THE LONDON HERTS & ESSEX BOARD GAMES CLUB

At Chingford

Welcome from your genial host THE MAZEGUARDIAN

Contact the Mazeguardian through:

Use 'find' in your top menubar to locate the following SITE CONTENTS:

Events & other local activities

Diplomacy and its many variants

Dungeons & Dragons and other Roleplay games

Family and 'German' games

Libraries lending games

Mega multiplayer map games

Multiplayer conflict simulation board games

Online and email magazines

Online games

Other things

Postal games

Shops

Solitaire PC games

Two player conflict simulation board games

Wargames with miniature figures

About ourselves

We meet in Chingford most Sundays after playing football. Chingford is readily accessible from M25, M11 & North Circular Road A406. We play between about 2pm and 8pm. We have a large games library to select from. We are all ages and both sexes.

Chat room

Conflict simulations

Contact Mazeguardian the webmaster

For email address see

For telephone number see

Diplomacy and variants

Surprisingly, a search on Thomweb.com will bring up many of the Dip sites, but here are some of the best:-

is the point of introduction for novices, including a map at

which prints out in reasonable greyscale for postal games

Diplomatic Pouch is a comprehensive resource at

Figure 1 Avalon Hill's Diplomacy

The Canadian Diplomacy Organisation has a stylish site at

Diplomacy Archive, Diplomacy 2000

The Old Moulmein Pagoda, for Colonial Diplomacy

Diplomacy links 2

for 3 player dip set in the Hundred Years War

for the YAHOO Dip club

for the CAT23 Dip club

for realtime dip on the MSN gaming zone [requires a cd costing £30, available from Virgin stores and others]

Below are addresses for the Diplomacy Internet 'Judges', one can register for all these at the same time, in the Diplomatic Pouch website.

Events

The LHE meets most Sundays in Chingford - contact the Mazeguardian for address etc.

See also the Small Furry Swiggers site; they run monthly board games days in Central London on Saturdays.

There are paintball games in Abridge, West Essex - see the MAYHEM site.

See also the clubs section - eg. Miniatures at Loughton Hall on Thursday nights.

There are regular games conventions throughout the year, many of which have websites devoted to them:

Baycon

Copenhagen con

European cons in various countries

Harlow miniatures con

Ilford miniatures con

London Con

Manorcon

Mastercon

Midcon

Paris con

Postal con in the Spring [Ealing town hall mid-April 2000]

Salute miniatures con

Towercon

Face to face 'Megagames'

run map games involving 30 players, bi-monthly

best ones I have played are

RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR

FEUDAL JAPAN

WARS OF THE ROSES

may no longer be extant

Watch out also for the annual GULF CRISIS game run in Oxford by someone I should not have forgotten, but have

Check out the CHESTNUT LODGE WAR GAMES GROUP on the web; they are based in SW London.

Games libraries

The club which meets in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn on Mon eves about 6pm has a small games library for loan.

lends by mail for small amounts

Games shops and mail order suppliers

ADS WELCOME HERE IN RETURN FOR A BANNER OR BUTTON ON YOUR SITE!!!

The most convenient shops for us are:

A shop in the back streets of North Chingford whose name I cannot remember.

Leisure Games, Ballards Lane, Finchley - halfway down the parade on the north side of the road.

Orcs Nest, Covent Garden

Playing Games, Museum St, Bloomsbury, Holborn or TCR tubes have good selection of

games.

Mail order suppliers include:-

Both

SECOND CHANCE GAMES and

GAMES GALORE

Provide an excellent service locating and supplying out of print titles etc. of which my favourite is the old SPI multiplayer RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR, still played by mail tho the counters were too fiddly to cope with ftf.

Other great out of print titles include WARLORD, APOCALYPSE, and BLOOD ROYALE.

'German' games

often supplied with English translation attached, otherwise these can be tracked down on the web.

for an alphabetical list - in German, regrettably!!

there is a large database of games at:

cheap games by mail order from

is the site of 'The Gamers in Europe'

There is a large games fair in Essen every year, attended by many UK gamers.

One of the best German games is SETTLERS of Catan, its board seen below and reviewed at:

Others include TIGRIS&EUFRAT, RA, MEDIAEVAL MERCHANT

There are several good German-type games actually made in the English speaking world, including AUTOMANIA, FAIR MEANS OR FOUL, HARE&TORTOISE, SIGMA FILE, ELFENLAND.

Travelling to games events worldwide

The TRAVELMANAGEMENT co in Birmingham specialises in this. I have some contact details somewhere!!!

Guestbook

Magazines and newsletters

There are a number of good email newsletters, including SMEG, SPRING OFFENSIVE and THE ABYSSINIAN PRINCE, all of which specialise in Diplomacy.

has Miniature Wargames magazine, with several back issues available.

A list of North American Diplomacy zines is available from

Mailing list

Multiplayer conflict board games

Some of the best ones are illustrated underneath, sometimes with links. If you want to try them, come and visit the club, we have a good selection and these are some of our favourite games!!!

Others unillustrated include:

Axis & Allies

Buck Rogers

Condottiere

Dune

Fair Means or Foul

Family Business

Formula One

Hare & Tortoise

History of the World

Kremlin

Material World

Railway Rivals

Sherlock Holmes

Sigma File

The Great Dalmuti

Zargos

And of course the Diplomacy family mentioned elsewhere

Online games

Other local Clubs

There is a website for miniatures players in Essex, contact me

There are clubs in:

Chelmsford

Finchley

Harlow

Holborn

Ilford wargames club, with a website

Loughton

Romford

Sawbridgeworth

Westminster (2)

Solitaire PC games

Personally my favourite is good old CIV[ILISATION] available for only about £5 now and much more interesting than the multiplayer board game of the same name.

And Talonsoft's Napoleonic series.

There are a multitude of dedicated websites, including:

Postal games

Many postal games other than Diplomacy are played, for these a magazine called FLAGSHIP is the principal resource, this is published by the SFCP PRESS who have a website at......

Try also the FIENDISH GAMES website belonging to a friend in Enfield.

Roleplaying games [RPGs]

The principal game is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons for which there are a number of sites including THE ADVENTURERS GUILD.

Wargames with miniature figures

Try out the follwing sites:

ESSEX WARGAMES -with a website

SOCIETY OF ANCIENTS - with a website

MINIATURE WARGAMES magazine at

WARHAMMER is a popular but expensive system, bought through GAMES WORKSHOPS outlets in Ealing and elsewhere.

Xtra links & stuff

Card Games

MAGIC is big but you can increase your winning chances by BUYING better cards!!!!!!????

Military History & Militaria