Wargamer's Newsletter #2 (1962)

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Title: Wargamer's Newsletter
Item Code: No. 2/May 1962
Type: Fanzine
Copyright: n/a
Editor(s): Donald Featherstone
Artwork: n/a
Cartography: n/a
Place of Publication: Southampton, England
Printer: n/a
Format: 12 page unpaginated softcover (including front cover), stapled, irregular fold over back page (see back cover scan)
ISBN: n/a
Cover Price: n/a
Mass: ?
Dimensions: length 34cm[sic!], width 21cm, thickness .1cm

Content:

Editorial
“War Games Championship” (uncredited)
“An Open Letter to Wargamers” by Jack Gallagher
“2nd Annual Wargamer’s Convention” – 12th & 13th May 1962
“Fun and Games!” by Graham Biddle
“A Wargamer in Paris” by Don Featherstone
“Use of Small Forces against Larger Ones in a Map Game” by Tony Bath
“What’s New?” (uncredited)
“This is the Way Others Do It!”, with contributions by Ed Saunders, Bill Gunson, Carl Reavley and Don Featherstone
“Correspondence Column” (back cover) with correspondence by Brian Rutton, Geoff Kelker, Graham Biddle, Brian Baxter, Bob Willett, Newell Chamberlain, Bill Bunger, David Towell

Rear Cover:


Inky’s inklings: Editorial reprints a letter Featherstone sent to Scruby, asking him to reconsider his decision to terminate the English editoriship of WGD. Jack Gallagher’s “Open Letter” is also focused on the WGD schism (Featherstone had singled out an article by Gallagher in WGD as indicative of the content he refused to print). Featherstone concerned that the subscriber base is not rising...