This site is an attempt to catalog and illustrate the many ideas and individually created supplements, house rules, custom scenarios, and any many other item for use with BGWWII. No official rules or other item copyrighted by Easy Eight will appear in this newsletter. Now, with that caveat aside, lets get introduced!

Combat Signal exists quite simply because there are quite a few BGWWII players out there who love the game. Its fast play, detailed yet easy to learn rules, exciting fog-of-war aspect, and attempt at maintaining historical accuracy combine to create a tabletop miniatures game that is suitable for almost any scale of figure. A fierce debate rages over what may be the best scale, but after playing 15mm, 20mm, 25mm and 28mm, I have found that the best scale is the one that you like best. All the scales have their good, as well as bad points. For example, 15mm really allows for extended ranges for all you tankers and artillery men, yet this scale often is too small to illustrate some of the fine detail on the models. Yet, 28mm sometimes leaves you wanting for more range, but has a very appealing tabletop look. There is no right or wrong answer just play what you like! Easy Eights Web site http://battlegroundwwii.com has scaled ranges for most ranges available.

The term grognard is slang for someone who likes to play wargames. Thats me. Wargames have been played throughout history. In preparation for war, or for stimulating entertainment, wargames have been played across many a table around the world and through-out time. The Romans played them to simulate their tactics against their enemies. Napoleon and his generals learned vital strategies doing the same. The War College in the US does it as well. Why? One lamentable, but entirely unavoidable fact is--war exists. Vegetius stated, "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." (Let him who desires peace, prepare for war). No doubt, wargames today originated from the early miniature tabletop training that was used to simulate a war situation--albeit, in a rather crude fashion compared with today. Wargaming neither glorifies war, nor does it condemn or refuse to acknowledge those who fight in it. War is a fact; a way of life that, since the beginning of time, has been used to accomplish an end. It is not the end itself, just the means. Although, in the era of nuclear détente, it was feared as the end. I believe a famous Prussian once said, "Der Krieg ist nichts anderes als die Fortsezung der Politnik mit anderen Metteln." (War...it is not an act, but a political instrument...a continuation of politics by other means).

This website attempts to reach out to wargamers and let them share information about this game that they like. If there are any articles that you would like to see published in this newsletter, please email me and will see about posting them.

Some darn fine miniatures!