This is the final issue of Volume 2. Commencing January l, 1986 and running until December 31 1987. The two year period, resubscribers will receive the next volume, Volume 3. A renewal form for this period is enclosed for your use. Kindly take the time to complete and return it to your Editor now please. This is the only time renewal notification will be sent to you.

As has become customary, this is a time for reflection about what all of us have accomplished in the preceding two year period with regard to our mutual interest, the Seven Years War. Many of you have written mentioning beginnings or expansions in your various collections of miniature soldiers. Others have made commitments to write a variety of SYW rules and to make them available to us all. Many have gone to conventions to host an increasing number of SYW wargames to promote the era. Another group of us have taken pen in hand and have written articles for our enjoyment within this Newsletter while others have produced some wonderful commercially available historical works for our entertainment. In the realm of the wargame retailer and manufacturer, we have seen an era of "plenty" arise. Never before has there been such a wide variety of SYW miniatures available in so many scales. Model terrain is even reaching unheard of heights in realism and proper scale.

Our Newsletter itself has seen four issues in the current volume mentioning all these things in detail. In addition, many of us have been brought closer together by the Membership Directory which enables most of us to have an opportunity to find new friends Interested In the SYW. In furtherance of this goal. many of our membership have benefited by the two Association Meets; Chicago, Illinois 1984 and Kalamazoo, Michigan 1985. The Charge Project, along with its literary effort in The Ardoberg Enquirer, has brought another group of us closer together as well.

As we look toward the future of our Association and the pastime of wargaming or researching the SYW, it is one of compelling optimism. Your Editor looks forward eagerly to a continuance of many of the same Newsletter features of pest issues and Association benefits, such as historical and wargame articles of all kinds, news of the hobby pertaining to the SYW and Association activities such as annual meets and The Charge Project.

In addition, plans are in the works to broaden Newsletter content and Association activities. Volume 7 issues will have occasional photographs and drawings to better illustrate articles from time to time. It is hoped to find a man on horseback to run an Association wargame campaign of a small scale, perhaps in the French and Indian War. In terms of Association Meets, we hope to raise enough funds to bring a prominent professional historian familiar with the SYW to the 1987 Meet to give a guest talk and to toss some dice with us. It is my hope as well to have an East Coast Meet for the large numbers of easterners among us, perhaps at Fort Niagra, Ontario or in the environs of Fort Ticonderoga.

For all these reasons and more, it is my sincerest hope that all of you resubscribe for the mutual benefits of the Seven Years War Association; for your reading pleasure, for camraderie and for fun. You will help make all these things happen.

NEXT ISSUE

The next issue will appear in March 1986. Look for another installment of Seven Years War Organization, an article about the Wurttemberg Army, the French and Indian War, more news, other wargame/historical articles, the Charge Project and much more.

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