The final draft of the Compendium has been proofread, the text has been uploaded to KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing), and the cover has been designed …

… and now all I am waiting for is the final printed proof copy to be delivered. Once that happens, I hope to be able to publish the Compendium within a matter of days.

The contents of the Compendium includes:

• Some generic Portable Skirmish Wargame rules
• Fast Play 3 x 3 Portable English Civil War Wargame Siege Rules
• Fighting a campaign using simple campaign rules and Fast Play 3 x 3 Portable Napoleonic Wargame rules
• Fast Play 3 x 3 Napoleonic Portable Wargame Rules
• Simple campaign rules
• Campaign map
• The story of the campaign
• A divisional army list generator for the Napoleonic period
• Some Variations on the Portable Napoleonic Wargame: Brigade Rules
• “Generals commanding armies have something else to do than to shoot at one another.”
• An easy operational campaign game for Portable Wargames
• An example of play
• The Portable American Civil Wargame
• Introduction
• The Rules
• The Big Push: A variant of the Fast Play 3 x 3 Portable Wargame rules for the trench battles of the Western Front
• Rules and Army Lists for Portable Wargames in the Hyborian Age
• Introduction
• Specific rules
• Army lists for the Hyborian Age
• Turn sequence activation ideas using UNO cards
• The army commander version
• The unit version
• A short note about UNO
• 3D Printing simple Portable Wargame armies and terrain: One modeller’s approach
• 3D Printing simple Portable Wargame armies and terrain: Another modeller’s approach
• Taking a bit of a Risk: Using the figures from the boardgame Risk to create armies for the Portable Wargame
• Making your own square terrain tiles
• Appendix 1: General’s Daily Activity Chart
• Appendix 2: Arthur Harman’s Generalship Game Maps
• Other books in the Portable Wargame series

The Second Compendium has 132 pages compared to the 108 pages in the First Compendium. The softback will cost £20.00, an increase of  £5.00 from the price of the First Compendium, to take into account the increased number of pages as well as the increased cost of printing.