Dear Don,

The latest issue of Panzerfaust was nice, though I'm afraid you are trying too much photo-reduction on the letters column. The interior of many of the individual letters seems to have filled in, at least on my copy. A slightly different typeface might work better (I also have a selectric).

I don't believe that Mark Saha's version of the early editions of GETTYSBURG is quite right. I have a copy of the original game - fifth printing, August 1959 (First Printing, August 1958). It has the original game, complete with both the basic game and the tournament game. There was a second version of this edition: the "Junior Set" of the game, which sold for $2.50 (the version I have went for the extortionate price of $4.95), had a map not mounted on cardboard (it was on heavy paper, like most SPI games), and did not include separate copies of the order of appearance, etc. cards. (These were also included in the battle manual. In the senior version, one got them on separate cards, too, while in the junior set, one got them only in the back of the manual.

I have only seen the Junior Set on sale once. This was at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in about 1960. The junior set was sold in part to give people a pretty map of the battlefield, the game aspects being rather secondary. I didn't get one then, and haven't seen one since. It would appear that Junior Sets of 1st Edition GETTYSBURG are about the rarest items around, except, of course, for the original Charles Roberts game, TACTICS.

I did like the convention reports. GLASC I attendance (total) was about 400. You weren' really away from the ma center of con activity - there was jusL. somewhat too much space. I got to wander through most of the con area, including the other building; you were in th=_ center of the densest concentration of pe.ple. (Yes, I know that concentration was a bit low - we should not have used the other building, I think.) I gather that the attendance figures on the other two cons were: San Diego: about 700, and Gen Con West, about 1500. (The latter from the organizers.) In contrast Gen Con East, to use its new name, had about 1200 people.

You'll be getting publicity on GLASC II in the next month or two. Are you still planning on running your own convention next Summer? You did a nice job with the early DewCons - its just that you were a bit out of the way.

Yours for wargaming, George Phillies

We would LIKE to run a con. Somewhere south of LA next summer,, but lack the manpowerA to staff one. Any voLunteens? --DS L

Dear Mr Lowry,

I really enjoyed the magazine, with one exception, In Mail Call one of the longer letters dealt with the relative market positions of AH and SPI. Since I am not an employee, officer or stockholder in either corporation, I couldn't care less which sold the most or fewest games in any length of time. And I am dropping my subscription to S&T, partially due to the same factor. I didn't subscribe to the Annual Report of SPI, but I was getting a lot more of that than I wanted. My interest is, does a particular game interest me due to it's subject, design, etc., not who did it, or how many of some other game they sold. If you could edit letters to minimize the above material, more space will be available for matters of interest to GAMERS. This is not a gripe, since I believe that you are doing a very good job overall, just a comment for improvement.

Mark Twain was reported to have said "Whenever I find myself on the side of the majority, I stop and reassess my position." With that in mind, and recalling that most progress and improvement comes from that portion of the "fringe" in the lead of the majority of any group, Mr. Berg's letter could well be an unconscious compliment to the P&C fraternity.

And otherwise, who needs him?

Charge, Bill Walter

Dear Don,

Enclosed are my Return Fire and an article I'm submitting for publication, hope you can use it.

I'm really happy with the new look that the new typesetting and typestyles has given CAMPAIGN, and I'm looking forward to the continued improvements you mention, if money allows. It's also good to see that the talents of Dana Lombardy who did such a good job with CONFLICT have returned to wargaming via CAMPAIGN. Do you know anything about PURSUE AND DESTROY magazine? It was going well until its editor went to Germany, the last I've seen, its operation had been moved to Carson, California.

Thank you, Roland Wong

Don't know a thing about P&D. Haven't been it in many months. DSL