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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2013)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2013?)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2012)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2012)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2012)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2011)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2011)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2011)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2011)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2011)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2011)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2010)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2010)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2010)
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Bill Wilder/First to Fight Variants (2010)
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About the Publisher
"Wild" Bill Wilder is a wargamer who turned to computer wargames and designed scenarios for a variety of tactical computer wargame systems. He also wrote amateur history articles.
First to Fight Variants--which is essentially Tom Tietz, an individual from Villa Park, Illinois, who only sells on E-bay--is one of several enterprises that have appeared since 1998, the year of the demise of Avalon Hill, that sell "variant" countersheets, rules, and other supplements for Avalon Hill products. Most of these "variants" are reproductions of items that originally appeared in the pages of Avalon Hill's The General Magazine, or from other wargaming magazines, and the sellers do not have the actual rights to reproduce the copyrighted materials. Instead, they gamble that Hasbro or other entities that actually own the rights to the intellectual property in question will not pursue them legally.
In 2008-2009, Bill Wilder and First to Fight teamed to create a planned series of 5 "variants" for ASL, three of which would be Vietnam-related and two of which would be Korea-related. Selling copies on E-bay one at a time to extreme-completist collectors would maximize the amount of money they could extract from ASLers with these products. Apparently, the trick worked, because in 2009 a large number of additional hastily created "products" began to appear on E-bay.
CONSUMER ALERT: These products, which are typically available only for high prices on E-bay, are of extremely poor quality and most ASLers would find them more or less unusable. There appears to have been little to no proofreading, rules development or playtesting. It is not even clear to what extent the creator has even played ASL. See the review of One Wild Ride for a more extended look at one of these products. THESE ARE VERY POOR PRODUCTS; BUYER BEWARE.