""Knights Of The Pacific Northwest"--Help Us Find A Copy!" Topic

Gentlefolk,

Please excuse this triple-post, but this is an Emergency Archaeology Project requiring a general call for help to anyone who will hear it.

Some 13 years ago, I and my colleague, Chris Ferree, released his TSATF variant for the wild and woolly days of the Russian-American Company and their endless conflicts with the native inhabitants of Alaska with the above title. Sometimes referred to as "Aleuts, and Tlingets, and Russki's (Oh My!)," it was a skirmish game that featured the remarkable warfare between/among these people, and which was supported by a unique set of 25mm miniatures Chris had sculpted, as well.

After some inquiries, we realized that these figures need to be made available again--indeed, expanded--but what's an obscure figure range/subject without a good set of rules to complement them?

Our problem is that we appear to have lost ALL copies of these rules--printed, electronic, carved in whale/walrus ivory--and it's been way too long just to start over. Appeals Sergeants 3 (the original intended publishers) were fruitless this last weekend, despite a search that referenced their sale of the rules back in the day.

Thus, we turn to anyone who still has an at least readable copy of the rules which you can either send a copy or surrender your original to us. If so, you won't go unrewarded! Besides getting your copy back, you will receive a FREE copy of any next/new edition, AND some free figures from the line when they are re-released, too.

Time is a factor in this, so we earnestly plead for you to get your miner's hat with lamp firmly in place, your picks, shovels, and whatever odd explosives you may need to unearth us a copy over the next week or so. The reward is to the swiftest--or just plain luckiest--but we'll try to find a way to thank everyone who hits pay dirt.

When you hit the mother lode, telegraph the news to TVAG@att.net right away and listen for the celebration at the other end of the line!

Grateful For Your Time And Attention,

TVAG

Patrick,

I still have my hardcopy. Where do you want it sent?

TG

Sounds like a interesting range.
Mark

TGreene!

Please E-mail me at TVAG@att.net and I'll provide the skinny.

As you are the first Gent I've encountered who apparently has the goods, you would be the man in line for a free copy and some figs whenever the product returns--which could be a lot sooner, now!

And to marcho56, the line was pretty thorough, with all manner of Russki Trader/Trapper types, Aleuts (firing the bows from the hip, as was their practice) and Tlingits in full body armor. The latter also came headless with a variety of totemic helmet/masks to plug in for greater variety.

As bizarre and colorful a native force as you likely have never seen, whose full head helmet were musket ball proof at all but point blank range!

Some really unique skirmish gaming possibilities in "True" 25mm, and we're working to bring them back, better than ever.

Thanks to all who continue to offer their help!

TVAG

Any "Boston mans"?

Sorry, rmaker, but I'm just the Publisher and (mean to be) seller of the figures. I will ask Chris, who will mostly likely get the reference, even if it's over my head.

Mind, the figures were pretty neat, and the rules reflected most combatants in the Alaskan version of The Great Game, but if "Boston mans" had a distinct look, I will encourage Chris to sculpt some to provide more variety.

If you care to share any illos or info you think would be helpful, please PM me!

TVAG

The reference is to Louis Lamour's novel Sitka, made into a movie starring Gregory Peck and Ann Blyth entitled The World In His Arms. The hero is an American interloper into Russian territory, referred to as "the Boston mans".

This is a fascinating period. Tlingit in armor, Russian trappers and soldiers, even potential for the British to show up through the Hudson Bay company. I would be all on board for a Kickstarter or revised edition. Good luck, and please keep us posted!

Yes,please keep us informed of your progress.
Mark

Gentlemen!

Mr. Tim Greene has grabbed the brass ring in return for a scanned copy of "Knights Of The Pacific Northwest!"

Now that we have complete ms again, we can begin to republish, after some reworking of the rules, the inclusion of more illos/costume data, and maybe a tweak or two of the rules which make the Tlingits (et al) behave as they should.

axabrax, we hadn't considered a Kickstarter for this, but we will look into it. And, marco56, we will definitely be promoting this as soon as we're ready with either the new rules edition or the return of the full range of figures.

And, as this will remain a variant to TSATF, just watch out for close combat with these cats! If you're an Aleut or other and taken in combat, you'll be immediately marched off by your captor to the genuine job security that comes with slavery. And if you're a Russki, or any other "fur-riner" (pun intended), you don't have to worry about slavery. He'll bash your skull in or slit your throat, guaranteed qualifications for early retirement.

Ah, the joys of trading the baddest boys in the Northwest Pacific!

TVAG

Patrick

I am unsure the words Tlingit and behave belong in the same sentence together.

I remember playing a few games of Knights Of The Pacific Northwest back about a dozen years ago. I had a complete set of Tlingits and another set I had painted up as a rival tribe, Haida I think they were, and all concerned had a fine old time raiding each other's villages, taking each other's kinsfolk as slaves, clubbing the slow, swiping cedar boxes of rancid fish oil, etc…. ah the sweet smell of burning cedarwood longhouses. Even had a few Russian and Aleut figures to add variety. You made the figures, didn't you IIRC.

Then interests shifted and I moved to other projects.

Fun times.

Tim!

Thanks for the shared reminiscences.

Chris Ferree sculpted the figures and worked up the original rule and we offered them first through Richard Houston, and then turned them over to the late, lamented, London War Room.

When they folded--in serious arrears on paying the lines he "sold" them, they and much more were reclaimed. For the last couple of years, TVAG has had everything, but we were overtaxed to bring everything back. Now that we're working with Zombiesmith, we expect to return ALL former ranges--and all the new ones!--back ASAP.

But it was the request from a customer about getting more of the KOTPN figures that just set us off on a sentimental journey of our own, and the realization that the rules and figures deserved to return. And here we are!

The grim shenanigans going on among the many Native American Tribes of the Pacific Northwest, and the interloping Russians and other traders/explorers is really only one of the countless obscure, but wonderfully colorful and bizarre, theaters from all over the world well suited to Colonial War Games, perhaps especially of the Skirmish variety.

TVAG