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At a meeting on the 31st October (an appropriate date you might think), it was agreed that a new company will be created to publish new editions of existing WRG rules and books and new rule sets that would formerly have been printed under the WRG banner.This has become necessary since Paul Bailey has both lost faith in hard copy publishing and claims the old company Reg Games (Sussex) Ltd cannot finance new printings, copyrights therefore reverting to the authors.The new company will be refinanced and will have 4 directors:Phil Barker.Sue Laflin-Barker.Steven Bowns (who owns a military consultancy company), who will be company secretary.Nigel Spinks (who is on the staff at Henley and specialises in layout and graphics).Both Steve and Nigel are long time wargamers and were officers in the Royal Anglians. Some of you will have met them at DBMM events.The company will have a name as close as possible to WRG and use WRG as a trade mark. It will have quarterly board meetings and quarterly financial reports. Its commercial policy will be unrestricted sales and no advertising of other wargaming products. All of the directors are primarily interested in spreading the rules rather than profit, and profits will be ploughed back into extending the range.Royalties to external authors will be increased from former levels to 10% of retail (not net) price (5% for internal authors).The first products will be:Horse, Foot & Guns.Sharp EndDBMM 2.0DBA 3.0DBR 3.0We will be using print on demand and quite small runs. We want to out-source trade distribution and welcome proposals. Failing that, we will provide single sales via Amazon.
Sue wants me to tell you that DBA 3.0 will be accompanied by an all-singing, all dancing, colour companion called START WARGAMING with DBA. This will have the same role as the old much-loved Purple Primer with advice on painting, terrain making, and a sample DBA game pictured at each stage.
