The fifth issue of Lowrys Guidon came out in mid-1973, after the business was well-established in Maine, but before the depth of the financial crisis it had started had become obvious.

Contents:
Editorial
Beginning in Napoleonics * David Bank
Dunkirk * Harold Totten
Legions & Indians in the Civil War * Gary Gygax
Dice… Four & Twenty and What Lies Between * Gary Gygax

And ten-plus pages of thoroughly out of date listings for board games from Conflict, Gamescience, and Gamma Two, miniatures from Scruby, and Britains, and accessories from Airfix and Miniscenes.