Fine Games for Players & Collectors 2078 Madrona St., North Bend, OR 97459-2143 USA 541-756-4711 10am - 9pm PST M.Dean@FineGames.com Fine Games Quickie Games Update 31 May 2001 Fine Games' Quickie Updates provide late breaking news to keep you up to date. Full details will follow in the next regular Update Newsletter. C O N T E N T S 1. Web Site Down & Up Now 2. Recent Big Game Releases 3. Fine Games Shipping Schedule 18 -29 June 4. Special Deals for Orders Placed thru Monday, 4 June 1. Web Site Down & Up Now The Fine Games web site was down for most of the last 2 days. This caused some inconvenience to those attempting to go shopping, and of course means poor service and lost income to us. Our profuse apologies. The situation is this: Earthlink, a national internet service provider, bought OneMain.com, a would-be national player, that had earlier bought our longtime, regional ISP, Teleport. Earthlink began a very aggressive but poorly planned or staffed program to convert all of OneMain's diverse possessions to the Earthlink system. For us, this has caused perhaps 100 hours of added work trying to fix all the things that have failed to work reliably or at all since 9 January. This week, they simply pulled the plug on all web sites hosted at Teleport even when they hadn't ported them over properly to Earthlink. Thus, the DNS error or blank screen you may have received if you tried to visit our site this week. Troubles like this are extremely expensive in time and emotional energy, both precious commodities in a small business. Yet as service providers in this and other industries grow larger and less responsive, these problems are ever more common. Bottom line, in any case, is that our web site should be fully functional now. (And we have a special offer for you to encourage you to visit the site by Monday; see below.) If you do experience any problems accessing the site, please let us know about it ASAP. 2. Recent Big Game Releases Spring is a slow time of year in what's become a slow board gaming industry. But there have been a few board & wargaming releases of note in the last 2 months. Here's a synopsis. Be sure to review the complete list of recent releases that include the simpler & abstract games not listed here. In particular, you'll want to pick up GMT's new Kasserine, yet another take on the various campaigns for Tunisia thruout the 5 month campaign there in 1943 by veteran design Vance von Borries. MMP's brand new Grant Takes Command, the 7th game in what was Avalon Hill's Great Campaigns of the Civil War series. This edition covers Grant's Spring 1864 campaign around Richmond. Civilisation, a French printing of this highly recommended, very hard to find multiplayer game. This version is in French with English translations of the rules and cards. Paths of Glory and its Player's Guide. The game is a reprint with a few revisions, but well worth it. The PG is a great addition to the 2nd ed, with a deck of new cards and many strategy articles & new scenarios & variants. Box Est Cash Publsr / Game Title & Edition Typ Wght PriceEA Publsr ------ -------------------------------- --- ---- ------- ------ Games KASSERINE, ROMMEL'S BTL FOR TUNISIA BC 1.2 $30.00 GMT GRANT TAKES COMMAND BC 2.2 $44.00 MMP CIVILISATION [FRENCH EDITION] LB* $45.00 EuroG PATHS OF GLORY, FIRST WORLD WAR 2ND BC 1.8 $35.00 GMT PATHS OF GLORY PLAYERS GUIDE Fo 0.8 $17.50 GMT EMPIRES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD BC 2.6 $28.00 Warfrog BARBARIAN KINGS 2ND BC 1.4 $35.00 JollyR ASL ASL:BUSTING THE BOCAGE Fo 0.4 $15.00 CriHit ASL:TROPIC THUNDER! Fo 0.3 $15.00 HeatBt Magazines CRITICAL HIT V6 #3 n 0.6 $17.00 CriHit ASL: JOURNAL #3 Fo 0.8 $25.50 MMP VIEW FROM THE TRENCHES MAGAZINE #36 n 0.3 $2.50 VFTT VIEW FROM THE TRENCHES MAGAZINE #37 n 0.3 $2.50 VFTT BOER WAR #205 n 1.0 $15.00 S&T C3I #13 n 0.8 $10.00 GMT WORLD IN FLAMES 2000 ANNUAL n 0.8 $17.50 ADG FALL CONSTANTINOPLE/JELLICOE V SCHEER#6 n 0.3 $11.00 PzrSchrk 3. Fine Games Shipping Schedule 18 -29 June We plan a vacation in the latter half of June, longer than we typically take in summer time. While we WILL be answering our email during this time, we will NOT be able to ship games until Monday, 2 July for orders placed on or after Saturday, 16 June. (We may return for a single day during this time to ship games, but can't promise this nor say which day.) This may cause some inconvenience if you happen to order during this time, and need your games before the 4th of July holiday. For that reason, we are offering a... 4. Special Deal for Orders Placed thru Tuesday, 12 June As a tangible apology for inconveniences due to our web site failure and pending shut down, we offer this special discount for all orders placed from 1 June thru 10am PST Tuesday morning, 12 June: 10 % Off our listed (cash-basis) price of all New & Used Games, In-Stock or Special Order Simple. Take 10% off the price of any item(s) listed in our catalogs. Limitations are these. Maximum $25 discount per order, 1 order per person. You must be a subscriber on 31 May to be eligible. Order must be received here by 10am PST Tuesday, 12 June (more or less) so that any items not in stock may be ordered & obtained for shipment by 15 June. Other normal payment and shipment terms apply. Does not apply retroactively, to layaways, or to orders not paid for promptly. And you MUST mention this special offer to receive it. Happy Gaming, Michael Dean Fine Games www.finegames.com M.Dean@FineGames.com (541) 756-4711