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COMMAND PERSONAUTIES - No head variants *ACWP4 Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armstead-

Charging waving hat on end of sword (Gettysburg, July 3, 1863)

ACWP5 Col. Joshua L. Cliamberlain -'Bayonets' (Gettysburg, July 2, 1863)

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ARTICLES

POUR LE MERITE 7 SCOTT HOWER with a complete set of rules for gaming the AMR

TIlE SOUTIIERN CAMPAIGN OF TIlE AMR, PART II 15 SCOTT HOWER completes his discussion of the history of the campaign

WAR LEADERSmp IN FEUDAL EUROPE AND W ARGAMES 21 TERRY GORE with a historical perspective and its application to Dr. Bunker's discussions

CARRHAE,53BC 25 GREG PJ1TS with a scenario recreating the famous battle

ADVANTAGES OF HEIGHT 29 T. TA YLOR EARIE provides more tactical considerations for the table top

BATTLE FOR MUNOZ, LUZON 1 FEB., 1945 47 ALLEN R. GARBEEwith another Pacific Theatre Command Decision Scenario.

HOW TO MAKE SOME BASIC TABLE TOP TERRAIN TIlE CHEAP WAY 51 GARY LEITZELL and LEE HOWARD with an excerpt from their new book

TALKING TO TIlE TROOPS 62 CllNTON REILLYdiscusses voice recognition for computer moderated wargames

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COVER: Action in the southern campaign of the American Revolution. 25mm Continenetal Minifig figures painted by Phil Pearson, Hinchliffe British figures and Gallla and Hovels bulldings painted by Bill Pritchard. geo-Hex terrain. Photography by Nell Van Zlle, Jr.

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From GDW and the designer of Command Decision"'". There are many rules covering the

eighteenth and nineteenth century. What makes Volley and Bayonet ™ unique?

Fast Tempo of Play Battles were exciting and fast-moving, not boring and

tedious. Battle rules should maintain that same tempo. Each turn in Volley

and Bayonet represents one hour of time on the battlefield, but average playing time is only fIfteen to thirty minutes. This means that full-length historical

battles can be fought to conclusion in three to four hours.

Grand Tactical Scope With Volley and Bayonet, players can fight out even the largest battles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and fmish the

battle in one gaming session. You can fight all of Leuthen, Austerlitz, Waterloo, or Gettysburg, not just a "representative

incident" from it. Other rules claim to be able to do this, and with some stretching some of them can. But Volley and Bayonet is one of the the first rules sets designed from the

ground up with this goal in mind.

Flexible Troop Scale Only the size of the troop base is important, not how many

castings are mounted on it. This makes the rules equally suitable for any scale fIgures, from 5mm all the way up to 30mm, with no need to convert ranges or movement rates. This also means that you can try out the rules without remounting

an already-existing army. Since the bases tend to be larger in Volley and Bayonet than other rules, just put one or more stands of your

troops on V &B-size bases and you're ready to start playing.

Pick Your Period Volley and Bayonet covers the entire period from the adoption of the socket bayonet (about 1700) up to

the widespread issue of machine-guns and magazine rifles (about 1890). The rules, with a few modifications to preserve period flavor and to cover newer weapons, allow players to fight out battles throughout that time. All the battles and campaigns of Marlborough, Frederick, Napoleon, Lee and Grant, and Bismarck are at your disposal, and the rules provide maps and orders of battle fornine representative battles from history.

Stock # 780 $14.00 P.O. Box 1646. Bloomington, IL 61702-1646

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IS RULE PlAGIARISM POSSmIE? With much chagrin, I recently read a letter to the editor of another gaming magazine in which the author of one very popular set of rules accused the author of another set of popular rules of copying his use of dice! Come on, guys - don't you know that just about every method we now use to determine casualties, measure morale, apportion moves, apply logistics, etc. has been invented and reinvented since the dawn of wargaming. Robert Louis Stevenson used morale dice not very different than we do now. The german Kreigspiel C various versions 1839-1880) used hidden movement rules, hex grids, dice that were other than 0 6, and artillery sticks. Jack Scruby used initiative dice, determination of number of units that could move by dice throw, and variable length turns. Myriad methods of morale determination have been used over and over. If it were not for copyright statute of limitations, all of the modem era rules writers would be plagiarizing to some extent. So lighten up - such accusations sound like sour grapes if not outright slander. Today's innovation is in the combination of these techniques, in their presenta-tion, and by the introduction of new conceptsCe .g. hidden terrain features a la Napoleon's Battles or the limited troop placement of ARMATI). Tomorro's innovation will probably come from inSights and capability provided by the computer. As they become more afforda ble and compact enough for each gamer to have one at the table, much of the dUller, record keeping, etc will be handled through this means, allowing us to enjoy the panorama of well painted figures on sculpted terrain.

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