"The worst things you've done to your table top troops" Topic

Now I don't do any of these things any more, as I have "grown up", but in the past I have done the following. What do you own up to doing but probably accept were not great ideas really?
1. Chopped off the heads, limbs or other bits if they refused to stand up on a slope (didn't bother with basing… doh!)
2. thrown them out of the window in a burning Airfix plane (the plane didn't fly, didn't emit black smoke and just melted – not impressive) [Oh, and kids: don't play with fire!]
3. painted them with a brush that was bigger than they were (again, not impressive!)
Regards!

You realize that each of those is a flogging offense!

Broken ones sometimes get turned into casualty markers, instead of getting repaired. That's about it.

Never any of the above, but have done the same as Great War Ace.

Neglecting them for far too long.

They are now getting restless…….

You realize that each of those is a flogging offense!

Luckily, I was a minor and my Dad didn't find out!

If my kids did any of these…

Getting soft plastic figures, cutting off arms and legs (or else partly severing them so their hanging limply), putting pinprick bullet holes in the chest and abdomen and adding lots of red paint over the painted figures. Then glueing them onto one of those old Esci WW2 battle diorama sets (Monte Cassino: Green Devil Hill et al) which were also luridly painted to match.

Let the dog chew them.

Nothing horrid with my actual gaming minis, but like ubercommando, my soft plastic figs were targets for all kind of abuse.

1. Flood garden
2. Place troops in mud puddle for invasion.
3. Place firecrackers to simulate bomb craters.
4. Find suitable "sniping" position for BB gun.
5. Alternate between setting off firecrackers, bottlerockets, and shooting with BB's.

I think I've still got a old green army man with a BB stuck in his shoulder.

Lots of BB gun injuries.

One time we set up a zip line and put a millenium falcon model on it with a plastic tube attached to it and set it on fire and had it go down the zip line.

I have sold some armies that did not please me to strangers.

The worst was while playing at my friend's game room set in his large attic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was winter, and it was cold, so I put my gloves on a few times to keep my hands warm. While wearing them, I leaned on the table to reach a far away unit, and I accidentally crushed a unit of light cavalry under my hand without feeling it. I actually did this several times until I noticed. Luckily it was my own painted figures, but oh dear …

My dad and I used to bury firecrackers in the dirt then run motorized tanks (with firecrackers in them) over it while filming it on super-8. But those weren't really gaming armies … those guys were pretty much M-80 fodder when they came out of the package.

Sent them on suicidal table-top charges 'just to see what would happen'

DB

We had a puppy that was very VERY jealous of anything we were paying attention to other than him. I was painting a horde of 1/72 plastics and had to leave to pick my wife up. On returning I discovered all of my carefully painted minis had been chewed up and scattered about to let me get the message. He also ate a large tube of white Liquitex acrylic paint. The only effect was for the next week his doggy doo was white.

Used to use the soldering iron to put bullet holes in model planes. Never did anything too crazy to figures, though.

A VERY long time ago, a friend was in a very long 20mm WW2 campaign. All the players got so tired of the campaign, they decided they wouldn't play with the figures again. So in the last game, they played for keeps.

Any infantry casualties were cut in half. & since they were on a sand table, any vehicles casualties were doused in lighter fluid & set aflame.

In the 1908's we played a Hugh Battletech game and if you Mech was destroyed it was smashed with a Mini Sledgehammer.

Asked them to rely on my dice rolling.

Ran my model Pirate Ship over the top of the Holtwood Dam one winter when the water was high and going over the top. Wanted to try and take it's photo as it ran over the edge, much like the old Kansas album "Point of No Return".
Beer and models do not mix well.

Old 1/700 Scale ship models did not go to the scrapping yard. They were used for BB gun target practice or sailed into a local lake with fire crackers.

I store them all lumped together.

I used to punish my Airfix soldiers as a kid by placing them in close proximity to a 100 watt lamp, whilst spinning them around on my old record player.

After seeing the result the others bucked their ideas up.

!/72 guys used to meet a molten end in my Nan's coal fire – even the asbestos suited guys didn't survive long .

And if you never set fire to an Airfix plane and lobbed it out of the window as a kid then you NEVER lived. Go and try it now…

Who hasn't focussed the sun's rays through a magnifying glass onto some Airfix figures?

I haven't done things to my stuff but a friend of mine had a space marine captain go out the window after a particularly disappointing close combat.

We ended up digging around their bushes at midnight to find him again.

In another game, where we used paper squares cut out for warhammer units, a unit of dwarves got eaten, when they broke and ran.

Ignore them.