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The Grenadier # 29 – Cover

Published May – June 1986
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.25″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• World in Flames review by Jim Hambacher and Scott Jackson
• Druid Counter insurgency in 61 A.D. – review by James T. Naughton
• S— from Shinola analysis by Greg Costikyan
• China Incident: Wellspring of the Pacific War – review by John T. O’Toole
• Confessions of a Literate Grognard by Marion Bates
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Boot Camp: Wargame Jargon by Jonathan Southard
• Europa Notes: Red Falcons by Charles Sharp
• Pass in Review – books of interest to the military hobbyist by George Mead, Booksellor
• CRT [computer wargame review column] by Bill Nichols
  • Gato by Spectrum Holobyte
  • Silent Serrvice by Microprose
  • Balance of Power by Chris Crawford
  • Clash of Wills by Digital Kamp [sic] Group
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Duel for Kharkov by People’s War Games
  • Pacific Fleet: the decline and fall of the Japanese Empire by Hobby Japan Company
  • Napoleon at Lutzen by 3-W in The Wargamer 32
  • Thunder at Lutzen by SPI [TSR] in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 99
  • Sixth Fleet – Modern Naval Combat in the Mediterranean by Victory Games
  • Warlords: China in Disarray 1916-1950 by Panther Games
  • Unconditional Surrender by 3-W in The Wargamer 36

The Grenadier # 28 – Cover

Published March – April 1986
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• No Pasaran! Errata
• Napoleon at Bat: The Games of Kevin Zucker by Marion Bates
• East Wind Rain review by Fred Helfferich
• Trial of Strength: 18 Easy Phases – review by John T. O’Toole
• Strategic Games of the American Civil War
  • Part 4: Victory Games’The Civil War by James T. Naughton
• Europa Notes: A Collector’s Guide by Marc Miller
• By Chance… or By Design by Jonathan Southard
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• CRT [computer wargame review column] by Bill Nichols
  • Europe Ablaze by SSG
  • U.S.A.A.F. by SSI
  • Operation Market Garden by SSI
  • Breakthrough in the Ardennes by SSI
• Pass in Review – books of interest to the military hobbyist by George Mead, Booksellor
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • B.H. Liddell Hart’s History of the Second World War Part One: Hitler Turns Against Russia by Task Force Games
  • B.H. Liddell Hart’s History of the Second World War Part Two: The Overrunning of the West by Task Force Games
  • Spain and Portugal (Europa X ) by Game Designers Workshop
  • World in Flames, Global Conflict 1939-1945 by Australian Design Group
  • Arctic Front: The Third World War Game 3 by Game Designers Workshop
  • Pacific War by Victory Games
  • Drive on Stalingrad: Battle for Southern Russia by TSR, Inc.

The Grenadier # 27 – Cover

Published January – February 1986
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.25″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• The First Victims of World War Two – a history of the Spanish Civil War by Bob Black
• Ejercito Espanol – the order of battle of the Spanish Army by John Gee
• No Pasaran! a Spanish Civil War variant approved for GDW’s Europa by John Gee and Jeff Millefoglie [Note this has full color counters that require mounting]
• Rolling Thunder review by John Prados
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Europa Notes: All in Favor of Whichkreig? by John M. Astell
• CRT [computer wargame review column] Tsushima by Bill Nichols
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Air Cav West End Games
  • Battles for the Ardennes: Game of Blitzkrieg’s Rise and Fall by SPI [TSR]
  • Power and Resolution by Simulations Canada
  • Sirocco, Desert Raiders Battle Game by TSR, Inc.
  • Pax Britannica by Victory Games

The Grenadier # 26 – Cover

Ppublished May – August 1985
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Wargaming Without Intelligence by John Burtt
  • 8th Army
  • Normandy Campaign
  • Clash of Steel
  • West Wall
  • Operation Market-Garden
• Fred Helfferich: an interview by Jack Radey
• All in favor of Blitzkrieg – a Fire in the East roundtable – Part 2 – by Jack Radey
• Wargaming in 1990 – article by Jack Greene
• Strategic Games of the American Civil War
  • Part III: Mr. Lincoln’s War by James T. Naughton
• Origins XI: Return to the Eastern Front by Terry A. Baney
• Europa Notes: Stalin’s Notebooks by Charles C. Sharp
• By Chance… or by Design? by Jonathan Southard
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Road To Moscow computer wargame by Ba’rac Ltd.
  • Operation Market-Garden: Descent into Hell by Game Designers Workshop
  • Hell Hath No Fury by 3-W in The Wargamer 38
  • South Mountain by West End Games
  • Road to Vicksburg: The Battle of Champion Hill by SPI [TSR] in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 103

The Grenadier # 25 – Cover

Published March – April 1985
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.25″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Fire in the East
  • A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europa by Marion Bates
  • Back in the USSR by Jeff Millefoglie
  • Fire in the West by Harald Hansen
• Strategic Games of the American Civil War
  • Part II: American Civil War by James T. Naughton
• All in favor of Blitzkrieg – a Fire in the East roundtable by Jack Radey
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Europa Notes by John M. Astell
• Pass in Review: books of interest to the military hobbyist by George Mead, Booksellor
• A Company on Parade: Game Designers Workshop by Winston Hamilton
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Killer Angels: Lee’s Offensive in the North, June to August, 1863 by West End Games
  • Guadalcanal Campaign computer wargame by Strategic Simulations, Inc.
  • Air War 2nd Edition by SPI [TSR]
  • The Third World War: Battle for Germany by Game Designers Workshop
  • Stars and Bars by 3-W in The Wargamer 30
  • Ortona by Simulations Canada
  • Fire in the East Play Aids Kit 1 by Game Research / Design
  • The One World by Simulations Canada
  • Southern Front: The Third World War Game 2 by Game Designers Workshop

The Grenadier # 24 – Cover

Published January – February 1985
Pages: 50
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Strategic Games of the American Civil War
  • Part I: A House Divided by James T. Naughton
• Reinforcements – humor by Steve LaPrade
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Crisis in the Ukraine – review by Tyrone Bomba
• A Look Back at the Pacific Theater – Divine Wind – review by James C. Gordon
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Pass in Review: books of interst to the military hobbyist by George Mead, Booksellor
• Europa Notes
  • The Regia Aeronautica in Their Finest Hour by Paul X. F. Dunnigan, Jr.
  • Fire in the East Expanded Sequence of Play by John M. Astell
• By Chance or by Design? by Jonathan Southard
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • A Gleam of Bayonets by SPI [TSR]
  • Napoleon in Spain by Historical Concepts
  • North Atlantic ’86 computer wargame by Strategic Simulations, Inc.
  • Marengo by Historical Concepts
  • Peter the Great: The Battle of Poltava 1709 by 3-W in The Wargamer 27
  • Trail of the Fox by SPI [TSR] in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 97
  • Singapore by SPI [TSR] in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 98

The Grenadier # 23 – Cover

Published July – August 1984
Pages: 50
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Western Desert by Marion Bates
• Italian Offensive an unofficial scenario for Western Desert by David Scheel
• Aachen Review by James C. Gordon
  • Reply by Jack Radey
• Gettysburg: Encore by David S. Bieksza
  • High Tide of The Confederacy
  • Chickamauga: River of Death
• Pass in Review: books of interest to the military hobbyist by George Mead, Booksellor
• Europa Notes by John M. Astell
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • War in Russia computer wargame by Strategic Simulations, Inc.
  • 8th Army – Operation Crusader by Game Designers Workshop
  • Normandy Campaign by Game Designers Workshop
  • Druid: Boudicca’s Rebellion 61 AD by West End Games
  • Soldiers of the Queen by SPI [TSR] in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 96
  • 1809: Napoleon’s Danube Campaign by Victory Games

The Grenadier # 22 – Cover

Published May – June 1984
Pages: 48
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking: Origins ’84 by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Battle of Britain – history article by Karl Wiegers
• Battle Over Britain – review by Lawrence Zoet
• Rommel in the Desert – review by Chris Ness
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Europa Notes: Fire in the East at Origins by Jim Hambacher
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Mr. Lincoln’s War by 3-W
    • Part One: Army of the Potomac
    • Part Two: Army of the Tennessee
  • La Regia Marina by Simulations Canada
  • Empires in Arms by Australian Design Group
  • Race to the Meuse by 3-W in The Wargamer 26
  • Nordkapp by SPI [TSR] in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 95
  • Fire in the East by Game Designers Workshop
  • To the Wolf’s Lair by People’s War Games
  • Flying Tigers computer wargame by 4-D Interactive Systems, Inc.

The Grenadier # 21 – Cover

Published March – April 1984
Pages: 50
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Gettysburg by David S. Bieskza
  • Adagio – Devil’s Den
  • Postscript – Iron Brigade
• Variations on a Theme: Panssari Salama A Russo-Finnish War Variant for Avalon Hill’s PanzerBlitz by Michael Bennighof
• Belaya Smert’ – ‘White Death’ – an unofficial Europa scenario of the Russo-Finnish War by Jeff Millefoglie (A Winter War)
• Spring War an unofficial Finnish Front variant for Europa by Paul X. F. Dunnigan, Jr.  (A Winter War)
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Europa Notes: The Relief of Finland by Paul X. F. Dunnigan, Jr.
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Battle Over Britain by SPI [TSR]
  • Western Desert and The Near East for Europa by Game Designers Workshop <
  • Wellington’s Victory by SPI [TSR]
  • Never Call Retreat by 3-W in The Wargamer 25

The Grenadier # 20 – Cover

Published January – February 1984
Pages: 50
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Victory Games: The First Year
  • NATO by James T. Naughton
  • Hell’s Highway by Marion Bates
  • Civil War by John T. Schuler
    • A Conversation with the Designer, Eric Lee Smith
  • Gulf Strike by John Burtt
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Europa Notes by GDW
• Solitaire Gaming: Ambush! by Dan Schwan
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Assault: Tactical Combat in Europe by Game Designers Workshop
  • Interstellar Wars by Attactix Adventure Games
  • Iwo Jima by SPI [TSR] in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 92
  • Grant Moves South by Quarterdeck Games
  • Fight for the Sky by Attactix Adventure Games
  • Blue Max: Dogfights over France by Game Designers Workshop The Omega War by SPI [TSR] in Ares Magazine 14
  • Battle for Normandy by Attactix Adventure Games
  • The American Civil War by SPI [TSR] in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 93
  • D.A.K by Simulations Canada
  • Close Assault by Yaquinto Games
  • Decision at Kasserine by 3-W in The Wargamer 23
  • B-17, Queen of the Sky by The Avalon Hill Game Company
  • Broadswords & Boarding Parties by The Citadel Game Series
  • Tactics25th Anniversary Edition by The Avalon HIll Game Company
  • With Fire and Sword by Simulations Canada
  • Strategy & Tactics Magazine, Special Edition Volume 1 by SPI [TSR]