1. Every so often I actually sit down and read back issues of the REVIEW just to see where I've been in terms of my wargaming activities, and, perhaps, where I'm going. Looking at the publications of the past year, I note that I'm still favoring the use of data sheets, I note that I'm somewhat preoccupied with the BORODINO '92 event, I note several skirmishes with the Luddites on the HMGS Board of Directors. I note that I remain an advocate of the "morale game", and I note an ever increasing devotion to card-governed sequences. Additionally, the past couple of issues, I note, have contained articles on zones and ZOC's... hence I must conclude I'm in my zone/ZOC mode and will continue so in the near future. Sometime ago, Fred Haub said that I beat to death the word "realistic" with my continued harping on the subject. Recently, an advertisement for William Buckley's magazine, NATIONAL REVIEW, boasted that it never used the word "impact" as a verb. And even more recently, Artie Conliffe wrote: Oh, by the way, if I hear the term "activate" one more time, I'm gonna lose it... What's a poor editor to do when they take away his words, the very substance of his being? Although I have bent the knee to Buckley... "impact" will henceforth only be used as a noun... I simply cannot, Messieurs Haub and Conliffe, give up use of "realistic" and "activate"; they're too much a part of me. Indeed, in this issue, these very words will be found... perhaps more than once. 2. And now I must make a public apology to young Jeff Wiltrout, who handed in a labor of love for publication... his memoirs as the King of Castile in the medieval campaign I described in the January issue. Jeff took time out from his college studies, probably the reason he's not graduating at the top of his class, summa bumma rumma cum laude, to author a fairly long multi-page history. The memoirs are interesting, but are meaningful only to those who actually took part in the campaign. In short, Jeff's work, while admirable, has absolutely nothing to do with wargaming, and so I can't see publishing it. I can only hope that I have not twisted Jeff id completely out of kilter, so that he will forsake college, take to the streets and commence a life of crime. Back to PW Review March 1992 Table of Contents Back to PW Review List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1992 Wally Simon This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com