You our loyal members have now endured a year of my editorship, pretty nearly. Realistically speaking, I have had a variety of personal obligations and related events, so publication regularity has perhaps not been absolutely everything that I would have hoped for. I can’t really promise a miraculous improvement for the future. I have a certain amount of time to commit to my gaming hobby activities, and that time turnsinto the publication of Strategist. If you compare the current issue with what we produced in 1973 or 1983 or 1993, there has been a bit of a physical improvement. That has nothing to do with the people who edited at different times, and everything to do with computer technology.

In 1973, Strategist was produced on an electric typewriter, on large-size masters, and xerographically reduced from 14x18 down to 8.5x11. The reducing Xerox machine of 1973 was a the pinnacle of modern technology, which is to say on a good day the output was legible, sort of. Printing was by Xerox or paper-master printing system. If you roll forwards, you can find when I was editor and introduced the use of a Selectric typewriter and the use of primitive computer technology, the use of LaTeX as a computer program to generate masters, and very recently the shift over to MS-PUBLISHER and laser printers. My fellow editors have followed a related path, each achieving a physical appearance and supply of articles that would have astonished earlier editors. (Well, we actually never did publish on clay tablets or in hieroglyphic.)

This issue is a bit different in that I had access to reviews of the modern German convention and modern German games. I saw some of these on Crete in ‘91: remarkable physical quality was apparent.