Peter Gouldesborough "In connection with the movement of artillery I take Dick Tennant's point that casualties to the limber horses could be replaced by horses from the caisson& etc. As usual, though, it comes down to a question of what the figures on the table represent, If a battery is represented by a gun with its crew, limber and horse team, then the loss of (say) half the limber horses presumably represents the loss of half the horses of the whole battery and should result in its mobility being reduced accordingly. But if the gun also has a caisson and gunners,' horses (in the case of horse artillery), then the limber horses represent nothing more than themselves and can be replaced by the other horses. You just move them up to the limber from their former position, perhaps imposing some delay for re-harnessing, as Dick suggests." Patrick J. Ficallef "Until a week ago when I had to drop my collection, I was (and I hope will still be after the examinations) interested in late 19th century Colonial Period, especially Africa and Asia. Illustrations of uniforms of that period are hard to come by. As regards to the British and Indian those came from the usual sources, As regards to the French I obtained most of them from a 1900 c.a. French Edition of the Larousse Encyclopedia. In this encyclopedia, when it comes to dealing with the major world powers of the time it gives a culoured map of the country concerned on one page and on the other the uniforms of the country at the time (1900). All the European Nations are treated as well as U.S.A. and Japan. Well, the French troops which I discovered and converted from Airfix are Colonial Infantry, Marines, Navy, Artillery, Zouavest two different regiments of Algerian Tiralleurs, Haoussans, Dahomeans, Senegalese, Soudanese, Tonkineses Vietnamese. Until now I have concentrated solely on infantry and artillery, later on I shall start on cavalry. As regards to wargames (always solo) right now it is English versus French (they went to war on the Fashoda Incident) plus Boerst Arabs and Natives who fight on either side depending on which occasion." J.C.Slater "Your quite excellent Newsletter came to my notice last week, in the Knaresborough shop. Subscription for one year enclosed. Hooray for Cottage Industry. Frankly, tho, I'd seen mention of its I had imagined only a dreary badly produced duplicated sheet or two. Perhaps there's a lesson here, tho I fear I have no bright ideas at the moment. I know a larger type face would create problems, (I have produced 'bound' pamphlet per Gestetner etc., myself), but it is very small -- especially for the over 40s, and after painting up 20mm troops! You mention a lot of U.S. stuff - but no explanation about how one pays, also postage, return postage, etc. Incidentally, I have not seen any comment that apart from the welcome, but to date limited range of Airfix, there aren't any cheap Napoleonics available, which is perhaps why so many people start with ACW via Airfix. I am messing about with Rene Norths 30mm Card flats (not very well promoted), but his range is limited (French cavalry, British Cavalry and British Infantry only) and if left as card they are too fragile, if stuck to plasticard, too thick to cut out easily. But they are easier to paint than 20mm, and if given a wooden base will stand up on slopes on cloth or sand models. I believe one can print on plasticard. The foregoing being random thoughts, which you may care to throw out to subscribers." Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 102 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1970 by Donald Featherstone. 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