John Williamson I have made rules for infantry charging forming square - but I can't work out what effect it would have on casualties and the cavalry swerving at the last moment. I doubt if this w as used in the Franco-Prussian War because of range and accuracy of rifles but there is nothing to stop it being used in a game. Wargamers who fight the Spanish Succession, Austrian Succession and Seven Years War must have rules for it. Would anyone let me know of them, please? Jeff Perren USA Here is an idea - vocal letters! Wargamers could record their letters on tapes and send them to each other, then it is returned with a reply on the same tape: Tape-recorders can also be used to record spontaneous battle reports and for pre-staged propaganda to try and give your opponent the jitters before he even gets to the wargames table! After I set up my armies of the Punic Wars and the Mediaeval period, I will have six complete armies or rather war games forces - 12 armies in all. If this keeps up I wonder what the situation will be in 20 years time? Bill Driscoll USA Some day I'll do an an article for you on wargames my brother and I fought when we ere 10-16 - in a large field at our family's summer place. We used Britain's and other troops, with air rifles, and .22 rifles and pistols instead of dice - we also used gasoline flame-throwers! This was an expensive and bloody affair, but the realism was superb. The campaigns went on from year to year, starting with amphibious landing with corks tied to the soldiers on long strings to enable them to be recovered after their l;anding craft was blown out of the water with waterproof firecrackers or .22 bullets. The final campaign was fought several summers later in an area a half-mile distant, and involved several modern-type sieges, of fortresses made of bricks, concrete, etc. Newell Chamberlin USA I have managed to do a couple of Britain's conversions lately, standard hussars into Yeomanry regiments (Hussars) trumpeters with trumpet-banners, the latter painted on silk. I got the silk idea from your book and it worked out quite well - the texture seems more realistic although with the paint the silk becomes a bit silk-stiff. Jack Wilder USA I added a two-gun battery of Prussian siege artillery by Bruno Hinsch in flats. These are quite rare, since he died in 1957. I repainted then, shaded the guns etc and the end result amazed even me. They saw action in my last encounter with the encounter with Belangerangerungeshutz funf (siege guns) taking the honours of the day. I'm working on a system of awarding battle honours on Jubilee Ribbons to my Prussian troops - when I've ironed out the bugs, I'll let you have details. W.R.F. Jenkinson UK I would like to see reports written in a 'game' form, giving details of actual troops used etc and not just a war 'story'. Giving the size of the table might be a good idea, then one can actually visualise the battle in true perspective. I don't think it is any good writing about brigades, divisions etc without giving the actual numbers of the troops involved. In modern warfare I find that using a table 6' x 4' it is not possible to deploy more than a battalion each aide, plus some tanks and odds and ends, without scaling down the units to some stupid size. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 25 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1964 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