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Box 261 Drummoyne, NSW. 2047 Phone 61 2 819-7199 AUSTRALIA Fax &I 2 819-7737 Run 5 Issue 25 Editor's Chance A Momentous Announcement 2 Book of the Quarter The Song of Roland 3 The Most Bloodthirsty Poem Ever Written The Q Store Have a Look at our Special Offers. 4 Letters Tell Us What You Think 4 Waterloo An Epic Article for an Epic Battle 5 • Korea Unite the Peninsula with WLII Deluxe 41 Stalemate in the East Battles of Army Group Center 43 Editor How to Install Stephen Hand Your Scenarios Editor Emeritus EDITOR'S Ian Trout IBM CHANCE Contributing Editors Waterloo: Copy the Waterloo Roger Keating files to the DB directory Gary Makin RUN 5 IS DEAD: LONG LIVE RUN 5 The first issue of Run 5 was published Gregor Whiley Gibraltar: Copy the Gibraltar in January 1986. You are now looking Steve Fawkner files into the scenario subdirectory at Issue #25. In all that time, Run 5 has of CCAW. Copy the Planes files retained its essential nature as the house Steve Ford into the planes subdirectory of magazine for SSG games, and has been U.S. Operations CCAW. Copy the Ships files into sold to a select and committed audi­ the ships subdirectory of CCAW ence. This has not been entirely our John Gleason Copy the ordsgibr. pck file into the choice. We would have liked to have Illustrator picts subdirectory of CCAW. broadened the magazine's readership and appeal, but readership has re­ Nick Stathopoulos mained at the levels that it reached in Mentor Korea: From the W2Deluxe di­ the first few issues. Ken Trout rectory type Install <enter>, click Now we have reached the situation on 'Librarian', then click on where the costs of producing Run 5 far Colour Artwork 'source' .click on the appropriate outweigh the revenue from subscrip­ John Mockridge drive (usually A:) then click on the tions and scenario disk sales. Most pub­ icon 'Korea.scz', click on unpack Graphus Pty Limited lications in this position simply close and when the scenario has un­ down, with a tearful farewell from the Printing packed click okay, done and exit editors, if time and money allow. Pirie Printers as prompted. Thankfully this will not be the case with Run 5. Run 5 is published 4 times per year Our alternative to extinction is to launch by Strategic Studies Group Pty MAC Run 5 onto the Web, as part of SSG's Limited. All Rights Reserved. © website: http:/ /www.ssg.com.au. This SSG 1996. Waterloo: Copy the Waterloo issue will be the last printed issue, and • Australian Office scenario into your DB folder . refunds will be made for the unful­ P.O. Box 261, Drummoyne, NSW. filled portions of all subscriptions. 2047. Tel (02) 819-7199. Fax (02) There are numerous advantages to Web 819-7737. Arras: Copy the Arras scenario publishing. These include the follow­ American Office into your Rommel, Panzer Battles, ing: P.O. 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I you are playing CAW range of subjects from the Total War CD then create * Articles, letters and other features Internet: [email protected] a CAW folder on your Hard Drive. will not suffer space constraints Compuserve: 72662,3471 * Interaction with readers will be easier Korea: Copy the Korea file into and faster World Wide Web: the Scenarios folder in your and last but definitely not least http://www.ssg.com.au Warlords II folder. * The editor gets to keep his job The one disadvantage, which we ac­ knowledge, is that you won't get a 2 Book of the Quarter beautifully printed· magazine, but that Gibraltar postulates a German attempt approach is simply no longer viable. to capture the famous rock, backed by This issue I'm going a bit off the beaten We are printing this final paper issue, the Italian Navy. This is a fascinating track in my choice of the Book of the even though this is a loss making propo­ scenario because it includes the Vichy Quarter. In fact the 'Book' is a poem, sition. French Navy. If you thought that Com­ one of the greatest poems ever written, The Song of Roland. This issue will go up on our Web site plete Carriers at War was a game of after the paper version' has been dis­ uncertainties, wait till you're unsure tributed, and new issues should ap­ whether the Vichy French fleet will The Song of Roland was written down pear faster than our current somewhat come out to help you. We strongly sometime during the first quarter of dilatory schedule. recommend that people playing the the 12th century and deals with the Axis in this scenario leave the Vichy The online Run 5 will be a new experi­ ambush by Basques of King Charle­ French under computer control. That ence, and we encourage all of you to magne's rearguard as the army made way you'll never be sure what's hap­ contribute any ideas and suggestions. its way back into France through the pening, whichever side you're play­ Electronic publishing has the great ad­ pass of Roncevaux. In command of the ing. vantage of flexibility, so don't hold back. rearguard was Roland, a noble who The Editor's e-mail address is apparently held the Breton Marches as [email protected], make use of it. As IN THE PIPELINE a vassal of the King. well as us welcoming suggestions there Work continues apace on The Last Blitz­ Three hundred and fifty years after the will be a page of letters, or rather e­ krieg, our simulation of the Battle of the ambush a poem was written down mails, to the editor in the new Run 5 Bulge. By the time you receive this which purported to tell us the story of online. magazine it should be finished. Three Roland and his comrades. Actually it We'd also like to thank all subscribers years in the making, this is our best tells us far more about the attitudes and readers for their many years of game yet. With a number of innovative towards warfare that were prevalent support. We like to think that Run 5 is design features we have carried the top fifty years after the Battle of Hastings. one of the things that makes SSG spe­ down computer wargame further from The story of Roland is simple. Charle­ cial, and we're sure that, with your its table top origins than any previous magne has been campaigning in Spain continued support, that it will not only computer wargame. The integrated and has conquered the entire country survive, but thrive in its new medium. move I fight system is a joy to use and with the exception of Saragossa, in the fiendish computer opponents are which the Saracen King Marsile is holed the triumphant culmination of 15 years up. Marsile offers to make peace and IN THIS ISSUE of AI design by Roger Keating. We are despite Roland's arguments Charle­ The big feature of this issue is my dis­ finding it hard to stop playing this magne sends the treacherous Ganelon cussion of the Waterloo campaign. In game and we hope you will feel the to make terms. fact it's so big we have been unable to same way about it. The Last Blitzkrieg Ganelon, who hates Roland arranges fitmuchelsein. IfyouhateNapoleonics will be Windows 95 only and will re­ for Marsile to ambush the rearguard. then I apologise. There have been so quire a minimum of a 486 DX2/ 66 with This is done and a great battle ensues. many two dollar articles on Waterloo, I 8MB of Ram and a 2x speed CD Rom Roland refuses to sound his horn and wasn't going to write another one. We drive. call back Charlemagne until only a have had a running joke about this handful are left alive. All of the Franks article being War and Peace without and most of the Saracens are killed the peace. Seriously, I hope that you WARLORDS III AND REACH FOR (even though the Christians are out­ enjoy the article. As always, if you like THE STARS numbered five to one).