What is Project P 500?     UGG has an exciting project to guarantee that you get the games you want. Who decides what games UGG will produce in future? It is YOU, the customer.   The Details of Project P 500:   A Series of Flops Can Kill a Company A wargame company must invest hundreds, sometimes thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars to conceptualize, develop, playtest, print, package and distribute a game. If it hits the market and receives insufficient acceptance (for whatever reason!), the company loses. If that happens a few times, the company dies ... and you, the gamer, lose that source of new games.   Solution?   What if UGG knew ahead of time that there was a committed interest in the game? They could produce exactly the games that you want. And that's exactly what UGG is going to do with Project 500. Here at UGG, we've experienced the same retail slowdown as other companies in our industry, and that makes it even more crucial that we find a solution that allows us to keep bringing you great games without huge financial risks on our part. Project 500 is a vehicle to allow the buyer more voice in what we produce, to cut our downside risk, and to allow us to keep bringing you UGG-style wargames (yes, even card games!) for years to come.   This will allow you to determine, to a much greater degree than ever before, which games we publish or reprint and which designs don't make the big-time. And it will take the financial pressure off of us without risking a cent of your money.   How P 500 Works We'll release information about a game design that is complete or nearing completion, or about an out-of-print game that we think would be worth reprinting. You decide whether you want the game -- if you do, you order it by credit card, and we add your name to the list of buyers. When we reach 500 buyers, we charge the cards, post a notice that we're printing on our webpage and other publications, and print the game. If for some reason we don't get 500 interested gamers to commit to purchasing the game, we do not charge you anything. There's absolutely no risk on your end. The Project 500 offer will apply to some exciting new games that have so far languished on our production back burners because they were too risky or too costly to print. It will also allow you to determine if and when we reprint several classic out-of-print UGG titles that we've had a lot of requests for but so far have been unable to reprint.   To take advantage of any of these offers, please use our Order Page.   Please note: Simply telling us that you want a game when it comes out or that you might order it later will not reserve you a copy of a game or move its counter toward the 500 mark. To make this project work, we need your firm credit card order in hand. Customers in Germany may alternatively give us a written confirmation to charge their bank account directly, "Bankeinzug". Please understand that this protects us as we shell out some pretty hefty amounts to print these games. And we promise you herein that you can trust us to protect you by not ever charging a penny to your card until a game reaches 500 orders and is ready to go to pre-press and the printer. With typical production turnarounds, that will put the games consistently on your doorstep within 3 after your card has been charged (overseas will take a bit longer for surface shipping). And, as you'll note from our pricing for these pre-committed orders, you'll save a pretty penny in the bargain.   Please, don't hold off on signing up for the games on the current list in hopes that a game won't make the cut and one from your favorite series will replace it later. The P500 Project is an idea of GMT. UGG is a smaller company than GMT and a UGG game needs every order to make 500 prepub orders. If you don't sign an interesting game may never see the light of day.   What savings can you make if you place a P 500 order? 20% off the listed retail price in Euro Subscribers of UGG's new magazine Command& Strategy get 25% off.     Where to place a P 500 order? Customers in the USA, Canada, and Mexico please order from GMT or use our New Shipping Option for USA, Canada and Mexico only € 12 per game. Customers in all other countries order from UGG directly. If we do not have your credit card number please use our secure shopping cart.   Which games are in P 500 now? Click here to see the current list.   UGG wishes to say thank you to the P 500 customers. You, who place and order in time are the ones who make the publication of a game possible. Assyrian Wars comes with 3 scenarios. One additional 4 th scenario "Ashurbanipal's Campaigns" will be availalbe to P 500 customers exclusively. UGG will do a special reward for P 500 customers with other UGG P 500 games. So does GMT with the Paths of Glory Deluxe maps. For Maori Cannibals at War there will be a quick start scenario starting in turn 4, but only for P 500 customers.