This is to announce that the 1972 National Wargames Convention will be held in Leicester at the Post House Motor Hotel, from 6.0 p.m. on Friday, September 29th to 6.0 p.m. Sunday, October 1st, 1972. The main event will of course be the quarter finals, semi-finals and finals of the National Wargames Championships. This year there will be six periods in the competition, Ancients, Medieval, 1550-16-50, Napoleonics, American Civil War and World War II (infantry action). The preliminary rounds of these competitions will be held on a regional basis at regional conventions held in the spring. These will be organized by the eight, regional committees. Clubs will not this year require to enter complete teams, as all rounds will be run as individual knockouts. Individuals may enter separately too. It is intended that this year there will be a junior competition for club teams of three players not older than eighteen on the 31st December, 1972. The three periods will be Napoleonics, American Civil war and world War II, which will run as a team knockout, the finals being held at the Convention. There will also be a series of individual competitions in a number of periods including gladiatorial combat, medieval hand-to-hand combat, colonial warfare, western gunfights, Western Desert tank warfare, etc. if you have any further suggestions for these competitions please let us know. All entries to the National and Junior Competitions must come direct to the Convention Secretary accompanied by an entrance fee of El which includes the cost of rules and entree to the Convention itself, by 31pt January, 1972. Names of entrants will then be passed to the Regional Secretaries for organization of the regional competitions. Note: No player will be allowed to compete in both the National and the Junior Competitions. However, under eighteens; may compete in the National Championships in preference to the Junior Competition if they wish. Details of rules, array lists, etc. will be circulated shortly. The rules will be issued to all entrants by the end of the second week in February, in good tire for the Regional Competitions. Further information concerning individual competitions will be issued later, as will details of the painting and diorama competitions which as usual will be held at the convention. Apart from a large number of trade stands, there will be scope for club displays. Any clubs who are interested in participating should let us know as soon as possible. Further attractions will include a display by members of the Sealed Knot and, provided there is sufficient interest, a social evening and disco on the Friday, in order to increase the involvement of wives and girlfriends. Ley us know as soon as possible whether you would be interested in attending the later event. If you have any queries regarding the Convention, or any ideas concerning other possible activities such as inter-club wargames and board games, including diplomacy, which we hope to be able to fix up, we'd be grateful if you could let us have them as soon as possible We look forward to your entries for the competitions and your support in helping us to put on this year's programs. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 119 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