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12/8/11

"The Sword In Africa" Action and Event Decks open for Subscription.

11/11/11

Three NEW Game Card Decks! The Funny Little Wars Event Deck, and the "Safari" and "River" Event Decks for The Sword In Africa.

6/26/11

"Little Houses," "Little Flags," "Little Cars," and "Little...Stuff" for 54mm War Games in general, and Funny Little Wars in particular, now newly released or expanded.

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TVAG's Newest Game Card Decks For

"Funny Little Wars" and

"The Sword In Africa"

The latest additions to the rapidly growing line of game accessories for another member of the most popular Colonial War Game Rules in the world, "The Sword and The Flame ."

"The Sword In Africa," now has all FOUR Game Decks to cover every aspect of Skirmish Gaming in Darkest Africa. The first two were the Safari and River Event Decks already available, and the next pair is the Action and Battle Event Decks. These are now available by Subscription for $8.00 each, or $15.00 for them both until December 16. Please E-mail TVAG to place your order and get more details.

Padre Paul Wright has completed his original Event Deck for use with Funny Little Wars , adding more fun and suspense to his paean to Classic Toy Soldier Games in the Garden.

See the Game Decks Page for complete details. 

Other Game Decks for TVAG products are on the drawing boards, and we're open to your suggestions!


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Where The General Tells You More Than He Knows

About What's Going On In The Background Here

December, 2011

Item: NOT QUITE SO BURIED ALIVE!

Okay, two more Game Card Decks have just been added, and I can't fully count all those still in the pipe.  After Padre Paul Wrights "Funny Little Wars" Event Deck, and the first two game decks for "The Sword In Africa," (TSIA) I've been able to add the key TSIA Action and Event Decks.  Or at least, they're on the Printer's schedule, and the short Subscription now going on will get them out--I hope--by the end of the year.

Still involved--for a while longer, at least--in an amazing opportunity that I'm going to let take over much of the rest of the year which, if it actually comes to pass, will be HUGE for me personally, and of considerable interest to those still waiting for Gone To See The Elephant to get off the dime (see below).

I  remain in Tease Mode on this until--if and when--there's something solid I can share, but it could be cooler than liquid nitrogen.

Item: What's Coming Down The Pike 

Pretty much everything put down in November is still true, and I leave my earlier post standing--it's all still true, if closer, perhaps, to fruition.

Other books on the cusp of falling on my Editor's Desk include the long awaited master work--and that's not just hype--by Andrew Preziosi as he moves towards completion of what is being called the Sikh Wars Resource Book.  An earlier, more modest publication, was still the Last Word on OB's for the First Sikh War, but in the intervening years, more data has finally be found (some really old, rare books here), and the new edition will be just as exhaustive for the Second Sikh War, but also for the entire history of the Khalsa from 1799 to last muster in 1849.  I won't try to sell you one this here, but I PROMISE there is no other book ever written that has this much data. It's one for the College Libraries, and that's where some issues will definitely be going.

Current buzz is a late winter/early spring 20l2 publication.  

The other titles include a history of every US Army Officer killed fighting Native Americans from 1865 to the last to fall in 1898(!). This has been a 20+ years long project by a local Gent and it's nearing readiness for printing even now.  Should be out this Winter.

Another book is really going to be welcomes by fans of the Great Northern War and the Era of the Marlburian Campaigns.  It will be an illustrated history of the Brandenburg Navy and Army, with details on ships and units that will go a long way to throw some bright light on a comparatively obscure subject--even for War Gamers!  This one is the baby of one of the Curators at the US Army Artillery Museum at Fort Sill, OK, and, Brother, does he have some neat resources there!

For months I've been expecting to begin the "Big Push" on the final edit of the long overdue Gone To See The Elephant rules for the Mexican War.  But I have repeatedly had to postpone it in order to crank out products which, frankly, sell faster and bring in income NOW, rather than maybe six months from now.  I hope to start again after the New Year as some of the above projects should be coming to me "shovel ready" (a wonderfully abused term of late) and which may be able to come to press quicker than usual.  Maybe.

I'll make a formal announcement when the glacier starts sliding.

Mad Dogs With Guns (MDWG), by Howard Whitehouse and Roderick Robertson should finally be coming off "Hold," soon as the latter Gent has recently sent me a mountain of excellent photos of painted miniatures, "Mean Streets," and properly scaled autos with which to help illustrate the work.  The ms was mostly ready the last time I looked, and the plan is to see if I can get it into print ahead of most of the other projects up there.  Don't look for it for Christmas this year, but it might be around for Groundhog Day.  Maybe.

Other (working) titles in the queue still include "Usuthu!": Battles of the Zulu War, 1879, a complete set of rules with topographic maps and full OB's for re-fighting the historical battles in 1:10 (sic!) scale in short, sharp games with HORDES of figures--unless you wear a Redcoat!.  Originally developed years ago by Chris Ferree using another original and  unique gaming system specifically designed to represent the peculiar circumstances of campaigning in Zululand, the new edition will be expanded in several ways, and will make battles like Isandlwana and Ulundi actually possible, practical, and  exciting as the original articles on the table top.

And if the above paragraph sounds familiar, it ought to:  It's the same one from March this year (and December, last year).  This is still very much a "goer," but there's just so much out front....

I promise this will see publication--and it will be well worth the wait!

Item: Little Warriors

STILL WAITING for a certain service provider of long association with TVAG to get to us, but we are weekly awaiting the metal masters and sample resin castings for the ready-to-pop "Little Warriors" line.  The Japanese Army is finished, and a major head start on Balkanoids is already in hand.

Indeed, we ought to be able to triple, if not quadruple, our total line of these figures almost literally overnight, or certainly as soon as I can pay for the molds to be made for the already completed figures to go into their molds.

This has been a project that has taken up a great deal of my time and energy in 2011, but if it plays out as it looks now that it will, TVAG will be a real Toy Soldier Maker/Seller.  

Specifically, the 54mm original sculpts by my old friend and colleague, Chris Ferree, have really become The Big Thing, and we hope to have them in full production by the end of the year.  I won't make any claims I can't guarantee yet, but the plan now is to have the rapidly increasing line of figures in support of Funny Little Wars produced in a paintable "hard" plastic, rather than metal.  It will be possible to price these so that they can be bought in whole units and made available through as many of the traditional Toy Soldier shops and sellers we can get them into.

More details, again, as we have the first production figures in hand, though the prototypes were at the casters over a month ago.  Watch for the only 54mm (1:32) Japanese Army for the period of 1900--1914, complete with Infantry, Cavalry (mounted and dismounted), Artillery Crews, Command Figures, on foot and horseback, Naval Landing Troops and Officers, and an odd-or-end, too.  These will also join the first round of European Civilians, more military personality/character figures, and so much more.

I hope to have photos of these first plastic casts going up as soon as we get our first samples--possibly in the week of December 12.

And now, we return you to the dance portion of our broadcast....


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B'HOYS!
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"Send A Gunboat!" A line of color card stock Native Warships and Gunboats in
both 15mm and 25mm scales, designed by Richard Houston and Chris Ferree for

The Kris And The Flame and Boilers And Breechloaders
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Mean Streets- A complete card stock American City in 28mm scale representing the
period 1920-1950, perfect for Gangster, Pulp Fiction, and other 20th Century Adventure
Gaming.

Mean Sets the perfect complement to "Mean Streets." 3D Card stock 28mm
room & building Interiors , complete with furniture, art, posters, and accessories, perfect
for Pulp Fiction, Horror, and Gangster/Detective role playing games.

The Kris and the Flame
Figures, Ship & Native Hut models, Rules, and Accessories for gaming the sea and
land campaigns against the Malay and Moro Pirates in the 19th Century

Buffalo Chip - A complete card stock Western Town in 28mm scale for your
American Wild West and Victorian Colonial gaming.

East Indian Buildings - A full line of architectural styles of everyday dwellings in
various regions of the Sub-Continent for use with John Company or other rules sets.
Available in both 15mm and 28mm scales.
Earthworks - Full color, card stock sections for self assembly, providing field works for 19th Century battles. Suitable for use with John Company and Available in both 15mm
and 28mm scales.

Houston's Ships
Hand-crafted one-of-a-kind War Gaming Ship Models from the old master,
Richard Houston.

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Bobby Jackson's exquisite mini-sculptures for B'hoys! and other Victorian-era gaming.

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