"About Your First Army Love" Topic

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Armand

WWI Austrians. Throughout my gaming career I always had a thing for Austrians.

ACW Union – Airfix set my Dad bought was the trigger!

The Marx "Davy Crockett at the Alamo Set" that my Dad bought me one Christmas when I was young hooked me into toy soldiers and finally War Gaming as I grew older.

French foreign legion vs Berbers airfix with the cool fort.

Airfix ACW 20mm figures.

Airfix Napoleonics, like many others. Perhaps there was something in the plastic

John

Marx Gettysburg Battle Set that I got for Christmas in 1966. I have been hooked ever since.

US Marines…Dad was a WWII Marine so all US Army Men were Marines LOL

The basic green army men that everybody had. Then the Fort Apache play set.

My first toy soldiers were certainly Marx, either the Alamo or Guns of Navarone sets. I must have received those around 1970 0r so. A life-long addiction!

US Cavalry… Indians… Cowboys… 54mm…

Many thanks!

Armand

Marx sets, multiple

Being the youngest of five boys I was exposed to Armymen from the beginning. Timpo AWI we're the first figures that weren't hand me downs. I think Ral Partha Colonials created the addiction that I now deal with. Happily.

AWI. Men of '76. 12 years old. Saw them in the a local store and begged my mom for a couple packs. At the time one of the coolest things I had ever seen.

Ended up spending whatever monies I could accumulate to buy more. Played many a skirmish in the evening/night in the backyard. Loved those guys.

Have a few cherished miniatures left from my childhood. Top Shelf.

Green Army Men
D&D
Battletech
Then this game box with a bunch of blue armored space marines on it.
Then 5150: should have started here.

Thanks!

Armand

First "serious" wargaming army: N-gauge Napoleonics for the battle of Quatre Bras. I don't count the 'green army men', cowboys and Indians, or Marx cavemen and dinosaurs.

Let's not forget ring hands soldiers, which appeared at about the same time for me, maybe just after Fort Apache … come to think of it, I had ring hands cowboys and Indians before ring hands soldiers. And later, ring hands pirates.

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My first love was the Airfix Type 1 8th Army.

Didn't know 54 years later it would introduce me to black senior dating, though.

First serious wargaming figures were Airfix WWII. First lead guys were D&D miniatures, first large collections with published rules, 15mm Normans for WRG and 15mm British and Zulus with TSAFT.