Midwest Wargamer's Association Newsletter is required reading for any American miniatures gamer. There are no glossy photos of figures wading knee deep in ground cover and the writing is by amateurs for amateurs, but each issue has some 144 pages filled with letters, commentary, reviews, rules, and battle accounts by gamers. Issue 70 included rules for battles with Renaissance galleys, microscale Seven Years War, and a Medieval game, as well as a continuing discussion of ACW artillery, a proposed variation for "Napoleon's Battles," and loads of other stuff. $20/6issues from Hal Thinglum, 22554 Pleasant Dr, Richton Park, IL 60471.

SAGA Newsletter continues to cover Ancient gaming, although issue 44 is perhaps a tad thinner than usual. In addition to reprinting articles from Slingshot (beginning DBM and a report of a campaign based on Arthurian Britain), it has commentary on DBM army lists, DBM organization, DBM legionaries, book and figure reviews, and letters. 42 pp, $20/6 issues from Terry Gore, 890 Janes Rd, Rochester, NY 14612.

Historical Gamer has now completed four years in print. Issue 24 includes a short history of Bannockburn and its adaptation to a Medieval Tactica scenario, an account of the Naseby Campaign (1645) with a very brief discussion of wargaming possiblities, an analysis of Operation Steinbock, the mini-blitz of Britain in 1944, the first of a multi-part series on setting up a small feudal campaign, reviews and columns. 32 pp with color covers, $25/6 issues from The Emperor's Headquarters, 5744 W. Irving Park Rd, Chicago,IL 60634.

Tactical Notebook has gone to a quarterly format but will continue to publish the same amount of material. This is a looseleaf collection of articles, primarily reprints of documents not widely available to the American reader. The issue in hand included a 1913 report on the French cavalry by an American officer returning from a year's detached duty, a summary of Franz Uhle-Wettler's 1980 proposals for raising light infanty units for the Bundeswehr, a treatment of the organization of French Light Mechanized and Armored Divisions of 1939-40, the mechanization of the U.S. Cavalry in early 1940, observation of military attaches on the Russian cavalry in Manchuria in 1904, and much more. 64 pp, $35 /4 issues from Tactical Notebook, PO Box 125, Quantico, VA 22134-0125.

Computer Gaming World has changed format again, abandoning its wargaming magazine-within-the-magazine, and substituting a Strategy/Wargames section. The October issue previews 5th Fleet and offers strategies for Harpoon II and Grandest Fleet. In the Simulations section are reviews of Falcon Gold CD, Domark's WWII Flight Sim Toolkit, and Suncom's G-Force flight yoke. $27.94/12 issues PO Box 57167, Boulder, CO 80322-7167, tel (800) 827-4450.

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