Sue and I finished a five-player Germania(tm) playtest, minor changes. If I'm lucky I'll be playtesting with other folks Monday and Tuesday.

I finished the CorelDraw files for the smaller version of the Dark Ages(tm) game. I've not had any luck in finding a way for a browser or Acrobat to print the map full size; CorelDraw can do it, but how many people have CorelDraw?

Peter Riedlberger (Germany) sent me the URL for an interesting essay on the faults of Risk-like games: http://www.westpark-gamers.de/Artikel/riskfaults.html.
Peter is a big fan of Britannia, so how could he be wrong?

I have pointed PulsipherGames.com to the same site as Pulsipher.Net, for the time being.

I found a source for History of the World army pieces (SVGames, online), so that I can use them for playtesting Germania(tm) at conventions.

I intend to be at PrezCon in Charlottesville on the last weekend of February. I will not be playing in any tournaments, of course (I never have, at conventions). I expect to have Germania(tm) prototypes, and perhaps something else.

This week precedes the start of classes, and my in-laws are still here, so I've not been able to work on games other than the computer version of the Dark Ages (tm) board.

Coreldraw (which I'm using to trace/draw maps) threw me a curve: I have a shoreline that goes around much of Europe, and it won't print, though all the other lines do. So I decided to break it into smaller lines, but I get the error message that it's too large to break (over 64K). I guess I'll have to copy it and then erase parts of it, to come up with a set up lines that might individually be small enough to print.

I've played the third test of "Fighting Suns" (tm); I'm using a Risk-like setup instead of starting each player from one "home planet", and this seems to work much better.