THE NEXT THEME YEAR We received many suggestions for a theme year and an editor for each. I have collated these and have listed the most practical (due to availability of an editor or of color pictures for the front cover) in the Volley Fire. Please vote on your preference and mail it TODAY, i.e., right after you finish reading the issue. COMMUNICATION The major problem we continue to have at The Courier is communication. Readers just will not believe that The Post Awful will not forward THIRD CLASS mail, no matter what personal understanding you think you have have with the Postmaster. I receive issues back where the customer simply changed P.O. Box numbers from Box A to Box C. You can guess from the box numbers how large a selection of boxes that particular postmaster had to be confused by! If you do not send us your address change with enough notice, the issue comes back here and we have to charge $2.50 (our total cost) to return it. We will only hold it for 15 days after we send you our notice card. Speaking of cards... We send out two renewal notice cards. If you don't send a renewal check within 15 days of receiving the first card, chances are that you will miss an issue. Of course, the second card means you already missed an issue, and it will cost you $4.00 IF we still have any. Finally, please insert a note with your name and address with any order. DO NOT EXPECT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS ON YOUR CHECK and a scratched note in the bottom left hand corner to carry your wishes to us. This is the source of most unanswered orders. CONVENTION TIME The summer is upon us; convention time is here. Please support the Historical Miniature convention in your area (say about a 4-500 mile driving distance radius). One way to promulgate the hobby is to get your non-gaming or non-Historical-Miniature-gaming friends to see what it is all about. Dealers will soon learn that the Historical Miniature convention is one that should be supported (many do already) and the whole thing builds. Conventions also need volunteer help. Miniature gamers are notorious for being those who step forward to volunteer but never show up to meet these promises. This isthe major complaing I hear from the large multi-faceted conventions. That is why most of the people answering questions and doing the work at the large conventions seem to be boardgamers or FRP-ers -- because they are! I hope some of you will endeavor to change the mix. While many are needed to put on games, many more helpers are needed to put up and take down tables, clean up, man information centers, etc. Remember, the hobby only gives back with interest what you are willing to put into it! PERSONAL TO KRUSE SMITH... I told you so... R.I.R QUOTABLE WARGAME QUOTES "You should do something simple (for the campaign), like all of Europe." -- D.W., quoted by Barry Gray Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. VII #5 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1987 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com