Featured in this Issue * Cambrai - British tanks on the offensive * Balaclava - more British incompetance in the Crimea * Warlords Replay - at last we've actually done it... Trout triumphs! * Saipan - an old favourite revisited * Plus a look at what's new! RunS Issue 18 Editor's Chance 2 Notes, W_?rk in progress... The Q Store 4 Have a look at our special offers ... Letters 4 Thanks for the memories ... Cambrai 5 The first tank breakthrough Balaclava 21 (More) Incompetence in the Crimea Warlords Replay 33 Illuria up for grabs ... Trout triumphs! Saipan 37 An old favourite upgraded r Editor DISK Step~en Hand SUBSCRIPTIONS EDITOR'S Editor Emeritus Ian Trout Disk subscriptions are now available for IBM and Macintosh. The cost is the CHANCE Contributing Editors same for all formats. Roger Keating IBM users must tell us whether they NO MORE EXCUSES ... prefer3.5" or5.25" format.Ifyoudon't Gary Makin specify a format, you will receive the Well here I am, the new editor of Run 5, 5.25" diskette. If you wish to switch for better or worse. As of this issue Ian Gregor Whiley disk subscriptions from one machine is going back to what he does best, Malcolm Power format to another, just let us know. designing great games and I'm the one Mark Holman When we find the time, we intend to who's going to get the blame for the upgrade all the scenario disks from magazine not coming out on time. Andrew Taubman back issues into the new formats and I was looking at the advertisement I allow new users to acquire them or answered in Run 5 Issue 17 and I have U.S. Operations current users to upgrade to them. John Gleason We'll keep the cost as low as possible; come to the conclusion that I must be it will depend on how much time it II experienced, talented, punctual and Illustrator takes and how many scenarios we can tolerant"!, with, II an abiding interest in fit onto a disk. strategy games". Boy, have I got these Nick Stathopoulos guys fooled! Mentor Readers will find that this issue sticks Ken Trout pretty much to the tried and true Trout formula, though as I progress I intend Colour Artwork to put my own stamp on it. One change John Mockridge that you may notice is that I have tried Graphus Pty Limited UPGRADING TO to answer some of the many letters we get here at SSG. I reckon that if you take Printing NEW MACHINES the time to write to us you deserve at John Heron least some chance of getting ~n answer We have received a large number of to your queries. You might even want Pty Limited requests from our users to upgrade a particular title from one machine to to write and suggest ideas for Run 5 Run 5 is published 4 times per year articles and scenarios. by Strategic Studies Group Pty another. In response to this demand, we have decided upon the following Limited. All Rights Reserved. © This issue's scenarios are Saipan, policy. SSG 1993. Cambrai and Balaclava, battles from Any title from our range may be up­ WWII, WWI and the Crimean War re­ Australian Office graded from one machine to another spectively. All work well, showing the P.O. Box 261, Drummoyne, NSW. for a cost of half the retail price of the flexibility of the Battlefront and Decisive 2047. Tel (02) 819-7199. Fax (02) new version. You must send us the Battles systems. I would appreciate your 819-7737. original program disk and the front feedback on these topics; there are pageofthemanualfrom that game. We plenty of good European battles which American Office will send you a complete copy of the could be done with DB and many of the P.O. Box 30085, Pensacola, FL. new version of the game. 32503-1085.Tel(904)469-8880.Fax more mobile WWibattles which would For example, if you wish to upgrade a (904) 469-8885. make good subjects for Battlefront. C-64 version of Halls of Montezuma to Don't worry, the next ten issues won't the IBM/Tandy version, you should be Verdun, the Somme and Ypres (1, II ISSN 0816-7125 send us the original C -64 disk, the front page of the manual and the appropri­ and Ill) etc. Online Addresses ate cheque, money order or MC/Visa Next issue I intend to return to the Compuserve: Strategic Studies number. American Civil War with two scenarios Group-72040,34 North American users must send their dealing with the battle of Perryville in Applelink: Strategic Studies components and funds to our US Of­ 1862. The Battlefront scenario will be Group-AUST0161 fice. Everybodyelsemustuseour Aus­ on Operation Pegasus, the relief of Khe tralian Office. GEnie: SSG Sanh Marine Base in April1968. There will be some interesting variants for Carriers at War scenarios (and per- 2 CURRENT VERSION NUMBERS FOR ALL chance a replay of· Keating's second penses paid' jaunt to America if we consecutive defeat!) and some design have the game ready so it probably will SSG GAMES notes on our 'soon to be released' War­ be! Reach for the Stars lords II. Japan Sweeps South (IBM and Mac). This Ail (3.01), C64 (3.01), Mac (3.1), IBM will be a second game in the Carriers at (3.0), liGS (3.1), Amiga (3.1) CARRIERS AT WAR War series featuring another six his­ Carriers at War torical (and hypothetical) clashes from All (1.1), C64 (1.1), IBM (1.0) CONSTRUCTION KIT (IBM) theWar in the Pacific. The first scenario Europe Ablaze will explore a hypothetical clash be­ As you read this the Construction Kit Ail (1.0), C64 (1.0) tween the American and Japanese bat­ for Carriers At War should be just about Battlefront tle fleets in 1936, when tensions first on the shelves. In a\idition to the very All (1.0), C64 (1.0) ran high between the two comprehensive creation, graphics and countries. Both sides will have plenty Russia intelligence routines, you'll also get of battleships ... and bi-plane aircraft All (1.0), C64 (1.0) three new scenarios (Wake Island, aboard their flat-tops. I've been wait­ Battles in Normandy Guadalcanal and Tarawa), upgrades ing a long time to work on this! Other All (1.0), C64 (1.0) for the existing scenario, graphics and scenarios will include the initial Japa­ Halls of Montezuma intelligence files, more scenario vari­ nese attacks on Malaya, the Philippines All (1.0), C64 (1.0), Mac (1.33), IBM ants and finally an upgrade for the and the Dutch East Indies (including a (3.2*), GS (1.1), Amiga (1.2) game program itself. more effective British response), the Decisive Battles of the American In particular, the Midway, Eastern Japanese carrier raid into the Indian Civil War (Vol I) Solomons and Santa Cruz scenarios Ocean and the attacks on Australia and Ail (1.0), C64 (1.0), Mac (1.2), IBM (2.2) have benefited from map realignment. finally the American invasions of the Rommel Sometime after the release of the origi­ Philippines and Okinawa (with lots of All (1.0), C64 (1.0), Mac (1.33), IBM nal game, it occurred to me (IKT) that Kamikazes). Nick Stathopoulos, our (3.2*) the reason for the cramped deploy­ resident artist, has produced superb Decisive Battles of the American ment areas in these scenarios was sim­ cover art, a section of which has been Civil War (Vol II) ply the positioning of the playing area! used as the cover for this issue of Run 5. All (1.0), C64 (1.0), IBM (2.2) I still can't believe that it took me that Decisive Battles of the American Civil War long to realise ... so much for lateral MacArthur's War (Amiga). It has taken us so long to thinking. Anyway, the new scenarios All (1.0), C64 (1.0), IBM (3.2*) produce the Amiga version of our are much more flexible. Decisive Battles of the American popular Civil War battle game, that we Civil War (Vol III) have decided to package all three games All (1.0), C64 (1.0), IBM (2.2*) into one volume. The package will also CARRIERS AT WAR Fire King include a conversion program that will (MACINTOSH) C64 (1.0), IBM (1.0) allow you to convert an IBM scenario to the Amiga. There will be no WarPlan Gold of the Americas The Macintosh version of Carriers at Mac (1.2), IBM (1.01), GS (l.i), Amiga kit with the package. War will be released at the same time as (1.0), Atari ST (1.0) the IBM Construction Kit. We are re­ MacArthur's War(Mac). Both color and Panzer Battles leasing it for color Macs (or 256 color B&W machines are supported. All (1.0), C64 (1.0), Mac (1.2), IBM grey scale) only. Decisive Battles of the American Civil War (3.2*), GS (1.1), Amiga (1.2) Vol III (Mac). Both color and B&W Warlords IN THE WORKS machines are supported. IBM (2.1), Amiga (2.1), Mac (1.0) Rommel (Amiga). At last! As always, SSG plans to attend the Origins Gaming Convention, to be held Notes this year in Dallas/Ft Worth from July SUBSCRIPTION CHANGES * The difference between the .2 and .1 1st through July 4th. versions is the addition of the + and - It seems as if we have to make an an­ We expect to have ready the following key functions which allow you to vary nouncement under this heading every the speed of the unit animation with titles.