Re: Age and Complexity

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>I had a variant on standard toy soldiers. Started with either Airfix
>1/32nd scale (or 1/72nd) from WW2 or other periods. We used to use
>the 1/32nds with terrain and then we'd take turns picking our force
>(didn't have points, but we knew the better figures from the worse)
>then set them up in cover and then we'd take turns salvoing the
>other with sucker tipped darts from spring loaded dart guns. If you
>knocked down a standing/kneeling figure, he was dead. If you flipped
>over a guy lying down (I specifically remember a Japanese figure with
>an LMG that was really hard to overturn) he was dead. Eventually we
>got to using a Tennis ball at intervals to simulate artillery (this
>could flip vehicles!). Good thing Airfix made its figures pretty
>tough. I still have racks of 1/72nd scale WWII and a bunch of 1/32nd
>scale buried away in an old toy box.

That sounds an *awful* lot like Pressman's battle game, now on the
shelves at toy stores near you. They use "battle balls" instead of
darts--plastic balls about .7" diameter fired from catapults, cannon,
or mortar to knock down your opponent's figures. Pretty fair detail
on the figures, too, but not much variety of poses. About GW (30-35mm)
scale. English civil war types (I think, but I'm no expert!), pirates,
and such.

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