By now I guess you have noticed our new format. We have a lot of new and exciting projects coming up this year and I would like to devote this first editorial to explaining what they are. We are trying to make Combat Simulations the best war game magazine on the market. We hope you stay with us during our growing pains and if you do, were going to give you hours of good reading and gaming fun. We are going to have new departments headed by an Editor, whose job it is to keep you (hopefully) entertained, informed, and involved with their columns. We will have a wonderful new column called "SCUTTLEBUTT". In this column you may ask any questions of any of our Editors or you may take them to task on something that they messed up on when they were writing their columns. That's right we want feedback from you about what we are doing. Don't be afraid to drop us a line about something that you may take issue with us on. Please remember everyone makes mistakes at one time or another and we're no exception to that rule so please feel free to point them out to us. Some times we'll make those mistakes just to see if your on your toes. Anyway, write us so that we can get some dialogue started in this column. Our next column will be "Paint it, Fix it, Build it" and wait till you see the work that Marty does. After a few columns you will be painting and scratch building stuff that you have never dreamed about. Marty has built replicas from the Napoleonic era and Midevile Castles and is the Chief Architect of VOGELSDORF which is a 6 foot by 4 foot section of a completely blown up town. You'll be seeing a lot more of this town when we do articles on street fighting. Move over Ian Weekly, Martin Baber is in town. Just as any group that plays with one set of rules, our group has added some new house rules that seem to play well. Battalions in Crisis are the best WWII rules on the market and all games reported on in this magazine will be using these rules. And that brings me to our next future column. The "Rules Lawyer's Corner", we will discuss some of our house rules and some of our rules interpretation that make our game flow well. We, also would like to hear about your house rules and discuss any holes you might think are, in the rules. Tactics, tactics, tactics that's what wins wars and war games. We have found that using sound battlefield tactics on the War Game table usually help us win . Our next column is on tactics and organizations. Please read this column carefully, it'll help you win a lot of games. And again we welcome any letters from any of you who feel that you can contribute some information on tactics or combat information. Angelo Giardano is our general and will be writing this column, he's the first one killed when we played paint ball. Mike Kelly, our founder will still be doing Historical articles and scenarios that will challenge even the best war gamer around. He will also be guiding us through the maze of publishing rules that we know nothing about. Also helping to guide us will be Mitch Freedman. Mitch is a very accomplished writer and historian and will also be jumping in and writing sorne historical articles and also do some narrative on some of the games that we will be recreating for your reading pleasure. Jerry Lannigan is another of our distinguished staff of writers and will be doing narratives on games played and also historical articles. Jerry is also an accomplished figure painter. We also have a fine photographer on staff. Kirk Gostkowski is well known for his work. He will be giving you a birds eye view of the games that we will be playing and reporting on. At night he even goes to bed with his camera in his hand. Dwayne Williams is our staff artist and will be giving you a lot of pleasure with his drawings. Dwayne has had a lot of his work published and if you've haven't seen it somewhere you'll be seeing more of it right here on our covers. In talking to Dwayne we found out that he was a sparing partner for Mike Tyson for a while. So its a little hard to understand what he says but his drawings are great. Tom Davis is our expert in obscurity. If there is any unit that could ram a lance into a tank, Tom will research it. (He paints beards on his troops) Look for some exciting articles from Tom. Back to Table of Contents -- Combat Simulation Vol 2 No. 3 Back to Combat Simulation List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 1996 by Mike Vogell and Phoenix Military Simulations. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com