Tom Shydler writes

I do not feel it is appropriate for me to personally subscribe at this time ... I have come to quite dislike the whole WRG system and its American derivitives. It, in my opinion of wourse, has little to do with Ancient, let alond-Medieval, warfare. A quick glance at the army deployments in the championship games (and these by the players who know the system best) show there is no versimiltude between their form and the corresponding army of antiquity. One could go on for pages on specifics, but the failure at the general level is embarrasingly evident (again, to me anyway). The attempt to write a "period" piece about a WRG-type battle (battle report by David Sweet shows how ahistorical the mere terminology of the system is. I will certainly agree that when it first came out in the early seventies, it was a great step forward for the hobby. It has become moribund, however, and restricts innovation by creating a false standard of historical "accuracy"

(Ed: Tom's letter was very typical of many we received, the tendency to loathe Phil Barker and cowpany was unrealized! At least by us.

Anonymous from Peru, Indiana writes

(I won't subscribe) and only because I am already a member of the North American Society of Ancient and Medieval Wargamers. Based on your initial editorial, it seems to me that you should get with them (or vice-versa) since you have the same goals.

(Ed: Not at all! We are not a WRG newsletter. In fact our local members use three different sets of Ancients rules!)

Cy Taylor writes

Good luck! I tried this idea as an adjunct to a set of rules. Fifty plus people bought the rules, only one person ever sent in an article.

(Ed: All right, enough of the negative, on to better things, guys!)

Hal Thinglum (editor of the MWAN, a well done, professionally produced newsletter, highly recommended) writes

Received the issue of SAGA you kindly sent and although I am not an Ancients player to any great degree--I have about 400 25mm Normans, Saxons and Vlkings--I enjoyed your first issue and thought you did a fine job on it.

(Ed. Hal, we definitely want you in our conquest of England campaign)