WDM Companion

[kzucker]

Changes at the Magazine: We no longer offer subscriptions, mainly because we do not have a subscription manager. In addition, the magazine appears so infrequently that it makes more sense to offer pre-order on each new individual issue.

In order to make up for the lack of new material, we are going to reprint all the old issues in a single book.

The Compendium will be a 144-page perfect-bound paperback covering all the articles in the magazine since Vol II, Nr. 3. There will be 100 pages of reprinted material up through Vol. II, Nr. 7. In addition, there will be new material from the WDM staff as well as articles from hobby luminaries. Not sure on the price but will announce a pre-order for this soon.

P.S. If you have a current subscription we will provide all the magazines you have coming through expiration.

[kzucker]

Issue 3 cover & masthead - 2pp
Outgoing Mail - 1p
1806 Q&A & Letters - 1p
Feedback - 1p
1814 History and Game - 2pp
On Flow - 4pp
The Invasion of Portugal - 4pp
Introducing Staff & Associates of OSG - 4pp

Issue 4 cover & masthead - 2pp
Outgoing Mail - 1p
La Guerre Q&A - 4pp
Fireside Chat - 2pp
Last Days of the Grande Armee - 1p
Pre-Advanced - 1p
La Guerre: One Man's Ceiling - 1p
Work in Progress - 2pp

Issue 5 cover & masthead - 2pp
Bonaparte in Italy - 2pp
OSG's Operational Level games - 1p
Napoleon & Waterloo CD - 3pp
Napoleonic Tour Itinerary - 1p
The Sun of Austerlitz - 2pp
Feedback Ratings - 1p
The Emperor Returns & LDGA - 2pp
Design Symposium - 5pp
P-250 Updates - 2pp
A Question of Elan & LDGA Q&A - 5pp

Issue 6 cover & masthead - 2pp
Napoleon in Vilna - 3pp
The Road to Victory in La Guerre - 5pp
P-250 Updates - 2pp
Feedback - 1pp
Evaluation of Combat Results (CoN) - 6pp
Bonaparte in Italy Replay - 1p
Napoleonic Tour Itinerary - 1p
Modus Operandi - 1p

Issue 7 cover & masthead - 2pp
Crossing the Mincio - 1p
Napoleonic Operations from Castiglione to Waterloo - 10pp
P-250 Updates - 1p
Kutusov's Approach - 2pp
History as I Remember It - 2pp
The Information War - 2pp
Set Up Notes for SuA - 2pp
Editorial - 1p

Total of reprinted material: 104 pages
(out of) Total pages: 144

[Cundiff]

I tend to be an inveterate collector, however, IF I'm going to collect something I want to get the entire collection. That being said, and the CD you're offering going back only to Vol. 2 No. 3, I wouldn't be interested. I simply wouldn't want Part of something.

BUT, if you offered the ENTIRE collection from Vol. 1 No. 1 to the present, well, THAT's a horse of a different color. THAT I'd pay for .... if it wasn't so expensive as to be prohibitive.

Any chance of the entire collection being offered?

Cundiff

[kzucker]

Hi Tom,

Sure, some people are funny that way. We made a decision based on the quality of the first two issues of WDM Volume 2. They just were not up to snuff, at that point the magazine was not fully realized. You aren't missing a thing.

[Cundiff]

Aye, I'm funny that way, I confess :)

What about Volume 1? You say that issues 1 and 2 of Volume 2 were not up to par, but what about the entire first Volume? Surely there are things of value in all of it. Sometimes the quality of the prose is bad, and that surely occurs with most author's first efforts, and why I read and edit most of the stuff in Old Soldiers, even from veteran authors. However, the concepts they're trying to communicate are usually good, just not well expressed. But, if bad writing offended me, then I'm afraid I'd never read the local newspaper. True enough there's the understandable desire not to publish bad material, but sometimes the material isn't necessarily bad, just the prose is bad. That's your decision to make, of course, but for me, well, I'd be more than happy to see the articles. IF the problem is one of bad writing, forward them to me, and I'll do the editing and bring them up to par. I'm really pretty good at that. Honest!

Take Care,
Tom

[kzucker]

Tom,

I will send you the material, and you can evaluate it for yourself. It is true that we could add in the old Volume I material.

[kzucker]

More thoughts about adding more stuff...

Rather than just reprinting the material in order, I want to have sections to the book and group articles from disparate issues by theme.

Taking Issue Nr. 6 as an example, it had a perfect balance of material in every Themetic category.

Napoleonic Operations (Napoleon in Vilna)
Tactical Tips (The Road to Victory in La Guerre)
Company News (P-250 Updates, Feedback)
Nuts 'n Bolts (Evaluation of CRT Results)
Replays (BiI)
Napoleonic Tours (Spain)
Editorials (Modus Operandi)

I hope to commission a lead in article of a good length to introduce each of the above sections.

[Cundiff]

Tom,

I will send you the material, and you can evaluate it for yourself. It is true that we could add in the old Volume I material.

Look forward to seeing it. My pen is yours for the asking.

Cundiff

[kzucker]

Tom, Do you have pagemaker?

[Cundiff]

Howdy Kevin,

No, I don't. I have the simple stuff, MS Word. I can mostly read Adobe, but cannot alter a pdf. Meaning I can usually read them ... usually, but not always. For myself, I always found simpler is better, and I've stuck to MS products as a result.

Take Care,
Tom

[kzucker]

Tom,

Please check out www.magweb.com All the back issues of WDM are there (except for Vol. II, Nr. 6 and 8).

I would recommend anybody serious about their hobby to go and get a subscription to magweb.

[Cundiff]

Maybe one day, but there's too many games to buy.

[kzucker]

We had decided to take Tom's advice and add the other issues. Here is the rough list of material from Vol. I

Vol I, Nr. 1, Beyond Cardboard
Vol I, Nr. 1, Nap at Leipzig
Vol I, Nr. 1, Programme
Vol I, Nr. 1, Why Did They
Vol I, Nr. 1, Zen and the Art
Vol I, Nr. 2, Battlefronts
Vol I, Nr. 2, Editorial
Vol I, Nr. 2, Fellowship
Vol I, Nr. 2, Letters
Vol I, Nr. 2, Origins 79
Vol I, Nr. 2, Work in Progress
Vol I, Nr. 3, Ground Zero
Vol I, Nr. 3, Letters
Vol I, Nr. 3, Notes on Research
Vol I, Nr. 3, On Responsibility
Vol I, Nr. 3, Revision
Vol I, Nr. 3, Work in Progress