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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7640104" data-attributes="member: 15700">A week or so ago I found a boxed game of Battleground: Crossbows and Catapults!.&nbsp; I had that game as a kid and we played a lot with my brother.&nbsp; Great fun!&nbsp; And it got me thinking (after being flooded with nostalgia) when I looked at the game pieces, in particular the orc and barbarian figures.&nbsp; Back in the late 70s and early 80s, there weren't a lot of minis available.&nbsp; We had to drive over an hour into a town big enough that had a store that sold them (and those were the old grenadier ones made from lead), so we had to be creative. Or order those generic toys that had ads in the back of comic books.&nbsp; So we used anything that looked like it was remotely fantasy and had a fairly similar scale.&nbsp; For missing ones, I recall spending hours drawing the side profile of a creature on paper, then folding the paper and cutting out the profile so you ended up with one of those triangle type paper minis.To be honest, I'm less interested in folks who used popcorn, or dice, or something similar to represent minis.&nbsp; I'm more interested in creative ways you used &quot;minis&quot; for your game back in the day when actual minis weren't widely available. For us, there were plenty of boardgames that we could paint (usually with Testors model paints), such as:<img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/OxEAAOSwk6FczbqJ/s-l300.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/323771551331_/1981-Vintage-Dragonriders-Of-The-Styx-DFC-Demons.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/19/0c/ec190cacdf6b868a92a624958cff8e5f.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />(Oh!&nbsp; and by the way, I got the game, and proceeded to play it with my girlfriend's 4 year old, how absolutely loves it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7640104, member: 15700"] A week or so ago I found a boxed game of Battleground: Crossbows and Catapults!. I had that game as a kid and we played a lot with my brother. Great fun! And it got me thinking (after being flooded with nostalgia) when I looked at the game pieces, in particular the orc and barbarian figures. Back in the late 70s and early 80s, there weren't a lot of minis available. We had to drive over an hour into a town big enough that had a store that sold them (and those were the old grenadier ones made from lead), so we had to be creative. Or order those generic toys that had ads in the back of comic books. So we used anything that looked like it was remotely fantasy and had a fairly similar scale. For missing ones, I recall spending hours drawing the side profile of a creature on paper, then folding the paper and cutting out the profile so you ended up with one of those triangle type paper minis. To be honest, I'm less interested in folks who used popcorn, or dice, or something similar to represent minis. I'm more interested in creative ways you used "minis" for your game back in the day when actual minis weren't widely available. For us, there were plenty of boardgames that we could paint (usually with Testors model paints), such as: [img]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/OxEAAOSwk6FczbqJ/s-l300.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/323771551331_/1981-Vintage-Dragonriders-Of-The-Styx-DFC-Demons.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/19/0c/ec190cacdf6b868a92a624958cff8e5f.jpg[/img] (Oh! and by the way, I got the game, and proceeded to play it with my girlfriend's 4 year old, how absolutely loves it! :) ) [/QUOTE]

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