Although I have had no official notification from the organisers of the recent Wargames Club Championship in Dundee, I am given to understand that Birmingham carried off the Team Trophy with Worthing as runners-up and that David Millward won the Trophy for the best individual performance. I have heard three or four private reports on this Convention which seems to have been attended by only about sixty people, probably due to the very great travelling distances required to reach Dundee by the majority of competitors and onlookers There seems to have been some organisational difficulties and I understand that a timely hand given by the Worthing Club on their arrival made it possible for terrain features to be used during the battles. Speaking as one with considerable experience in organising these affairs, it is worth gently pointing out that they are a hell of a lot of trouble and require a very great team effort (such as was put out by Worthing last year). Other reports indicate that the organisers, in their wholehearted efforts to provide rules that gave a realistic games went well overboard in setting massive a t andards of complexity so that competitors arrived and were handed pages of amendments that required to be hastily studied. Another prominent competitor in the modern section found that the "secret" factors were known to competitors and had in fact been practised extensively in a number of preparatory games. The Press made sure that everyone knew of the injunction served by Ian Dunn (one of Dundee's winning team at Worthing) in his efforts to prevent the Convention being held. The reasons for his action are best not discussed here nor do I wish to become involved in the affair. Suffice to say, I have been sent photocopies of all the relevant documents and there seems to be a cast-iron case for a more stringent control of points scoring in preliminary rounds if the final results of the Championship are to be decided on points scores. On the other hand Derrick Atwell of Sheffield writes: "I went to the Dundee Convention and I would say that a good deal of fun was had by all and there were 8 ome good games even though the organisation was a bit confused. As you say, the hobby may have changed, but it is a healthy infant (increasingly hairy barbarian in appearance) but it must be thriving to draw all those fellows up as far as Dundee." Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 104 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