My plans for improving the style and format of Wargamer's Newsletter are going ahead very well. In addition to the information I gave last month, I have now been fortunate enough to secure the services of Stephen Read of Worthing, who is to write a monthly page on the more advanced aspects of wargaming; then Ron Miles, who makes a habab of being runner-up in the modern section of the Wargames Club Championships, is going to write a page on wargaming in the World War II and the Modern period and then there is to be a "Guest of the Month" which will include some of the best known names in wargaming and military writing. Those who know Stephen Read will testify to his extremely lively mind on the subject of wargaming (he seems to be the regular winner of the Society of Ancients individual Wargame Championships) and, together with his brother Julian, has published a commercial set of Napoleonic Rules. It is hoped that the articles written by Stephen Reld and Ron Miles will be both stimulating and controversial -- and it is also anticipated that readers will probably take them up on a lot of their points so that we will all learn something! There is a strong, medieval flavour about the Newsletter this month and no apologies are made for so much space being devoted to that period. You may not fight with Medieval figures but no one can deny that it is a most colourful period, full of interest and stimulation. In their magazine DISPATCH, the Scottish Military Collectors Society reviewed my book Wargames Through the Ages, saying "Scottish Nationalists will not like the assessment figure awarded to the Scot of the Hundred Years War -- in comparison to his English counterpart. Not all Scots were "pikemen" and arranged in schiltrons and not all Englishmen were "bowman". As Mr. Featherstone seems to use Mr. Conan Doyle's "White Company" as a source of information on the ability of the Englishmen-at-arms of this period, he might have used Nigel Tranter's or Sir Walter Scott's novels for assessing the Scots!" Quite frankly, I used my own book "The Bowman of England" as my authority for much of this particular chapter and I would point out that my low Fighting Assessment Figure for the Scots was purely based on their wars against the English, when their tactics (just as were those of the French) were badly inferior to the new style of fighting devised by the English leaders of that period. Anyway, it is nice to know that the book has got people thinking and arguing! Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 125 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1972 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