It's not really boring, it can be quite
fun, with the ruthlessness of Monopoly, yet without the drawn-out, slow-deaths
which makes the latter so painful if you aren't the 1-in-eight winner!
But it is a real box ticker; there's tons
on the internet, about dozens of versions, both current and vintage so I'm just getting the Parker and Board Game tags up.
Both a bit tatty I held on to one to wait
for the other to come out of storage, they are over a month-since gone to
recycling, but these are what I consider to be 2nd (upper) and 3rd (lower) standard
versions of the box, the 1st version had a game set-up photograph (I think)
with the 'snowflake' pieces of the original game.
Contents; I'd forgotten it's a game with a
biggly number of dice! Biggly-biggly, that's a Donald-fact! Hey, I haven't
properly mined the comedy aspect and he'll be gone on the 20th Jan! Kept the
rules pamphlet for scanning into the archive.
Boards, I seem to have picked up the Star Wars board at some point but don't
know what I did with the pieces, if I ever had them? I think the 2nd version
(top) is the same as the 1st version, while the 3rd has a more 'parchment' look
to it and the Star Wars one is rather
bland, if you ask me!
Newer on the left, older on the right and
anyone over 40 should remember the strange set of asterisks, snowflakes and
cheese slices of the original game! Nominally 10mm in scale/size, due to the
thickness of the bases I suspect with judicious use some of these could feed into 15mm
war-games armies as well? With nappies provided by the 1990's set and AWI/Marlborough
covered by the newer figures.
And if you want to do it without paint,
there are dozens of 'nations' now, with different main colours and variations
between print-runs!
That's them, done!
Hugh, when I was stationed at George AFB in the early '80s, a bunch of us loons would get together at a friend's house and pull all nighters playing Risk. I was pretty good at it, but now anything that takes longer than 5-10 minutes loses my attention real quick like lol
ReplyDeleteSorry Ed - missed this at the time, and the idiot spammer! Deleted him, reply forthcoming . . . Yes, we used to play the old cheese-slice version on quiet days in barracks back in the 1980's, I'd say I was only mediocre! Same problem as with chess, I'm so far ahead in my head, I miss whats happening now, and my empire-building usually results in my sudden death!
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Hugh, are you familiar with Milton Bradley's games?:
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Broadside, War of 1812 naval (1962)
Dogfight, World War I aerial (1963)
Hit the Beach, World War II amphibious (1965)
For me this was a mixed bag. Did really well with Battle Cry, okay with Dogfight, really crappy with Broadside. Never played Hit The Beach. Fun times but now I couldn't sit still for five minutes playing a game LOL
Hi Ed; I know 'of them', and have some figures from the original Battle Cry, but, while we got most MB stuff after about 75, either branded to MB or licensed to someone else, those early ones never crossed the pond - commercially - as far as I know? Battle Cry is supposed to be getting a re-issue, with similar figures to the original?
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