A couple quick shares from the HistoriFigs website:
- N-Gauge WWII Eastern Front ?
- Photos from the old photo album
Category Archives: HistoriFigs News
War Games by Mail & the International War Game
My research into early war games by mail keeps pulling me in new directions. In this case that is not a bad thing as I keep finding more and more tidbits.
Most recently, I’ve been on the trial of the the International War Game and as luck would have it I found a [small] copy of the map. This map is marked with player’s names. The full sized map, when assembled, was 6′ x 6′ .
Today’s share, mostly out of context, is this map:
International War Game
I’ll provide more context, when I write about this game in the coming weeks.
As a side note: I’d like to recreate this map, perhaps not a full sized 6′ x 6′, but something approaching poster-sized (36″ x 24″) or maybe larger. This is beyond my skill level, but if someone want to give it a try, perhaps we can work something out?
Shop Time…
Today, I’m sharing a post from the HistoriFigs site:
I had planned on posting more about early war games by email, but have come across some more information that I want to process and then I’ll rearrange the material and present across a few posts.
War Games by Mail
I took a few minutes last evening to do a full scan of the War Games by Mail booklet. This was just a quick scan followed by some minimal cleanup. I plan to do a cleaner scan at a later date when I combine some related materials into a book covering early war games by mail.
For now, we have a readable PDF copy of War Games by Mail
UPDATE: The rules originally appeared in:
War Game Digest, Book I, Volume II, June 1957
If anyone is interested in giving this a try, either the old fashioned way (by snail mail) or same game, but via email, let me know I think this could be fun, and would make an excellent article for TTT.
If you want a, facsimile reproduction, laser printed on mimeograph paper, let me know and I can provide one for the cost of materials and postage (printed on yellow/golden mimeograph paper, just like the original booklet).
Up next will be MEDANC, look for this either Friday or early next week…
Play by Mail War Games
Last night I dug out three rule sets from Jack Scruby. These three don’t get talked about very much. They are (in chronological order): Rules for War Games by Mail, MEDANC and CHICAL.
For today, I’m sharing cover scans (not very exciting) and the first two pages of Rules for War Games by Mail. I’ll be scanning the rules to PDF and posting for download later in the week. These will make for some interesting reading and discussion.
Sadly I cannot locate the maps used for MEDANC and CHICAL Perhaps Gary Z will have some further info concerning these games?
