the fact that between August and November the British receive no reinforcements is important because they cannot take sustained losses. So, with luck, the Afrika Korps should be hoisting its flag in the Allied Home Ba se by November, 1941. Any comments should be addressed to James Tribolet, 5441 E. 9th St., Tucson, Arizona 85711.