Ragnarok is the journal of the Society of Fantasy and Science Fiction Wargamers. The latest issue, the first with John Wilson as editor, of Rag has been published and is in the post to members.
- Saint Snatch – Relic steaing in Dresda
- In the Dog House – Strontium Dog in Inquisitor
- Crimson Twenty One – Crimson Skies in Air War C:21
- Ottomania II – More Turks in Aeronef
- The Rules of War – Reviews of Space Vixens from Mars and Battlestations
Best headline in this morning’s Metro was “Man Killed by Gimp Suit”. I suspect Auton involvement but the newspaper gave some mundane explanation instead – UNIT misinformation in full swing.
According to the SFSFW Awards I’m in a minority these days for preferring Wargames Illustrated to Miniatures Wargames. I subscribe to the former but only pick up occasional issues of the latter. Yesterday, I bought the latest issue for the article on the conquest of the Canary Islands – Conquistadors versus Cavemen. I’m a bit miffed that the article (billed as part one) was just two pages long and did nothing more than give the geographical description of the islands. 
There’s a new wargames mag – Battlegames – but its not being distributed to newsagents and whilst I can subscribe or order a sample issue online, there’s nothing like being able to flick through a copy to help decide whether it’s a worthwhile read (which clearly I should have done in WHSmiths yesterday prior to buying Miniatures Wargames). With luck, someone will be selling copies at Salute.
Apart from WI, and with Harbinger having folded, the magazines I either subscribe to or buy every issue of are:
That doesn’t seem like too many (especially as some of them are published rather infrequently), so why do I never seem to have time to read them properly?
Very True Mood: 
complacent
Last night Lettice stayed up until half past four working on her thesis proposal. There was computer related stress as well. And there’s some sort of bug doing the rounds at work. I feel very fuzzy headed and just want to go home and sleep.
A while ago my head of department revealed that in a previous life she had been involved in the creation of the sort of game that people who read this blog would probably be interested in. However an eBay search for “Romulan Challenge” reveals four copies for sale and no bids.
Not exactly a cult classic then.
Essex’s finest, Hal Berstram – famous for his election blog over at The Voice of the Turtle, is threatening to return to the world of blogging but needs just a little bit of a kick up the arse to get going. Hal, consider yourself kicked.
After a month of cock ups and delays the sfsfw.net domain name is now back pointing where it should. I suppose I should make some time to update the site (especially as Steve F sent me the cover and contents for Rag 48 last night).
This weekend is SELWG which marks the end of the year as far as the Counting the cost of war(games) experiment. I need to update the running total with the past fortnight’s eBay purchases (a really random collection of stuff but more on that later).
I was going to post something about this, but Steve Flanagan said it better on the SFSFW mailing list.
Harbinger is now billing itself as “The Only Independent Miniatures Gaming Magazine” (their emphasis). How true.
Except for Ragnarok, Slingshot, Lone Warrior and all the other society magazines.
And Wargames Journal, Total Model and all the other on-line magazines.
And Ravage and Vae Victis.
And Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, the newly-Englished Dadi & Piombo, and Historical Miniature Gamer.
And Miniature Wargames and Wargames Illustrated.
And is a magazine whose avowed editorial policy is to provide a mouhpiece for medium-sized wargames companies actually “independent”, or is it just multiply-dependent?
The latest issue of Ragnarok, the journal of fantasy and science fiction wargaming, was published this week and contains the usual mix of useful and off-the-wall articles. I liked the Daleks, the moon landings and the discussion on alternative history.
accomplished