| Zephyr1 | 09 Mar 2022 4:01 p.m. PST |
Yes, those ones from the comic book ads from like 50 years ago. ;-)
Many of the sets had one page rules included in with the minis. Is there any place on the 'net that has collected them (images or pdf's) in one place? Not having any luck finding them (though I did find an image of the Gold Crown rules that were up on ebay.)
Thanks for any assistance! ;-) |
DisasterWargamer  | 09 Mar 2022 4:16 p.m. PST |
link Found this retyped version Nice photo listing of all the old ads – or at least most of them
link |
| joedog | 09 Mar 2022 8:31 p.m. PST |
I had a couple of those – but was not successful when I first attempted to send an envelope full of small change with a single postage stamp on it. |
| Zephyr1 | 09 Mar 2022 11:28 p.m. PST |
Well… link Ran across it by accident, Google results just gave me garbage. And the site has them all…!  |
| ZULUPAUL | 10 Mar 2022 3:10 a.m. PST |
I actually have 2 of the games: Tank Trap & Task Force (my playing board is not the fancy one). Got them in the early 70's I think. |
| Tortorella | 10 Mar 2022 8:52 a.m. PST |
Zephyr, great find! Thank you. |
| Tortorella | 10 Mar 2022 8:55 a.m. PST |
Thank you Disaster as well. I always imagined a huge "footlocker" coming in the mail! |
| Lucius | 10 Mar 2022 2:42 p.m. PST |
I had bits and pieces of the Roman and Task Force sets that older kids in the neighborhood had purchased, and then ended up getting sold in garage sales, swapped for marbles, or worse. As great as the ads were, we knew that the soldiers themselves were thin gruel compared to the Marx playsets that dominated our playtime, so I never did buy one directly. I spent hours daydreaming about the ads, though. |
| Swampking | 11 Mar 2022 3:01 p.m. PST |
I remember buying all of them, except for "Blast Off" (the space game). As a matter of fact, I remember taking the 'Battle of Chickamauga" to a friend's house and it got lost in the creek by his house. Great times! |
| joedog | 12 Mar 2022 3:29 p.m. PST |
IIRC, the "footlocker" set had flats that were not in scale with each other. We used to set those up on a shelf, and shoot each other's armies with those disc guns (plastic disc about the size of a nickel) that were also popular in the 1970s. Pretty sure I got the stunty little Revolutionary War set in 1976. |
greenknight4  | 16 May 2022 5:28 a.m. PST |
Awesome links thank you all |
| greenknight4 | 16 May 2022 5:29 a.m. PST |
I got the AWI flat in the early 60's and the flat WWII Footlocker in the later 60's |
