Tractics (1971)

tfm · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:46 pm Post subject: Tractics (1971)

Title: Tractics
Item Code: WM102-750, WM102A-500, WM102B-200, WM102C-200
Type: Wargame rules
Copyright: (Volume One) 1971 by Donald S. Lowry, (Volume Two) Donald S. Lowry and Michael G. Reese , (Volume Three) Donald S. Lowry and Michael G. Reese
Author(s): Mike Reese and Leon Tucker with Gary Gygax
Artwork: Don Lowry
Place of Publication: Evansville, Indiana, United States
Format: Boxed set containing three pamphlet-style booklets and 23 Pull-Out sheets
ISBN: n/a
Cover Price: n/a
Mass: 508g
Dimensions: box: length 22.8cm, width 15.9cm, thickness 3.9cm
booklet #1: length 21.6cm, width 13.8cm, .thickness .4cm
booklet #2: length 21.6cm, width 13.8cm, .thickness .4cm
booklet #3: length 21.6cm, width 13.9cm, .thickness .4cm

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In Volume Two the sheet containing pages 23/24 and 33/34 was omitted during assembly.

Was privately published by Gygax, Reese, and Tucker and referred to as GRT by those who played it.

tfm · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

Title: Tractics
Item Code: WM102A-500, WM102B-200, WM102C-200
Type: Wargame rules
Copyright: (Volume One) 1971 by Donald S. Lowry, (Volume Two) no info, (Volume Three) Donald S. Lowry and Michael G. Reese
Author(s): Mike Reese and Leon Tucker with Gary Gygax
Artwork: Don Lowry
Place of Publication: Evansville, Indiana, and/or Belfast, Maine, United States
Format: Boxed set containing three pamphlet-style booklets, 23 Pull-Out sheets, and three errata sheets
ISBN: n/a
Cover Price: n/a
Mass: 468g
Dimensions: box: length 22.5cm, width 17.9cm, thickness 3.8cm
booklet #1: length 21.6cm, width 13.6cm, .thickness .4cm
booklet #2: length 21.3cm, width 13.8cm, .thickness .4cm
booklet #3: length 21.5cm, width 13.9cm, .thickness .4cm

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According to the original owner, this is how the set was purchased new, in the faux brown cloth, flip-top box. The box is marked inside by its manufacturer, FOLDA-KING, Brooklyn, New York. The cover of Volume One is lighter and made from textured paper whereas the other two are not. Volume One contains no product list for Guidon Games or a publication address. Volume Two has no copyright date or illustration credits. This release clearly follows the one above.

Mars · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:32 am Post subject:

Title: Tractics
Item Code: WM102-750, WM102A-500, WM102B-200, WM102C-200
Type: Wargame rules
Copyright: (Volume One) 1971 by Donald S. Lowry, (Volume Two) Donald S. Lowry and Michael G. Reese , (Volume Three) Donald S. Lowry and Michael G. Reese
Author(s): Mike Reese and Leon Tucker with Gary Gygax
Artwork: Don Lowry
Place of Publication: Evansville, Indiana, United States
Format: Boxed set containing three pamphlet-style booklets and 23 Pull-Out sheets and 3 pages of errata
ISBN: n/a
Cover Price: n/a
Mass: n/a
Dimensions: box: length 22.8cm, width 15.9cm, thickness 3.9cm
booklet #1: length 21.6cm, width 13.8cm, .thickness .4cm
booklet #2: length 21.7cm, width 14.3cm, .thickness .4cm
booklet #3: length 21.7cm, width 14.3cm, .thickness .4cm

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tfm · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:46 pm Post subject:

Title: Tractics
Item Code: WM102A-500, WM102B-200, WM102C-200
Type: Wargame rules
Copyright: (Volume One) 1971 by Donald S. Lowry, (Volume Two) no info, (Volume Three) Donald S. Lowry and Michael G. Reese
Author(s): Mike Reese and Leon Tucker with Gary Gygax
Artwork: Don Lowry
Place of Publication: Evansville, Indiana, and/or Belfast, Maine, United States
Format: Boxed set containing three pamphlet-style booklets, 23 Pull-Out sheets, and cover sheet
ISBN: n/a
Cover Price: n/a
Mass: 468g
Dimensions: box: length 22.5cm, width 17.9cm, thickness 3.8cm
booklet #1: length 21.6cm, width 13.6cm, .thickness .4cm
booklet #2: length 21.3cm, width 13.8cm, .thickness .4cm
booklet #3: length 21.5cm, width 13.9cm, .thickness .4cm

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Axel picked up this set of Tractics. It's the same as version listed above with the flip-top box, except that the cover sheet is present and the errata sheets are not. It stands to reason that this was probably the first release of Tractics from Tactical Studies Rules; that is, between the Guidon black boxes that Gygax took with him when he left Guidon Games and when Gygax's own brown boxes bearing the updated Tactical Studies Rules labels and information. Several TSR sets of Tractics have been found with Guidon books in them. There must have point at TSR when the leftover Guidon black boxes and the new woodgrain brown boxes were not available. The presence of a brown flip-top box accounts for this moment.