New FPGA Site Coming in 2008

Erik Engling, in cooperation with Mark Severin (of the infamous "Deep Fried Happy Mice") has decided to create a new site for Fast-Play Grande Armée. His plan is to re-release many of the old GA scenarios for FPGA, and also to open up the GA community for a sort of "open-architecture" approach to modifying and creating modules for FPGA. Erik had hoped to do this, this Summer but his unexpectedly heavy travel schedule kept him away for much of the year, so he now plans to begin putting up the site in January.

I've turned this project over to Erik, so if you're interested, contact him at: BigE4NFL@aol.com.

Some possible ideas for development include a points-based army generator, a campaign system, and of course new rules and scenarios.

In the meantime, if you are a retailer who needs more copies of Original GA, please feel free to contact David Waxtel at Quantum Printing. I'm afraid I have no more in my private "stash."

In other news...

Ken Clark has contributed a new introductory scenario: the battle of Espinosa (Spain, 1808).

If you'd like to tear your hair out in shame and feel totally unworthy ever to hold a paintbrush again... Then I recommend visiting the new site of my friend Jay Laura, where he displays his incredible Napoleonic and SYW figures. If you're not sufficiently awed, let me add this: Jay first started painting less than a year ago! (And no, he's not a professional artist.)

best,

Sam Mustafa