NASAMW has joined the IWF (International Wargaming Federation). The HMGS Gulf South had been the previous US delegate.

The IWF is based in South Africa and currently supports the Individual World Championship tournament for DBM and DBR, as well as a game called Morabaraba. The website is http://www.theiwf.org. It hasn't been updated for a while, and is going to be redone, but it at least gives a bit of history of the organization.

There will be a meeting of IWF member organizations online starting the end of October to discuss, among other things, keeping the Worlds as a yearly event. It had been moved to a bi-yearly starting in 2008 (Greece is hosting 2006). There has been some resistance to the move and if you would like to voice an opinion contact Jim Hauber (jshauber@yahoo.com) who is the NASAMW representative who will be taking part in the meetings. The North American continent also has an appointed person and that is Steve Payne from the Gulf South.

Each country gets 1 vote for each 10 members registered. Currently NASAMW has 30 people registered who chose to pay the extra $2.00 for the IWF. This will allow us 3 votes.

If you are a USA or Canadian citizen and plan on attending the IWF Individual Championship in Athens you should join NASAMW  (Joining NASAMW) first (technically only organizations are members of the IWF) and pay $2.00 extra for IWF affiliation. 

The Greek hosts have promised a website "soon". Unfortunately Panos (the dude) is having computer problems at the moment.

The following information has already been released:

INTERNATIONAL WARGAMES FEDERATION 9th WORLD INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Athens ~ Greece
28th - 30th April 2006

The venue (Technopolis) is shown on this site: http://www.cityofathens.gr/portal/site/AthensPortalEN/ and then check on the menu on the left under the title 'Technopolis' you can see the venue which is close to the Acropolis.

The DBM will be version 3.1, the DBR version 2.0. New clarifications will be released for both at least 2 months before the event.

If you are interested in joining the IWF as a registered NASAMW member contact Jim at the email above.

I will be sending in updates as things develop and again feel free to contact me with any questions/comments.

Jim Hauber