"The nominees for best 80's schlock movie to wargame are..." Topic

Escape from NewYork

Predator

Red Dawn!

Warriors

Commando.

Army of Darkness (1992… Oops!). Would love to have a car crushing its way through units of skeletons, along with the commentary of the skeletal commanders to their troops: "Come on! Put your backs into it! Lilly-livered, Sots!…" That and a few, "Boom-sticks," and chain-saws to mix things up with swords, spears, and catapults. What a hoot! Cheers!

Big trouble in little china

Return of the Jedi. Teddy Bear figs make good stand-ins for Ewoks.

Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League: Team Banzai versus the nefarious Hanoi Xan.

Ron

return of the living dead.

The Breakfast Club

My Dinner with Andre

even has action figures YouTube link

Robocop.

Rambo.

+1 Extra Crispy. You almost scored a Keyboard Kill there…

I'd go with Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone.

or maybe Metal Storm, with Patrick Swazye. Or perhaps Cherry 2000?

Navy Seals (1990, but I was filmed in the 80s)!

Clash of the Titans.

Ferris Rules.

They Live?

imdb.com/title/tt0096256

bubblegum not required

ref Red Dawn

the terrain is easy
but it's not for beginners
YouTube link

I am divided between,"The Breakfast Club", and ,"Adventures in Babysitting".

Elizabeth Schue,,,mmmmm.

They Live or Red Dawn.

Well for ones I've already played lots of games of inspired by 80s movies:

Star Wars: Empire & Revenge

Mad Max Road Warrior

Aliens

Flash Gordon

The Goonies, nice skirmish pirate skit.
Cheers ah the memories, Hollywood knew how to make a movie then.

Windtalkers just so I could shoot Nicholas Cage even if he wasn't in danger of being captured. Oh, wait, not an 80s movie.

Die Hard, yippee kay yay.

Uncommon Valor

The old Hero System rpg Danger International even had a supplement called Here Be Tigers that was based on the idea of going into a hostile country and rescuing POWs

Gremlins

For those of you playing at home.

Schlock is an English word of Yiddish origin meaning "something cheap, shoddy, or inferior (perhaps from German Schlag, Yiddish shlak, meaning 'a stroke'; also possibly from German "Schlag"/"Schlagsahne", whipped cream)".

In the field of science, "schlock" refers to shoddy methods or unreliable results.

In art, "schlock" is sometimes used as a synonym for kitsch.

Schlock is a 1973 low-budget comedy horror film, written, directed by and starring filmmaker John Landis.

Uncommon valor would make a great skirmish game

And, kiddies, remember, "Schlock is in the eye of the beholder." :)

Hell Comes to Frog Town starring Rowdy Roddy Piper

"Schlock is an English word of Yiddish origin meaning "something cheap, shoddy, or inferior"

Well, in that case…"Critters". The rampaging psychotic fuzzy flesh devouring cousins of Tribbles. Man was that movie bad, would be awesome to game though.

Children of the Corn
Ice Pirates
Anything with Chuck Norris
Anything with Richard Chamberlain
Anything with Doug McClure
Anything with Jean Claude van Damme
Caveman (Ringo Starr)
The Last Starfighter
Battle Beyond the Stars
Scanners
Howard the Duck
The Black Hole (OK, its'79)
Heartbeeps
Iron Eagle
Flash Gordon would be fun, but Hanger 18 shut down.
The list could go on and on…

Conan skirmish would be cool

Howard the duck versus "here's Pat!"