And That’s the Way It Was has released the 20th Anniversary edition of “The Sun Never Sets”. WOW!!!! Edited and expanded by Patrick (the Virtual Armchair General) Wilson. I received this from Larry Brom and Patrick Wilson just before Christmas, it sure made my day, it looked great and I hadn’t opened the book yet. The maps and other inclusions are great!!!! Well worth the $40 price tag, especially since it fits in very nicely, as intended, to go with TSATF.

Geez, my enthusiasm is showing slightly, sorry, Naah this is better than great.

Set contents: Rules Booklet – 76 pages of text and charts, a page of Bibliography and one for notes; five single sheet color maps (Borneo, New Zealand, China, S. Africa and Ashantiland); four double sheet color maps (Eastern Subcontinent Tibet-Burma, Western India & Afghanistan, North Africa and England to New Zealand map showing transportation routes); four sheets of card stock counters in color for British and allied troops, forts, outposts, native troops boats etc; and five sheets of event cards (card stock) with four blank cards eight cards to a sheet; two double sided paper record sheets – Monthly account record for the army, PM Monthly Political Level Record for the Year, Chief of Imperial Staff Monthly War Record, and Parliamentary Voting Record (for copying). Both the cards and counters can be easily cut; the recommended method would be by paper cutter rather than scissors. The event cards could be laminated quite easily I doubt the counters could easily be laminated but you could spray them with a Krylon fixative.

As I said this is meant to mesh with TSATF as well as More Gunboat Diplomacy originally written by Bob Duncan (Gunboat Diplomacy) that will be out soon. So you would have everything necessary to play within the British Empire. It would not take too much to alter this for any other nation; just how this would work with other colonial empires in a combined game I don’t know everything is here you need for a major multi year campaign. I am getting ready to begin a major campaign and was wondering about rules. Since I play solo I first read TSNS with that in mind and was amazed at how easily I thought it could work for me, loads of decision-making charts, which I thought, would make it easy for solo. Then I reread it for multi-player and it was just as good. Am I impressed with this set of rules you bet, doubly so since it is enhanced to work with TSATF.

***HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED***