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The Grenadier # 35 – Cover

published February 1990
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Advanced Squad Leader: Part Two Game Mechanics – review by James M. Collier
• Back to Basics: A dissenter’s thoughts on Advanced Squad Leader by John T. O’Toole
• Dragen Slayer: Balloon Buster review and a Variant by Eric F. Lawson
• Competition and Confrontation: Europe and the Middle East – a review of GDW’s The Third World War Series by James C. Gordon
• Pass in Review: books of interest to the military hobbyist
• By Chance… or By Design: What’s Wrong with Game Reviews? by Jon Southard
• CRT [computer wargame review column] by Bill Nichols
  • Dreadnoughts by The Avalon Hill Game Company
  • Napoleon at Waterloo by Krentek
• Europa Notes: RIP? by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Tokyo Express by Victory Games
  • 13: The Colonies in Revolt by Dragon Publishing in Strategy & Tactics 104
  • Clash of Empires – Battles in the Bohemian Mountains by Total Fighting Power Games
  • Monty’s D-Day by Dragon Publishing in Strategy & Tactics 102
  • Against the Reich by West End Games
  • Raid on St Nazaire by The Avalon HiIl Game Company
  • Malaya and Burma by Hobby Japan Company
  • Fireteam: Modern Squad Level Command by West End Games
  • Soldiers by West End Games
  • St Lo by West End Games
  • 7th Fleet by Victory Games, Inc
  • 2nd Fleet by Victory Games, Inc

The Grenadier # 34 – Cover

Published October 1988
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.25″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Advanced Squad Leader: Part One The Phenomenon – review by James M. Collier
• Watchdogs of the Empire: His Majesty’s African Troops in WW II – historical article by John Gee
• The Cabinet War Rooms – Britain’s Newest Tourist Mecca by Alvin T. Guthertz
• Central America: A Game Review and Commentary by John D. Burtt and Joseph Miranda
• CRT [computer wargame review column] by Bill Nichols
  • Battalion Commander by SSI
  • Kampfgruppe Scenario Disk I by SSI
  • War in the South Pacific by SSI
  • Gunship by Microprose
• Europa Notes: Total War in Baltimore by Andy Nunez
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Pass in Review: books of interest to the military hobbyist
• A Company on Parade: Changes at DTI, 3W, West End and GAMA by Wallace Poulter and Jeffry Tibbetts
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Drive on Frankfurt by Pacific Rim Publishing
  • Knights of Justice by 3-W in The Wargamer 50
  • Hastings 1066 by Dragon Publishing in Strategy & Tactics 110
  • End of the Iron Dream by 3-W in The Wargamer 42
  • Mission: Grenada by Close Simulations
  • Anvil-Dragoon by 3-W in The Wargamer 60
  • Line of Battle: Tactical Capital Ship Combat 1914-1924 by Simulations Canada
  • Battleship: Tactical Capital Ship Combat 1925-1945 by Simulations Canada
  • France 1944 by Victory Games
  • Clash of Empires by 3-W in The Wargamer 58
  • Fallen Eagle: the Battle of Khe Sahn by 3-W in The Wargamer 62

The Grenadier # 33 – Cover

Published March 1988
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Assault: The System – review by James T. Naughton
• Soviet Offensive Doctrine – analysis by James T. Naughton
• Origins ’87: Fire in the Streets (of Baltimore) by Terry Alan Baney
• Terrible Swift Sword: A System in Evolution by David S. Bieksza
• A Wargamer’s Guide to Civil War Battlefields by David S. Bieksza
• CRT [computer wargame review column] by Bill Nichols
  • Operation Overlord by Simulations Canada
  • Kursk Campaign by Simulations Canada
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• Europa Notes: Operation Exporter – the invasion of Vichy Syria for Europa by Harold Andrews
• Pass in Review: books of interest to the military hobbyist
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Bloody Keren by 3-W in The Wargamer 59
  • Aegean Strike by Victory Games
  • Duel in the Desert by 3-W in The Wargamer 51
  • Leopard II by Tsukada Hobby Company
  • The African Campaign (2nd Edition) by Jedko Games
  • Napoleon and the Archduke Charles by 3-W in The Wargamer 49
  • Okinawa by 3-W in The Wargamer 55
  • Knights of the Air by The Avalon Hill Game Company
  • Panzer Command by Victory Games
  • Air and Armor by West End Games

The Grenadier # 32 – Cover

Publish Date: 1987
Pages: 60
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Yonder: The Wild Blue – a discussion of aerial wargames by John Prados
• Watchdogs of the Empire: The British Army’s Participation in World War Two by John Gee
• Game Designers Census by Bill Stone
• Figures Don’t Lie: World War Two Casualty Comparisons by Suzanne Sobel
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• By Chance …or By Design: By Design or by Development by Jonathan Southard
• Europa Notes: Optional Rules for Fire in the East by Paul X. F. Dunnigan
• CRT [computer wargame review column] by Bill Nichols
  • Playability versus Reality: Warship by SSI
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Rommel’s War by Quarterdeck Games
  • Hellfire Pass by 3-W in The Wargamer 39
  • O’Connor’s Offensive by 3-W in The Wargamer 41
  • Norseman by Simulations Canada
  • McArthur: The Road to Bataan by 3-W in The Wargamer 44
  • Remember the Maine! The Spanish-American War, 1898 by Dragon Publishing in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 108
  • Dynamo: Dunkirk 1940 by 3-W in The Wargamer 53
  • Terrible Swift Sword – Battle of Gettysburg 2nd Edition by SPI [TSR]
  • Air Superiority by Game Designers Workshop

The Grenadier # 31 – Cover

Published February 1987
60 pages
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.2″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Solitaire Gaming: The Closet Erupts – overview by Terry Baney
• Ambush! review by John Jorgensen
• RAF: So Few and So Much – review by James C. Gordon
• Stoking Your Fire in the East Advanced Variants by Charles Sharp
• Russia x 3 – a discussion of Stalingrad, Russian Campaign, and Russian Front by Andy Nunez
• By Chance …or By Design: The Problems of Solitaire by Jonathan Southard
• Europa Notes by John M. Astell
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• CRT [computer wargame review column] by Bill Nichols
  • Patton vs Rommel by Electronic Arts
  • Carriers at War by SSG
  • Field of Fire by SSI
• Pass in Review – books of interest to the military hobbyist
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • Bitter End by Hobby Japan Company
  • Khyber Rifles by 3-W in The Wargamer 40
  • The Great Invasion: The Gettysburg Campaign June 24 – July 3, 1863 by Clash of Arms Games
  • Ruweisat Ridge: The First Battle of El Alamein by Dragon Publishing in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 101
  • Fight on the Beaches by 3-W in The Wargamer 34
  • Cromwell’s Victory by Dragon Publishing in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 105
  • War to End Wars by 3-W
  • Paratrooper, The Normandy Airborne Invasion, June 6-8, 1944 for Advanced Squad Leader by The Avalon Hill Game Company

The Grenadier # 30 – Cover

Published July – September 1986
Pages: 62
Dimensions: 8.5x11x.25″

Contents:

• Editorial: Generally Speaking by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Sharpsburg Epic: A Gleam of Bayonets review by Peter P. Perla
  • Crossing Burnside’s Bridge – historical insight by William Keith
• A Wargamer’s Guide to American Civil War Battlefields by David S. Bieksza
• It’s a VERY BIG Place: Three Views of Russian Front by Randy Heller, Edward McCormick, and Andy Nunez
• The Umpire Strikes Back! – reply by Kevin Zucker
• Germany’s East Front Allies: Italy by Franklyn Prieskop
• Convention Reports:
  • Atlanticon ’86 by Terry Baney
  • Origins ’86: California Style by Wallace Poulter
• CRT [computer wargame review column] by Bill Nichols
  • Computer Versus Counter: Battlefront by SSG
• 9:00 by Jack Radey
• A Company on Parade: Wargaming in Japan by Jack Greene
• By Chance …or By Design by Jonathan Southard
• Pass in Review – books of interest to the military hobbyist
• Europa Notes by Jeffry Tibbetts
• Short Arms – Reviews in Brief
  • The Korean War by Victory Games
  • RAF by West End Games
  • Wellington vs Massena by 3-W in The Wargamer 43
  • Storm Over Arnhem by The Avalon Hill Game Company
  • Shanghai Trader by Panther Games
  • Superpowers at War by Dragon Publishing in Strategy & Tactics Magazine 100
  • Persian Gulf: Third World War Game 4 by Game Designers Workshop
  • Rise of the House of Sa’ud: Civil War on the Arabian Peninsula by 3-W in The Wargamer 46
  • Torch: The Invasion of Northwest Africa, 1942-43 ( Europa XI) by Game Designers Workshop
  • Hitler’s War by The Avalon Hill Game Company

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