HMS NEWS .. 22 Dec 2008
Our move to a new location has encountered a few problems that have delayed things here. The lease on our old place was to expire on the first of November and we had found a larger and less expensive place in a good location. We signed the lease, and were set to move in at the end of October. Both Jason and Arthur were slated to move into the same building, renting living space from HMS and thus further lowering the company's overhead.
We then started the move at the end of October only to find that the tenants at the new place hadn't vacated yet. After several weeks of waiting while the landlord negotiated with the tenants and our company material were in temporary storage, we learned that the tenants had decided to evoke the Service Members Emergency Relief Act while the husband was deployed to Iraq. They were refusing to leave after they had given notice and under the Act, they are protected from any further action.
Arthur and Jason are in temporary digs in Gar's basement but we have no room to store material that comes from the printer. The company computers and essential files are herein the same basement, allowing us to continue to process orders and to work on company projects. We have begun to seriously look at other properties in the Denver area and do not believe that it will difficult to find what we need. We will keep you up to date as progress is made. This does mean that the remaining pieces of Total War will not be ordered from the printer until we have space to store and assemble the games. Best guess is that we will move into a new location the first half of January.
HMS NEWS .. 08 Nov 2008
We have moved HMS from our Lowell St. address with the completion of our lease. While the move was expected and planned for, there were a few wrinkles that were not.
The new HMS location we had found appeared to be ideal. The lease we signed October 1st significantly reduced our overhead and provided much better access. The location has adequate room to work and even amenities like a working furnace.
The problem arose with the previous tenants, a young couple in their twenties. He was deployed to Iraq and she was returning home to the Midwest to have their first child. They had notified the landlord they would move out by October 1st . . then the 15th and then the last day of October.
On Saturday, November 1st, the landlord informed us that she had just received a notice under the, "Service members Civil Relief Act of 2003 (SCRA)". The couple were apparently electing not to give up the lease and would leave the unit vacant during his deployment.
The landlord is dependent on the income from the lease and we were signed up to move in. We will try to negotiate a solution with the couple but in the meantime, HMS inventory is in temporary rental storage. We’re not sure exactly how this will affect us but we’ll give you updates as we know them. We do not feel this will cause a major delay.
Work continues on TW and we have talked at length with the printer-die cutter. TEM 88 will be delayed until we have work space. Orders made now for current products should not be held up longer than a few days. Arthur’s phone number was switched off when we moved and he will be available at 303 377-6255.
HMS NEWS .. 05 Oct 2008
The Europa Systems Magazine #88 (TESM)
- Table of Contents
- Company Briefing -- We’re Back! -- Gar Olmsted and Arthur Goodwin
- Europa Memorial-- Dr. Fredriech G. Helfferich -- Gar Olmsted and Arthur Goodwin
- Inside Europa -- The Carmel Plan -- John M. Astell
- Europa Aloft -- The Other B-17: You Know, the One from Sweden -- Jason Long
- The Varnished Guaranteed Coffin: The LaGG-3 -- Jason Long
- Europa Order of Battle -- The Barenthin Parachute Regiment: German Paras in Tunisia 1942-43 -- Stefan Farrelly
- The German 833rd Artillery Abteilung -- Jason Long
- Europa Counters -- Total War Counter Changes and OB Highlights -- Arthur Goodwin
- Europa Maps -- Wavell’s War Map Commentary -- Arthur Goodwin
- A Preview of the Total War Maps -- Arthur Goodwin
- A Road is a Road is a Road -- Not! -- Arthur Goodwin
- First Steps Towards a Grand Europa Production System -- Arthur Goodwin
- Remapping Norway (including two 11x17 full-color maps) -- Arthur Goodwin
- Europa Errata -- Updating Storm over Scandinavia -- Arthur Goodwin
- Answers to Balkan Front Questions -- Arthur Goodwin
- Europa Historical Background -- Guadalajara and the Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 -- Carlos A. Pérez Melòn
- Europa Battlefield Report -- Wavell"s War Grand Campaign Game, Part I -- Brian O"Connell
- Europa Humor
- The KV-VI Behemoth -- Brian Fowler
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HMS/GRD returns Europa to its roots and revisits
the best selling Europa title Fire in the East. The new
game covers the same time period as the older ones (summer of 1941 to the spring
of 1942) but uses a completely new Soviet OB, a new map, and the latest rules
for the Europa system. Buyer's who preorder Total War will also
receive the Red Army from
September, 1939 to March, 1942 in preparation for Grand Europa.
Total War
gives the Axis player the opportunity to see if he can improve on the massive
offensive that pocketed and captured millions of Soviet soldiers. Can you take
Moscow or Leningrad? Or are you condemned to suffer the Soviet winter short of
victory? The Soviet player must build a strategic reserve large enough to stop
the advancing Axis forces and throw them out of Russia. The Soviet player is
aided by massive reinforcements that allow him to form new defensive lines in an
attempt to slow down or stop the Axis armor thrusts. Published counters will be
the same high quality counters players expect from HMS/GRD.
Total War is a historical game on the German invasion of
the Soviet Union, from summer 1941 to spring 1942. It charts the titanic
struggle of the largest ground campaign in World War II, from the Axis
offensives that brought the Germans to the gates of Moscow to the Soviet winter
counteroffensive that hurled them back.
Total War is a two-player game. One side controls the
forces of Germany and its allies while the other controls the forces of the
Soviet Union. The maps cover Eastern Europe and the western USSR from the Arctic
Ocean to the Black Sea, from the plains of Poland to the steppes along the Volga
River. Ground units represent corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, and
battalions. Air units represent groups of 40 to 80 aircraft. Naval units
represent task forces of warships.
Total War is a complete remake and updating of the
classic Europa game, Fire in the East. The game"s Soviet order of
battle makes extensive use of formerly secret Kremlin information on the Red
Army forces that fought the war. The game includes a Soviet order of battle for
all of the USSR from 1939 to 1942 and is the most comprehensive game OB ever
published on the Red Army in peace and war. The Axis order of battle also is
updated, reflecting new research since the publication of Fire in the East.
The rules for Total War incorporate the latest rules for the Europa
system, with on-demand air power, armor effects, combined arms, and much more,
recreating both the German blitzkrieg that captured entire Soviet armies and the
Soviet deep operations that nearly splintered the invaders in the depth of the
Russian winter.
The regular price once the game is available will be $195.
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