Old Soldiers Magazine was founded out of the ashes of the old “Boardgamer” magazine then published by Bruce Monnin, now the editor of Operations Magazine, the house organ for Multi-Man Publishing.  When Bruce announced his acceptance of a position with MMP he decided to end publication of The Boardgamer.  At the time I was one of the more prolific writers for his publication.  Time neared the end for the Boardgamer, and I received more and more entreaties from its subscribers to take over publication of the magazine.  I was reluctant to say the least because I had been a writer for wargame magazines for some 20 years but knew nothing of publishing.  Some discussions ensued between Bruce and I, and I decided that a “new” magazine should be founded because the purpose behind the Boardgamer and what was soon to be Old Soldiers Magazine differed as I conceived it.  It was my concept that Old Soldiers would not be dedicated solely to old Avalon Hill games or those games having heavy play at the World Boardgame Championships (WBC) which had been the theme behind The Boardgamer, but that the focus of Old Soldiers Magazine would be broadened to include all old out of print games, even sports games.  It was also my purpose to support the smaller game companies who weren’t so well founded that they could afford their own house magazine.  I’ve always thought the smaller companies were most innovative and that over time there had been so many small companies whose innovative ideas had simply fallen into the dust of time because they didn’t have the ability or means to generate sales and to reach out to the wargaming public.  Their innovative game designs simply were lost and promising designers became “one game curiosities”.  I hope Old Soldiers can do something, small it might be, to help these smaller designers and companies, because they are the future of the hobby.