Volume 19, Number 1 R.MacGowan 2 *The AVALON HILL CiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiAiiiiiiiViiiiiiiaiiiiiiilOiiiiiiiniiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiilPiiiiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiloiiiiiiisiiiiiiiOiiiiiiiPhiiiiiiiYiiiiiiiPiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiariiiiiiitiiiiiii9iiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;;;;;;.JII GENERAL As of April 1982, the needs and wishes of the experienced in virtually every aspect of the in­ The Game Players Magazine hard-core wargaming public have been addressed dustry. An initial schedule, covering the first year of with the advent of the New York-based Victory operations, includes forays into contemporary and The Avalon HIli GENERAL is dedicated to the presenta­ Games, Inc. At first concerned exclusively with the World War II conflicts, science fiction, and role­ tion of authoritatIVe articles on the strategy. taclics, and variation of Avalon Hill wargames. Historical articles are design, development, and promotion of its quality playing. 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THEFRENCH CAMPAIGN 36 Copyright 1982 The Invasion ofFrance in THIRD REICH By Michael Anchors The if' DOWN WITH THEKING 39 AVALO.V H1LL--*\!V Design Notes and Errata By Glenn & Kenneth Rahmen G"IIU! Compa,.y /~O TOBRUK DEFENDED 42 '-451! Harford Road, fij\~C Technical Aspects of TOBR UK By Hal Hock BaitIITlUre" Md. 21214 \!J "LI 3 m~©~©©§ms~~@~ ~§m@@® HALLE GI G FO EVERYONE Sample the ever-expanding line of Microcomputer Games® from the Avalon Hill Game Company. Discover the challenge of slaying a dragon mapping an alien spacecraft. thwarting a Soviet offensive landing a jumbo jet coaching a professional sports team. Microcomputer Games® has them all and much more! Each game comes complete with loading and playing instructions, along with cassette or diskette software for the most popular home computers. DNIEPER RIVER LINE ,?:~S;;~~~=1 A fictionalized engagement be­ F tween the Russian and German forces in the southern Ukraine in 1943. The game challenges you, the German commander, to repel Russian efforts to breach the Dnieper River defensive positions, Soviet units, controlled by the com­ puter, seek to overrun the thin German line and capture suffi­ cient objectives to attain victory. DNIEPER RIVER LINE has four levels of difficulty and comes complete VOYAGER with over 300 illustrated counters GUNS OF FORT DEFIANCE A solitaire computer game that and a mounted mapboard. in this exciting arcade game, you challenges the human player to are the commander of a 19th cen­ explore the four levels of an alien tury artillery piece in a besieged spacecraft's maze-like corridors CONTROLLER stockade. For each shot you must and rooms in 3-D simulated A real·tlme simulation of air traffic specify a type of ammuni­ graphics, all the while avoiding control in which you will have to tion-bali, cannister, shell or robots programmed to blast any guide the approach and landing spherical case-and fuse length intruders. In order to win, the sequence of up to 8 aircraft. There (if applicable), and set the eleva­ human must destroy all power are three types of aircraft: Light tion and deflection of the cannon. generators and escape or hunt Planes, Airliners, and Private Jets, The computer controls the enemy outand annihilate the killer robots. with each type having a different forces, randomly attacking with VOYAGER comes with color­ rate of climb, turning ability, stall cavalry, infantry or another animated graphics and sound speed, ceiling, fuel consumption artillery piece, capabilities for computers so and fuel capacity, CONTROLLER equipped. transforms your microcomputer screen into a realistic "radar scope"; also, each aircraft's heading, velocity, and altitude is continuously displayed on a separate chart next to the radar scope. GALAXY Have you ever wanted to conquer the universe? In GALAXY, players send their galactic fleets out to explore and conquer the universe, solar system by solar COMPUTER system. Jhe planets discovered FOREIGN EXCHANGE COMPUTER may be barren worlds or they may Two to four players own and FOOTBALL STRATEGY possess immense industrial manage multi-national com­ Thrilling computer version of capacity and defensive ships to panies in various cities throughout Avalorr Hill's famous board game. resist colonization. GALAXY the world. Changing conditions Based on the award-winning comes with sound effects (for com­ require each player to make con­ Sports Illustrated game of profes­ puters with sound capability) and stant decisions after considering sional football; forces the player to allows from 1 to 20 players to com­ the financial resources of his com­ constantly make the right deci­ pete against each other or the pany and his opponents. A variety sions about his team's offensive computer. A different star map is of situations will determine likely and defensive formations.