Those of you who subscribe or have subscribed to Command magazine have no doubt heard about publisher XTR’s continuing problems with printers and distribution. The following message was recently posted on ConsimWorld:

“Ty Bomba - 08:25am Feb 16, 2000 PST

A few weeks back I reported here that the check had gone off to the printer to advance-pay for the main magazine portion of [Command] no. 53. Sadly, I just found out a few days ago that was only a preliminary payment to get them to start "setting up" the magazine for printing.

What that means is, our recovery from the collapse of the over-the-counter wargame market is not going as swiftly as I'd hoped. Accordingly, Chris and Larry and I have met to discuss this and de-cided, in order to keep Command from devolving into "CounterAttack the 2nd," to take ourselves off salary for this year.

We'd seen this as a possibility at mid-year in 1999; so Larry and I hustled during the time since then to get ahead of our normal production curve. That means at this point we already have the entire magazine and game production for calendar 2000 "in the can." So the fact we're now looking for temporary new day jobs won't bind things up from that side.

By plowing our salaries back into the magazine, we hope we can speed up our recovery and finally get fully back on track by the end of the year. Thanks for your continued patience and support.”