1. Different Strokes In the October 87 issue of the REVIEW were my thoughts on a set of skirmish rules, Viet Nam style. Bruce McFarlane wrote in, asking why I included a sub-machine gun in the weapons listing. I had to blink twice before I realized this was just a carryover from my WW II skirmish rules days. Cancel the SMG. On another topic, I had restricted grenades to 5 inches, to be used primarily in the pre-melee phase. While I didn't list any range scale for the system, the rifle range was given as 20 inches and I voiced the thought that with a 20 inch rifle range, 5 inches for a grenade was too large. Bruce mentioned that, at a game he presented based on the rules, someone indicated a grenade range of 5 inches was too small. And recently, Mike McVeigh wrote: "The grenade range, as you suspected, is far too much... Essentially they are melee weapons unless fired from a grenade launched and a range of 2 inches would seem appropriate." Flyer 2. I write this a week-and-a-half before our end-of-February HMGS convention. Poor staff work (no names, please) resulted in a very late mailing of the convention flyers... I just received my own copy through the mail yesterday. Even poorer staff work (no names, please) resulted in a listing of my address within the flyer, for those who would pre-register, as my house on Middle Road, where from I moved, and wherein I have not resided since 1985. This will, no doubt, cut down the number of convention pre-registrations. It will also make a number of pre-registrants quite unhappy when they discover that the fees they tent in never reached us. I feel certain that those responsible for the poor staff work (no names, please) will beat their breasts most properly, crying "mea culpa!" and seeking forgiveness. Back to PW Review March 1988 Table of Contents Back to PW Review List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1988 Wally Simon This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com