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INDEX OF VOLUME 12 OF SAXE AND VIOLETS, Newsletter of the Society of Daisy, a magazine dedicated to fun, humor and whimsy in the hobby, celebrating Imagi-Nations and Imagination.

March, June, September and December 2017, issues 45 to 50.
#1 March
This is our annual book review issue. The following book reviews are in it.
Charles Grant "Charge! Or How to play War Games.
John Peterson "Playing at the World: a history of simulating wars, people, and fantastic adventures from Chess to Role Playing games.
Donald Featherstone "War Games Through the Aves, Vol 1 to 4.
William A Klingemann "The First Century : Emperors, Gods, and Everyman.
John G. Garrett "Collecting Model Soldiers."
Charles S. Grant "The War Game Companion."
Flavius Josephus "The Jewsh War."
Omar N. Bradley "A soldiers Story."
Phillip Von Hilgers "War Games : A History of War on Paper."
Paddy Griffith "Napoleonic War Gaming for Fun.

Comparative Essay, R.C. Bell "Board and Table Games of Many Civilizations, and
Edward Faulkner "Games Ancient and oriental and how to play them.

Review Esay "When a game is not a game" A review of Paddy Griffith's "Sprawling Wargames: Multi player War Games.

Humorous article "Click-Click-Clickety- Click Down at the Train and Game."

#2 June
"The Narrative Campagn Method."
"The 18th Century Imagi-Nations Campaign."
"The War of the Bazoomian Succession: Analytical Report"
"The War of the Bazoomian Succession: Purple Prose Report."
"A Break from the Train and Game"

#3 September
"The Battle of Picknickov. March 4 1740. Analytical Report"
"The King's Picnic ( Purple Prose report."
"Campaigns, The Real and the Ideal."

#4 December
"The Vela Campaign by William Butler." This is a full campaign which William has provided all the maps, move by more progression of the campaign, illustrations, and he bulletins sent out to the players.
"The Battle of Fleu-De-Coup.

All issues are 16 pages long 8 ½ by 11 inch FULL COLOR with copious maps, photos and charts in all of them. That is why the three latter issues have only one or two articles on them.

We are contemplating a bonus issue this year with either a full board game in it, or a sample of correspondence and writings from The Society.

If you wish to subscribe the cost is $12 USD a year and all of it goes for printing and postage. We do not publish electronically. We accept no advertising.

Saxe and Violets is dedicated to preserving the "Lore" of the hobby. When a war gamer dies so much dies with them, and most of their notes, projects, battle reports and labors of love are tossed into the rubbish heap. We are dedicated to preserving and disseminating this as much as we can. This is done as a service to the hobby and other gamers who might get a copy of their inspiration in their hands and find it valuable as a generator of ideas, and that even twenty years later you can read these things and perhaps get a tip from them, just as Don Featherstone's Wargamers Newsletter, and Jack Scruby's Table Top Talk, among many other club and fanzines did and are still in our files today. Electronic media is too fragile and too soon forgotten. Only an artifact, even a paper one, has the chance of surviving. In a world of fallible electronics it is one more instance of man recording his records and works in ever more perishable media. What is downloaded from the net is stored, put away and soon dumped, forgotten or ravaged by virus' and render unreadable by changes in electronic technology. The sad fate of Magweb should be a warning to us all. At least, even with a tattered paper copy, there is a chance someone might find and read it. With electronics there is no chance at all.

I do admire Otto for his staunchly held view points.

As my 60th rolls into view I look back on what I've lost in the way of gaming stuff held on 5-1/4" or 3-1/2" floppies, long since crashed PC's and dead non-recoverable hard disks. Yet I've still got the paper files from RPG's long since in the dust and campaigns played with Paragon some 40 years back.

Very valid point Otto.

Do you accept subscriptions from UK Otto?

Dear Jambo1

Yes we do. It costs us a lot more to post the issues and we lose money on them where we try to break even but we do it as a cameradly action to our fellow gamers. Don Featherstone sent us American Gamers issues and we felt that we wanted to do the same. We used to have am English Gamer, Trevor Wheble who came over to our Summer "the Weekend" convention and brought over subscription money transferred to US dollars, but very, very sadly he passed away last October. We all miss him terribly and are very sad.

Anyway to answer your question yes My address is

Otto Schmidt
1031 Stillwater Rd.
Newton N.J. 07860
if you want to subscribe.

Oh! There is a type in the Index. It should be Young and Lawford as the authors of CHARGE! not Charles Grant. Seems like we have so many books by Grant that we get confused. It's correct in the copy of the March issue. Only the index above had the typo.

Dear Nattatio.

Care to wrap up some of those RPG's and tales and send them in for publication?

One tale to improve my point. I think it's in the Metropolitan museum of art. There is a small cuneiform tablet, little more in size than the thumb of your hand, which I was told is the oldest piece of writing we have. Doesn't matter if it is or not, that little thing is over 5,000 or so years old! It's only got a list of things, might have been someone's grocery list- who knows, but it has survived, war, pestilence, fire, flood, murder, mayhem, uproar, sandstorms, tornadoes and disasters. The destruction of parchment, paper, papyrus and all he other perishable media we have put our great works on has not. It's quite probably that many of the volumes burned in the Library of Alexandria were trashy novels, porn, and chick books, and eminently forgettable But we still would have liked to make that determination ourselves.