The following article is re-printed with the kind permission of the author from his webstite Harris-Authors.com. In response to our e-mail requesting permission to post the article and explaining what Fortress Ameritrash was about, Mr. Harris had this to say: I have a great liking for the games you mention. Fury of Dracula is one of my all time favourites and I will never forget the game of Dune where my army was wiped out when my wife destroyed the Shield Wall. ...

  Money is fun, if you've got enough.  You can flaunt it.  You can taunt people with it.  You can hold fists full of it and laugh until your stomach hurts.  If you're in a rap video, you can throw it, one banknote at a time. MattDP's excellent article about Monopoly reminded me about all of these things, and I'm...

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     When I was in art school as a painting major I worked in the English department as part of my financial aid. The contrast between my own painting department and the other proved to be an educational experience. Painting professors would frequently challenge students as to why they thought their work was art. If a student responded that their work was art because of it involved emotional or creative expression they would be met with scorn. The professors wanted something deeper.      In the English department the professors would be quickly annoyed whenever someone referred to writing as...

I'd never really felt I could share in the general outpouring of enthusiasm over the various commands & colours games. Battle Cry had some well-known problems and showed it's age. Memoir, though marginally my favourite, lacked much in the way of depth or historical value. Ancients had some depth but I've always felt that the extra weight of rules overburdened it somewhat. Battlelore was similarly overburdened but substituted depth for chrome. So although I'd often heard that the Eastern Front expansion for Memoir was an improvement on the base game, I approached it with mixed feelings. ...