THE HELIOGRAPH - $5/10 issues; Tony Adams, 301 N, Willie St., Mt. Prospect, IL 6`9056; Lt appears as though this fine publication will be stopped at issue #40 as apparently no one has stepped forward to assume publication after Tony Adams steps dour. I do think it is a shame to lose it, but Tony has certainly done enough for the hobby and I can understand him wanting to move on to something else. #37 has a fine article "Auxiliary Forces for Sword 6 Flame" by Mark Stevens, George Grove's "Alternatives to Native Bashing", "An Alternative Card System for S$F by Tony, and several book reviews on the "Flashman" novels. Anyone ever read these, I guess they are very interesting stuff!
THE COURIER - $16.00/6 issues; The Courier, Box 1878, Brockton, MA 02403, Vol. VII, on hand for review, Another good issue, seems as though THE COURIER is getting better as of late, although it was good before in my opinion, Contains articles on a wargames campaign in Poland, uniform info for French-Prussian War armies of 1860-70; scenario for OTR (ACW), the Greek Military system, naval scenario, the French Campaign in Hungary-1809_ and an interesting article on the Paraguayan War in South America which I enjoyed as I knew very little about this conflict.
S.A.G.A. - $7.50/monthly, Joel Kloepping, 120 S. Chicago, Freeport, Il 61032: s is a club newsletter with the same m;re as Terry Gore's Ancient publication in New York, Joel tells me he plans to change the name of the newsletter but the club name will remain the same. Freeport, as I understand it, is southwest of Chicago and Joel and others are attempting to scare up some interest in the hobby by expanding their club and having a newsletter. The first issue outlined their goals, had a convention report for Rockcon as well as player results from that convention. Check into joining if you are from that area. You'll have a good time!
SAVAGE 6 SOLDIER - $15,00/4 issues; Lynn Bodin, 23902 SE 42nd St., Issaquah, WA 98027: Vol. XVIII, #3 had articles by Doug Johnson (The Wars in the Eastern Sudan, Part 1. 1883: The Rise of Osman DLgna) which I enjoyed; an excellent scenario done by our own Howard Whitehouse (Ginnis, December 30, 1885) which employed all of the things in a wargame report that I like to see (i.e. historical facts, troops order of battle, account written not as historical fact but rather as a game that was played with info regarding the rules and how they affected the game, etc); and the usual good news regarding new releases and new books in the Colonial area.
PW' REVIEW - $10/12 issues; Wally Simon, 12905 Layhill Rd., Silver Springs, MD, '20906: November-86 issue had an article on Origins 86, a Napoleonic skirmish game $ SYW KOENIGKRIEG Gyre, an interesting article by Wally on impact/response rules, and a battle report on an ancients game, Always good reading and interesting ideas.
LE MONITEUR - $23/quarterly from 76 Priestfield Rd., Gillinghma, Kent ME7 4RF, kngland: #6 in hand for review. First time I have seen this publication and although I think it is over-priced (52 pages), I know it is expensive to publish these magazines and it does have good articles, This one had articles on the 15th Light Dragoons, 3eme Demi-Brigade, Russian War in Finland and an interesting article "In Theory $ Practise?" which raised points regarding artillery during the Napoleonic War. The hard-core Napoleonic gamer would enjoy this one.
EMPIRES EAGLES $ LIONS - $18/6 issues; RAFM, 19 Concession St., Cambridge, Ontario, on hand for review. This is THE publication for Napoleonic wargamers. Consisting of 62 pages, it covers the period in great fashion. This issue had articles on seapower of the period, the Russo-Swedish War of 1808-09; War of 1809 Against Austria, Ned Zuparko's fine column "Winter Wuarters" this time discussing artillery during the period; War of 1812; a wargames scenario; campaign of 1812-13, and much more. You'll enjoy this publication greatly if you are into the Napoleonic period and always find something of interest!
LONE WARRIOR - 10.75 pounds/6 issues; Bill Farley, SO King Arthur's Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 OUH, England: Again, the Solo Wargamer's journal and I wonder why no one here in the states ever decided to put out something like this. It would probably be quite popular I would think. Anyway, the September 86 issue had articles on St. Denys Valley-1643; Gussie (a solo wargames campaign started years ago by LW founder John Bennett); an AWI scenario and battle report; a part of a series on wargames "basics" which is quite interesting and fairly useful I would think to newcomers amongst other interesting things. You should always be able to find something of interest regarding solo wargaming in this publication and it is worth supporting,
THE NUGGET - $10/6 issues; Bob Cordery, 50 Booth Close, Thamesmead, London, SE28, England. The publication of the Wargames Development group in England who consider other types of non-figure gaming to be very important in the hobby -- #35 had a report from their last conference where they get together and try out various games (sounds like a good time and worth looking into as to whether or not there would be enough interest in our area to do something like that?), an interesting article which contained rules ideas for the Pike $ shot period for miniatures, a good article discussing sieges and more. If you like to think about games, you'd probably enjoy this publication, but don't buy it expecting the standard wargames figures stuff!
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