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• ......... ourter ARTICLES
THE COURIER'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY. ............................................................................................................. 5 BOB BEATTIE discusses Wargaming, Then and Now.
THREE ROADS TO PARIS ................ ..................................................................................................................... 9 PAT CONDRAY play test three sets of Franco-Prussian War rules.
THE AGE OF MERCENARIES .............................................................................................................................. 21 DR .. BUNKER with another controversial look at another look at another era.
COMPUTER ASSISTED WARGAMING .............................................................................................................. 29 CLINTON REILLY discusses what you, the gamer wants in this new adjunct to the hobby.
THE TROJAN ARMY. ........................................................................................................................................... 42 TOM McMILLEN 6- PAUL DOBBINS work up two army list.
ONE THIRD IN RESERVE ................................................................................................................................. 49 T. TAYLOR EARlE with more basic table top tactics.
OPERATION STALEMATE II ............................................................................................................................. 57 ALLEN RAY GARBEE presents another Pacific theatre Command Decision Campaign.
DEPARTMENTS
THE REVIEWING STAND Figures, Rules and Reference Works ............................................................................... 33
THE COURIER DISPATCH News of the Hobby ...................................................................................................................... 47
DISPATCHES FROM THE FIELD Letters to (or at) The Editor .............................................................................................. 63
VOLLEY FIRE What you like (or hate) about The Courier ........................................................................................................... 64
COVER PHOTO: Franco Pnlssian figres from the collection of Dave Waxtel in a scene remeniscent of the church yard at St.Privat Terrain by Military Wargaming Architect Tom Milmore
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W ell as I said last time this issue marks our 25th Anniversary year. To mark the occasion, I asked Bob Beattie who was in at the
birth of The Courier to write a short piece about our beginnings and how the hobby changed over the years. Bob was the first editor of
the newsletter that became The courier and has had as a "sub-hobby" the study of the history of wa;' gaming. I'm sure you will find it interesting.
This is our birthday, butwe are going to tum the tables and give our loyal subscribers the present. Starting with this issue and for the forseeable future, each issue,The Courier will select a subscriber at random to receive a $100 check made out to the dealer of his choice for hobby materials. The dealer must be an advertiser that took out at least a 1/2 page advt. in the
issue associated with the drawing. We hope to report in the following issue who won and what he bought. To participate, you must be a subscriber in good standing for the issue of the drawing.
As I write this the HMGS Cold Wars convention is going on and I am not there! The first East Coast convention I missed since 1969 -I'm going through withdrawal! Illness in the family precluded my going and I apologize to anyone who was inconvenienced by cancellation of the 3 games I was going to put on The Courier Staff did put on 5 other games and I hope that some of you were able to participate. I will be at Historicon with The Courier staff to put on 3 full days of games in the Paradise Room.
As an added incentive to get more replies for VOLLEY FIRE, The Courier is going to award another gift to the winner of the winner of a drawing made up of all the Volley fire cards received for this issue. The gift is the 3 beautifully painted 25mm ECW figures that were the subject of Gary Leitzell's article on painting detailed miniatures that appeared in issue No. 61. these are gorgeous and great to add to your ECWs or just put on a shelf if your are into an other periods, or to trade or sell.
ERRATA Last issue I ruined the spelling of an author' name, a true no-no
in the annals of editing. The article The Bombay Marine ine the last issue was written by Andrew Barrow, not Andrew Ballow. Our apologies to Andrew. In addition there is an error in the Ship Data Table on page 62. a corrected version will be found on page 64 of this issue
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NEW EDITORS This issue sees the addition of two new editors; Terry Gore as
Medeival editor with excursions into Musket and Pike for the time being and Barry Fox as Age of Sail Editor. Both bring much expertise to their periods and I expect we'll see many great articles,Their Wargaming biographies will be found in The Courier Dispatch. Brian Lum is also back with his great cartoons.
DUTCH FlAG ARTICLE the second palt of the Dutch Flag article does not appear in this
issue due to technical difficulties . This, is why I hate multi part articles. I opted not to delay this issue to include the article though the problem has been solved. It will appear in the nest issue. Apologies to any reader this may inconvenience. ~
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THE COURIER'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY WARGAMING THEN AND NOW
BY BOB BEATTIE
Wargaming now and thnt. Right; Early (1970) CL&S game by The Courier Staff at NEWA. Note tape roads and slab hills, also ailJrx wagons inthe foreground. Left: Recntt game by Ovr Banasik using dyed sawdust terrain, Ceo-Hex and Detailed buildings.
Twenty-five years is a long time for anything to last. The average I marriage last fewer years. Most businesses fail before reaching
the quarter century mark. Does anyone work for the same employer for that long any more. How many of us have maintained a friendship that long? Well, luckily for all of us in the wargame hobby, Dick Bryant's involvement with The Courier has lasted that long. Moreover, I am proud to say, my friendship with him has lasted that long as well. As I look back on my life, there are not many things that made much of difference in the affairs of things but I can claim to have gotten Dick into the hobby and then starting The Courier with him.
In 1968 I moved to Boston from Chicago and was looking for gaming opponents. I came across a short note in Pat Condray's The Armchair General: 'Would like to find persons interested in wargaming, R. Bryant." At that time he was an avid diplomacy play-bymailer and had a big slot car layout in his basement. We gottogether to discuss what wargaming was all about and played a game of Column, line, and Square (on a big piece of cardboard from a packing case). Next day he was back with a gaming table he had made (he shares one important attribute with Napoleon, he does not need much sleep). The next night he came back with a calculator for resolving melees. We played games just about every week night for a few months. My apartment was between his work and home.
To this day I do not know if it was the gaming or my ex-wife's cooking that brought him over so often. Some days at work, we would take time out to talk on the phone about projects.
After some months we found other gamers and began a group - the New England Wargamers Association (NEWA). Once the group was in place it needed a newsletter which Dick and I later expanded into a bulletin. In mid-I969 we reached a cross road. Jack Scruby decided to get out of the wargame magazine business and Pat Condray put TAG on hold. Therefore, we thought we might be able to fill the gap. I say "we" with some trepidation because I was leaving Boston for Ann Arl)or and so Dick would bear the burden alone. He was up to the challenge. In just under two years he had become a gaming fanatic. Early issues of The Courier show his strong devotion to the hobby that has continued to this day (and was acknowledged by the hobby community in awarding him the second ever Jack Scruby Award). I tl10ught, correctly, tlut it would be interesting to reread issues of The Counerfrom the first year plus some other publications to help remember what it was like then. It is amazing how far wargaming has come in 25 years; yet there are 11uny things that have not changed much. On the literature front in tllOse days there were a half-dozen little publications circulating. Only one was what we might call a "glossy magazine" format 81/ 2" by II" with photographs
