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12/13
14 THURSDAY - DECEMBER 1972

349TH DAY - 17 DAYS TO COME

To Simulations. In backroom checked on the parts I thought were missing from two games. They were not separate. Took a boxed copy of STRATEGY 1 and QUEBEC 1759.

Spoke to Al Nofi and he gave me a copy of THE GENERAL (Vol. 9 - No. 9 ) with the Xerox picture of me and GETTYSBURG and ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II.

Al mentioned that CONFLICT Magazine has gotten some new financing and is continuing. The centerfold game for issue #3 in [is] Alister MacIntyre's ASSASSIN! MacIntyre had offered it to S&T [Strategy and Tactics].

Al gave me a copy of OUTDOOR SURVIVAL. A.H. loused up Jim's original game.

In back room also get 5 copies of S&T [Strategy and Tactics] # 35. The centerfold game is YEAR OF THE RAT. There are ads for the following boxed games: WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN (Bob Champer said that Phil Orbane's [Orbanes'] original idea was much better but Jim D. wouldn't even look at it), AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1918, RED STAR - WHITE STAR, 1812, SOLDIERS, LA GRANDE ARMÉE, FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, THE MARNE, BREAKOUT & PURSUIT, FRANCE, 1940.

Dale gave a letter sent to [illegible word crossed out] Simulations, but to me, from Walter Dykoski. About STRATO TAC-TICS, STRATO CHECKERS & spoke to Red[Redmond A. Simonsen?]. The week after X-Mas [Christmas] will be o.k. for my next column.

To Gamut of Games where Phil ordered lunch sent up for us. Gave him a copy of S&T #35. Played [illegible word crossed out] two of the REALM mini-games, for the "Ancient version played with the starting arrangement as shown, [a drawing of a square board divided into 4 rows and 4 columns of smaller squares. Each square has a circle in the center alternating between white and black, beginning with white in rows 1 and 2, and beginning with black in rows 3 and 4.] Then tried a variation with each player choosing one space at a time. Both ways were O.K.

Played the "20th Century" version and I sug- gested the following to clean up the rules. "A counter- agent freezes all enemy activity in a realm." Phil had allowed an enemy piece to enter. (I won all the games.)

We started a "feature" game using my suggestion that a player could not put two starting locations on the same row or column. Worked good, but we didn't go far in the game.

In keeping with the progression of the mini-games from ancient on, the concensus [consensus] (Phil, Joel, Wally) is that the feature game should be in the indefinite future, [illegible word crossed out] but not space oriented. We agreed that the best names for the pieces are alpha, beta, and gamma.

As one of the games they want to put out for the next Spring is a collection of 6 games from various civiliza- tions. Phil had some ideas from Bell's books including NINE MEN'S MORRIS and TABLUT and HASAMI SHOGI and SEEGA. I suggested FANORONA and one of the American Indian race games.

They want me to write the rules booklet with some histori- cal background. I'll sign it as an expert on games. I'll get royal- ties about half the usual.

(cont. on 12/13)