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Saturday, January 19, 2019

T is for Toy Fair 2018 Reports - GaleForce Nine (GF9) - Battlefront

This is the final last-year's Toy Fair report, both it and the other days Battat post had gone into a self-imposed exile, and I didn't find them until I was clearing out the 'My Pictures' folder. It happens sometimes with Picasa - that it arbitrarily decides you don't want to view a folder anymore and it hides it!

Also I don't know what to say about all this, which will be hopelessly out of day any day now, and of which those gamers who may be interested have much better blogs to go to, while those who don't won't be that bothered!

Battlefront are a New Zealand outfit, GaleForce Nine seem to carry the stuff over here and I think it's all 1:100 AFV's with 1:144 aircraft, and not many figures - which would be a tad fiddly for what appear to be quite formulaic tank-warfare systems.

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
I think these are Team Yankee which seems to preclude figures all together, so a chess-like (without the skill), systematic slugging-match from rule-book fire & movement-tables?

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
Ditto

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
Catalogue pages.

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
Tanks? A WWII version of Team Yankee? Most of the scenery would scale-up for other 'small-scale' gaming in '76th or '72nd?

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
The absence of figures is odd; all wars are won or lost on the ground-gains or losses of the infantry! And there's a lot of GW-type emphasis on buying into the whole experience with team-dice and such-like.

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
Catalogue pages.

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
The third system in offer - Flames of War actually seems to allow for some soldiers to join the fray! Although this outbreak of largess seems to be limited to anti-tank artillery crews or the odd driver?

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
Catalogue pages

There are more figures on the boxes than are otherwise in the catalogue!

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
GaleForce Nine also supply 1:100 (described as 10-15mm) scenics under the Battlefield in a Box label for all their systems and more besides (note the sci-fi gun-towers).

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
Although smallish at 1:100, some of these modern designs would make very useful background-buildings on HO or OO-gauge model railways, where sub-scale can help give a sense of depth.

1:100th Scale; Afrika Korps; AFV Kits; AFV's; Battlefield in a Box; Chieftains Hut; Desert Rats; El Alamein; Fighting First; Flames of War; GaleForce Nine; GF9; HammerFall; Iron Maiden; Leopard; London Toy Fair; Modern Armour Toys; Red Thunder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Station Lasers; Stripes; Tank Sets; Tank Skirmish Game; Tanks; Team Yankee; Toy Fair Reports; War Games Figures; War Gaming; Wargaming; World War II; WWII;
Brand-logo's to look-out for.

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