AT: ug Pa, Mest tud Gee See2 S87 nr. 62, published May/June 1877 Cen eS ‘The Magazine of Conflict Simulation Esitor/ Publisher Art Director/Co-Ealtor James F. Dunnigan Redmond A, Simonsen €or ooeph Bakoak, Howard Baaich, Richard Bra, roa Costyan YeposiMuiolbe, Sworn 8 Pac Gu fi Si Sassy Thomas Mul, Adtnsvatie, Tress Con, ie Charcane, sow Gav [Setar anna Lema, George Marcon, Bruel Mur, Kathy ‘ma DoW, Joke Hera, Steve Ut Leo Menor, Jose Sega (niga Edrorand Founder Chistoper Wagner fees re on arcane nee Unsolcted games an ais sub tted 10 587 or Shnulsiens Series il find publestionn MOVES Magazin. nal cases, SP publcaone dwt ot ; 1 prendre tact ay pc vert congas reawacing. tern ‘Advasaas of SP products ae backad by aqutaned In this issue page SOUTH AFRICA 4 Vestige of Colonialism Brad Hessel ‘Simulation: BI SOUTH AFRICA The Death of Colonialism lrad B. Hardy Redmond A. Simonsen FULDA GAP a ‘The First Battle of the Next War Steven B. Patrick OUTGOING MAIL The Editors. g FOR YOUR EYES ONLY i9 BRIEFINGS 38 FEEDBACK Vox Populi, Vox Dei 41 S&T nr. 62 ENCLOSURES: 1. South Africa Playing 2. South Africa Game May 3, Business Reply Order Form 4, Special Offer/Feadback Forms ‘SIMULATIONS PUBLICATIONS. 44 East 23rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10010 Telephone (212)673-4103, Looking Ahead to Next Time Big Tsimmis In S763, the game will bo Vera Cruz, an opere tional perspective on U.S. General Winfield Scot's decisive amphibious invasion of Mexico 1828, The game's designe is Richard Borg. There will aso be an article by Berg onthe same subject ‘Asocond article, by String Hart, wil analyze the significance of plagues and sickness from the imitary history point of view. Plus our regular features. Domestic subscribers: if you have net rocoived your copy of S&T 63 by 10 September 1877, natty our Customer Service Deparment Please include your Customer Code anid issue of ‘expiration, both of which can be found on your ‘maling lbbel, just above your name. Foreign Subs Scrbers: add eight weeks to the above date to allow forthe torpid pace of Intemational ma Outgoing Mail Tho temporatura in the City hit 90" F. the other day, and the loaves are bursting out ofthe tees in Madison Square. i's not officiel yet~ snow in Api fas happened but its definitely beginning 1a appear a8 i! the Winter has passed away sans ‘Annual SPI Snowball Fight. It was frustrating, all those long grey months, and al hase bh snowrlakes that somehow or other always seemed 1o fall ona weekend, or st not to stek onthe wn dowel forsome perverse reason, And now, alter three years, someone is finally moving non the floor below us, which is realy sad. Tho unce {cupid eighth floor always was the place to 90 for those in the know, after al our ninth floor ws dowsils had been scraped clean (and everyone tant question to me was the one that asked tor Your opinion concerning "the wisdom of morality © publishing games on contemporary conics, Te part, that question pte by eters ike the folowing one from Guy Prealue, a Canadian Subsenter, who objected: very strongly tour ‘ame proposal Oh, Canals | have never boon more shocked or dagusted ‘Your firm saame to thnk that we in Canada are totally unciviized and that we think that armed Confict wil so} all our problems. Ifyou foal there is 2 strong possibilty of peaceful resoluion (of his problem, thon wy suggest this gam? By doing 80, you ate, in @ sense, taking ghtly @ very serous situation, We in Canada realize the gravity of the situation and do not appreciate foreigners making fun of it, or exploiting i. Up to now, we Canadians have managed to [common page 18)AIR WAR Modern Tactical Air Combat © 29 different aircraft types, including the Mi |-25, B-1, Backfire Bomber, and F-15 © ECM, Infra-Red Countermeasure, Bombing, SAM, PGM, and AA Gun rules © The most complex and complete air game to date | spotted the enamy tighter dead ahead — a MiG 21. {Hot my FE Phantom aceeierato a8 | Frewalled the thotte (ule 8.3} and ealed my hack seater to ty for a radar lock-on 116.1) ‘The Phantom pulled into 3s Hight a turn as sho could manage. ang ted to tol behind the MiG 19.6) He must have seen mo (19.0. Ho Ietisoned his drop Ianks 25 13), ana | could See ie bright flame 35 he cut ws alter burner The MiG-21 is one maneuverable frplane. He pulled his avcrattaroundiea tight turn, exchanging alttude for maneuverabity (9152, 9.86). and then lps into a break maneuver (118 had the postion of advan tage over fam (6.21, 80 | was ale to Follow fhm down as he brought his nose eno a screaming dive (10.0. This was a mistake, a the Phantom adds energy quicker than MiG-21 Isee the respective Arrcralt Perform: ‘ance Chars) lased on hn, tthe pled his nose ui ita a zoom clin, using the mamen tum gained ny dive to carry hm up 110 6). brought my nose up, andas ts cimbed | seize my chance | tagered off two AIM BD Side Yonder Masi, ut one malfunctioned and ‘roped ike abomb (142) Theother steakee Towards the MNG, homing in an the haat trom Htsechaust, but the MiG managed to evade it reversing’ drection nap Immelmann turn (1Y61fnmeimannad afer him and, asthe range closed, | gave him a two second burst from my MB1/A1 Vulcan 20mm cannon (13.0) thi, but he stil di not ga down The Mi. Suddenly pulled up and back in a roling Scissors maneuver, hoping | would overshoot find seing me up as a target He was go0d, that MAG plot was a real Honche 121 0), ut | slammed open my anbrakas (8A, and it was the MIG that overshot Again, | pressed my Cannon tigger. This time. the MiG exploded into a bright red treba, (13.27), A ted and tah parachute appeared — the pilot had ‘yectod 127 0} | smiled as | watched the MG's tatock plummet 9 ear. My back-seater and ould be buying drinks at the "0 club that right Thisis what modern ar combat is tke. Air War simulates al the ntrcaces af COniy a vary lew have ever flown i at combat injearcrat, and, unless youare one of those, ‘ir Wars he losost you ean come to Thing a let tahter or bomber int action With Air War, you can send your A-10 attack planes agamst enemy tank columns, using ‘Your 30mm eannon 40 knock therm oUt with Gepleted uranium: tipped shells, while relying fn your titanium armor 10 take you through the intonse flak intzet, Or you can lead a stike of Swing yang F-111's in ow, under the radar with aid Weeset” lull of ECM black boxes {penetate the defensesat ther head Or you tan lead. a bombing msson, your taiget fanything om a town, a sitategic bridge, 10a SAM ait Or. 38 Colonel Tome of North Viet ‘nam you can go into battle against the world’s ‘most powerlularms with notringbuta twenty {Yar-oid museum piece ofa Soviet fighter and ‘Your ow consummate sil Ait War stulates moder ai combat with the {ull detal and complenty the subject merits Facharreraithas diferent parformances a it ferent altitudes and speeds, Thus, an awcrattin Air War might be deadly at low spoeds or alt ‘ude, but tun into a pig when high and fast a5 in teal Mf The key performance of an aie Craft includes its abity to chm, ave, turn {oth horizontally and vertealy, accelerate, perform manouver, notease ts energy lve fbsarb damage, and much more ‘Ait War leatures complete rules forthe whole Spectnum af madera ait combat Included are int 109 counter-maasures, radar detectors heat emission detectors, radar search, visual search (t's the ones that you don'see that get You, surlage o-ar mesles (many types) Sntvaucraft-guns anging trom radar ontaled. 100mm pieces 10 singlo: machina ‘uns, bombing using "won bombs,” "smart Bombs, bombiers, napalm, white phos phorous, rockets and all sorts of nasty st, into surface msl including ant adiaon ‘misses that home n on rad, cha, clouds, theeflect of the sun, and ground level attude These ate, of course, ony the more esotonc aspects of the ules, and more basie ements ‘fair combat are also covered n deta Scenarios range om Korea to Vietnam, India Pakistan, the Middle East and many future sceneries, neuding, for sciancefiction tans suc things a8 UFOS and Dragons! Air War wil sell for $12. Available 7 June 77. Air War teluses twenty-five of the most sig ‘iilcantshergh to umarge Seon 1962, These Include the MiG. 18 inhabeant of "MiG Aly, 25,000 feet over the barren rocks Korea: the F-85 Sabre (doing battle over Korea, the For mosa Stats, Indi and Pakisian) the Fa Phantom in al its modal (D, C. E, J, K, and Mi_The modem Soviet ai arm i completly represented. the maneuverable M\G.21 leat ‘and late modes), the swing-wing MiG-23 air Sunerionty and MiG-27 attack plane; the mys tenious MIG-29 doghghter, the Su 7 ground at tack awerat (get one of these in your gunsights {and you've made your dayl, the powertul Su-19 fighter bomber, the Tu 26 Backtire Bomber, and the ever-popular MiG-25 Fox, ‘which appears in three cilferent. verso: From tho S.A. there s the 1 bomber: the F105 "thud of Vietnam lame, the PSE fighter: the A-7 and A-aattack averat, a¢ used by the U.S. and many foregn a forces, and the compete new ganeravon of modern US Fighters ~ F-1a Tomest, F15 Eagie, 16, anc F-1B Horneta From Franoe we have’ the Mystere and Ouragon fighters of the "SUS Wihich saw much action both ithe Mid-East {and Asia, along with the Mirage nts IC, IE fan V versions. Modern European aera in ‘ude the Jaguar sinke acraft and the new MRCA Tornado. And irom ftao, withthe Ke fighter Comat tying in jt aircraft not simple, and fs Are War san accurate simulation ol modern ‘rcombat, isnot simple iter Its complex: ty, however, enables ito capture. al the blemants that make its subject bath so voy fed and fasenating, Those notused te complex ‘games shouldibe cautious, honever Ar Waris nothing f not hgh complex Air War SPY's game of modern ait combat in ‘hides 600 counters (including sihouetes for ‘each athe 29 diferent aera types incided ‘with the gamelan eight section geomorphic map that can be "leap-frogged' to keep the areraft on the garne-map at all times; four large Alrratt_Contro! Charts on wich tho markers for the aucrat in play are displayed “nd tee separate booklets — one containing the rues, one the Avcratt Performance Charts tnd Massie Performance Charts, and the last an article on Modern ir Combat