We have been working for the last week to pick up and store our cleaned inventory. With only a couple of days notice, the remediation company began to recover our material after the Colorado Department of Health approved their recovery plan and process. We had given them the priority for recovery, detailed maps and photos. While we have a way to go, it appears that most of the Total War material will be recovered.
There will be some material that could not be recovered, principally: 1) about 1300 printed box tops and bottoms that were already assembled as shown in our photos earlier this year, 2) a few hundred collated counter sheet sets that had not been moved into sealed boxes before the fire, and 3) most of our shipping supplies (unassembled boxes, mailers, bubble wrap, packing peanuts, shipping tape, shrink wrap, etc.).
The logistics involved one truck counter and two (tired) loaders and drivers. The recovered material appears to be in good shape and the remediation folks have been very helpful. Once all material available for recovery has been picked up and stored (fireproof storage), we will do a detailed inventory. Part of this inventory will let us know how many Total War and older games will be available for sale. This will determine how many copies of the Total War rules, OBs and charts we will order from the local printers to complete the games. There should be no delays in the printing since we now have three printers on tap.
The recovery has been very expensive (over $13,000). We apologize to our customers for not returning all calls and e-mails immediately while we were recovering the material but we were putting in twelve hour days picking up (and putting down) tons of boxes. Arthur and I are getting a little old for this and probably wouldn’t have been in the best shape to talk or type at the end of the day. We want to thank the volunteers who offered to help with the move. We would certainly have accepted your offers if we were more certain of the timing, size and complexity of the move.
We will have more information shortly. The sample for this update is the Hungarian and Romanian conditional reinforcements for Total War.
I for one do not need a box for the game. Material in a zip lock bag works for me.