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12/17/09

Astounding Adventures #2 The long delayed second supplement for Howard Whitehouse's classic Pulp Gaming rules, Astounding Tales! 2nd Edition , the ORIGINAL Pulp Roll Playing Rules!

9/08/09

Rough Riders! 15mm War Game figures for The Spanish-American War now available for sale! (And Bloody Well About Time, Too!)

9/08/09

Three NEW additions to Mean Streets ! Go and check out the Jewish Businesses Block, Central Park, and St. Patrick's Cathedral--but keep your head down!

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Astounding Adventures #2 Front Cover

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Astounding Adventures #2

Subscription Now Open!

          After a ridiculously long delay on the part of the Editor (moi), the LONG awaited Scenario Book #2 for Howard Whitehouse’s original rules for Pulp Gaming, Astounding Tales (Second Edition) is finally complete and now available for Subscription.

          The 54 page work contains four complete, ready to play Scenarios, including one of Howard’s own, A Fête Worse Than Death! which was wildly received at ColdWars, 2008.   The other three stories (by Brian L. Foust, AKA “Mirbane the Butler,” Alan Hamilton, and Richard Alan Spas) were inspired by a contest challenging authors to write scenarios to fit some particularly lurid, and authentic, Pulp Magazine covers.

          This they did in spades, doubled, and re-doubled.

          As a new feature for AA #2 not possible in the original AA #1, there are 9 pages of full color game maps to help Directors design their own Sets for each Scene of each Scenario.

          Veterans of new TVAG Subscriptions already know the drill, but for those who may not, here’s the deal:

          1) Pre-Publication Price: $15.00 USD (plus $7.00 domestic postage, $14.00 Overseas).  Payment may be via PayPal to TVAG@worldnet.att.net, or by personal check/money order made payable to “Patrick R. Wilson” (and none other please) and mailed to TVAG's earthly address. 

The expected retail price upon publication is $20.00, and a PDF Edition on CD will be offered for $15.00 as well.  As a further service, interested parties have the option of requesting that their copies of the PDF version of the book be sent directly by E-mail to their provided address, and thus avoid paying any postage costs at all.

If anyone wishes to buy at the same time Astounding Adventures #1, and/or the basic rules, Astounding Tales Second Edition as PDF’s (on CD or not) at the same time, please subtract $5.00 from the total cost of all titles.

 NO MONEY will be requested until the minimum number of 50 copies has been sold, at which point the Subscription for this print run will be CLOSED.  As usual, it’s pretty much "First come, first served!"

          2) All Subscribers' names will appear on the Role of Honor printed in all copies of the initial printing.

          3) Each Subscriber's copy will be numbered, inscribed, and personally autographed by Howard Whitehouse himself.

          This Subscription closes Wednesday, January 6, 2010 with copies to be mailed approximately 10 days later

          And you won’t have to wait nearly so long for the next pair of Astounding Adventures!  Number 3 is a collection of scenarios by long time Pulp gamer and performer, Mr. Jeff Wasileski, as an entire Serial of Scenarios that will take you to—but not necessarily back from—Skull Island itself!  And Number 4 needs but another two or three Scenarios, and it will be ready for Subscription as well.

          So, Astounding Tales! is alive and kicking, now get out there and join the fight against… damn near anything or anyone you can think of!

TVAG

The Old Boy's Current Featured Product:

Mahdist Wars Source Book Special

(Some Still Available!)

Due to a gremlin at my former Printer's shop, I have a number of copies of the MWSB whose Volume I was  accidentally printed in B&W.  I sold a number of these earlier at a special discounted price, but I still have a few more that need to be cleared from my stocks.

These copies in B&W are complete and fine in all respects, but they simply show all color uniform, flag, color plates in grayscale. I have six (6) sets with  both volumes in mint condition, with Vol. I in grayscale, and Vol. II with all its color pages.

All these sets are for sale at $40.00 each on a "first come, first served" basis. Note these prices are $25.00 less than the normal retail price of the full two volume set!

Individual volumes are still for sale, but the B&W Vol. I are now$25.00 each ($10.00 less than if in full color), but Vol. II remains at the original $30.00.

Because my shopping cart cannot handle "high finance," interested parties must E-mail TVAG directly to claim their copies.

I don't know how long they will last, but here is your opportunity to save some serious bucks on what has become a standard reference for War Gamers of the Sudan.

TVAG


For Your Information

FYI

Where The General Tells You More Than He Knows

About What's Going On In The Background Here

December 17, 2009

Item: With the serendipity of what might be Fate, I recently sold a pair of "Mean Streets" Block Sections to Mr. Patrick Connor, in the UK.  He candidly wrote back to say he expected to be disappointed in them, but was very pleasantly surprised to the contrary!  He is a "pro-painter" and modeler with decidedly high standards for himself and his work. Well, one thing leading to another over a period of a couple of months, I redesigned every item in the entire "Mean Streets" line, VASTLY improving them graphically.  Patrick's contributions (and test assemblies) have elevated what was already a unique resource for Pulp Gaming into something quite beyond anything currently on the market, and not least in regards to price. 

Patrick is building all the newly remade Block Sections for himself and I, and has sent 6 of them over The Pond to me already.  With the exception of the intentionally "old" buildings, the rest bear the proper influence of Art Deco design and ornament.  By following the posted construction suggestions, and going the extra mile by cutting out all windows and doors, and insetting them back into the models, as well as using a variety of backing materials, rather than just foam core ("feather board"), he has produced the most astonishingly beautiful models of early 20th Century buildings ever--no brag, just fact.  (Please visit the soon to be updated "Mean Streets" Gallery Page to see photos of the new sets.)

I will be re-releasing the entire line shortly, initially as PDF's at first, and then in professionally printed form, once I can work a deal with my Printers.

Item: And speaking of my new Printers (360 Digital Books), they have made it possible (read "affordable") for me to soon be able to offer all Card Decks as pre-cut, actual "card decks!  I already have in stock the Action Decks for Rough Riders! in just this way, and the price is unchanged ($12.00, plus postage).  As soon as I can raise the cash, I'll have all the other Card Decks (The Sword And The Flame and The Sword In North Africa Event Decks, as well as those for The Sun Never Sets, John Company, and even the old Dynamite Deck will be offered in this "ready to go" form, and again, without the need to raise their prices!

Item: With the nearly miraculous (or so it must seem to Howard Whitehouse, at least) completion of Astounding Adventures #2, the next job is to edit The Hive And The Flame, a dependent variant to the classic The Sword And The Flame.  It is a Victorian Science Fiction game based on the premise that the Alien "Bugs" have landed in Cornwall and Devon, and are consolidating their "beach head" while the rest of Britain tries to throw them back.  Written by Terry Sofian, the 100+ page rule book includes extensive background material, details of the Aliens ("The Hive"), and the accelerated British technology to fight them.  This could be described as "Steam Punk Meets HG Wells," though it is definitely a full blown miniatures war game aimed at 15mm mayhem.

Indeed, Terry had designed a range of 15mm miniatures now ready to be produced by Tom Dye's  GFI/MiniFigs, and only waiting for the rules' release to be offered for sale.

I HOPE (but have learned not to promise) that The Hive And The Flame will be ready for Subscription in January, 2010, but more info will be put up about the game as we get closer to that time.

Item: (Reprise of September's post): And speaking of Howard Whitehouse, he has invited me to participate in completing a new set of rules for Gangsters and related mayhem which he has been developing for Mark Copplestone to be called "Mad Dogs With Guns."  Knowing that TVAG has been side-tracked from our own "We Only Kill Each Other," Howard suggested that I might not only publish his rules, but explore to what extent the two systems might be melded into one mighty tome.  This is the NEXT "full-time project" to start immediately after The Hive And The Flame is in the pipe to the Printers.

And That's The Way Was, Headin' West...

Okay, that's likely the last update for 2009. It's been a slow year for business, but enormous opportunities and major increases in TVAG's catalog will begin in 2010--many more books and miniatures, as well as a number of oddball items. As ever, if anyone has any questions about projects going on here, or anything else for replying to, I'll be glad to do so.

And in the meantime, please accept my best wishes for the best Christmas, and most successful New Year, for each and every one of you and those you hold dear.

We now return to the dance portion of our broadcast....


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B'hoys!
Inspired by Asbury's The Gangs of New York , our exclusive B'hoys! line features Rules, Miniatures, Buildings and Accessories for gaming 19th Century gang warfare or other hand-to-hand action.
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Studio 33
Victorian Era Accessories, including the Dynamite Deck, Victorian Urban Barricades, Hex Bases, the Event Decks for The Sword And The Flame,
& The Sword In North Africa, and the Action Deck for Rough Riders!

Card Deck Prices Permanently Reduced 25%!

"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

Prices Permanently Reduced up to 30%!

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.  Prices Permanently Reduced up to 30%!

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. Prices Permanently Reduced up to 30%!

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.  

Prices Permanently Reduced up to 30%!

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. Prices Permanently Reduced up to 30%!
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.  Prices Permanently Reduced up to 30%!

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

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

"Sergeants Three"
The world's largest publisher of original Wargame Rules for warfare of the Victorian Era, including India, Franco-Prussian and American Civil Wars, Caribbean Pirates, America's "Little Wars," and a myriad of other subjects.

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