Late news flash: The Afrika Korps is alive and well in West Virginia! Desert war fans who have been plaguing the editor for months should be relieved by this news.

The same troublesome faction has requested information on the mystery numbers assigned to naval vessels. In our summary of Mediterrarean Fleet Orders of Battle, I had assumed that the values pertained to some A.H. Naval game combat scale. Dave Geisz tells me that they are attack: defense: movement in knots: movement in hexagons (in that order). Evidently, fleet action was to be handled in a style similar to AH land battles. As this is not likely to satisfy the average naval enthusiast, we will try to include primary, secondary, AA armament, and belt turret plating for the ships in question.

Oh yes - HLRBG. Heavy Long Range Bomber Group comprised of two or more geschwader. Fans of aviation history will keep in mind that 1940-42 a heavy bomber was anything the air arm it belonged to said was a heavy bomber--hence SM79s, Vickers Wellingtons, JU88s, and HE 111s were all heavy long range bombers. For RAF purposes, a Wellingtonton, or even a Hampton, was a "heavy bomber" when it came to "not wasting heavy bombers on tactical targets". A HE 111 was a heavy bomber when it came to "if we send another Hurricane squadron to France, the German Heavy Bombers will sink the British Isles." When, even with fighter escort, the Luftwaffe was unable to do so, German long range bombers gradually became reclassified as "tactical aircraft" to account for the failure.

Before letting it get away, may I mention the 6th Annual Western Regional (I wish these things had shorter titles) Wargames Convention. It is planned for 11 October 1969.

I've have encountered a shockingly large initial retention rate on volume I subscribers, in spite of the rather botched condition of Volume I No. 6, for which we are thankful. So impressed have we been with the flow of wealth that we hope to wangle another couple of pages somehow.