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Iamhal28 Jun 2024 11:32 a.m. PST

Hello folks,

I remember, years ago, seeing a page with free rules for battles with cheap plastic toy soldiers of 54mm-ish size. I think one of the sets was called "Pirates of the Sandlot" and that they had others for ACW, WWII and AWI / FIW.

The rules used length of string as measuring devices for movement and shooting.

Does this ring a bell? I'm having a devil of a time tracking the page down and would love to find these rule sets again and share the info to the "Super Cheap Wargaming" group on Facebook.

Iamhal28 Jun 2024 11:32 a.m. PST

Hello folks,

I remember, years ago, seeing a page with free rules for battles with cheap plastic toy soldiers of 54mm-ish size. I think one of the sets was called "Pirates of the Sandlot" and that they had others for ACW, WWII and AWI / FIW.

The rules used length of string as measuring devices for movement and shooting.

Does this ring a bell? I'm having a devil of a time tracking the page down and would love to find these rule sets again and share the info to the "Super Cheap Wargaming" group on Facebook.

ArmymenRGreat28 Jun 2024 4:36 p.m. PST

I suspect it was from Thor Shiel's "The Army Men Homepage." He passed away and his websites no longer exist. I didn't know him, but his passing was a huge loss to the train and plastic toy soldier hobbies. I'm sure I have those rules. If you post an email, I'll send them.

Andrew Walters29 Jun 2024 9:09 a.m. PST

archive.org has the Wayback Machine, it should be able to surface an old webpage. Do you remember the URL? Or any other words we could search on?

MajorB29 Jun 2024 10:48 a.m. PST

thortrains.net.
Sadly it is excluded from the Wayback machine.
No idea why.

Fitzovich Supporting Member of TMP01 Jul 2024 4:27 a.m. PST

If you turn one up, I would be interested as well.

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