(fretulinituIess The MinMesselger is a publicalion of the Historical ln the last issueof The MiniMessengerwe wrongly identified the authorof the front Miniature GamingSociety- Pacific article "Wargamingwith Kids" as Marc Canu.The conect authorwas Duke Southwestchapter. Thank you Duke for your efforts, and thank you Marc for pointing out this HMGS/PSWis a nor-profit oryanizationdedicated to fte promotionof hislorical miniature gamhg and the studyof history. Our territory is Southem Califomi4 Nevada,and Arizom. Report from MiniWars;The FaIl Campaign Articles may be submittedvia SteveV iva. Mark Parker email or typed manuscript. Advertising ratesare available upon lequest. Pleasecontact the I Treasurer. I Officen; PresidentRobert Runnels [email protected] I Vice.PresidentAlcx Webstcr [email protected] SecrstaryPaul Say I [email protected] I TreasurcrTom Black I Thom2l6Olahoo.com J WebmasterAllen cl|(tis I , r"- games HMGS/PSW-* El Presidente'Robert - Runnels hosted his Electric Football IJague Well, the conventionwas fun. This Fall conventionthe gameswere an unusualmess of everythingpossible. In fac! this con's themeseemed to be "Anything Goes". Steve(Flying CatsinYour Face)Verdoliva ran his 15mm Elephantraceljungle adventure/stampede. The winner was Tom Coveny-by a nose(trunk?), winner of the beautifirl 'Non-Elephant Trophy Cup". Terry Stoneagain ran his infamous28mm RomanGladiator Arena bloodbathgame. Unfortunatelythe DBA peoplehad to canceltheir toumamentand insteadthey hosteda seriesof single games. Everyonehad a goodtirne. Conventionmanager Alex Websterwas not able to be there Friday night asthe conventionopened, because his car (ol' Bessie)broke down out in the high desertleaving Alex stranded.When word of Alex's misfortune spreadthrough the con, our chapterofup-standing good samaritansleaped into action with our usual flood of sympathyand emotion-money changedhands quickly as bets on Alex and his car were both won and lost. Undaunted,Alex rode in the next day with Glenn Davis. Thank you Glenn. Saturdaynight seemedto be the night for Victorian ScienceFiction. The Dogs of War qamingclub along with Bill Witthams setup a little "Tangle in the Jungle"that pitted different factions againsteach other in their race to capturea mystic gem from a hiddanternple in the thick jungle. The gameused Bill's incredibletenain he had built from a Hollywood specialeffects studio. George Lucas and StevenSpielberg could use suchterrain! They initially had four playerswith Tim Daun showingup late. The hunl for the mystic gem tumed bloody on *re Aiid tum asatl the hid6entemples were reached.The Japanesewere hit first by JoeNachio with his prussians,and Tim with his AmericanMarines. We onceagain saw our famous"friendly fire" at work as Tim tried to take out the JapaneseTOW vehical and accidentlyfragged his own men. (Tim broughthis first mechanizedman with the small Americanunit madeby London War Room). We had one of the higher casualty ratesin this gamewith all Japaneseunits eliminated,all but 2 of the Americanswere killed, the Russians suffered60%o casualties, but the Prussianssuffered only light losses.The heroic British werebadly bloodied. Tim endedup winning the gameafter stealingthe gem from the Japaneseand barely making it o{f tlre map by having his dtu*o in the round pull. This gamedid seethe winged monkeys(not your typical street comeiorgan-grinden"*i monkeys,"-u.ly think of the evil witches' army in the Wizard of OZ) andthe dog soldiers appearedl .irdo- events.The dogsdid leam that the Americanmechman has a nasty steamsurprise. One of the great gentlemenof orn hobby, Dave Dandridgeran a great 15mmAK47 game. He setup an ambush for an armedUN food supply convoYthat hadto get tbrougha waning African town- GamersplaYed the rivd - -ffiteFave-iontrol-led"fiida*tetiaDs the convoy. It was a tight bafile, with John Gaftey's government hoops-turnedtraitors (with their tanks and wu bda i armoredforces) Frd vftftlart ed.bd ee m eFn€r.ti@of wegrus in Mke verig's 2orEnrFlam$ of asthe last trap. In the end the good guys won asthe UN fouglrt it's way throughwith most of it's food tmcks intact. we played it all From Naval6attles to Ancients,to the War of the SpanishSuccession to W"WII ' and every scalefrom 6mm up to 28mm were playedthis convention' Dealer The Flea Market was very largethis year filling abouteight long tables. It was almostas lmge asthe Area. This was the con whire g;eatbargains were to be had! Surprisingly, sciencefiction, ala victorian gaslight, continuesto grow. " ThJ Fiea Market wJquite largethis con. It easilytook up almostas much spaceas the regular Dealersarea. Books, new and old "classic" board g3meJrlsmm-lgures aqg Medieval Arab army were up for sale. Onceagain the PSW "Goon Squad"of volunteerscleaned up the Hall beforeand afterwards.They cleanedout the Hall friday aftemoon,broke out the tables,and saturday they cleanedout the garbagecans, packed away our tables,cleaned the whole Boy ScoutHall artd left it in far bettercondition than we found it. Huzzahgentlemen!! Adventures' Guild hosts Flamesof War Tournament The AdventurersGuild of RiversideCalifomia would like to invite you to our 600 point Late War ReconnaissanceTournament on J arruary276,2007. The toumamentwill be using nrles from FestungEuropa . Missions will be recon-oriented Thereare the rules to this toumamentin regardsto building your army as follows: Armv Composition The Adventures'Guild Congratulates o CompanyHQ, combatplatoons, and weapons platoons . No supportplatoons As First PlaceWinner in our November o No air support Flamesof War toumament.Brian's Germanforces won more points than any Armv Organization Lists rival. Brian was awardeda Flamesof o Aufklarungsschwadron(Germanreconmechanizedcompany)War Stingof the Scorpionset. pg3lFE o British Armored Car Squadron(Recon company) pg 64 FE Secondplace was a tie with Dave Matos o RecceSquadron (British reconcompany) pg 70 FE and his Germanforces and Joselito r US CavalryRecon Troop pg 101FE Stotomasand his DAK forces. r RataRazvedki (Russian recon mechanized) pg 127FE The toumamentwill begin at 10:00AM on SaturdayJanuary 27th2007. Therewill be threerounds (4th round possibly)for the toumament. Entry fee for the toumamentwill be $15.(X).Every player will receivea $15.00participation gift certificate,and lunch for attendingthe tolrnament. Therewill also be a 10o%toumament discount on the day of the eventon Flamesof War/BattleFront products. Pleaseemail your armylists to advguildrivlllhotnail.com or fax to (951)509-6653.If you haveany questions please post them here or emailus at A d\-suildri v r-4hotmail. co m Hopeto seeyou acrossthe table on January27th! We havehad some questions in regardsto our 600 Pointlate war toumamenton January27'n,2007. We haveposted thissame response on the HMGS-PSWand official Flames of War forumsSo it will reachall peoplewho are interestedin our event. Piease,if thereare any morequestions, feel free to postthem on anyof theseforums, as we are checking themfrequently. The questionsare postedfirst, and the responsesare postedas bullets. Are you adjustingtable size or deploymentdistances for the 500point games? . No. The tournamentwill be playedon the standard4x6 tablewith deployment as statedin the specificscenario for the round. The objectivesmay be changedas neededby scenario.For example, one objectivemay be active,and anotherobjective will be a dummy. Arethe compositionrules from the hardbackrulebook (p, 185)for 600point games in effect? No. The compositionfor thistoumament will be standardas if playinga 1500point game. We havestated that the organizationof eachrecon army will be as follows:Company HQ, Combat Platoons, and Weapons Platoons. Army list maynot usesupport platoons, divisional support, or air support. *armoured* On the FoWforum, you clarified that the allowablelists include the Britishrecce squadron, but notthe British reccesquadron. You maywant to pointout whether proxy models are allowedfor the requiredHumber lV armouredcars in therecce squadron. Nobody makes a Humberlv-nobody!- -so probably Humber llls ought to be allowedas proxies, withthe player informing his opponents what they are standing in for.On the same point, how much proxying is allowed for othervehicles/weapons/ etc.? . Yes,you may useproxy models as longas theyare similarto the unitbeing represented. The exampleof using the Humberllt modelforHumber lV is acceptable.The Sovietmodel forthe SU-57is not availableby Battle Front. A SU-76,American or Britishvehicle of the samedesign as the SU-57is acceptable. Are you expectingthe US CavalryReconnaissance T.oop to be fielded as in the army list? . The US CavalryRecon Troop army listwill be playedas is statedin FE. Arethere any restrictionson the Sovietrecon company's weapons platoons, which includenot only assault guns,but heavyassault guns? . The Soviet Rota Razvedkilist on page 127 states that they may have 0-1 of the followingunits: 8A64 Light ArmouredCar Platoonpage 126, MobrizedMortar Company page 119, Heavy Ant-tank company page 118, AssaultGun Companypage 141. Whatis writtenin theirarmy list is whatwill be allowedfor the event. A Word From OrcGon 2007 byJoseMendiola Greetingsall, I just want to remind you that there is still sp,aceavailable for the FebruaryOrc Con ghaming convention.The dates are February 16tb to the 19th, 2007. e,pFifis alreadyup andrunning on our www.Strateqicon.net websile,or my emailis [email protected] If you or any other person(s)are interestedin running an eventplease go to the websiteand submityour event, or contactme to get