Off topics: A CyberBoard gamebox

CyberBoard is a free utility to play wargames by PBeM developed by Dale Larson. In the words of the author:
"The CyberBoard board gaming system makes playing board games by mail and electronic mail a more enjoyable experience. The system allows you to easily graphically design the various parts of a board game on your computer. The players can make their moves and exchange recorded versions of the moves with their opponents. The opponent can then play back the moves. Although many types of games may be created using CyberBoard, games that use counters or chits such as war games work particularly well.
CyberBoard is not an artificial opponent. It provides no artificial intelligence capability.
My goal for CyberBoard was to duplicate the experience of actual paper counter style gaming--at least to the extent that this is reasonable. In its current form the system does a pretty good job of this" . CyberBoard can be downloaded free from the CyberBoard page.

War to the Death, is a boardgame designed by D.W. Alexander and edited by Omega Games in 1986 (1st ed.) and 1994 (2nd ed.). It depicts the problems suffered by the French armies in Spain during the Peninsular War from 1810 onwards. The French player must confront the British (the Portuguese army is abstracted, the Spanish regular forces and the Spanish Guerrillas and. The boardgame emphatises the logistics aspects and requeriments that are different for French, British or Spanish (More information at

War to the Death page in my web site).

I bought the game some years ago and, having discovered CyberBoard utility almost simultaneously, I designed a game-box for it. With the help of Pablo Martín Fernández, a Spanish wargamer whom I found at the Consimworld Forum, the original game map was modified to make it more similar to the true state of the Spanish road communications network at the beginning of the XIX century.

During the first months of 2009, Pablo has been posting to the ConsimWorld Forum some ideas about a 1808-1809 Scenario, including Spanish Juntas, Early Spanish Logistics, Portuguese Army, Spanish War Weariness and Romana's Division. You can download the corresponding WORD documents starting from the above ConsimWorld Forum address. The Pablo's modifications extend the timespan covered for the game, allowing to play the first stages of the Peninsular War.

Pablo has included all the new markers in a new game-box that can be download from that Forum, WttD1808.gbx, or from my website, Early Years game-box, at your convenience.