After nearly six years it looks as if I am about to get back into wargaming. I am helping to start a wargames group, being a branch of a local modelling club of which I am Treasurer. After such a long absence from wargaming I am looking forward to my first real game. Naturally we have had a lot of teething troubles (in actual fact we shall be having them for quite some time) in starting. We have decided on the right course, I think, in starting off very basically with the simplest of rules and the simplest of games to get the idea. Although I must admit even these cause headaches. May I be permitted to give an example: We took the first game from your book "BATTLES WITH MODEL SOLDIERS" and tried to follow it exactly. The first problem we came up against was, from which points should firing distance be taken if one side has his men in column and the opponenent has his men in line front. (As you can see, we did not end up following this "battle" move for move). So the simplest of games eventually turned out to be the most complex and in volved. After hours of discussion and arguments we have decided on a course into wargaming which suits us all. So it looks as if everybody is happy, that being the case the entry into wargaming may turn out to be easier than expected for us. I an now, needless to say, sitting up into the early hours of the morning rereading all those back numbers of Wargamer's Newsletter. Once we really get going I shall endeavour to write you a fuller report and perhaps later on become a contributor to your Newsletter by way of reports, arguments and crying for help from other wargamers. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 117 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1971 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