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I think the first 3 had paper dustjackets but the 4) the image is printed right on the hardcover cover - is that correct?

I don't remember ever seeing a dust jacket on #2 or #4 in stores (which both have the the image on the cover, I think), but #3 has a dust jacket & a plain cover underneath.

What distinguishes #2 from #4? I don't see a printing notation in my copy.

Checking the title page gave me the chance to notice that someone named "Nick Lowe" is among the contributors, or was at least a copyright holder. The only previous reference to someone of the name on the Acaeum was Badmike mentioning the singer in a 2008 post. If it really is the singer, then these lyrics were prophecy regarding the quality of the Fantasy Wargaming book:

"Hey long distance, it's a rock and roll romance
CBS is gonna pay a great big advance
Hey Atlantic, come on take a chance
Arista say they love it but the kids can't dance to it

They cut another record, it never was a hit
Someone in the newspaper said it was s***
The drummer is a bookie, the singer is a w****
The bass player's selling clothes he never would have wore"

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i thought this looked interesting but didn't bid. is this a 'homebrew' type of publication? I thought it would go for much more

anyone know anything about it?

I didn't see it.
For that price it would have been worth picking up regardless of what it was.
It's format is in keeping with the products that were play tested at conventions back in those days.

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i thought this looked interesting but didn't bid. is this a 'homebrew' type of publication? I thought it would go for much more

anyone know anything about it?

Based on what I could see of the rules, it was a play-by-mail game.

This is not exactly "interesting" but funny:


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Unless it has been produced for a specific scope (like a con or similar), i wonder why on earth someone should buy one of these mini...

aia wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay:This is not exactly "interesting" but funny:


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Unless it has been produced for a specific scope (like a con or similar), i wonder why on earth someone should buy one of these mini...

I think people bought things like that just for the fun of painting. I don't think they ever intended them to be played with. Like the dwarf on stilts, or the vorpal kitty which is stupidly difficult to find and just as pointless. Wasn't there a goblin rock band or something too?

aia wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay:This is not exactly "interesting" but funny:


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Unless it has been produced for a specific scope (like a con or similar), i wonder why on earth someone should buy one of these mini...

What are you talking about? Doesn't anyone around here understand strategy & tactics as depicted in fiction? Where to begin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Guns_(film)
"One of the men on their list of warrants, Buckshot Roberts (Keith), tracks them down and barricades himself in an outhouse"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Child ... of_Thrones)
"Tyrion, before escaping, sneaks into the Tower of the Hand... then confronts Tywin as he sits on the privy, and kills him with a crossbow when he repeatedly dismisses his son's feelings."

Pulp Fiction - Wikipedia
"Returning to his apartment to retrieve it, he notices a submachine gun on the kitchen counter and hears the toilet flush. When Vincent exits the bathroom, Butch shoots him dead and departs."
"Earlier, after Vincent and Jules have killed Brett in his apartment, another man bursts out of the bathroom and shoots at them"
"While Vincent is in the bathroom, a couple, "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny" hold up the restaurant...Vincent returns with his gun aimed at her, but Jules defuses the situation"

Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets - FuriousCinema.com
"Later on, a young mafioso punk (Robert Carradine) comes in to the bar. When the he sees a drunk man (David Carradine) he’s after enter the bathroom, he goes in and shoots him point blank."

Funny finding:


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This seems to be a JG product in the world of discs...