International Wargamer, vol. 2 no. 9 (September 1969)

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Title: International Wargamer, vol. 2 no. 9, September 1969
Type: Wargaming Club zine
Copyright: The INTERNATIONAL WARGAMER is publisher monthly by the International Federation of Wargaming. All rights reserved.
Articles and General Editor: Phil Pritchard
Managing Editor: Bill Hoyer
Department Editor: Len Lakofka
Society Editor: Gary Bley
Committee Editor: Wm. McDuffie
Ads Editor: Tony Morale
Contributing Editors: Lewis Ritter, Tony Morale, Mark Goldberg, Terry Stafford
Illustrators: John Bobek (cover), Jean Leander
Typists: Phil Pritchard, Bill Hoyer, Len Lakofka
Mailing Staff: Ken Valentine, Gregg Golemo, Chris Schleicher, Bobek, Leander, Lakofka, Hoyer
Place of Publication: n/a
Printer: n/a
Cover Price: $.50
Mass: 96g
Dimensions: Height 27.9cm, Width 21.5cm, Depth .3cm
Format: Full sized, 40 pages including light cardstock front cover printed front and back (light orange/yellow), 3 staples. I believe this issue of mine was restapled at some point with the original staples removed.

Contents:
ARTICLES:
After Guadacanal, Burma. by Fowler
Midway. by Smith
Victorious German Arms, part IX. by Stafford
The Odds are. by Mansfield
Revolt of the 13th Infantry. by Gritter
Dien Bein Phu, a revision. by Albert
The Aztec Field Army Part I. by Lundstrom
Korea. by Ritter
Ancient Miniatures Rules, Part 4. by Gygax
Fort Zinderneuf. by Gygax
Deployment of Reinforcements in 'Bulge. by Hahnenberg

FEATURES, DEPARTMENTS, & BUSINESS
Officer's List
Ratings. by Ritter
Scuttlebutt. by Morale
Letters to the Editor
Conventions, Long Beach, Lake Geneva, Chicago
Administrative news and useful information
Wargaming news. by Bley
Regional News
Membership Information
Paid Ads

Advertisements of interest:
War books for sale (classified placed by Tom Webster for Ballantine War Books. All available only at the October 4 Chicago convention.)
INTERPLANNETARY COMMUNICATOR (Spacewargaming magazine subscription offer. Produced by GALACTIC FEDERATION. This issue is the first and is purportedly replacing the defunct SPACELANES magazine. No further contact offered)
WORLD WAR II (complete game. Play by mail? By United Wargamers of America. Contact is Mark Dundei of Alta, Iowa)
SPARTA (Interesting ad by other wargaming club. full 3 page advertisement including back page of IW. Presented like article. Written by Russell Powell, Charter Founder, and Dan Hoffbauer, Recruitment and Membership)
STARTREK (paid advertisement urging Startrek, the television series, fans to write a 'nasty' letter to NBC to get the show back on the air. Contact is Robert Schoolfield in Texas)
PANZERFAUST (magazine subscription offered with contact Don Greenwood in Sayre, PA)

Rear cover:

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Scribe's Musings:

Many tidbits of interesting information in this issue. The club news sections makes covering these issues quite a bit more complicated compared to later issues when the club news was split away. At any rate. They announce the club membership has swelled to 250 compared to 53 the year before.

This issue contains part IV of Gary Gygax's ANCIENT MINIATURE RULES article. He cites Tony Bath's RULES OF ANCIENT WARGAMES and RULES FOR MEDIEVAL PERIOD as being used to build upon his rules article.

Len Lakofka writes a report on the 2nd annual LAKE GENEVA CONVENTION held at the Horticulture Hall in Lake Geneva on August 23 and 24. He mentions the convention began with a speech by Gary Gygax followed by an 'auction of wargaming trophies, mementos, games, etc'; auctioneered by John Mansfield. Highlights include: Napoleonics Miniatures game presented by Ray Johnson and Terry Stafford; a WWII tank battle run by Mike Reese and Leon Tucker; Fight in the Skies tournament sponsored by Mike Carr; series of Naval Battles conducted by Tony Morale; Avalon Hill gaming including their new Feudal Wargame; STALENGRAD II run by Mark Goldberg. He mentions an attendance of 268 gamers over the two day event with 68 IFW members in attendance. The event netted $110 for the club.

Society Reports have small bits on the various dedicated societies that focus on a specific period or type of wargaming. The one mention of interest in this issue is the newly formed Ancients Society. It boosts a membership of two. Founding member Tom Webster and Gary Gygax. Tom is mentioned as working on an Atlantis campaign and Gary has a mythical land of Romans and Barbarians set up. Tom's campaign references Arbela as the gaming rules. Medieval campaigns are including under this society in spite of classifying itself as the era before 500AD historically.

Society Report includes a mention of Len Lakofka running the Galactic Federation. An advertisement is run elsewhere in this magazine that is detailed above.

Societies Lists and Rules Committee sub-chairman (as of this issue):
Napoleonic, Civil War, War of the Empires -- Bill McDuffie; Potsdam, NY
Stalingrad -- George Phillies; Cambridge, MA
Bulge -- Jim Hahnenburg; Midland, MI
Galactic Federation -- Len Lakofka; Chicago, IL
WWII Miniatures -- Mike Reese; Harvard, IL
D-Day -- Ken Counselman; Bedford, OH
Anzio -- Joe Alexander; New City, NY
Naval Miniatures -- Tony Morale; Little Neck, NY
Bismarck & Midway -- Sam Ferris; Newberry, MI
Jutland -- Bob Schoolfield; Texarkana, TX
Blitzkrieg -- no president
Fight in the Skies -- Mike Carr; St. Paul, MN
Desert Fox -- Richard Runte; Port Neches, TX
Diplomacy -- Lenard Lakofka; Chicago, IL
Non-Wargames -- Lenard Lakofka; Chicago, IL
Gamescience and 1914 -- no president

Finally, Gygax writes a letter to the editor that is published. He takes a critical exception to the layout of the previous issue while lauding its overall efforts. He offers further criticism of other's gaming articles. I don't recall seeing this type of letter in later issues and I will look for others in earlier issues as I continue down through them.
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