War and Pieces: A look back in time at Micro Armour
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Join Rob as he rediscovers WWII Micro Armour: The Game; a classic World War II tank game from the vault. A perfect War & Pieces segment!!
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I started playing with micro-armor back in 1975 at a hobby shop in Anaheim, CA. We used rules by a guy named John Reynolds. Those rules eventually hit the market in the late 70s, but I cant remember the actual name of the rules when they hit the commercial market. Anyhow, I finally painted a set of Sherman's this week after a 45+ year break. It is great to be back.
And is still glorious!!
Yay War in Pieces is back!!!
look for the bonus episode today!
Vehicles are 1/285 scale (aka 6mm), I prefer it. Lots of different rulesets at this scale for WW2, Modern and SciFi on Wargame Vault and other sites.
great post!
Love it Rob! I spend hundreds of dollars on micro armor back in the day... still have all of it too. GHQ, C-N-C, ROS and Heroics, bought all of it. I used the Mein Panzer rule set by ODGW , that I found to be wonderful. I hope more people get interested in micro armor. Thanks for an awesome segment!
thank you my friend!
Fistful of TOWS rules for modern and WWII miniature gaming
very true
I played Flames of War for the longest time until sadly I had to sell it to pay bills. War miniature games are always fun.
sorry to hear that!
I bought tons of the GHQ Miniatures years ago and painted a lot of them. of course the tigers gray with a little white for snow, the Russians brown or Green.
Pzkwgn IV & Panthers base yellow with a little green n red....
And hundreds maybe, still unpainted and many still unopened in the original packages.
I think next month they have to come to the table.....
I will be coming back to this
what scale were those warships? They look small for 1/2400 scale so I assume smaller than that (?) but I couldn't quite tell...thanks for the video.
Not sure
I have 1 6mm panzer iv I got for 5 dollars at a yard sale their was alot more of them some black/greyish and others where Tan. Had half tracks as well but I only had enough for 1 tank wish I was able to get them all. They are older GHQ models from.the 80's at least I was able to get 1 of them.
Very cool
learned from this from 3D printing. Nice!
thanks!
I played Tratics and WRG WWII and Modern.
all great systems
Wow! That is a healthy collection there, Rob! heh :-)
there sure is!
And all that gaming with no saving throws Yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol!
Thank you for returning to roots. I am so tired of fantasy WWII games such as Bolt Action and Flames of War. We didn't have money sink companies. We researched our own OOB and painting. Rules that were realistic. Still alive and well at HMGS conventions.
they sure are
I hope you hven't been storing them like that. You'll bend their barrels all to heck. I'd recommend getting something like GHQ's Bunker Boxes. CinC used to have something like 'em. The people I used to game with (last century) always stored their miniatures in them without bending the barrels all over the place. Even if we had to transport them each time we gamed.
PS. We gamed in 2/185 scale (I've seen it called 6mm.)
Bu-u-u-ut, we had one helluva lot of fun.
Ooops, a final question, what do you do now, during this Pandemic?
thats nice
All the bent barrels freaks me out
it happens
Welcome back from the dark side :)))
i never left
The amount of money spent on micro armour and then to see it all thrown in boxes. but trys to motivate others to game, go figure??l
do you even know what your talking about ? may if you saw the other videos instead of comment like a snarky ass......i bought all that armor at a flea market just the way it is and have yet to go thru it ........
Rob's Tabletop World in that case I apologise, I thought and assumed wrongly that you bought them new and had them laying about for years and as gamer I wonder why people would treat their hobby in such a way but you sir are not one, so again I'll eat humble pie and at least reply to say sorry and also I'm gobsmacked you have such a large collection from flea markets.
your good my friend! the funny thing about it was the guy at the flea market got it all by cleaning out some persons home so he dumped it all in bins and I was buying it bin by bin......I so need to go thru it all and figure out what I really have
@@seahawk8601 thanks for accepting my apology and good luck with the mountain of led 😄