I wish to apologize to our readers for the lateness of the 1990 Winter issue, which wasn't mailed out until early March. I could make many excuses, but the fact is that it should have gone out earlier. Regardless, this issue is being sent out about one month late, but the rest of the year will be on time! I thank all of you who were patient with us. 1991 finds us opening with an exciting tribute to a new rules set for Civil War miniatures, FIRE & FURY. There have been few things published in the last ten or so years that have drawn the attention of garners like these rules have. Not since ON TO RICHMOND and JOHNNY REB have so many people changed over to a new favorite. Judging from the number of letters received by us, many of you have been anxiously awaiting a review of these rules and scenarios to use. Within these pages you will find a review of FIRE & FURY, written by Clay Cooper, and a scenario for the Battle of Shiloh, written by Richard Hasenauer, the author of the rules set. It is my hope that you will find these pleasing to you. Richard has promised to help support his rules set within the pages of THE ZOUAVE by answering any questions that might arise, and by publishing various scenarios for use with his rules. We can't ask for more than that! Some members have complained of not being able to afford the commercially prepared flags that are on sale at various dealers. To help with this, we have published a page of pen-line drawn flags that can be photocopied (you have our permission for this) and colored in. They are appropriate for 15mm figures. In addition, we have published for the sake of our ACW naval enthusiasts, a fine article on the color schemes of various Confederate vessels. Also, we have included a Johnny Reb scenario called "Dawn Attack" that presents another way to play out a part of the battle of Shiloh. Coming up in the remaining issues for 1991 will be a series of flag illustrations, both Confederate and Union that comprise part of our flag project. We believe that by giving examples of such flags, wargamers will benefit by being better able to accurately depict units on the game table. We are also frantically searching for uniform information on many of the more exotic, but unwritten about, regiments and companies. We are still getting letters from people requesting that we do more regimental and/or brigade histories to tie scenarios to. It boggles my mind that in all these years, we have still not received articles geared to some of the more famous Confederate brigades such as Hood's Texans and Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade. Anyone wishing to send us a scholarly work on these units should submit them as soon as possible - first come, first served. We have spent much of the past year on Union units, having done much on Confederates in 1989. That means that this is the year to devote a lot of space to the Confederate fighting men! By the way, we are doing fine and will continue to publish this magazine. I appreciate the many letters of support received. As you might note, we have gone to a slightly trimmed down version of 20 pages, which will continue until our subscription base creeps up to 1000 members. Other than helping to build up membership, readers can assist by writing and submitting articles. I have included in this issue all of the parameters needed to have you send us "camera ready" articles. If you happen to use a computer or word processor to do your writing, it helps us greatly if we don't have to retype your masterpiece. Check for typos, right-hand justify the margins, and make it pretty! Thanks to our supporters in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, we have obtained a fair number of new members. Unfortunately, there are still many of you who have not sent your 1991 dues in. This is a problem each year, and I often get renewals in June or July from as many as 20% of our membership, who state, 'Tm sorry about the lateness, etc.". I am sending this issue out to each person who was a member last year, whether or not they renewed. This is in the hope of getting procrastinators to feel guilty enough to ante up! Maybe, in some way, that will make up for the lateness in getting issues out recently. We still need a push from all members to recruit others. If we continue to get new members at the current rate and keep our old members we will be able to increase the size of the magazine again. My heartfelt thanks to the many people who sent in donations to keep us going. They are truly appreciated! PARAMETERS FOR SENDING US "CAMERA READY" ARTICLES" If you have a computer and either a daisy wheel printer or laser type printer, or if you have a word processor with the ability to print out "letter quality" pages, please pay attention to the following parameters. Again, this is for those of you who are able to send in camera ready articles. 1. Leave sufficient space at the top of the first page for us to but the name of the article and the author's name as per all of the articles seen in our magazine as of late. 2. Check very carefully for typos, sending us a final copy that has been proof read, If not, we may have to type the article all over again, defeating the purpose of sending us camera ready articles. 3. The margins used by us on our own computer program are as follows: Left and Right hand margins are set at ".60" inch; The Top and Bottom margins are set at ".75" inches. While I am aware that different programs and computers do not exactly duplicate each others' parameters, following these guidelines should leave sufficient space for us to add page numbers and a heading. 4. Please try to make the article visually appealing. This can be done by using columns or any other way that you would wish to see your article appear in print. 5. Please make sure that you either manage to get the last page of your article to cover the entire page, or leave a little more than a half page for us to insert an advertisement. Back to The Zouave Vol V No. 1 Table of Contents Back to The Zouave List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1991 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