Editorial

     Well, since the last issue quite a lot has happened.
The S.A.H.W.S. has finally ceased to be.  Its members have
moved,  lot, stock and barrel across to us.  I never
thought, when, way back in 1975 I voted on the original
S.A.H.W.S. constitution's provisions for winding the club up
that they would actually be enacted.  Oh, well, welcome
aboard boys.   We've already seen Doug doing his stuff with
his Romans and StarGuard.  Sundays are much more crowded and
the fresh injection of members is very welcome.  We already
have several contributions from them in this issue and so I
hope they will continue to write further articles for us.

     We have also seen a veritable explosion once more of
interest in Ancients and Napoleonics, two areas which while
not exactly dormant have not been anywhere as active as they
once were.  Its interesting how gaming at the club tends to
be cyclic.   Everybody will be doing World War 2 and then
everybody Ancients and so on.  Personally, I'd much rather
see a nice mix of  periods, which does happen occassionally,
I'm glad to say.  That way no one feels left out if their
personal interests don't necessarily coincide with what the
current cycle is.

     This issue is a bumper one with over 40 pages of
articles.  In this issue we see several new regular features
start.  The first is the "Bookshelf", a series of short book
reviews which might be of interest to wargamers (so if you
have read a book lately which you thought was good, please
do a review).  The second is a competition of the "What is
it?" variety and the third is a series of articles about the
more unusual types of weapon which have been developed but
never used.

     Now to the social front.  Two big occasions of note
have come and gone.  One is that Nick Vorgic and his partner
Shellie had a son a short while ago, named Jake.  Having
recently been there, I do hope that Nick has plenty of sleep
stored up before the event.  The second, and in many ways
the more surprising is that Stephen Pinches got married on
July 2nd to Karen.  Yes, Karen finally popped the question
and Stephen was taken (or dare I say dragged?) down the
aisle.  We expect a report, to be published exclusively here
in our next issue,  from the Wandering Wargamer on the
delights of Bali where he and his new bride are
honeymooning.


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