From: Brent Oman Craig: I received issue #10 the other day - just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how impressed I was! Great job!!! Is the Rebel Yell anywhere near this good? If so, you might have a western subscriber to it as well! One of the main things I really enjoyed is how your enthusiasm for the hobby really jumps off the pages.....GREAT JOB! From Norman Harms, Scale Specialties: Hi Craig, Have been busy getting ready for shows (two down) past and present, HMGS PSW here in April and SCHAMMS show end of March. So we have new material here and coming. Did get the Me 323 in but only had four on hand - all gone. Nice model but takes a little work to polish it out and what have you. Want to change our ad copy to reflect that she is here (have had a NUMBER of request and no stock - coming here in a week ) and brought, as our show sign says, "brought some nasty friends with her". Well that is if you're looking for a Me 109K, Ta-152, Do-217N, He-213 OR for the younger people, F-22A. Expecting the Figurehead ships for U.S. WW I in stock this week and have been told that they are going to be doing some more early 20th century vessels (Turkish, Greek); no specifics just yet. These little 1/6000 scale jobs are finding a home for themselves and I believe I mentioned that we are using them for the game testing for "General Quarters 3". Any how, when do you need the text for the next publication? We have new photos from the Gamex show in February (haven't seen them yet but should be picking up the prints tonight). Need to get it all set and ready to go. By the by, thanks for the very nice reviews you gave the Ship's Names series. You have been the only one to pick up on the subtities which were built into the sets. I love it when I whip out my Elco 80' in German guise. Wtih the advent of all the new 1/6000 I've got to get busy on these, especially for those vessels with which one just isn't familar at all. Subject: Craig arrival from the Gulf!!! From Nikolai Semibratov: Dear Craig, Glad to hear about your safe return. What is your vision of the situation in the Gulf? (By TV we often see foolish correspondents who descuss things they do not care about). Is your partners proposal about my subscribtion to "The Gauntlet" serious? I will do my best on Russian Napoleonic regiments. As with Civil war, it is not "my" period, but I can ask my friends about it. This war is totally unpopular in Russia. It is the shame of our country (I can not understand why Americans so interested in their Civil war?!) Thank you in advance for Napoleonic wargaming magazine. I have some numbers of "The First Empire". They are magnificent! We discussed on the 7th of February our own magazine (we have great wargaiming on that date. It was Drezden 1813). Everybody agreed to do "something", but I understand that only me is responsible for doing "something". We will make magazine not for sale at first. It is very great to publish some words about us in "The Gauntlet". Please publish short note about us in one of your future issues. I attached this file to my message. From Nikolai Semibratov Dear Craig & Mark, Thank you for your reply. Your 'Gauntlet' is going from one wargamer from our club to another. It is really popular. Send me please your exact Mail adress, so I can send you flags. I was very glad to discover from Mal that you will help us with 1904 campaign. I will let you know about our plans. From Mal I knew that you have returned home. I searched for Civil War flags and will be able to send you some photocopies in fortnight. My close friend is writing dissertation on Civil War and he will help with flags. (-ed note: I asked Nikolai to help Regimental Colours find some source material on flags & banners of the Russian Civil War. Look for that line of flags soon!) As I understand the war in the Gulf is coming... Yes I have some exellent materials on Russian army flags of Napoleonic wars. Also I can ask my friends who making Russian Army figures of the period for additional information(I have 200-300 Russian infantry figures, but flags for them are very poorly drawn by myself). They always spend much time in archives, because "reglement" for flags sometimes works only "on paper". It will be very usefull if you will publish some information about flag poles, because only in French army they were of universal dark blue. Russian army had great veriety. (Sometimes the scemes were not true: 2nd grenadier division for example: most of flag poles were black!) Thank you for coming publication about our club. From Malcolm Wright: Craig! Great to hear you are OK and home again. I was about to email you in Bahrain, because even Nick in Moscow was asking after you and hoping everything was OK. He has been showing your magazine around wargamers in Moscow, despite being -28 the day when he took it over to show Alexy, his friend. Perhaps, since you can speak Russian, you might like to be in our campaign by email. I could get a map too you via Eric Burgess and you could take it to Korea.....give you some wargaming to be in off duty. I had not sent any further articles because I figured it was probably not worth while, with you being away. We are doing a refight of the RUSSO/JAPANESE war and I have been chronicling every battle and taking photographs in case you would like to run it as a series in the Gauntlet. I have enough material to write some extremely interesting articles on the period with a lot of stuff I doubt many wargamers have access too. -ed note: Absolutely I'd like to run it in the Gauntlet. Both the U.S. and UK versions will benefit from first Cha-Ho, and second, some good battle reports with your astute insight. I appreciate the offer and look forward to seeing how it all came out! Back to The Gauntlet No. 11 Table of Contents Back to The Gauntlet List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1997 by Craig Martelle Publications 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