March, 1995

Woosh! I'll never translate anything this large again but the translation of Reiner Knizia's New Games in Old Rome is finally done. The original rules weigh in at 120 pages, with ample illustration, to be sure, but still amounts to a mountain of German text. I had originally hoped to have this done by the Ides of March but alack and alas, here it is one week late.

Peter follows up with Revolution, Reiner's look at the French Revolution, and Merfyn Lewis forwards on an anonymous translation of High Society, one of Knizia's most recent games. Catherine translates Alan Moon's Mush into French. And Tim sweetens the pot with a PostScript rendition of the event cards (including Alan Moon's variant events) for the game of chocolate manufacturing, Schocko & Co. (complete rules are also enclosed).

Gaming News

• The Nuremberg Toy Fair - capsule reviews of some of the new games

Game Reviews

• Waldmeister - a technically accurate forestry management game

Game Bits

• Schoko & Co. - PostScript files for various bits in English, edited and rendered by Tim Trant
  • the event cards including the variant cards by Alan Moon
  • the record sheet

English Rule Translations

• Barbarossa - a chaotic quest for the identities of clay blobs
• High Society - try to keep up with the Joneses in this Knizia bidding game
• New Games In Old Rome (removed at author's request) - the rise and fall of Rome in fourteen new games
• Revolution - Knizia mans the barricades
• Schoko & Co. - a great business game featuring chocolate manufacturing and sales

French Game Translations

• Mush - la fièvre et le défi d'une course de traîneaux tirés par des chiens d'Alaska

Traditional Games

• Go - the University of Texas page seems to have gone but this may suffice in its place

Other Places

• The Games Page - Val Kartchner's world o' games
• Ishi Press - one of the premiere publishers of books on Go

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