Our game when we were kids

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When I was 9 year old, I was playing Blitzkrieg in 3D with my friends.

The CROSSING THE RHIN.
Rhin River on the border between Germany and Holland February 1945.


OPERATION MARKET GARDEN

Netherlands. September 1944. The defeat of Montgomery.


Patton progresses.
Set in France Summer 1944.


The Battle of the Bulge.
Region of the Ardennes, Belgium December 1944


The Normandy landings.
Omaha Beach, July 6 1944.

[atlas555]

How I loved my toy soldiers! Still have the scar on my left forefinger from when the knife slipping on a rock while I was cutting some heads off for losing the battle. That was the last time I imposed Capital Punishment.

[Grot]

as kids me and my brother flick at them with cork or beer kapsel till last soldier stood alone..I played Germans ,he played Polish..good old times

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My first Pz V.



My first Churchill.



My first IS-3.



My first Sherman.



My first Lee USA.

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Accompanying the tanks, many infantry squads.

[ogmodon]

I guess, Major Pain got the point... Those plastic monsters thrill me! Yeah, there's nothing like those war-games most of us used to play years and years ago. Ah, memories...

[Grot]

my first toy tank was T-34 , tactical nr.102 after popular tv series about polish tank crew in Polish Army fighting along side Soviets.

Of course it was more propaganda then real thing (made in 1960's in Poland ) but as kids we loved it.. and as old man now I still enjoy it. 

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Us were very small, and we ourselves had to assemble on our own.

[ariete]

wittmann, you've the age of my father, who when he was kid, he told me, he plaied with toy soldiers about union and native americans .. very singular! it was the western movies period, you know!
seeing what you plaied i must assume plastic toy soldiers are always been at the avanguard!
i want mean my phrase of few days ago in the chat box : ' wow .. when i was kid there weren't of this kind ...

was wrong! .... cool those soldiers!

i was a great gamer of toy soldiers, i had a lot and of all sizes, also because many big-major brothers of the other kids, who prefered little cars or anyway no play with toy soldiers, gave me in gift their soldiers as an heritage that they couldn't pass to own little brothers. in fact few battle with other kids when i was at home .. much at school! i remember battles on the beach during summer holidays where soldiers disappeared in the sand .. there was a guy (friend of the holidays) mad for the japansese .. but no .. i wasn't me ..

anyway i didn't had the well equiped army with tanks and airs which wittmann show  (this is the reason because i'm impressed about the evolution status of the toy soldiers during .. the '60 wittmann?) ... ahha i was much infantries focused already since there. i remember often i converted my australian infantries in union soldiers, to continue the concept of the father ahaha


atlas555 mad bloodthirsty

Grot i don't understand that story - cork or beer kapsel - taps? as toy soldiers? i realized a checkboard on street two summer ago with worst, but when i was kid i had my toy soldiers .. ... no, following the posts probably i misunderstood  .. cool your first tank

[Grot]

ariete ..me and brother line up toy soldiers on the carpet in living room ( like in your picture) agains each other. Then we use beer kapsel ( tap ) and flick it with fingers like hockey puck sliding  to knock them down..  

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ariete Well good, I was born September 8, 1969, would be a young father to you friend, you were born on April 26, 1981. So, I would have 12 years and 5 months, too young to be a father right?.

Moreover, these toys were manufactured between 1970 and 1980.

So you see, they did not forget about to manufacture of your nation.

Greetings to all and sundry.

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ariete "sztyrlic" He is saying that the soldiers and tanks, he and his brother, played launching bowling.

[Grot]

Wittmann just soldiers..no tanks were allowed

[Major Pain]

I could not resist adding my own experiences with toy soldiers.

All through my childhood they fascinated me... I played for hours setting up battles and then fighting it out.   Because of my family heritage, I always played as Germany, still too young to understand what WW2 was about or the terrible issues during that war.

One day my father was watching me and became very upset once he saw I was claiming the German Army for my own.  He was a 2nd Generation German/American who served as Tank Commander.   All of my Aunts and Uncles and my Grandmother were born in Germany, his generation were the first born in the US.   So my family was quite split and we all lived together on a farm outside of a small town.   He explained to me in terms I could understand what the War meant to our family.     He told me it was ok to play as Germany, but be aware that we were Americans first now.    My father was wounded twice during the war and had 4 tanks shot from under him... and that had a major impact on me once i found that out... but that was many years later.

Anyway... I digress from the topic a bit.

In my days once I was around 13 or so, several of my friends and I took our war games up several notches.   Each of us chose an Army and formed teams.   To simulate the war a bit more seriously, we used firecrackers laid out in the ground using small fuse cord to tie them together.  Keep in mind... in the 1960s, firecrackers were much more powerful than most available today.   During our battles we would run the fuses cord behind our own lines and light them to take out the enemy when they advanced.  So this was like a huge minefield.   There's nothing like hundreds of plastic Army men, tanks and trucks blowing up across the ground...

We did not play the politics or the underlying reasons for the war.

But it was in great fun and one of my fondest memories.   

Now my grandkids have all the fun but they have not yet arrived at the pyro stage yet.

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Awesome! hahaha