Welcome to the new Strategist. I hope you like what you see. Particular thanks are due to Greg Schloesser for the use of his reviews, Lou Coatney for permission to publish his game, and Major Bill Harting (USAF, Ret) for the convention list. We are at 184 members and $3500 in the bank.

I must begin my serious thanks with Sam Thornton, who has volunteered to serve as typist and convert written material to electronic form, Henry Rice for volunteering to search a few news groups, and Mark Kramer. So if you have articles in paper form, please do send them to Sam to type.

The February issue may appear in rather late February, because I will be travelling from January 31 to February 8, and also the next weekend. I will try to get out an issue earlier, but this is hard.