Notes from Hades

Let me take this opportunity to wish all of you a merry Christmas and the best of new years. We are planning on a nice, quiet Christmas at home with no travel. I'm very much looking forward to it.

I forgot to mention this last issue, but I have worked to recover nearly all the back issues of S.O.B. as PDF files, and put them on my website. They are linked to from an “Archive” link on the main page. Most of the issues were in a usable electronic form, so it was easy to convert them. Some had to be scanned in from hard copy. There was only one issue that I was not able to recover – issue #3 which for whatever reason I did not have in either a usable hard copy or electronic form. If any of you have that issue, let me know as I would like to have a complete archive.

The next deadline is Tuesday, January 26 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Please do not call or fax orders after 10:00 p.m. Pacific time. My wife and I tend to retire early. Also, if you want to fax in orders, call first. We hang up on unannounced faxes.

Game Openings

Hunter. Silverton. Will start after Terrier ends. Have Dave Partridge, Michael Longdin, Ward Narhi, Cary Nichols, Bill Scharf, and Dave Hooton. This game is full. Starts next issue!

Dogbreath. History of the World. Have Chris Geggus, Dave Partridge, Andy Lewis, Kevin Wilson, Dave Anderson, Paul Bolduc, will take up to 1 more.

Bolognese. Machiavelli. Gunboat. This game will start after the next Machiavelli game ends. Have 5, will take up to 3 more.

Boston Terrier. New World. This will use the exploration variant, plus the Non-Player Nations variant in the event I get less than 6 players. Have Andy York, Andy Lewis, Dave Partridge, Bob Robles, and Dave Hood, will take up to 1 more. Starts next issue!

Purebred. Machiavelli. This game will start after the second Machiavelli game ends. Have Ward Narhi, Bob Robles, Pasquale Giovine, Dave Partridge, and Walt O'Hara, Mike Scott, Kevin Wilson, Jerry Roalstad,. This game is full.

Golden Retriever. Seafarers of Catan. Have Chris Geggus, Dave Partridge, Dave Hooton, Mike Scott. Will take up to 2 more.

Plantation Dog. Puerto Rico. Have Chris Geggus, Andy York, Richard Weiss, will take up to 2 more.

Wish List

Industrial Waste. Have Andy York and Dave Partridge, will take up to 2 more.

Silverton. Will start after Hunter ends. Have Eric Brosius, Dave Partridge, Dave Hooton, will take up to 3 more.

Kremlin. Will start after Pateel ends. Have Walt O'Hara, Mike Scott. Will take up to 4 more.

Outpost. Will start after Basset ends. Have Eric Brosius, Andy York, will take up to 8 more.

Goa. Have Brad Martin, will take up to 3 more.

In general, game ownership is recommended, but not required.

Note that a subscription to S.O.B. is not required to play in a game run by flier, but that a game fee will be charged to non-subbers.