"Pirates of the Sandlot?" Topic
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| Iamhal | 28 Jun 2024 10:32 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. |
| Iamhal | 28 Jun 2024 10:32 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. |
| ArmymenRGreat | 28 Jun 2024 3:36 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 Walters | 29 Jun 2024 8:09 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? |
| MajorB | 29 Jun 2024 9:48 a.m. PST |
thortrains.net.
Sadly it is excluded from the Wayback machine.
No idea why. |
Fitzovich  | 01 Jul 2024 3:27 a.m. PST |
If you turn one up, I would be interested as well. |
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