IFW Monthly, vol. 2 no. 7 (July 1969)

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Title: International Federation of Wargaming Monthly, vol. 2 no. 7, July 1969
Type: Wargaming Club zine
Copyright: The INTERNATIONAL WARGAMER is publisher monthly by the International Federation of Wargaming. All rights reserved. Copywrite July, 1969.
Editor-in-Chief: Phil Pritchard
Society Editor: Lenard Lakofka
News Editor: Bruce Ogden
Committee Editor: Bill McDuffie
Illustrators: John Bobek (cover), Mark Nyderek
Contributing Editors: Tony Morale, Lewis Ritter, Mark Goldberg
Printing Crew: Bill Hoyer, Lenard Lakofka
President: William Hoyer
Vice President: Lenard W. Lakofka
Place of Publication: n/a
Printer: n/a
Cover Price: n/a
Mass: 64g
Dimensions: Height 27.9cm, Width 21.5cm, Depth .3cm
Format: Full sized, 28 pages including light cardstock front cover printed front and back (light yellow with red, blue, and black ink), 3 staples. I believe this issue is missing LIASONS DANGEREUSES. by Lakofka. It is listed as a Special in the table of contents where the page numbers are usually located. I am guessing it was either tore out (doesn't look like it) or included in the mailing envelop.

Contents:
ARTICLES:
Midway Variant Revised (Parts II & III). by Smith
What Do You Call That? by Mansfield
On Game Design. by Goldberg
Ratings. by Ritter
The Observation Post. by Von Boozer
The Headquarters Unit. by Reddoch
A Nomenclature of Wargamers. by Hoyer
LIASONS DANGEREUSES. by Lakofka

DEPARTMENTS
Cover
Officer Address List
Index
Letters to the Editor
Editorial. by Lakofka
Editorial. by Pritchard
Committee Reports
Society Report. by Lakofka
Regional Director's Reports
Membership Information
Convention Activities (Virginia and Chicago)
Summer and Fall Conventions
COW's Corner. by Ogden
Rear Guard. by Pritchard
Advertisements

Advertisements of interest:
GALACTIC DIPOLOMACY (lengthy, nearly full paged ad describing the game and contact for offer for sale. Len Lakofka of Chicago, IL is the contact)
S&T back issues (touted as collector issues. Contact is Gary Gygax in Lake Geneva, WI)
GALAXIAN (magazine subscription offer that covers space wargaming, space warfare, including fantasy -- all within the SF field. Contact is Phil Pritchard in Tucson, Arizona)
PANZERFAUST (magazine subscription offer. Contact is POW - Pennsylvania Organized Wargamers, in Sayer, PA)


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Scribe's Musings:

I am missing the special section LIASONS DANGEREUSES. by Lakofka. It would seem as if one page is appended to the very end of this issue as it doesn't really go along with anything else in the issue from what I can tell.

I got a hoot out of John Mansfield's article WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT? During the article he takes a hard look at the differences between Strategy and Tactics (the words). He recommends....."A good way to remember the difference between the two is to think of your and your girlfriend. How you get her up to your apartment is Strategy, what you do with her there is Tactics.

ON GAME DESIGN by Mark Goldberg had a blurb about 'playbalance' in game design and game play. This is a very common mantra later seen in D&D publications from TSR. Just another connection in similarities between the methods of administering and playing wargames and its eventual younger cousin, RPGs.

The club news in this magazine deals extensively with the apparent referendum to purchase or take over Strategy and Tactics magazine by the IFW. Apparently the plan was to merge IW with S&T. Clearly it never happened and none of the articles in the magazine detail the idea to any extent. Mentioned also in club news is THE MESSENGER as being yet another zine produced by IFW for the exclusive purpose of communicating club business to administrators.
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