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1 GREAT NEWS For 15rnrn Players! Garners Tell Us Our 15"s Are Better Than Their 25"s. Here Are A Few Reasons Why!! 1. QUALITY IF YOU CAN FIND BETTER FIGURES THAN THESE - BUY THEM. TIN SOLDIER AZTECS DIXON SUMURAI ESSEX HELLENISTICS ESSEX SAXONS I ~ r ESSEX VIKINGS ESSEX SAXONS SEND $2.00 FOR FULL LISTING AND SAMPLES

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3 'lcbr ~1)-u tt.i~tt MANAGING EDITOR: Richard L. Bryant BUSINESS MANAGER: Leo Cronin ART DIRECTOR: Joseph Miceli ADVERTISING MANAGER: Bruce Milligan THEME EDITOR: NAPOLEON THE LITTLE Pat Condray CONTRIBUTING EDITORS William Abrams; Jim Arnold; Ken Bunger; 'Robert Beattie; Lynn Bodin; Rodman Burr; Steve Carpenter; Pat Condray; Todd Fisher; Bill Greenwald; Jay Hadley; Ian Knight; Paul Koch; Doug Johnson; Robert Mosca; Nick Nascati; Kruse Smith; Walter Simon. Brian Lum STAFF CARTOONISTS: Jose Niera STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS: Pat Condray Tom Desmond THE COURIER DISPATCH: Hal Thinglum STAFF ILLUSTRATORS Alan Archambault, AI Karasa, John Thull, Joe Matthews, Larry Schuman, Terry Manton, Bill Greenwald TYPESETTING: Steve Brown PRINTING: Quantum Printing THE COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. Richard L. Bryant, President DIRECTORS Richard Brya nt, Leo Cronin, Joseph Miceli THE COURIER is published approximately bi-monthly at Brockton, MA USA. SUBSCRIPTIONS USA - $16.00; CANADA & S. AMERICA, surface rate - $ UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE write to: Athena Books, 20 St. Mary's Rd., Doncaster, South Yorkshire DN1 2N P England. AUSTRALIA write to : Essex Miniatures Pty., Ltd., 40 Railway Parade, Lakemba, NSW BACK ISSUES Recent back issues are available for $4.00, USA; $4.50 Canada & Foreign surface; $5.50 Foreign airmail. See last page of issue for listing. Monies in US funds drawn on US banks or International Postal Money Order. Subscriptions start with NEXT published issue after receipt of payment. No responsibility is assumed for statements of fact or opinion made by the authors. No responsibility is assumed for unsolicited manuscripts, but all submissions are welcome, no query necessary. All submissions should contain a self-addressed STAMPED envelope large enough to return the submission. This magazine and other publications ofthe Courier Publishing Company are sold with the understanding that every reasonable attempt is made to deliver them safely through the mails. The Courier Publishing Company is not responsible for items lost in the mails. Replacements will be provided at their usual cost. ALL DOMESTIC DEALER INQUIRIES, ADVERTISING COPY AND INQUIRIES, DOMESTIC SUBSCRIP TIONS AND ARTICLES to THE COURIER, Box 1878, Brockton, MA Entire Contents Copyright 1987 by The Courier. Publishing Company, Inc. THE NEXT THEME YEAR THE VANGUARD EDITOR'S NOTES We are more than half way through the Franco-Prussian theme year and it is time to start thinking of the next. Remember, the theme year is not intended to be a " major" period like Napoleonics or Ancients, but some little-gamed area to expand the reader's horizons. So please send in your suggestions and also suggest a theme editor if you have someone in mind. QUOTABLE W ARGAME QUOTES We have been running " Quotable Wargame Quotes" for a few issues and I was hoping that you would pick up on it and send some in from your own experience. That has not been the case so I have decided on a contest: People whose quotes I use from those send in will get an additional issue tacked on to their subscription. The best one for the year (6 issues) will win a free sub. Selection committee is yours truly! GAMA AWARDS It is once again time to nominate the best new products forthe GAMA Awards. Subscribers will find the ballot on the inside cover of the mailing wrap. We did not have room to print the supplied list of eligible items, so just nominate those items that you like and that were introduced in calendar year Other compain of Miniature Gamer apathy... show them they are wrong and VOTE! This is one way to show your appreciation to the suppliers of our hobby who work at putting out a good product. HISTORICAL MINIATURE VIDEO TAPE A couple of issues ago, I commented on the need for people in the hobby with expertise in other areas to apply that expertise to the betterment of the hobby. We have had a good response! Two people with professional credentials in video taping and with access to professional video tape equipment have volunteered to generate such a tape to help expand the hobby. What we need now is a good script. If anyone out there is knowledgeable in writing professional level viedo scripts and is willing to contribute his effort to the hobby for no more than a laughable royalty please contad me ASAP. Along similar lines, Dean West has availed us of his professional background in insurance to advise Miniature Gamers on how to insure their figures in an article in this issue. MORE SHADY DEALERS I have just received news from Stone Mountain that some parties are attempting to import Hovels from second sources in England to circumventstone Mountain's exclusive import contrad. Don't support anyone you know who may be doing this. It's illegal and undermines the American distributor and manufacturer who we must, in the end, rely on for a sure and fast supply. VOL. VII, NO.4 2

4 NORTH AMERICA'S FOREMOST MINIATURE GAMING MAGAZINE ARTICLES FONTENOY - THE BATTLE, THE ARMIES KEN BUNGER describes the battle and those who fought there THE ROYAL & IMPERIAL ARMY, PAT CONDRAY with orders of battle OBSERVATION BALLOONS IN WARGAMES BILL GREENWALD o n how to build them & how to use them AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN UNIFORMS OF 1859~6 PAT CONDRAY describes the uniforms of the period TH VS. 7TH, AN UMPIRE'S REVIEW RICK LAVERS makes comparisons based on tourney experience A VISIT TO ENGLAND IN SEARCH OF. JIM ARNOLD investigates topics of interest to wargamers THE FEN LAND REVOLT ROBIN PECK with a skirmish scenario based on Old West rules WARGAMERS' WIVES NEED NOT BE WARGAME WIDOWS CHERYL WALLACE with the distaff side of wargaming INSURING YOUR FIGURES DEAN WEST with many good pointers DEPARTMENTS THE REVIEWING STAND with Jay Hadley THE COURIER DISPATCH News of the Hobby BOARDGAMES FOR MINIATURE PLAYERS with Bruce Milligan DISPATCHES FROM THE FIELD Letters to (or at) the Editor VOLLEY FIRE What you like (or hate) about THE COURIER COVER: Fonteroy. British and Hanoverian infantry squares retire under repeated cavairy attacks - Marshal Saxe. Lenfant, Le Musee de Versailles. foreground : Louis XV and 33 3

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6 FONTENOY: British and Hanoverian infantry attacked by French cavalry. (Painted by Van Blarenberghe. The Musee de Versailles.) The Battle of Fontenoy (1745) is, in many ways, the watershed battle of France's Ancien Regime, and perhaps one of the greatest in history. The battle revealed the latent, and some all too obvious, defects of the once great French military machine. The army had not advanced since the early days of Louis XIV, and triumphed primarily because of the generalship of France's great captain, Maurice desaxe. Without a desaxe the French experienced a steady decline ending in the disaster of the Seven Years War. THE CAMPAIGN The War of the Austrian Succession lasted from 1740 to Upon the death of Emperor Charles VI of Austria in 1740, his daughter, Maria Theresa laid claim to the Imperial throne by virtue of a document known as the Pragmatic Sanction. Her claim was challenged by Bavaria's Elector, Charles Albert, who sought the throne himself. Charles had the strong support of France. At the same time, King Frederick II (" the Great" ) of Prussia invaded Silesia, asserting his claim to that eastern Austrian province. In 1742, Austria had made temporary peace with Frederick and had driven the French back to Bavaria. Seeing which way fortune was swinging and fearing for his own Hanover, George II threw his support to Austria. 16,000 British troops joined their Hanoverian allies and the Dutch in the Netherlands. The year 1743 saw much maneuvering, interrupted by the wasted British victory at Dettingen, an then in 1744, the French made an abortive attempt to invade Britain. already average abilities in rapid decline. The elderly Dutch commander, Prince of Waldeck, possessed only mediocre military skill. In command of the French opposing the Pragmatic Army was one of history's great captains, Hermann Maurice Compte de Saxe. He was born one of the 365 illegitimate children of the Elector of Saxony, Frederick Augustus I. Maurice had led an energetic and brilliant career, both in battle and at court, but his health had seriously deteriorated. His suffering from dropsy was constant as was his pain. On campaign, and even in battle, he was carried about in a wicker couch of sorts. His mental capacities, as we shall soon see, had not deteriorated. Prior to Cumberland's arrival in April, the very competent Lord Ligonier was in temporary command of the Pragmatic Army. His aggressive suggestions to wrest the initiative away from the French were not heeded by his Dutch and Austrian contemporaries. The army remained in its quarters near Brussels. De Daxe was not one to wait, and moved his army over the frontier. The French gobbled up the Dutch fortresses of Menin, Ypres and Furnes. The newly arrived Cumberland could only speculate on de Saxe's next objective. Maurice chose the important and imposing fortress oft ournai, garrisoned by 7000 Dutch troops (including a mercenary Scots brigade). De Saxe sent a strong force east towards Mons while the main French Army moved in the other direction and on April 28th invested a surprised Dutch garrison at Tournai. This successful diversion worked just long enough to cause the confused Cumberland to march towards Mons before finally turning towards Tournai upon hearing of desaxe's coup. It was a tired allied army that arrived on May 9th to do battle with the French. The beginning of the 1745 campaign found the Anglo-Hanoverian Dutch, called the Pragmatic Army, under command of the 24 year old William Augustus, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, son of King George II. Young and,nexperienced, Cumberland's appointment was the sole result of an archaic system of privilege to those of high birth. He was simply not qualified for high command. Unfortunately, neither would he have the needed advice from his allied commanders. His advisor, the 75 year old Austrian Marshall, Count Konigsegg, saw his 5 De Saxe had chosen a strong defensive position between Tournai and Cumberland. This was not mere good fortune, as de Saxe had previously reconnoitered the area to find just such a position. The French right flank rested on the Scheidt River at the town of Anthoing. His line ran three-quarters of a mile up to the village of Fontenoy. Both towns were heavily fortified. Between these towns, de Saxe built three redoubts. Turning left from Fontenoy there was an open