The Lead Soviet Regiment has been Destroyed at Bad Neustadt   Cars that start with a hand crank are all well and good, museum pieces for sunny Sunday afternoons but not really daily drivers.  This also applies to combat games, why worry about all those cardboard counters marching across a paper map when the digital age has arrived!   What follows is provided by the game designers of  HPS and it shows just how far things have come.  They have created a series of PC based games that very closely follow the board games of the 1980s except much has been upgraded and simplified.  Among their creations, and currently available to the public, is a fully developed Fulda Gap game that includes the Eaglehorse squadron.  I asked them to create a scenario that focused just on the old squadron area and it was included in their presentation.  The actual expansion pack necessary to play the Meiningen Gap variation will be made available by HPS shortly.  So while the kids in your house may settle down on Christmas Day with Bloodstorm for PS2, (certainly in keeping with the Season!)  how about treating yourself and that new PC to a game of North German Plain 85.