UPDATE: Web-Grognards, 7/9/97 From: Alan Poulter <alan@poulter.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000 Hi, To celebrate the return of Web-Grognards after the summer break, 4CDs Strategy and Wargame Shop at:- http://www.4cds.com/prd.i/pgen/fourcds/0L/strategy/home.html has kindly agreed to sponsor a special 4CDs Challenge, by offering a free copy of the forthcoming Close Combat 2 to the first person who answers the following questions:- * The following quote comes from the manual of a classic computer wargame:- 'The scenario starts with the Germans ready to launch another 48th Panzer Korps counter-attack. Both sides have received substantial replacements and reinforcements. The map indicates the at-start Korps/Army locations and their historic axis of advance'. What is the name of the game, what company produced it and who designed it? * What are the title and publisher of the current Grognard Challenge game? This you have to recognise from scans of two map sections and two sets of units on the Web-Grognards homepage. Rules of the 4CDs Challenge 1. Only one entry is allowed per entrant. Subsequent entries submitted by any entrant will be ineligible. 2. All entries must be sent to grognard@grognard.com 3. All entries received will be given a entry number. This must be quoted to obtain any prize. 4. The closing date of the current competition is Saturday 13th September, 18:00 GMT. All entries must be dated prior to this. 5. The winner (if any) will be notified by email after the closing date. 6. Decisions of the competition organisers are final. 7. Staff of 4CDs and Web-Grognards are ineligible to enter. You can of course just submit answers for the Grognards Challenge, which is running as ever. Richard Fluck has sent me all the translations he had assembled for Vae Victis issue games. I have stored them on Web-Grognards as they have been much requested. Finally, I am have not had the time to add all the material which was sent over August/early September. If you do not see something (a URL, a review etc) you submitted in the Update below it is in my backlog and will be added asap :-( The Previous Grognards Challenge: Allan Rothberg was the first of a few to guess 'St. Lo' (West End Games). This is Allan's seventh win and puts him only one behind the biggest winner so far, Randy Moorehead, who has eight wins. A new Challenge awaits! A list of new links and files on Web-Grognards follows. For this list follow the 'Whats New' link from the Web-Grognards home page:- http://grognard.com or go direct to:- http://grognard.com/970907.html NEW LINKS/RESOURCES * link to web site for 1618 something (PBEM game) * links to Windows and Mac demos of Achtung Spitfire! (Big Time Software, computer game, Windows/Mac) * link to technical FAQ for American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomatox Interactive Magic, computer game) * link to web page for Arriba Espana! (Microgame Co-op) * link to web page for Astromachia (Microgame Co-op) * link to web page for PBEM game of Battle for Moscow (GDW) * link to the Boardgame Variants site * Bouting (Napoleonic Era wargaming) mailing list * updated link to the Cardboard Strategyst * updated link to web site for Close Action (miniatures game) * link to web sites for game editors and campaign viewers for Close Combat (Atomic/Microsoft, computer game) * link to web site for CyberBoard (PBEM game aid, Win95/NT) * link to the Department of War (computer wargames) * link to another web site for Empires in Arms (ADG/AH) * link to web page for The Final Frontier (Microgame Co-op) * link to web page for Sid Meier's Gettysburg * link to web site for Great War (Cody Knotts, PBEM game) * link to clarifications, errata and optional rules for Der Kessel in CE#12 (OSS) * link to web page for Man of War (Strategy First, computer game) * updated link to One Small Step * link to Operational Studies Group * links to Internet PBEM Ladder and adminstrative record sheet for Pax Britannica (VG) * link to latest patch (1.3) for Silent Hunter (SSI) * updated link to the Spanish Military Hobby site * Steel Panthers (SSI, computer game) mailing list * link to demo of Steel Panthers III (SSI, computer game) * updated link to Strategy Construction Set (PBEM aide, Win95) * link to web site for V_MAP (PBEM aid, Windows 3.1/95/NT) * link to the Wargamer's Ring * updated link to Westbank Gamers (club) NEW FILES * FAQ for 688i (Janes, computer game) * variant for 1630 something (Warfrog) * review of The Alamo, Command#43 (XTR) * clarification and variants and optional scenario set ups for All Quiet on the Western Front (MiH) * another review of Ardennes Offensive (SSI, computer game, Win95) * reports on Avaloncon * designer's notes for Bar Lev (Conflict Games) * another review of Breakout: Normandy (AH * erratum for Byzantium, S&T#183 (DG) * errata for Cannibal: Burma 1942-1943 (Avalanche) * more variants for Civil War (VG) * report on the First Annual Canadian ConSim Salmon(less) Retreat * Q&A for DAK (The Gamers) * another review of Dune (AH) * errata for European Theatre of Operations (TSR) * review of First Indochina War (Third Millenia) * report on GenCon * Q&A for The Great War at Sea (Avalanche) * errata for Imperium Romanum (WEG, 2nd ed.) * play aids for The King's War (COA) * more errata for The Longest Day (AH) * erratum for MacArthur's Return: Leyte 1944 (Avalanche) * another preview of Montcalm and Wolfe (Markham Designs) * review and map errata for Napoleon at Bay (OSG 2nd ed.) * another review of Princess Ryan's Star Marines (AH) * review of Race for Space (Markham Designs) * another review of Red Beach One, S&T#142 (DG) * designers notes for The Schlieffen Plan (DG) * more errata for Second Front (GR/D) * variant for Source of the Nile (AH) * review of Stalingrad (Atomic Games, computer game) * errata for Tide of Fortune (3W) * Q&A for Twilight's Last Gleaming, S&T#185 (DG) * Q&A for Victory in the Pacific (AH) * unofficial patch for Gary Grigsby's War in Russia (SSI, computer game) * historical set up for Wave of Terror: The Battle of the Bulge, Command#41 (XTR) * list of PBEM players for World in Flames (ADG) Please email grognard@grognard.com for access details via FTP, telnet or email for Web-Grognards. -- Alan Poulter <mailto:grognard@grognard.com> <mailto:apoulter@nyx.net> <mailto:alan@poulter.demon.co.uk> <http://www.poulter.demon.co.uk/> Up