AI has come on in leaps and bounds in the last couple of years, since the editorial change. It used to be that I could read it cover to cover in not much over an hour, as about half the pages were adverts and the rest was either plagiarized from other sources, or so badly written as to seem to be produced by someone whose first language wasn't English. It still isn't great and some of the contributors seem to not have learned how to differentiate certain standard English words (e.g. weather and whether), or how to use punctuation, but it is better.
AA started off quite well, but has moved away from pure airsoft articles and, as mentioned previously, has moved too far towards the military history articles. It's not that I don't like, or read, those bits, it's just that if I want to do that I'll buy one of the specific military history mags, or books. If they continue to move away from the airsoft scene and airtsoft specific readership then they will start to lose circulation and will likely disappear, which will be a loss. The best mag I ever read was the Scandinavian produced Airsoft Soldier. The articles were brilliant and they even went so far as to completely strip the AEGs that they were reviewing. Unfortunately, having decided to produce a mag that was totally devoid of adverts, they soon ran out of money and closed down, taking my five months of pre-paid subscription with them.
