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Dedication
This site is dedicated to the memory of Winston Hamilton. Winston was a key supporter and promoter of the Europa series, and his company, Game Research/Design, published many of the Classic Europa titles. Winston unexpectedly passed away in the year 2000, and his many friends and many fellow Europa players miss and mourn him.
See Classic's tribute to Winston
on the Legion of Honor page.
Contents
Europa Legion of Honor
The Europa Legion of Honor is an unofficial tribute to many people who made contributions to Europa. Be sure to pay homage to the system's founders, Rich Banner and Frank Chadwick, and do not fail to leave an offering to shrine of Winston Hamilton!
Designer's Notes
Designers' Notes contains notes, comments, and suggestions about various Europa games by the designers of the games. These are a sample of what you can find in the Classic Europa Group.
- First to Fight: 2-Week Turns
- War in the Desert: Operation Compass, Operation Torch, Q&A
- Surprise Offensives
- Abandoning Equipment
- Fighter Extended Range
- Guerrilla Warfare
- Iceland
- Soviet Combat Corps
- Europa Map Projection
- and more!
Classic Europa Group
The Classic Europa Group is a Yahoo group celebrating the Classic Europa games. It has a mailing list and downloadable files, including Europa scenarios. The list is meant to be fun for its participants, so postings to the list are moderated to weed out the off-topic items and other unwanted material that unfortunately afflict unmoderated lists.
If you are interested in learning more about the group, including how to request
membership, check out the group's rules.
- The GDW Era: The Original Europa Games. This page covers the original four, "first edition" games.
- The GDW Era: The Second Generation Games. Currently, this covers only the Case White.
- The GRD Era.
- The HMS Era.
- Honorary Europa Games.
Other Sites to See
If you like Classic Europa, try out these other Europa sites:
- HMS/GRD's Site. HMS is the current publisher of the Europa games, and from this site you can get occasional news as well information on joining their Europa Association.
- Rich Velay's Europa Guru Site. Rich is the (former) Europa Rules Guru, and his site contains material on SF, FWTBT, and WOR.
- Second Front: Errata and Rulings. Luiz Cláudio Duarte has assembled all the SF errata and rulings he could find. Impressive!
- David H. Lippman's World War II +55. David started a WW2 chronology on the 55th anniversary of the start of the war. It's been in e-mail, on the web, and now is a blog. Enjoy!
- Fred Stories. The late Fred G. Helfferich, a long time Europa player and WW2 veteran, served on both the German eastern front and in Italy. His site memorial features his war stories from the Second World War. While this site is not directly related to Europa, it's worth a look.
- The Sentry Box. Gordon Johansen, ace Europa player, owns and manages The Sentry Box, an amazing store "for those interested in fantasy, science fiction, or military games, books and miniatures." If you need an out of print Europa game, check with Gord first!
- Jason Long's Sturmvogel Site. Jason has been researching WW2 history with emphasis on Europa for many years.
- Generalstab (General Staff). Wolfram N. Broszies' site on Europa, military history, and more. In both English and German.
- Aide de Camp 2. ADC2 is "The Universal Boardgame Conversion and PBEM Assistance Utility."
- Ken's Europa Site. Ken Guerin' site contains a nice introduction to Europa and a useful Europa Resources page (click on the Europa logo on his home page to go there).
- The Europa WebRing. The Europa WebRing links to various web sites devoted to or containing information pertaining to Europa.
- J-8 Shop. This is Europa gamer Mike J's wargaming page. While it doesn't have Europa-related content (at least not yet), it has a Unit Rating Methodology that some may find of interest.
- Europa Series Background. This page, at the Wargaming Academy, is "a detailed collector's overview of the GDW Europa Series, complete with production numbers," compiled by Marc Miller of GDW. (A few of the numbers and dates don't look quite right to me, but Marc compiled this from GDW's records.)
More will be listed when time permits!
Disclaimers: Europa is a trademark of Paul R. Banner. Classic Europa is an unofficial fan site and mailing list and neither licenses the Europa trademark nor operates with the endorsement or approval of Paul R. Banner or HMS, the current publishers of the Europa series. Classic Europa does not represent HMS in any manner. Various Europa materials are copyrights of HMS and/or other organizations or individuals. Classic Europa may make some limited use of these materials for purposes of commentary and criticism, under the fair use provision of US copyright law.
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