The last issue to go without a date, this is the May-June 1975 issue. The masthead proclaimed “Incorporating CAMPAIGN Magazine”, marking the end of efforts to sell that magazine to someone else.
Contents:
Third Reich Addenda * Steve Kane
Verdun: The Situation & The Game * Jerrold Thomas
Verdun: The Variants * Jerrold Thomas
Battle Report: Le Caillou * Pete Rice
Beating the System * Charles Starks
Thumbnail Analysis * Editor
Mail Call
G2 Reports * Editor
Available at Wargame Vault.
The fourth issue of Lowrys Guidon came out in October 1972, just before the business moved to Maine. This was the final supplement to the 1972 Discount Catalog, with the 1973 Catalog coming out a few months later.
Contents:
Editorial
What To Do With All Those Wargame Counters * R. Medrow
Micromania * Kevin Slimak
Crossing the ‘T’ * Phil Willows
More Hardtack Additions * Don Lowry
And five-plus pages of thoroughly out of date listings for board games from Panzerfaust Publications, and Conflict Game Company; N-gauge miniatures, and miniatures from Scruby and Model Power.
Available at Wargame Vault.
Roughly the March-April 1975 issue, this was the second one produced in Fallbrook, CA.
Contents:
The Yom Kippur War * Kent H. Clotfelter
Six From Avalon Hill * Don Lowry
The East is Red * Charles Starks
Siege of Gondor * John Van Devender
Sinai: A Critique * Norris L. Darrall
NATO Goes Nuts: The Third Great Imperialist War * Tyrone Bomba
What I Dislike About Critics of SPI * Bob Davis
Thumbnail Analysis * Editor
G2 Reports * Editor
Mail Call
Available at Wargame Vault.
This issue was the first one produced in Fallbrook, CA, which would be the home of the magazine for the rest of its life. This, and the next couple would still carry no cover date, but this one is being considered December ’74/January-February ’75.
Contents:
A Military History of the Third Crusade * Stanley Grip, Jr.
A Look At the Ardennes Offensive * Anthony O’Brien
Ardennes Breakout * Randy Heller
The Myth of the Daylight Naval Battle in WWII * Jack Greene, Jr.
Combined Arms Operations * James Deininger
The Destruction of Army Group Center * Leo W.G. Niehorster
Victory Conditions, Neutrality & Capitalist Imperialism * Tyrone Bomba
Teaching the Beginner * Charles Starks
The Good Old Days * Mark Wiegia
Game Design: CRT-itis … Some Alternatives * Clifford R. Sayre, Jr.
Thumbnail Analysis * Editor
Passing in Review * Editor
Mail Call
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The third issue of Lowrys Guidon came out around late July 1972, after a trip to Maine to secure a larger house for the family and business. It went back down to twelve pages in the same format as the first two issues.
Contents:
Editorial
Modeler’s Corner * Don Lowry
Discovering Wargaming * Chuck Lane
Hardtack Additions * Don Lowry
And five-plus pages of thoroughly out of date listings for models from Tamiya and Bachmann, Scruby and Imrie/Risley miniatures, Roskopf minitanks, scenery from Preiser, the Wargamer’s Guide to Stalingrad, and second edition Chainmail.
Available at Wargame Vault.
This was the last issue produced in Maine, and has a reconstructed date of October-November 1974.
Contents:
Wargamer’s Guide To the American Civil War Part VIII * Don Lowry
The Battle of Middleton * Pete Rice
The Battle of Slovicike Bridge * Ed Eaton
Chainmail Fantasy Variant * Kenneth Burke
December 1941 * Charles Starkes
Operation Market Garden: Game Strategies * Harold Totten
Drang Nach Osten and Untentschieden Game Review * Herschel M. Sarnoff
Survival in WWII * James L. Cole
Game Review: 1776 * Jack Greene, Jr.
Available at Wargame Vault.
The second booklet in Guidon Game’s Wargamer’s Guidebook Series came out around April 1972, and reprinted articles from The Avalon Hill General, International Wargamer, and Panzerfaust collected by Don Greenwood.
These are all about the original 1965 Avalon Hill release of the game, though there is also a review of Guidon Games’ variant Operation Greif.
Contents:
Introduction * Don Greenwood
Before the Bulge * James F. Dunnigan
Operation Greif * Lawrence Schmidt
On the Way to Antwerp * Bob Hultman
Baron von der Heydte Jumps Again * Craig Alder
Bulge Follow-Up * G. Phillies
Allied Defense in Bulge * Len Lakofka
Bulge Commentary * Chuck Lane
How to Lose at Bulge * Myrun Brudnage
How to Capture Antwerp Without Really Trying * Richard Shagrin
Bulge: Isolation & Supply * Mike Carr
Key to German Victory in Bulge * Joseph Pollock
Exploiting the Initiative in Bulge * Don Lowry
Seizing the Initiative in Bulge * Don Lowry
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By the reconstructed schedule, this was the August-September 1974 issue. The big news this time was the sale of Lowrys Hobbies (the original mail-order store) to Pete Rice, under the name “The Toy Soldier”.
Contents:
Game Review: Seven Days * Richard Hamblen
Le Jour de Gloire: The Aftermath of Napoleon’s Victory at Waterloo * Robert D. Harman
Incremental PanzerBlitz * Andy Lavis, Tom Olson & Jim Snellen
Game Review: Two From Rand * Pete Bennett
French Victory in Napoleon at Waterloo * Anthony O’Brien
Allied Victory in Austerlitz * Roland Wong
SPI vs SDC in SEA * Chuck Holland
The Disposition of the German Army, June-December, 1944 * Antonio Munoz
Game Design: Computerized Board-gaming * Scott P. Duncan
Miniature Warfare: The Owlhoot Trio * Gary Gygax
Thumbnail Analysis * Editor
G2 Reports * Editor
Mail Call
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The second issue of Lowrys Guidon came out in April 1972, alongside the 1972 Discount Catalog and shortly after Don Lowry had acquired Panzerfaust from Don Greenwood. It expanded to 20 pages, and had a few more articles than the first issue, but otherwise kept the same format.
Contents:
Editorial
British Line Infantry 1812-15 * Wally Williams, Jr.
Airfix Order of Battle * Don Lowry
Zulu! by Gary Gygax
Rorke’s Drift * Jeff Perren
Modeler’s Corner: The Meat Wagon * Don Lowry
Letters
And nine-plus pages of thoroughly out-of-date listings for books; conventions; miniatures from K&L; models from AHM, Tamiya, Airfix, and Armtec; Guidon Games products; the new Panzerfaust; and Zocchi’s Star Trek Battle Manual.
Available at Wargame Vault.
Don Lowry’s personal copy of Panzerfaust #62 has “Jun-Jul ’74” penciled on the cover, which would be about when this undated issue went out.
Contents:
The Swedish National Army of Gustavus Adolphus * Kent H. Clotfelter
Wargamer’s Guide To the American Civil War, Part VII * Don Lowry
Chaco: Game Review * Jack Greene, Jr
Bar Lev: The Use of the Israeli Air Force * John Hill
Delaying Action * Don Lowry
Winter War, Addendum * Patrick J. Allen
Strategy I Checklist * Harold Totten
Realistic D-Day * Carl Bennett
SS Cavalry – 1945 * Antonio Munoz
Diplomacy: A Fight to the Finnish * Tom Hubbard
Thumbnail Analysis * Editor
Passing in Review * Editor
Reconnaissance in Force * Editor
G2 Reports * Editor
Mail Call
Available at Wargame Vault.