Featured in this Issue 'IE Rainbow 5- win or lose the War in the Pacific in a single day; a hypothetical Carriers ar War scenario from 1942 ~E Back to the Bulge - the battles at Bastogne and St Vith offer unique challenges ~E Danger in the Valley­ Stonewall Jackson bluffs the Yankees at Kernstown Carriers at War II provides more tension, more excitement and tougner'opponents in more great naval battles i:rofn World War II. The cat-and-mouse nature o£ air-naval war~~:Qe is \iividly recreated · where entire battles can turn on the achievement of a single plane. The eight brand new-scenarios in Carriers at War II, som~ hypotheti... cal, others controv.ersial, explore all the fascinating options avail- .• able to the catrier f~rces of the Ubifed States, Great Britain and Jap~n. Carriers at WarN uses an improved version of the:driginal Carriers ~ar gam .system to recreate car.ciJ~r warfare from its earliest days tq the final, climactic assault on the Japanesemainland,,.made unqer ~ the clottd of . nstant Kamikaze attack! ..... Run 5 Issue 21 ~ Editor's Chance Notes, work in Progress ... 2 Book of the Quarter . Rommel's Infantry Attacks 3 The Q Store Have a look at our special offers ... 4 Letters You tell us what you think 4 Bastogne & St Vith Foundations for victory 5 Kernstown Jackson wins by losing?? 33 Rainbow 5 Win or lose WWII in one day 43 Editor Disk Stephen Hand Subscriptions Editor Emeritus EDITOR'S Disk subscriptions are now available Ian Trout for IBM and Macintosh users. The cost is the same for all formats. CHANCE Contributing Editors IBM users must tell us whether they Roger Keating prefer 3.5" or 5.25" format.If you don't Gary Makin specify a format, you will receive the IT WAS ALL MY FAULT! 3.5" diskette. If you wish to switch Having sung the praises of Steve Ford's Gregor Whiley disk subscriptions from one machine Battlefront and Decisive Battles graphics format to another, just let us know. Steve Fawkner I was more than a little embarrassed to When we find the time, we intend to find that IBM disk subscribers had ac­ Brett Harrison upgrade all the scenario disks from cidentally received scenarios with par­ back issues into the new formats and U.S. Operations tially finished maps. I hereby accept allow new users to acquire them or 125% of the blame and throw myself on current users to upgrade to them. John Gleason your mercy. The correct files have been We'll keep the cost as low as possible; Illustrator it will depend on how much time it sent to everyone concerned along with this issue's scenarios. It won't happen Nick Stathopoulos takes and how many scenarios we can fit onto a disk. again. Mentor While I'm in on the subject of apolo­ Ken Trout gies, we have had a few queries as to when we are going to publish the hy­ Colour Artwork pothetical"Invasion Hawaii" scenario John Mockridge promised for Issue 20. We fully in­ Graphus Pty Limited tended to have this scenario ready for Upgrading to the last issue but the pressures of work Printing on Carriers at War 2 have forced us to Pirie Printers New Machines delay work on magazine scenarios for We have received a large number of the Carriers at War Game System. The Run 5 is published 4 times per year requests from our users to upgrade a consolation is that CAW 2 is looking by Strategic Studies Group Pty particular title from one machine to really good. The graphics are out of this Limited. All Rights Reserved. © another. In response to this demand, world and there are eight scenarios SSG 1993. we have decided upon the following dealing with a wide range of strategic policy. Australian Office situations. Furthermore, in this issue P.O. Box 261, Drummoyne, NSW. Any title from our range may be up­ we present the first reader scenario we 2047. Tel (02) 819-7199. Fax (02) graded from one machine to another have received, Rainbow 5, more on for a cost of half the retail price of the 819-7737. which, later. Suffice it to say that "Inva­ new version. You must send us the sion Hawaii" will appear just as soon American Office original program disk and the front as we can free up enough time to com­ page of the manual from that game. P.O. Box 30085, Pensacola, FL. plete it. 32503-1085.Tel(904)469-8880.Fax We will send you a complete copy of the new version of the game. (904) 469-8885. For example, if you wish to upgrade a COLOR, COLOR, COLOR ISSN 0816-7125 C-64 version of Halls of Montezuma to Yes, we've added some color and the IBM/Tandy version, you should doesn't it look great. I can't wait to see send us the original C-64 disk, the Online Addresses how a screen shot looks in full glorious front page of the manual and the ap­ Compuserve: Strategic Studies propriate cheque, money order or technicolor.We hope you like it. Group-72040 ,34 MC/Visa number. Applelink: Strategic Studies North American users must send their IN THIS ISSUE Group-AUST0161 components and funds to our US Of­ For Battlefront players we have two GEnie: SSG fice. Everybody else must use our scenarios dealing with aspects of Hit­ Australian Office. ler's Ardennes Offensive. These are St Vith and Bastogne. These scenarios have a certain similarity in that they 2 Book of the Quarter both deal with German attempts to Confederates out there that if you want Over the last few months I have been trying take vital road junct ~ ons. There the simi­ to win this scenario you will, have to to read a number of"classics" in the field of larity ends. InSt Vith the German player kill a whole lot of Yankees. The North military history. Last issue I reviewed must break through successive Ameri­ will win by delaying Early long enough Guderian's Achtung Panzer, this issue I'm can lines of resistance before reinforce­ for the Washington defences to be bol­ looking at another book by a prominent ments arrive to garrison the town of St stered by the arrival of a Corps of WWII German General, Rommel's Infan­ Vith. In Bastogne the Germans have Grant's veterans. try Attacks. only one chance to take Bastogne itself, that is before the 101st Airborne get JUST RELEASED ... there. If the "Screaming Eagles" hold We all know Rommel as the "Desert the town then it's "Nuts!" to von Since the publication of Issue 20 we Fox", the audacious commander of the Luttwittz and only a matter of time have released the following game Afrika Korps in the western desert. before Patton brea~ through to link up Carriers at War II (IBM ) However, like most German generals with the paratroops. Yes, we have finally finished the sequel of WWII, Rommel served as a junior Kerns town, for the Decisive Battles Game to Carriers at War. Eight new scenarios officer in WWI. He served on three System is fought at regimental level and fabulous new graphics make this fronts, the western and eastern fronts with half hour turns. See how 4200 men a must have game. The scenarios are and on the Italian front. Everywhere he under Jackson could spook the entire (in chronological order) Plan Orange, served, Rommel showed the brilliance Union and prevent McClellan from tak­ Task Force Z, Port Darwin, Java Sea, that was to characterise his command ing Richmond. And all this was Trincomalee, Leyte Gulf, Okinawa and in the desert. His book, first published achieved by Jackson losing the battle1 Operation Olympic. in 1937, recounts his experiences as an infantry officer and provides many les­ Finally we have our first reader sce­ sons for the conduct of small unit nario for Carriers at War. Patrick WORK IN PROGRESS operations, even today. Murphy, a long time scenario designer The Macintosh versions of both War­ has sent us his version of the hypotheti­ Infantry Attacks dispels many myths lords II and Carriers at War II are well on cal American operation "Rainbow 5". about the First World War, still one of the way and can be expected before the Just about every carrier and capital the most poorly understood conflicts middle of 1994. ship available to the US is steaming in history. It was the only war in his­ towards Wake Island. The Japanese The Warlords II Scenario Builder is set tory where a commander in charge of a plan to meet them half way and end the to be released in the second quarter of battle had no communications with his war in the Pacific in a single afternoon. this year. It will feature a map drawing attacking troops. Once men went" over No wonder the US Navy decided facility which is simplicity to use as the top" they may as well have been on against implementing such an ali-or­ well as the ability to change the names, Mars for all the C. in C. knew. All he nothing plan! statistics and pictures for all the ar­ could do was to make the best plans mies. This will allow you to create any possible but as Napoleon had said, even army type imaginable (unless of course the best plan will not survive contact NEXT ISSUE you are, like me, one of the artistically with the enemy. It was not until radios It's time to go back to Russia.