From: Doug Murphy Subject: S&T 178: First Blood: Guadalcanal (long) Arrived last week. Dated Jan/Feb 1996. Next issue game noted as First Afghan War...a simulation of the Brit campaign in Afghanistan, 1839-1842. Game system said to show the differences in weapons/ tactics of the British, Afghans, Sepoys, Baluchis, Gurkhas and assorted mercanaries. Other articles to include: the Battles of Nadir Shah and Apocalypse Next: Peru. This issue included a 15 page article by consim's own Tim Kutta on Guadalcanal (with sidebars by Robert Barrow); 16 page article on the Boer War by Donald Mack, 7 page article on Japanese Grand Strategy: 1850-1942 by Thomas Kane; 3 page article on The German General Staff and Official Wargaming by Jim Bloom, FYI (by Kutta), and outgoing mail by Joe Miranda. The game is Guadalcanal: First Blood by consim's own Chester Hendrix (will be interesting to compare this with the Comp.Edge game) Upcoming issues: 179: First Afghan War (noted here as 1855 campaign though) 180: Reinforce the Right ('14 West Front, 3 CRTs, variants) 181: Byzantium (100YW system goes east, strat, multi-player) 182: Balkans'41 (WWII operational) 183: Fall of Rome (remake) 184: Israeli War of Independence ('48 operational) 185: War of 1812 Battles (Niagra, Lundy's Lane, New Orleans) 186: Piave (WWI Italian Front, similar to 180) 187: Charlemagne 188: Forgotten Axis. 194: My Ally, My Enemy: '41 Syria. Four (count 'em 4) PAGES full of feedback questions which I've summarized for your reading pleasure... Planning to republish S&T games: choose from the following Quads Army Group South, Art of Siege, Campaign in North Afr, Crimean War , GBACW (Drive on Wash./ Pea Ridge); Great Medievel Battles; Great War in the East; Modern Battles 1 & 2, Westwall. Also, Red Sun Rising, Sinai, Soldiers, Suez to Golan, Victory in the West games. For boxed games: Empires of Mid Ages, Wacht am Rhein, War in Europe, Cobra, Wellington's Victory, Army Group South, Red Sun/White Star (rethink of Pac Quad); Desert Fox Deluxe, Russian Civil War, Drive on Stalingrad, GBACW, Nap in Russia, American Rev, ETO/PTO, Spies, Force XXI (update NATO Div Cmdr), Sword & Stars. New boxed designs: Rebel / Redcoats III, Battles of the Great War quad, Storm of Steel, Empires at War II, Hitler Moves South, Drive on Moscow, Airborne!, Vietnam quad. CCG: Battle of Bulge, Patton & Monty, Company Commander, Don't Tread on Me, Emperor, SNAFU, Election 2000, Chinese Empires, Samurai... Comp.Games: War in Europe, SPIES, Starforce Trilogy. Multiplayer: Sahel Empire, Scramble for Africa, The 1960s, Plot to Unseat Nixon... 29 other S&T proposals: March of the 10,000; Julian, 1066, Kublai Khan, Shogun's March to Pekin, Sultan, Akbar, East Indies, Marlborough, Catherine the Great, 7 Years World War, Nap in Germany, Beyond Waterloo, War of 1812, Maximilian, Custer Campaign, Boer War, 1918, reinforce the Right (expansion), Plan Orange, Knight's Move, Manila: Stalingrad of the East (great title), Foreign Armies East, Operation Iron hammer, Korea: Chinese Intervention; The Gauntlet, Year of Decision, Storm over the Desert Sci-Fi boxed games: To Make Mars Green, Free Mars!, Fall of the Galactic Empire, Life Ship, Cyberwarriors Boy, my fingers are tired...holler if you want details on the above... Doug Murphy