ISSUE 23 IS HERE!

You've been very patient and so will no doubt be delighted to hear that issue 23 of the magazine has arrived! The digital edition is available here on the website right now, and the printed copies will be mailed out by our distributors to all our subscribers this week. You can also buy the paper version direct from us here at Battlegames HQ, which we will also start getting in the post this week. Parcels will be flying out to our other retailers and distributors worldwide, so allow some extra time if you get your regular copy from your local gaming store.

• Waiting in vine
  Diane Sutherland shows us how to make vintage vineyards.
• Forward Observer
  Siggo has plenty to discuss, including A Very British Civil War, tufty turf, a new regular shortlist of product highlights, and the joys of playtesting late 19th century European wargame rules.
• The passing of Paddy Griffith
  John Drewienkiewicz and Richard Clarke provide moving obituaries for the much-loved historian and wargamer who died this summer.
• Paddy's last hurrah
  Paddy Griffith submitted an article to me just weeks before he died. I could think of no better tribute than to publish his report of what turned out to be his final Duxford WWII kriegsspiel of Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway.
• Painting the little blighters
  Canadian Bob Barnetson shows us how to accomplish mass armies in short shrift with this masterclass in 6mm painting.
• Test flying Bag the Hun 2
  Air wargamer Tim Beresford gives an extended review of the Lardies' Battle of Britain rules, with a couple of scenarios that will have you scrambling your Spitfires and Hurricanes in no time.
• Table top teaser: cavalry encounter, or "What marsh?"
  C. S. Grant produces a cavalry commander's dream, with hundreds of horse galloping hither and thither in unpredictable terrain.
• Simplicity in practice
  After extolling the virtues of simple rules last issue, author Neil Thomas serves up a magnificently straightforward but subtle set of horse and musket rules.
• Recce
  A plethora of new goodies reviewed by our team, including 1/72 hard plastic Russians from The Plastic Soldier Company Ltd, All the King's Men 54mm War of 1812 figures, the Repique Zouave rules, Area 9 15mm wargames scenery, Bolt Action 28mm WWII metal miniatures, a large American Civil War book from Casemate, Astounding Adventures scenarios, the new Spencer Smith 30mm Franco-Prussian War figures, an imagi-nations novel, (come on, keep up!), Waterloo Netherlands Correspondence, Helion 28mm Austro-Prussian War figures, Gripping Beast plastic Vikings, an Osprey and a General de Brigade Ottoman scenarios book. Phew!
• The Battlegames Combat Stress Appeal: an update on the progress of the Appeal which has now raised over £7,500.
• Events for September/October 2010, compiled by Tricks of the Newark Irregulars.
• The Battlegames shop, featuring all the new digital products as well as those on paper.
• A Competition to win those Area 9 15mm scenic items worth nearly £60!
  And messages from your favourite wargames companies. (Well, some of them...)

Don't forget that if you aren't already a digital subscriber, and can't bear the wait while the postman takes a meandering (and occasionally unfathomable) route to your front door with the paper edition, you can always sign up for the paper subscriber's digital add-on PDF version for just a paltry £1 per issue (£6 for one year, £12 for two). This applies regardless of whether you subscribe direct with Battlegames or via another retailer (such as Caliver Books in the UK, On Military Matters in the USA or Mainly Medieval in Australia) — just pay for the issues on our website, by post or over the phone, giving me your name and email address, and details of where you subscribe to the magazine. Then I'll verify your subscription and send you the download link.
    Also, as a current paper subscriber, you are entitled to visit the same page on our site and order ANY PDF back issue of the magazine for just £1 a copy. Choose and pay for the ones you want, and I'll email you the download links in short order — many receive theirs in mere minutes when I'm chained to my Mac (which is sadly quite often...)! Issue 23 has now been added to the shop as both printed and digital options.

EVERY ISSUE NOW AVAILABLE IN PDF FORMAT
You have asked, so you have received: every single issue of Battlegames is now available as a digital download. As before, these are available as PDF downloads in a .zip 'wrapper' — just use your normal Mac or PC software to unpack them after downloading. Costing just 50% of the original cover price, they are a bargain way of trying the magazine and of course, as I am discovering, there are an increasing number of people who prefer digital publications, especially people who travel a great deal and take their digital library with them, and some readers who live in far-flung corners of the world where postage is both expensive and unreliable.
    From now on, every new edition of your favourite wargames magazine will become available on the same day as our distributors start mailing out to subscribers.

NEW DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
You can now take out a digital subscription to Battlegames, the most progressive wargames magazine on the market. You will be able to order this either as a stand-alone product, or as a great value low cost add-on to a subscription to the paper magazine.

COMBAT STRESS
You can now help us to make a real difference by donating to The Battlegames Combat Stress Appeal. Please give whatever you can afford: every penny counts and is hugely appreciated. Our target is to raise £10,000 for this tremendously important cause.
    Battlegames is carrying the regular Combat Stress advertisement without charge, as a small contribution towards the work that this UK charity is doing for our Service men and women who have experienced unimaginable horrors and stresses on the front line in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and elsewhere.
    If you are, or know of, an ex-Service man or woman who is suffering from the effects of combat stress, or would just like more information, then you can visit the Combat Stress website at www.combatstress.org.uk or email contactus@combatstress.org.uk or call 01372 841680.

Roll 'em high!

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