Thanks to reader Richard Biggs who left a comment, pointing out that on page 393 I promised to provide a couple more lists for my  Shot, Steel and Stone rules, drawn up by AWI expert Brendan Morrissey!

After a bit of frantic searching,I have managed to uncover the misplaced document, which has supplements to the British and American lists that appear in the book, detailing Loyalist and German additions for the British, and French for the Americans.

Both lists are for six units each, which could be seen as supplements to the existing lists for larger 18-unit games, or replacements for units in the existing British and American lists.

I’d be interested to hear how those of you actually using the Shot, Steel and Stone rules have been getting on. Do let me know if you have any queries: if I can find the time, I’d like to do a series of explanatory diagrams, or even short videos, to help readers to get to grips with the rules, so do tell me if that’s something you’d like to see.

To download the list (PDF) go to the “Free Downloads” page as usual, using the password. I have styled the page in the same format as the book, so using a knife and ruler you could cut out the page using the crop marks indicated and slip it inside your copy of the book as page “393-extra”.

For those of you who have bought the eBook version of The Wargaming Compendium (that’s Kindle, iBook, Nook etc.), the revised version with formatting problems eliminated should be released within the next week or so. You’ll also be pleased to hear that I have altered the password hint to enable you to download the free goodies from this site. This now takes into account the fact that the digital versions completely mess up the page numbering!

You might also be interested to hear that I have had confirmation from Pen & Sword that they will be doing a reprint of the hardback, which has now almost entirely sold out, and they are also planning to release a paperback version by the end of 2014.

Thanks to you all for your tremendous support which has made this possible!

Steve Severino, one of the guys who supports my Facebook page for Miniature Wargames with Battlegames, found this witty and enthusiastic review of the Compendium online. The whole video is worth a watch, with its highly entertaining presenters, but if you like you can skip to the relevant bit which begins at 12:35.

Many thanks to E14 and Claymore Division, with presenters Brad Harmer and Ömer Ibrahim. I am very chuffed indeed to be the recipient of their first ever 10/10!

I have just uploaded the playsheets for Shot, Steel & Stone to the secure area of the site. Please note that the password has changed and is case-sensitive, so check the “How to access…” page first.

As mentioned in the notes, this is really just a highly compressed version of the rules, reduced to five A4 pages. I would like to have cut further, say to four pages or less – but this is where I suffer typical author’s disease, and find it extremely difficult to edit my own work! (If you use US Letter size paper, just select “Scale to fit” or a similar option in your printer software.)

One of the problems is that I am simply too close to the rules, and my own playtesting involved all sorts of odd situations that you may never, or only very occasionally, encounter, so you will probably be a better judge of what should stay and what could happily be left off the QRSs. By all means send me feedback and suggestions if you find that a much slimmer version works for you.

My thanks to Iain Burt: during a recent visit, he was kind enough to point out a handful of things that I had left off the playsheet and, indeed, needed to make clearer in the rules, so in fact, the playsheets represent the most up-to-date version.

Have fun!

It’s amazing how, after all that proofreading and playing, I’m still uncovering little things in the Shot, Steel & Stone rules that I could have sworn were there already, but clearly aren’t! A game with Iain Burt over the weekend uncovered a few little things that had me scratching my head, so I’m grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to sort them out.

If you’re interested, you can see the game photos in a Flickr album – we played “Bridge Demolition”, the very first of Charles S Grant’s Table Top Teasers which appeared first in Battle for Wargamers, and which I then reprinted in the Battlegames Table Top Teasers special edition. If you don’t know the scenario, you can download it for free from the ‘Fridge’ section of the shop on my blog.