| Earlier Updates, March 1998 - June, 2001 |
| 06/13/01 | - | Link to Perrin Miniatures added to the Small Scale section of the Manufacturers' page. |
| 06/11/01 | - | Link to Stellar Systems, current producer of the classic Ral Partha line added to the 25/28mm section of the Manufacturers' page. |
| 05/15/01 | - | Redoubt's landships added to the Vehicles, Buildings and Accessories section of the Manufacturers' page. Eureka's listing updated in the 25/28mm section. |
| 05/06/01 | - | Krakatoa, East of Java (sic) added to the Film - India page (China and the Far East section). |
| 04/25/01 | - | Cloth photo added to the Ground and Hills scenery page. |
| 04/24/01 | - | Cloth photo added to the Water scenery page. |
| 04/21/01 | - | The Wild Wild West belatedly added to Film, Film - Miscellaneous. |
| 04/19/01 | - | Comments on Cavalry Command, Fighting Devil Dogs, and Captain Marvel added to the Film - India and the Far East page. |
| 04/15/01 | - | Michael Spencer's hospital and Victorian submersible added to the Readers' Page. |
| - | Science vs. Pluck added to Online Rulesets on the Rules page. | |
| - | kwaAndy website added to the Links. |
|
01/18/01 - Water page added to the Scenery section. |
03/24/98 -
The Major General's Page initially published on the Web
03/28/98 - Image added to Pasha's Palace page
03/30/98 - Addition of Fiction section to the Books
and Films Page
04/01/98 - Text changes to Ships
Page "Gaming with Ships and Boats"
04/01/98 - The Major General's Family Album added to Group
Page
04/05/98 - Addition of Bob Giglio's newsgroup post to Figure Sources page
04/05/98 - Four figures added to the Civilian Figures
page
04/16/98 - Three titles added, and email address for Science versus Pluck
post corrected on Rules Page
04/20/98
- Ship Construction Page and Dhow Templates page added
04/28/98 - Richard Silvano's Garden Wargaming link added to the Little Wars and Links
page.
04/29/98
- Vitai Lampada (Henry Newbolt poem)
page added
05/05/98 -
Second Battle of Tel Debi pages added
05/08/98 - Figures added to Civilian Figures,
Native Figures , and Military
Figures page. Dhow Templates improved.
05/12/98
- Tabletop Periscope page added to the
Scenery group of pages
05/13/98
- Other Configurations added as link
to Pasha Ali's Fortified Palace page
05/16/98 - Five small pictures added to the Landships
page
05/16/98 - Small pictures added to the Little Wars
page and the War of the Worlds page
05/17/98 - H.G.Wells illustration added to Landships
page
05/23/98 - "Why We Fight" added to Group
page. Space 1889 list added to Links.
Ongoing additions to Films.
05/23/98 - "Why We Fight" improved (Group
page)
05/24/98 - Numerous reviews from Patrick Wilson added to the Films
page.
05/25/98
- The Residency at Biltezi pages added
to the Battles section
05/28/98 - The Sand of the Desert added to the Rules
page.
05/29/98
- Photos from Readers page linked
off Building Construction and Ship
Construction pages
05/29/98 -
Site Map added to the bottom of This
Page
05/30/98 - Crumpled Wrapping Paper ground surface added to the
Ground Surface, Hills and Vegetation page
05/31/98 - Final Details section added to Ship
Construction page and general text improvements made.
06/06/98 - Links to Richard Silvano's Little Wars site
added to the Links and Little
Wars pages.
06/17/98 - Reviresco's 1914 Daimler German Army truck added to the Motor Trucks page.
06/18/98 - Two pictures added to the Native Figures
page.
06/20/98 - The Himmelstupper/Welaj Theory section and link added to the
Group and Misc page.
06/23/98 - Building Layout Template revised
for easier printing to proper size. Apology added.
06/24/98
- Awards Page added, linked from Headquarters page.
07/01/98 - New pictures added to the Photos
from Readers page.
07/01/98 - Discussion Groups added to the Links
page.
07/04/97 - Email link address for the Major General changed on all relevant
pages, to majrgen1@airmail.net.
07/04/97 - Historical photo added to the Daimler section of the Motor Trucks page
07/17/98 -
Corners Page page
added to the Structures section.
07/19/98
- First ten pages of the Landships section
added.
07/19/98 - Four pictures added to the Photos
from Readers page.
07/20/97 - Historical photo in the Daimler section of the Motor
Trucks page fixed.
07/30/98 - Photo of Desert Tribesmen added to Native
Figures page.
08/01/98 -
Battle of Al Bunrab pages added, linked
from Landships and Battles.
08/03/98 - Spelling correction of Kevin Wald's name (author of the Buff Barbarian Song) plus link.
08/12/98
- The American Landships page added
to the Landships section.
08/16/98
- Ogrette Class Landships page added
to Landships section, linked off Ogress page.
08/16/98 - Landship idea sketches linked off Miscellaneous and Future Landships page
08/16/98 - Older update notes moved from this page
to Earlier Updates page.
08/16/98 - 'Fitzcarraldo,'
and 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' added to Movies
page.
08/16/98 - Additional gushing about 'The Four Feathers'
(1939) added to the Movies page.
08/16/98 - The American
Landships page problems for some browser/platforms fixed (one hopes).
08/22/98 - 'Death Hunt,' 'His Majesty O'Keefe,' 'Quigley Down Under,'
and 'The Man from Snowy River' added to Movies
page.
08/28/98 - Warrior added to Figure Manufacturers
page. 'The Long Duel' added to Movies
08/30/98 - 'They Came to Cordura' added to Movies
page. Tim Peterson's buildings added to Photos
from Readers page.
09/24/98 - Savage & Soldier and Warflag added to Links page
10/06/98 - Army Men and Sandstorm added to
the Links page.
10/06/98 - 'Riel'
added to Books & Movies page (Television and
Video).
10/16/98 - Armored Cars in Ireland link added to the Armored
Cars page.
11/26/98 - German Train added to the Railway
Models page
10/06/98 - By
Jingo!, Colonial Wargaming, and Trevor's Victorian Colonial Wargames
added to Links page.
10/06/98 - Several
book titles added to the Non-fiction and Fiction sections of the Books & Movies page
12/07/90 - Colonial Rules and Sandstorm added
to and linked from the Rules page.
12/11/98 - Minor text revisions and links to Piquet and the Principles
of War FAQ, added to the Rules page.
12/12/98 - Reviresco train description and link added to Railway
Models page.
12/16/98
- The Last Train from Goldwasser pages
(4 pages) added to Battles section.
08/16/98 - Bob Cordery's Colonial Wargame Rules
and link added to the Rules page. Piquet
now spelled correctly.
01/05/99 -
Lassenwelt Station game pages (8 pages
plus linked photos) added to Battles section.
01/05/99 - With
MacDuff on the Web and The Red Shadow added to the Links
page.
01/09/99 - Links page reorganized and
expanded somewhat. Gisby's Page added to links.
01/09/99 - Many
lines of figures and accessories added to the Manufacturers
page.
01/09/99 - Rules page reorganized. Links to With MacDuff
on the Frontier, a Colonial-era DBA Variant, and Brom's Volley
Fire, plus a small section on RPGs added. Outside commentaries on various
rulesets moved to a separate page.
01/09/99 - Tony
Cane's armored trains and Tim Peterson's domed hut added to the Reader's Photos page.
01/10/99 - Four books and the film 'Conduct Unbecoming' added to
the Books & Movies page.
01/10/99 - Tim
Peterson's string technique for palm trunks added to Palm
Trees page.
01/12/99 - Rogue's March and Untamed added to Books
& Movies page, with requests for comments.
01/12/99 - Links
to Flagship Games' Rampant Colonialism pages added to Links
and Rules pages.
01/15/99 - Several more lines of figures and accessories added to the Manufacturers page.
01/18/99
- The Khartoum-Style Walled City page
is added, with a single picture (but a large one).
01/20/99 - The Last Square Gamers African adventure added to the
Links page.
01/30/99 - Online rulesets added to the Rules
page. Badge photo linked off 'Ubique' on the Kipling
page.
01/31/99 - 'Ere's to You, Fuzzy Wuzzy added to the online sets in
the Rules page.
02/08/99 - David Kuijt's Aztec pyramid photo and link added to the Reader's Photos page.
03/07/99 -
The Exin Building Blocks for Colonial Structures
page added to the Structures
section, and Exin source Fink & Company added to the Manufacturers
page.
03/24/99 - Studio 33 added to the Manufacturers
page. 'Sanders of the River' added to the Movies
page (Central Africa) , as well as expanded comments on 'Shout at the
Devil'.
04/18/99 - Legionnaire and Zulu Wars reviews added to Books & Movies page, also Desert Legion added, with request for comments.
07/10/99 - New photos from Grant Sigsworth and David Kuijt
added to the Reader's Photos page. The
Mummy added to the Movies page (North Africa).
German train pictures fixed (some browsers had trouble) on Railway
Models page.
07/11/99
- Rules page updated to include notice of forthcoming
The Sword and the Flame 20th Anniversary Edition, and links to new
TSATF 20th page, as well as Rules Britannia, and The
Maxwellian Variant pages.
08/08/99 -
The Relief of Bungstarter Station
game pages (9 pages plus linked photos, including an extensive African
Scenery page) added to More Battles section.
08/08/99 - Battles page broken into two pages.
08/08/99 - Picture of Judy Prueitt, mystical queen of the Dervish, linked
from the Group page.
08/09/99 - Three new figures added to Civilian Figures
page.
08/10/99 - Nurse picture linked to Bungstarter
Station first page. Acacia note page
regrettably appended to Bungstarter Scenery page.
09/18/99 - Smithsonian Magazine's link added to Awards page.
09/18/99 - The
Otto Prohaska series added to Books; They
Met in Bombay added to the China section of the Movies
page.
09/19/99 - A harrowing major overhaul of the Manufacturers'
page listings. The Major General swears that if one more company
starts producing these silly things, he will discontinue the whole listing.
See if he won't! Thanks to all who wrote with updates and suggestions, and
apologies for the long delay.
09/22/99 - Colonial Warhammer added to the Online section of the
Rules page.
09/22/99 - Utu
added to the "Other Locales" section of the Movies
page.
10/01/99 - Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne series added
to the Fiction section of Books.
10/01/99 - Review
of From the Earth to the Moon and expanded comments on Death Hunt
added to Movies page.
10/01/99 - Castaway Arts Ashanti War 25s, Tin Soldier 15s
and Hirst Arts building-block molds added to the Manufacturers'
page. Irregular Miniatures listing expanded. Great Gadfrey! It
never ends...
10/02/99 - Tony Stapells' site added to the Links
page.
10/12/99 - Sheltrum Miniatures and The Imperial Zargovian Zeppelin
Consortium added to the (sigh) Manufacturers'
page.
10/13/99 - Rob Beattie's The Steam and the Flame page
added to the Links section.
10/24/99 - Around the World in 80 Days added to Movies
page, as well as expanded comments on His Majesty O'Keefe, The
First Men in the Moon, and Mysterious Island.
10/28/99 - Cannon Fodder Miniatures added to the furschlugginer Manufacturers' page.
11/10/99 -
Skirmish at the Finolah Minehead pages
added to More Battles section.
11/14/99
- TSATF Foreign Legion Supplement announcement
page added. Rules page and linked pages updated
to reflect current availability of TSATF.
11/19/99 - Beloved Marx plastic palm tree recasts from the Toy Soldier
Company added to the Manufacturers' page.
11/19/99 - Imperial Splendour computer-moderated miniature ruleset
plus Battles of Empire and links added to Rules
page.
12/04/99 - Mogdonazia Campaign page added to the Links section.
12/14/99 - Wessex Games, Village Green, Grand Manner, and Steve
Barber added to the Manufacturers' page.
12/15/99 - Young Winston's Wars series added to Books.
12/18/99
- Safari to the Psgheti pages added
to Battles section.
12/18/99
- Hunting Elephants page and printable
howdah added to Animal-Powered Transport section.
12/18/99
- Mogdonazia Campaign's link corrected in the Links
section.
12/19/99 - Link corrected for Colonial Warhammer on Rules
page.
12/20/99 - Link added to Volley and Bayonet listing on Rules
page.
12/22/99 - Listing and link for Heat of the Sun added to the Television and Video section.
01/24/00 - ONElist ColonialWars, Jackson Gamers,
and Larry Ewing added to the Links
section.
01/24/99 - Anna
and the King added to the Movies page.
01/24/99 - Note
on model railway track added to the Railway Equipment
page
01/25/00
- Armed Command Dhow page linked
from Native Dhows page.
12/18/00
- Houses and Miscellaneous Structures page broken into two separate
pages.
12/18/00
- Fortified tower added to Miscellaneous Structures
page.
12/18/00
- Pirates Battle Set page linked
off Native Dhows and Miscellaneous
Structures pages.
01/26/00 - The Colonial Angle added to the Links
section. Four rulesets from the site added to the Rules
page.
01/27/00
- Point Wytouki pages added to Battles section.
02/21/00 - Tim Balzer's comments on Lion of the Desert
added to the Movies page (Northern Africa
section).
02/21/00 - Topsy-Turvy
added to the Movies page (Miscellaneous section).
02/21/00 - Allen
Hansen's comments on Cry Wolf added to the Books
page.
02/21/00 - Tripods
and Hussars added to the Rules page. Links
to Fistful of Tripods and Orc's Drift now actually take you
there. Why didn't somebody tell me earlier? Thanks to Sven Nore'n.
03/09/00 - Domed house picture added to the Colonial
Houses page.
03/09/00 - London
War room added to the Manufacturers' page.
03/10/00
- At Last!
Long-sought pictures of the sidewheeler Abbas found and added to
the River Steamers page.
03/10/00 - New Lego Air Zeppelin page linked off Aeroplanes
page.
03/10/00 -
New Space:1889 figures added to RAFM's listing on the Manufacturers'
page.
03/12/00 - Fort Saganne added to the Northern Africa section of the
Movies page.
03/12/00 - Irregular
Miniatures' 25mm line added to the Manufacturers'
page.
03/19/00 - Lindberg's Southern Belle kit added to the River
Steamers page.
03/19/00 - Two
rather grumpy reviews (Legionnaire and A Passage to India)
added to the Movies page. Maybe it's just
old age setting in. (Anne Bancroft's name is now spelled correctly in the
Young Winston review, thanks to Jay Stribling.)
03/19/00 - Fortress
Figures palm trees added to the Manufacturers' page.
03/30/00 - Steve's secret identity exposed on the Group
page.
03/30/00 - Additions
to the Books and Movies page - TV and Video
section: Heart of Darkness, request for comments on The Flame
Trees of Thika; Northern and Central Africa section: White Cargo,
Trader Horn (hubba-hubba!), expanded comments on Fort Saganne;
Book Section: Heart of Darkness and A Passage to India. (Guess
who hasn't had to go to work in two weeks).
03/30/00 - Long-needed
update of the Links section, including
the addition of Bob Duncan's Kafiristan and Ouargistan Station
pages, The King's Carbine, The British Colonial Wars, and
Sir Peter in Darkest Africa.
04/01/00 - Reviresco's figures added to the Manufacturers' page.
04/02/00 - Foundry's factory site added to the Manufacturers'
page.
04/04/00 - J&T Miniatures catalog added to the Manufacturers'
page.
04/15/00 - The excursion steamer Lady Bodgett added to the Steam Launches page.
04/17/00 -
Eureka!
The long-lost pictures of the Khartoum-style Walled
City have surfaced!
04/20/00 - Burgermeister figure on the Civilian
Figures page now properly attributed to Ral Partha, thanks to sharp-eyed
Brandi Weed. Link to Leading Edge figures added to the Manufacturers'
page, and retraction of the speculation that their wonderful Dracula
line of Victorian civilians might be out of print.
04/22/00 - The Sword and the Flame 20th Anniversary
Edition page updated, and URL for Online Ordering added. TSATF
Foreign Legion supplement page deleted.
04/22/00 - The
Desert Song and Untamed comments added to the Movies
page.
04/23/00 - Apparently an advertisement on the web does not an available
product make. Brandi's sleuthing indicates that Leading Edge does
indeed appear to be defunct. Wording on Manufacturers'
page reverts to original form, but link to listing page remains.
05/01/00 -
New page for the TSATF/20 Scenario Portfolio
2000 added.
05/02/00 - Pendraken Miniatures' website added to the Manufacturers'
page.
05/08/00 - Eureka Miniatures' website added to the Manufacturers'
page.
06/04/00 - Readers' Photos
page broken into two pages. Tim Peterson's landship added.
06/04/00 - David
O'Brien's steam launch, Ron Strickland's fort added to the Readers'
Photos.
06/04/00 - Sources
for Pirate Battle Game and accessories added to bottom of Pirates Battle Set page.
06/04/00 - The
You and Whose Army site added to the Links
section.
06/04/00 - Eureka
Games' Jurassic Hyde Park added to the Links
section.
06/04/00 - Link
to reprinted Space:1889 added to the VSF non-section on the Rules page.
06/04/00 - Bhowani
Junction and Elephant Walk added to the Movies
page (India section).
06/04/00 - China
Seas and Road to Morocco added to the Movies
page (Far East and North Africa sections.)
06/04/00 - Expanded
comments on Lives of a Bengal Lancer and The Real Glory added
to the Movies page.
06/04/00 - Information
on the artist of the Classics Illustrated comic added to the War
of the Worlds page.
06/04/00 - Ground
Zero Games Martian tripods added to the Other Scales section of Manufacturers' page.
06/08/00 - Additions to the Books and Movies
page - Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice (Books); Elephant
Boy and expanded comments on Carry On Up the Khyber (Movies -
India).
07/11/00 - Grant Sigsworth's terrific German landship added
to the Readers' Photos.
06/26/00 - 25mm
dirigible added to Scheltrum's listing on the Manufacturers'
page.
06/26/00 - Two
and a Half Feathers added to the Television and Video section of the
Movies page
07/15/00 -
New battle report (eight pages), Raid on the
Sher-Li Temple, linked from Battles, Page
3
07/15/00 - New Chinese/Malay
Pirates page, linked from the Pirate
Battle Game page.
07/17/00 - Chris Johnston's Pore Benighted 'eathens site added to
the Links section.
07/22/00 - Fire & Sword in the Sudan and Zulu!!! added
to the online rules section.
07/22/00 - The Zulu Wars removed from the online rules.
07/22/00 - Bicorne Miniatures added
to the Manufacturers' page.
07/23/00 - Fenryll and Kallistra added to the Manufacturers'
page, 25/15mm section.
07/23/00 - Books and Movies page split into five pages.
07/30/00 - Five Weeks in a Balloon added to the Films-Africa
page.
07/30/00 - A note
on the Lledo die-cast steam lorry added to the Steam
Vehicles page.
07/30/00 - Emhar
added to the Manufacturers' page, Structures
and Accessories section.
08/09/00 - Allen Hansen's comments on Two Mules for
Sister Sara added to the Movies - Miscellaneous
page.
08/09/00 - Correction
of Lledo steam lorry information and new photos added to Steam
Vehicles.
08/10/00 - Windcatcher Graphics added to the Manufacturers'
page, 25/15mm section.
08/13/00 - Amazon Miniatures added to the 25/15mm section of the
Manufacturers' page.
08/14/00 - Outpost in Morocco added to the Movies
- Africa page. (North Africa section).
08/16/00 - Doug Brooks' beautiful palm trees added to the Manufacturers' page Accessories section.
08/18/00 - Solo Colonial Wargames Page added to the Links
section.
09/01/00 - Comments on The Flame Trees of Thika
added to the Videos page.
09/03/00 - Link to publisher of the drumming tape/CD added to the Bungstarter Station conclusion.
09/05/00 - Metric drill sizes corrected on the Plastic
Dhow page.
09/06/00 - KB Toys removed as a source for the Pirate
Battle Set. Thanks to Roderick Robertson for the information that it
is now out of stock at KB.
09/13/00 - Ultimate Miniatures' re-release of Scruby figures
added to the Manufacturers' page.
09/19/00
- Far-Eastern Junks and Airships
pages added.
09/20/00 - Ellerburn's re-release of Hinchliffe figures added
to the Manufacturers' page.
09/27/00 - Frei Korps' listing expanded and URL added on Manufacturers' page.
09/28/00 - Alan Cook's photos added to the Readers'
Page.
09/30/00 - New photos added to the Military Figures
and Motorcars pages
10/24/00 - Pacman's Wargames Wonderpage added to
Links section.
10/29/00 - Novels of P.C.Wren added to the Books
page. The Last Outpost added to the Film
- Northern Africa page.
11/01/00 -
Miscellaneous Ships page (rowboats, canoes,
sampans and sub-marine terror weapons) added.
11/11/00 - Foundry's Chinese Pirates added to the Native
Figures page.
11/12/00 - A Fistful of Dynamite added to Film
- Miscellaneous page. Three photos updated on Junks
page.
11/15/00 - Continuing the 'junks' theme, Soldier of Fortune added
to Film - Far East page.
11/20/00 - Stuart Asquith honors the Major-General with his presence
on the Readers' Page.
11/21/00 - Link to expanded comments added for Ubique on the Kipling's Verse page.
12/01/00 - Fred Askew's page and colonial glossary
added to the Links section.
12/19/00 - Information and link added on the antique picture on the Dhows page (thanks to Christophe Lelong).
12/19/00 - Barry
Burman's Small Wars page added to the Links
section.
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