Subject: Origins Nano Report Seen at Origins:Games that have moved from vapor to cardboard states. The Great War at Sea, Vol 1! (North Sea version to come) Nice full size map of the Med, 11X17 Battle board, both have staggered squares. Great counters Fields of Glory, 800+ counters, nice period maps, counters GMTish rules have many examples and historical reasoning boxes. Samurai, yes it real, it even has an errata sheet. Now has an extra battle included, plus cool rules for presenting the severed heads of your enemy to the Daiymo. Many head counters included. Neat McGowan box cover, counters are 1/2in. Made burnt offering to Richard Berg. No Parasan!, @ the Paper Wars booth, 1st class counters Spearhead is doing a (insert drum roll) a Gettysburg game. Speerit Games spent the most money on a display for their G-burg game, they had a map with 2 foot wide hexes & giant stand up counters. And many copies of the game. Operation Husky, seen, not examined. And about 100 new CCG's, yawn. ------------------------------------------ Scott Goldsmith www.optimum.com ------------------------------------------ 513-577-7787 SG8357@optimum.com ------------------------------------------ Celebrating the Century of Progress From: "David L. Richtmyer" Subject: Origins recap (LONG) Here's my recap of what was going on at Origins. I. What I bought: I ended up buying Avalanche's Great War at Sea, Vol. I (the Mediteranean), 4 decks of Ulrich Blennemann's Tank Commander: the Eastern Front card game, 1 complete deck of Columbia's Dixie: Gettysburg (it includes all of the cards in the series), Sierra Madre's Luftschiff gamekit, and a copy of Formula De (being imported, along with a gaggle of other Euro games, by Mayfair). II. What was being displayed: Avalon Hill AH had copies of recent releases, like London's Burning, Machiavelli, and Hannibal on display, along with new for Origins releases like Air Barron, the latest Stonewall GCACW game (on the Chancellorsville campaign), and a working demos of Third Reich and Wooden Ships & Iron Men on a PC. This latter looks like a must; it looked and played magnificently--it is *not* just a computerized version of the boardgame but takes it and goes on from there. Views are isometric that make the game look like a miniatures game. I passed on Air Barron, th