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Post by old squirmydad on Apr 2, 2009 20:16:13 GMT -9
s280.photobucket.com/albums/kk180/Squirmydad/One-Monk%20minis/Sometimes my son likes to grab a bunch of my toys and have a random sorta scrimmage battle that occasionally involves dice but mainly involves a lot of explosion noises. In this scenario a swarm of Ebbles bugs invade a medieval village, Terra Force troops are dispatched to the scene to investigate. He took these pics when I called 'Bedtime!'. Thought you'd like to see the troops in use.
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Post by Aestelon on Apr 3, 2009 2:38:51 GMT -9
Ha ha! Fear the Hello Kitty! ;D
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Post by WaffleM on Apr 3, 2009 3:28:31 GMT -9
Currently I have a very similar battle going on in my china cabinet, much to my wife's chagrin! What are the giant robot mecha and fighter plane in the photos? They look awesome!
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Post by Aestelon on Apr 3, 2009 4:05:02 GMT -9
I think the mech is the Jotun from Ebbles. I don't know about the plane, though.
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Post by Floyd on Apr 3, 2009 4:17:01 GMT -9
Yep Ebbles Jotun and I saw the Ziggerat set in the background. ;D But that very first picture... you building your own version of the Haruspex type tyranid?? (Or whatever that Tyranid troop carrier was called made by Epicast)
That is really cool Eric that your son gets into minatures and gaming. And enjoys acting out the battles like that. Very good imagination. ~F
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Post by old squirmydad on Apr 3, 2009 6:38:08 GMT -9
The flying machine is a Mockingbird from WWG's PC:Battlegrounds set. The giant squid-like thingy in the first picture is...a giant squid. I have several different giant squid paper models and my daughter likes to get them and the giant bugs out then play the kazoo and make them all dance.
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Post by Aestelon on Apr 3, 2009 6:50:13 GMT -9
Ah, the kazoo - the greatest instrument known to man.
I never leave home without mine! ;D
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Post by kane on Apr 3, 2009 8:41:42 GMT -9
Now I have the Star Trek battle theme played on a kazoo stuck in my head...
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Post by stevelortz on Apr 3, 2009 15:56:47 GMT -9
You're a good dad, squirmy!
When my brother and our sisters were that age, my dad was too busy feeding us (going to work to earn the money, that is) to spend any amount of time playing games with us. But after he retired, we would have some fun from time to time. My brother and our youngest sister were in our twenties then. Unfortunately, our oldest sister lived too far away and had too many kids of her own by that time to get involved with our games.
When I came home from the Navy, I brought back an ACW miniatures game called "Ironclads".
Speaking of family matters, some are calling me now. I'll finish this story later.
Have fun, especially with your kids! Steve
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Post by stevelortz on Apr 3, 2009 19:48:12 GMT -9
So there we were, surrounded by gypsies. Not just any kind of gypsies, but MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING GYPSIES!?!
Oh wait... wrong story...
When I came back from the Navy I brought home a Civil War naval miniatures game called "Ironclads" that had been published by Guidon Games. The rules book an 8 & 1/2" by 5 & 1/2" pamphlet, and was very slender. The ship models were 1/1200th top-down views that we drew ourselves on pasteboard and then cut out. We made a stat-card for each ship on a 3X5 card. There were three turning radius templates that we xeroxed, rubber cemented onto pasteboard and then cut out. The whole game, except for a few d6s, would fit into a 6"X9" manilla envelope, which made it very convenient to take to sea on a submarine where space was at a premium. On the boat we would play it on a table top on the mess deck, usually in a space about 2'X2'.
Well, when my Pop saw me teaching my brother how to play "Ironclads", he got interested too. He wound up researching ships to expand the roster of vessels available, and he stretched out a roll of butcher paper on the kitchen table with the extension leaves fully out (about 6' by 3'). He drew shorelines on the butcher paper, complete with forts and batteries, and the three of us played out some riverine campaigns. He was in his sixties and we were in our twenties.
My brother and myself, along with our youngest sister used to play what we called "cheaters' monoply". You could get away with anything as long as nobody caught you doing it. All three of us had acquired our own personal copies of "Monopoly", along with the family copy we used to play with, so we all had extra money and deeds. You just couldn't get caught holding or using the extra parts. We would manipulate the dice and mess with each other's money and deeds. We would shift our counters from one space to another outside our turns, as long as nobody caught you doing it redhanded it was okay. Believe me, we all avoided drinking ANYTHING for a few hours before we started playing, because if one of us would go to the bathroom, the remaining two would collaborate to ruin the missing sibling.
Well, one night Pop decided to play Monopoly with us and we decided to use our well-honed cheater-Monopoly skills to force him to win, whether he wanted to or not. So he would look one way, and when he looked back, he would have more money than he had before. Then while he was trying to figure that one out, one of us would slip some of our deeds from our hand into his. Then when he would ask "Where did these come from?" whichever one of us had done it would say something like "Don't you remember, I traded those with you two turns ago?" and the rest of us would back up the other's story. We had a hilarious time, and needless to say, it was a blow-out game with Pop winning.
I remember those games as some of the best games I ever played in my life. When you are a geezer like me, squirmy, and your kids are all grown up, you will look back at games like the one you've illustrated on this thread, and they will seem like gold. They will have vastly more enduring value than any super-dooper commercial demo game you will ever play in or run at any convention.
And when your kids are old geezers like me, they will remember these games as unrepeatable expressions of the love you had for them.
Have fun! Steve
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