WEB SURVEY My first web survey. I’ll miss the white mailing cover, I guess, but appreciate the need to hold down costs. Say, look at the Courier’s glossy new paper stock and slick, professional layout and font styles! Classy!! This should have been noted in the editorial - take a bow, Mr. Bryant! Nice work! Thanks, but the layout and font style hasn’t changed - see what a difference glossy paper makes! The abscence of the wrap has definately reduced the number of Volley Fire responses. I hope that this is just because this issue is the frst that requires that you go to the WEB or send a postcard. Some 50% of our readers have access to the internet and our responses, on the order of 450-600/issue, was only 5% of the readership - so it would seem that we should be able to build back up to the 5% response over the next few issues. This is an imprtant tool for our article choice in the magazine, I hope that we do not have to abandon it. - DICK BRYANT (Bowing) THE “YOU CAN’T WIN” DEPARTMENT I’ve read every article in Courier since first subscribing who knows how many years ago. I soldiered through last year’s “Daisy Award” article to keep up my perfect record, but I didn’t even try with the Crystal Skulls article. I appreciate the concept of humor in wargaming, but I’d rather go to the dentist than read articles like Crystal Skulls. Philip Smith I really enjoyed this issue, especially the new paper whichmakes all the pictures in the issue much sharper looking. Of special interest is the Crystal Skulls article. I particularly like humor in wargaming and am glad to see that the Daisy Award article of a previous issue was the start of what may be a trend to have more humor in gaming - and in The Courier. -- LARRY MACRAME We try to please ALL of our readers MOST of the time and so will continue to print article from all “walks” of historical Miniature Wargaming. Read what you like, pass on what you don’t - if an issue is full of articles of interest, to you then you have as much of an eclectic interest in this hobby as I do. I find that every article has some kernal of information or a technique or a rule concept that is useful, no matter what its period. DICK BRYANT STRAIGHT HISTORY OUT OF PLACE Continued articles seem long-winded. The discipline of 3 or 4 page articles seems desireable. Straigh history seems out of place unless it is tied into a game report or set of rules to show the relationship. (re African Warlord). Although I did not particularly care for the specific subject of the Mega Game (Impressionistic Wargaming, Operation Market Garden - ED), this type of article has my vote for being helpful and informative to scenario design. -- BILL ABRAMS For many years The Courier ran “Theme Years” wherein most of the space in 6 issues were devoted to a theme; French & Indian War; The Mexican - American War; The War of 1812, the Age of Sail, etc. Much of these articles were mostly history as, at the time, thes history of these potential wargaming periods were not that easily available. The African Warlord is a “Theme” in 3 issues, introducing potential gaming areas in the later colonial period. As such, there must be a lot of history to explain the period and to introduce the gaming possiblities. The final piece did explore game sceanrios and figure availablility. There is an increasing interest in the later colonial period and I expect (and hope) to print more such articles to help our readers game them. Very few 3-4 page articles can have much “meat” to them unless they are a simple scenario description of “how-to” article. Often these can be 2 or even, 1 page long. But more is required to introduce new periods to the readers and I plan to do more in the future. - DICK BRYANT A READER’S INTERESTS I am a WW2 East Front fanatic! I want to see more WW2!! I also like Colonial era articles as I am starting up there too. also 30 Years War holds an interest for me. Any authors of 30 Years War articles out there - we haven’t done much in that area - DICK BRYANT Back to Table of Contents -- Courier # 90 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com