Boy, do I know a book bargain when I see one? You might be interested to know that the bookshop in the shopping contra just behind my home is selling the Handbook for Model Soldier Collectors at $6.65! In the past I have been critical at times in MY assessment of the Newsletter but I must say that the past year has been outstanding. I just went through the 1969 back numbers the other night and there is no doubt, Don, you have done an outstanding job in putting together a magazine that during the past 12 months has maintained a high order of excellence. Keep up the good work. Actually wargaming is enjoying something of a minor boom in these parts (Vancouver-Burnaby) following a tournament we held last summer aL the Pacific National Exhibition here. It was part of the hobby show. At times we had people standing around three deep watching the games, which in addition to tournament struggles, involved display games too. It covered a two-week period. We had a sign-up book and got more than 100 names. A follow up led to the establishment of several new groups in the area. Latest expansion is the possibility of the formation of wargames club at the University of British Columbia here which has an enrolment of 26,000 students. We are working on the Ancient period now. Some of us found Tony Bath's rules a bit complicated (that is--parts of them, especially those having to do with movement and arrow fire) so a simplification has been taking place. We plan to the imaginary continent bit, with the map based on the area outlined in The Lord of the Rings. Incidentally I should explain the University team won the PNE Tournament. Their team of Frank Skinner and Doug Warne defeated Wayne Berries and yours truly in two straight games in the finals, although we made them play an extra move to do it in the final game. Wayne and I comprised the Burnaby entry. It was strictly based on A.C.W. rules in simplified form. One of the B.C. Wargamers is Peter Milner, who lives in Prince George, 500 miles north of here. He says he played with you fellows at one-time. he comes from Southampton and has thousands of Napoleonic flats. We played on the floor of the basement and boy did I ever have sore knees after? He is doing a series of Napoleonic drawings for The Trumpeter now. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 99 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