Fellow Historians: Yes, the cover is not misleading - this is the last issue that I'm going to publish of the Gauntlet U.S. (for now, that is). As long as I'm overseas, I am not doing the miniature wargamer justice by trying to get the Gauntlet out each quarter. You deserve better. And better is out there! I will continue to research and provide articles for Hal Thinglum's MWAN and much exclusive material for MAGWEB. This is how I will continue to support the hobby. I may resume publication when I return to the U.S. from Moscow after a few years, so I leave that option open. Also - this is the first issue with no rules and no scenarios - that is a true disservice to the gamer. My sincere apologies. For those of you who subscribed beyond issue 21, your refund will be inside. The latest revolves around a couple of incredible finds involving the Russian Civil War. How does a complete OOB for the Forces of South Russia sound? It is only good on a couple dates from 1919, but it should give superb insight into the overall makeup of the army, giving the gamer and historian more to work with. I've seen regiments that only had 40 men and other regiments with 500! A title is only that - the units were so fluid during the Russian Civil War that there can be no set structure - every single unit was unique. I will provide as much information as I can find on this to the West - and you'll see a small part of this in this issue. You'll also find the first few chapters of the Russian Civil War - White Armies book. This was translated almost exclusively by Tom Hillman - a great piece of work on his part and a superb amount of research by the author - Deryabin. My hat is off to both of them. Tom is also working on the Russian Civil War Aviation. This is a hard back compilation and the best single resource on the subject. The fact that Tom is putting it into English should also tempt western historians. Tom has finished 4 chapters so far and the work is progressing very quickly and steadily. I received a few things in my mailbox over the past few months. I have to say first that summer was an incredible drag for communications and coordination. I'll keep that in mind for next year - do not try to conduct business over the summer. I've received some rules sets from Flagship Games out of northern California. These look superb for the open-minded gamer. Some of the best potential for a plain good time that I've seen lately. I also received a CD-Rom from Scale Specialties - they are reviving the old Office of Naval Intelligence identification manuals from WWII. What a great find for them! And they are doing it right by providing it on CD. So much information in such a small space. No poorly reproduced paper copies - only the best from Scale Specialties. I also received the latest Zouave, MWAN, Lone Warrior, Society of Twentieth Century Warfare (SOTCW) Journal, and newsletters from HMGS Great Lakes & Mid-South. Lots of great reading! Yes, I know it seems hard to believe that I have time to read... HMGS Great Lakes puts out a pretty good little mag. Lots more than just administrative information contained therein. I also have to applaud Ivor Janci for yet another incredible issue of the Zouave. My wife and I made it to the Borodino reenactment on 3 Sep 2000. It was simply superb - find some pictures inside the back cover. That doesn't really get it - so I also put together a small web site that has more pictures and some video! The video doesn't capture how loud the cannons were and how much smoke poured across the battlefield. Here's the site if you want to take a look and if you have an .mpg viewer. http://members.nbci.com/gauntlet2/borodino.htm I was really impressed with the effort of Scale Specialties regarding the ONI publications they put on CD. Very nice stuff! Very useful. I have put some 54mm figures on the cover over the past couple issues. I know that these are better painted than 28mm (and they sure cost a helluva lot more). But since I deal in these guys, you can understand why I have the good pictures readily available. The latest are the Gordon Highlanders - they are so superbly done. I tout them as museum quality, but from what I've seen in museums around here, the ones I have are better quality (and they don't have dust on them). I have become a minor collector of these myself - which is the kiss of death for salesmen to collect what they sell (eats the profit). At least I don't collect the flight equipment (helmets, flight suits, O-2 masks) that I sell. Although, my wife would say that I collect the stuff, judging by how much is laying around... I've done up a web site dedicated to information on the Russian flight gear. The web page is http://members.nbci.com/gauntlet2/SovFlite.htm. It is a very slow loading page as I maintained very high resolution on the pictures - I wanted the people who used the site as a reference to be able to print near photo quality pictures. I intend the site to act as an update to the Jet Age Flight Helmets book. All in all, it doesn't take as much time as translating Russian Civil War texts... So much history. So little time. Good luck on those morale rolls! Back to The Gauntlet No. 21 Table of Contents Back to The Gauntlet List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 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