"Airfix Waterloo Wargame 1975: Booklet" Topic
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| Vintage Wargaming | 24 Jul 2012 3:35 a.m. PST |
Further to an earlier topic
TMP link I asked Airfix for permission to post scans of the booklet included in this game and they have said yes. It is in three sections and they are here: description of the battle:
link construction and painting
link rules
link Airfix have also indicated they may consider re-releasing the game in 2015 for the bicentenary. |
20thmaine  | 24 Jul 2012 4:48 a.m. PST |
Roll on 2015 I say ! I never had this – it turns up occassionaly on Ebay but can be quite pricey. I do recall seeing it in Selfridge's toy department (so that must have been as part of a visit to see Father Christmas !) – they had a small stack of the games, and one open on display, with the map laid out and the figures and measuring devices as if in mid-game. Never forgotten it. It wasn't available for long IIRC. |
| Norman D Landings | 24 Jul 2012 5:14 a.m. PST |
Nice one, VW – thanks for posting that! |
| Dave Jackson | 24 Jul 2012 5:36 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 24 Jul 2012 6:39 a.m. PST |
That auction isn't the same thing – it's the Waterloo Assualt Set (in fact, it's the reissue !). This originally came out ~1976 and was available for a couple of years. it became very collectable because of the sprue of 2 wagons, and the battlefield items – Airfix never released these anywhere else. That auction is for the rerelease of ~2010, which many people bought just to get that elusive sprue. I manfully resisited – I already had that sprue, and had assembled and painted the wagons (thereby adding to the world shortage of pristine condition sprues !). Although I was tempted because it's originl price – for that many figures and the farmhouse model – was good, and the baseboards were a new addition to the set |
| Dave Jackson | 24 Jul 2012 11:16 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 24 Jul 2012 1:07 p.m. PST |
To add to the confusion the rules do have, on their back page, an advert for the assault set . |
 Chortle   | 25 Jul 2012 10:36 a.m. PST |
Amazing. It must have been great to buy, or receive, this set back in the day. |
cncbump  | 25 Jul 2012 3:06 p.m. PST |
I still have this game.
Now I have the rules!
Thanks so much.
Brillant!! |
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