~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Fine Games for Players & Collectors | | now located at: 2078 Madrona St., North Bend, OR 97459-2143 USA | ~~~~~~~~ 541-756-4711 866-690-7879 M.Dean@FineGames.com ~~~~ Game Update 1996 Special (#10) 4 July 1996 WELCOME again to another Fine Games electronic newsletter.These updates contain news and other info of interest to active board gamers and collectors. They also explain how you can download copies of the many Fine Games' online catalogs at your convenience. C O N T E N T S Fine Games NEWS .......... What's going on at Fine Games - FTP Site Updated 7/1 - Web Site Now Active Too! - Unavailable This Weekend NEW Games ................ There Ain't Any Pending Releases - WiF, SPQR Guide, Europa F I N E G A M E S N E W S MY ONLINE FTP CATALOGS were updated yesterday (Mon., 7/1). These are now up to date. You'll find a few new items of note--including an Empires of the Middle Ages! FINE GAMES' WWW SITE is finally--at long last--available. This gives you very convenient & easy access to all the catalogs and other information at my FTP site. I've taken pains to document info about Fine Games and your options in doing business with us. Add this WWW URL to your hot list: http://www.FineGames.com// WE WISH A HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY to you and your family. I plan to spend this weekend with my loved one. Hence, any emails will be answered next Monday (at the latest). You may call but, again, don't expect an answer until next week. N E W G A M E S Late spring is the calm before the summer flood in the game industry. Only a few items were released in May and the first week of June--hey, but what releases! Look for many more releases in the next 3 months. Cash Publsr Game Title & Edition Box Wght# Price Rels Date ------ ------------------------------ --- ---- ------- --------- AH WE THE PEOPLE: EXPANSION CARD n 0.2 $3.50 I have ordered a healthy supply of these direct from AH. When they arrive, I should be able to satisfy the considerable backlog of demand for these hard to find little buggers. P E N D I N G R E L E A S E S Origins is a traditional venue for displaying a years' worth of hard work. This MAY be the case this year. However, at least two designers' parents are dying of cancer; this has influenced what WON'T be at Origins. Here are the likely candidates & then some. I will note that GRD just announced the obvious, that the dates of all its pending releases have been pushed back. War in the Desert is now due in August, and the Second Front Reprint in December. World in Flames will not be at Origins as Harry Rowland, one of the designers, had his father pass away last week. We wish him well as his situation points out our own (and more significantly, our PARENT's) mortality. WiF should be available later in July. Cash Publsr Game Title & Edition Box Wght# Price Rels Date ------ ------------------------------ --- ---- ------- --------- GMT SAMURAI BC $31.50 due 5/96 5th in Grt Btls of History series. Covers samurai era & the btls of Sendoku Jidai. GMT SPQR PLAYERS' GUIDE n $10.50 due 5/96 Tactics & strategy of play. MIH TANK COMMANDER, E.FRONT BOX SB $84.00 due 5/96 OF 12 DECKS Collectable carg gm of armored warfare in the East at sqd & vehicle lvl. SPS GETTYSBURG: THREE DAYS IN JULY LB $28.00 due 5/96 Battle of Gettysburg using limited intel via stand up plastic pieces & casualty chart. '96 ADG WORLD IN FLAMES 6TH BC $42.00 due 6/96 THE finest detailed strat WW2 game. 2 scenarios, 2 1-map & 5 2-map campaign games. Mates w/ Days of Decision to add pre-war politicing & builds. 1986 .Roberts award; 1986 Game of Year & Game of Decade by F&M mag. '91 ADG WORLD IN FLAMES 6TH DELUXE BC $77.00 due 6/96 Latest & greatest, w/ new streamlined & 3-holded rules, plus 4 kits. THE finest detailed strat WW2 game. 2 scenarios, 2 1-map & 5 2-map campaign games. Mates w/ Days of Decision to add pre-war politicing & builds. 1986 .Roberts award; 1986 Game of Year & Game of Decade by F&M mag. '91 ADG WORLD IN FLAMES 6TH UPGRADE n $35.00 due 6/96 KIT Includes rules, maps & counters for WiF, plus rules to 4 add-on kits. COFA ARMY OF THE HEARTLAND BC $33.60 due 6/96 Detailed gm of the ACW in the West. Companion gm to Campaign of RE Lee. COFA CAMP OF RE LEE: GRANT TAKES n $4.90 due 6/96 CMMND #23 Add-on kit to Camp RE Lee or Army of Heartland. '96 COFA HARPOON BOXED SET, 4TH BC $35.00 due 6/96 Latest version of this popular modern era air-sea tac combat system. '96 DECGMS FORGOTTEN WAR, BATTLES OF... BC $28.00 due 6/96 3 btls from Korean War: Naktung, Chosin, Chipyng-ri. Company lvl. DECGMS KRIEG! HC $27.30 due 6/96 Strategic WW2 gm at army/corp level w/ cards. '96 AVALAN DEUX MARE [FORMERLY SMS HC $26.60 due 7/96 GOEBEN] Commerce raiding in the Med & Black Sea early in WW1. 40 scenarios. '96 COLUMG DIXIE: GETTYSBURG CARD GAME SB 0.3 $7.00 due 7/96 "Tradable, collectable" card game of the Am Civil War, this edition the btl of Gettysburg. Battles played w/ colorful & historically accurate cards in 30-60 minutes. Each deck contains 60 of the 200 possible cards representing all units present. '95 COLUMG DIXIE: GETTYSBURG CARD GAME SB $42.00 due 7/96 COMPLETE SET Complete set of all 300 cards. "Tradable, collectable" card game of the Am Civil War, this edition the btl of Gettysburg. Battles played w/ colorful & historically accurate cards in 30-60 minutes. Each deck contains 60 of the 200 possible cards representing all units present. '95 COLUMG SAM GRANT BC $35.00 due 7/96 Brother game to Bobby Lee, uses Columbia's block system and a beautiful map to cover the Western campaigns along the Mississippi, 1962-4. Simpler game, fun. DECS_T FIRST BLOOD: GUADALCANAL n $11.90 due 7/96 CAMPGN,2ND #178 Sml gm of the land campaign for Guadalcanal, Spt'42-Jan'43 in Weekly turns. S.Llewellyn'96 GMT THREE DAYS OF GETTYSBURG n $4.90 due 7/96 ERRATA KIT Kit w/ counters & extensive errata correcting the rushed development of 3Days. '96 MIH FIELDS OF GLORY BC $30.80 due 7/96 2nd in Gread Btls of History series. Covers Oudenarde (July 1708) and Malplaquet (Spt 1709) at btln/rgt lvl. R.Berg'96 XTRCMD GREAT WAR IN THE NEAR EAST #38 n $17.50 due 7/96 Well received corp level gm of all of WW1 in Europe. AH AIR BARON BC $21.00 due 7/96 ? Modest complexity family-style gm of building a sml airline by securing access to airports, buying better planes, building hubs, etc. '96 _SFTWR OVER THE REICH CD-ROM DOS/MAC HC $49.00 due 7/96 ? 3D strategy gm of managing a front line fighter squadron during the last half of WW2. Allocate planes, pilots, weapons, & fuel. '96 _SFTWR WOODEN SHIPS & IRON MEN HC $49.00 due 7/96 ? CD-ROM DOS CD-ROM only. 1, 2 & PBEM adaptations of the wondeful boardgame. Historical ship-ship & fleet battles, campaigns, & design your owns. '96 GRD DESERT, WAR IN THE... FB $57.40 due 8/96 Revised & updated Europa system game encompassing earlier Desert War & Torch games & Near East kit. '96 Delayed, & delayed again. KEN MONTY PYTHON & HOLY GRAIL SB $7.70 due 8/96 CARD GAME DECK AH STONEWALL'S LAST BATTLE BC $24.50 due 9/96 Rgt/div lvl gm of btl of Chancellorsville. 5th in ACW series. 4 scenarios plus Brandy Station. '96 DECGMS BRITISH EMPIRE HC $24.50 due 9/96 Britain defends its empire in 3 gms: Zulu War, River War, and March to Peking. DECGMS DESERT FOX DELUXE HC $24.50 due 9/96 Reprint of Acclaimed Btln lvl gm of N Africa, '41-43. Integrated w/ Trail of Fox. R Berg, '81,'95 _SFTWR BLACKBEARD [PC] HC $42.00 due 9/96 PC version of the solitaire game of the same name. Priacy around the world. CHAOS MYTHOS: INVESTIGATER BSTRS n $79.65 due ?/96 CCG based on HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos & Chaosium's series. WINSOM TRACKS TO TITICACA Tb $35.00 due ?/96 Rails into the high Andes mountains between 1870 & 1930. Includes bribary, technology & engineers. WINSOM US RAILS ? $10.50 due ?/96 Railroading during the era of the automobile & interstate hiway. EXCAL KING ARTHUR & THE KNIGHTS OF BC $26.25 due 12/96 ROUND TABLE Strat lvl gm of the mythological period of England. J.Musgrave'96 EXCAL MERLIN: MAGIC & POWER IN BC $24.15 due 12/96 ARTHURN ENGLAND Strat lvl gm of the mythological period of England. J.Musgrave'96 EXCAL RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED BC $26.25 due 12/96 Tac lvl combat between the Crusaders & Sarecens. A.Pally'96 XTRCMD CHATTANOOGA n $24.50 due 12/96 PACRCA TO STALINGRAD & BEYOND #5 n $11.20 due 12/99 ! "In preparation..." Right. F T P S I T E I N F O An ever wider variety of catalogs is available to you online at my FTP site. Look for the "_readme.txt" file at the following address: ftp.FineGames.com/pub/vendors/finegms/ You may use a WWW browser to view TXT files and download any file using the LOAD TO DISK option. Just enter the URL: ftp://ftp.FineGames.com/pub/vendors/finegms/ In particular, you may wish to download the "all_cats.zip" file (450k) which contains a copy of ALL unique catalogs. Y O U R S U G G E S T I O N S YOUR SUGGESTIONS that help me improve the service I provide to you via this Update or in any other way are greatly appreciated. Michael Dean Fine Games for Players & Collectors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FINE GAMES FOR PLAYERS & COLLECTORS The Best in New & Used Historical Gaming http://www.FineGames.com// ftp.FineGames.com/pub/vendors/finegms/_readme.txt Michael Dean (503) 690-4975 M.Dean@FineGames.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~