Gunboat with press: One signed up so far.

Standard Diplomacy: Signed up: Fred Wiedemeyer, Hank Alme.

Perestroika Diplomacy: Add an economic twist to the classic game. Centers generate revenue, armies and fleets must be maintained, and treasuries can be sacked! Rules are available on request.

Signed up: Art Schleinkofer, Phil Reynolds, Harold Reynolds

Standard Diplomacy, Postal only: For those of you who still remember how to write. No email allowed! Game Start!

Signed up: Fred Wiedemeyer, Alexander Woo, Chris Lockheardt, Bob Dowrey, Hank Alme, John Powers, Ethan Thomas

Just the results please: Don’t really know what to call this one as I just came up with it. Perhaps it’s been tried before. The twist for this variant is that each season only the ending unit positions are published, not the orders. You’ll know who went where, but not who helped whom, or want may have been tried unsuccessfully.

Signed up: Phil Reynolds

Industrial Waste: Guest GM Richard Weiss. A new game for 3-4 players. Manager your factory and build your products, but beware, increased production means more waste, and if you aren’t careful you’ll find that working in a sludge pit affects your productivity and the bottom line.

Signed up: David Partridge

Industrial Waste:Will start when Ozone ends. Preference to players not currently in Ozone. Will start two if there's interest.

Railway Rivals: Be the first to try out Brendan Whyte’s new Queensland map.

Signed up: Brendan Whyte, Rip Gooch

Outpost: Game starts next issue. More players are welcome!

Signed up: Eric Brosius, Chris Hassler, Andy York, Kevin Wilson, Michael Lowrey

Snowball fighting: Current game ends this issue. Anyone interested in another go?

Signed up: Tom Howell

Signed up: Brendan Whyte

Reader’s Choice: I’m open to anything, just send me the rules and if I think I can run it, I’ll offer it.

Tinamou appears in every other TAP. The game deadlines are always the Monday before the appropriate TAP deadline, which is always a Saturday. Assuming that TAP remains on schedule, the next deadline will be ????

Oh, and by the way, it’s still hanging together! George and Jerry jump out into the lead, would have been a break away, but they go together. Abigail’s sprint leaves her puffing along alone in third. Nobody can catch these three to first spring line, but will they have the stamina for the long haul?

Rick’s record of 75 points still stands as Jim scores a measly 74 this round! Eric pulls in 62 and Tom uses up 41 and still comes out ahead with 48. Of course it’s points, not cards that win in the end.

BBG-jerry: Our mommas laid out some nice panties for us. Wanna sniff? You'll have to get behind!

BBG-George: we love architects, Mr Van Der Lay. What's your biggest erection to date? Or don't you erect on first dates?

BBG-Kramer: Just stay with the pack, Pennypacker, these fannypackers are coming through.

Tom to BOOB: Heh! Run on a pre-determined program, you'll run into trouble. Just ask Snyder.

Tom to GM: Sure there's more than cards... Sheer luck?

GM to Tom: Well yeah, that too. And perhaps just a wee bit of thought to it as well?

Edith to BOOB: Danger zone? I LIKE danger zones...

Edith to Ian: Saaay, big boy, whatcha doing over there?

George puts his scooter into gear. "Come on, baby!"

Jerry hears George's scooter backfire.

Jerry - field: I choose to run!

Elaine - field: this is creepy. I'm next to this Donald character,

and he asks me to see my "cards", saying that he has the same cards that I do. Go away, Donald!

GM to Elaine: A lot of people wish Donald would go away!

Kramer - Jerry, George: Giddyap!

Field - Rick: You won't be hanging at the back this turn!

GM – Field: Well, Elaine’s still loafing along, but looks like she’ll put on a sprint next turn.

Field - Dans: That looks un-natural, somehow!

Ab to George and Jerry: May I tag along?

Edith to Abigail: Pull in a little closer there, gal! You're gonna need your wind for later.

Black Bottomed Girls (Brendan Whyte)

Homegrown Evil (Mike Barno)

Thin Bottomed Girls (Tom Howell)

Manager: Edith

The Four Kingdoms of Daniel Chapter Seven (Eric Brosius)

The Front Men (Jim Burgess)

Manager: Ian Curtis

The Team About Nothing (Rick Desper)

Manager: Frank Costanza

For those who are interested, the maps can be seen on the web. They don’t reproduce well here unfortunately as there is a lot of detail and it really needs color to differentiate the different rail lines. Towns in uppercase denote the first player to connect the town (6 point bonus).

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With five players we manage only three starting hexes. Mike and Eric both opt to start in Baltimore and even agree on the city name. Rip and Brendan both like E95, and being a modern marriage, we join their names to get the city of Al Quodo d'Utopia. Conrad takes a solo path and starts his drive to Cambria from B96 which the GM aptly names East Cambria. Builds only for the next round.

SPIKE - Rivals: Somebody has to start the B&O!

GM - SPIKE: Two someones!

SPIKE - GM: "Perdu"? Shouldn't it be "Trouve"?

GM - SPIKE: Call it poetic license. Only time and your tracks will tell which is more appropriate!

COB: Cambria is a small town on the central California coast, near the infamous gaudy Hearst Castle. Twenty years ago it was a collection of run-down beach shacks, but now it's something of an artists' colony with some really up-market antique outlets and like that. But the real point is that it's the southern end of the really scenic California coast that leads north through Big Sur and into Monterey and San Francisco. In other words, just exactly where I'd rather be right now.

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SBB is Schweizer Bundesbahnen (Red) HANG is Highly Automated Narrow Gauge (Blue)

UDR is Useless Desert Rails, Ltd. (Green) TRAIN is This Rail Association is Nameless (Orange)

SPICEBLOW is Saharan Partnership Internationally Concealing Evidence for Bereaved Loaded Online Widows (Purple)

The rolls for round 5 are: 5, 5, 3

And we have a winner! Actually two. And had Shrek hit with his dirigible, it would have been a three way tie. Snowman with balls could have joined in as well by making a dirigble and hitting from close range. Nice job to all. Next time, end game statements, final guesses as to whom the players all, and the removal of the snow masks.