Our last issue brought in a great deal of positive mail, a 10% increase in membership, and covered more topics than previously attempted. However the editor made one hell of an error by omitting Dean West's name as author of last issue's scenario on Pegram's Farm. It was one of those things that I hope never to repeat. I apologize for the oversight Dean - it WAS an incredible scenario! One positive result of my statement (exasperated) regarding the lack of input, scenarios, or articles from rules authors other than from JOHNNY REB is the fact that I have received material for publication from Paul Koch, author of ON To RICHMOND, and from the authors of THIS HALLOWED GROUND and BUGLES, BAYONETS, AND BANNERS. Still to be heard from is Scotty Bowden or someone else representing STARS IN BARS 3rd Edition. It is dissapointing that this is the case since those members who use SNB3 are "getting the shaft". To make up for this, if enough people write in stating that they play with SNB3, I will attempt to write a few scenarios for that rules set myself (using the changes that I listed in the last issue). IF YOU USE SNB3 PLEASE WRITE TO ME SO THAT I CAN TELL WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS ANY INTEREST IN SCENARIOS GEARED TO THAT RULES SYSTEM! Otherwise, it's hard to motivate myself to write something when the author of the rules set won't even assist in helping us out (us meaning those members who own Scotty's rules). The flag project had been dragging along until late May. As stated before, I had been photographing the flags at Confederate Memorial Hall and had been staggered at the extremely poor condition of many of those made of silk. In several instances there was little more than the cotton borders left, plus "Silk dust" -reconstruction from this would have been difficult indeed. However, I learned that a similar project had been done in the 1950's and located a set of prints at the Louisiana National Guard (which includes the Washington Artillery) Library. Through the courtesy of Lionel Bienvenu, the archivist, I was able to make copy prints which are now being drawn by Bill Currie for use in our magazine. The first set will appear in the next issue. The idea of making 15mm scale drawings has been scrapped since the detailing would be lost. Most of the flags were typical flags of the Confederate army - stars and bars and early battle flag types that can be done by hand or with La Legion flags (yes, those are again available). I would like to compliment Clay Cooper on his fine statistical study of regimental sizes, small arms, and artillery, along with his comparison of JOHNNY REB Ist and 2nd Edition artillery effectiveness, both of which appear in this issue. While there are some members who might object to so much space being devoted to "numbers", the object of the article is to assist people in understanding regimental sizes and arms at various battles and time periods. These stats can be used to generate random games, of which I am an avid proponent. Again, my apologies to those who would prefer to see other kinds of articles but we consider the stats to be important based on the number of requests received. Back to The Zouave Vol II No. 2 Table of Contents Back to The Zouave List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1988 The American Civil War Society This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com