Monday 2 June 2014

The look of the thing...

http://broadswordsandbeasts.blogspot.co.uk/ is filled with some super photos of Fantasy games of some years ago,do pop by for a look...
Any how ( this evening, a tad tired and melancholy, and wallowing in rosy tinted memories of my youth) it got me recalling my Mythical Earth Minifigs games circa 1976- badly painted figures transported in one of my father's cardboard shirt boxes to play on a piece of hardboard on my friend's house floor. A few bits of  terrain (including a bridge which got totally blocked in one game when the trolls turned to stone stopping everyone/thing else crossing the river) and loads and loads of fun.
I recall vaguely some Mythical Earth games played at the South East of Scotland Wargames Club with lovely figures and terrain- have you got any photos of the games at all Jim Duncan, if so I'd love to see them...
Sadly I never took photos of my games but I would love to see photos from magazines of the mid 70s showing Mythical Earth figures in a game.I don't even know if any articles were written let alone published. Can anyone cast a light on all this?

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  1. Yep, nostalgia is a funny old thing. Any idea what rules you used, or did you make it up as you went along (always more fun)?

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  2. Used the set that the SESWC produced at the time,still excellent and worth a look...
    great fun.I did write a set for ME with another chap around that time,found them the other month/year,they weren't too bad on reading...

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  3. I began fantasy gaming back in '83. Oddly enough I came across some fantasy figures from those early days in my lead pile and painted them up last month!

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  4. Alan, I don't have any photographs of the ME games that I played. It was a very long time ago.

    There are some club photographs of a Minas Tirith game in the Claymore archives. I'll haul them out for you when I get back to the UK in a couple of weeks.

    Jim

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    1. That would be really kind Jim,I really look forward to seeing them...

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  5. I know Battle magazine had several articles about fantasy, but a quick look at the copies I have only show figure shots, none of war-games! I will try to do a more careful search.

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