Best 3.00$ ever! It is a complete kit with everything bagged up. What kind of maniac throws that away. But it comes with all the sweet Enlisted gear even paras. I realize one thing Enlisted is missing that this and a game called Heroes and Generals use to have and that bicycles.
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Nice, maybe you can add in some forums members too?
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I was thinking of building it putting the tank on offense across the room in the grey area take half the soldiers pile them up in the corner looking the wrong way, another pile getting blown to bits standing in a strike zone, then it will be complete! Just kidding, I would have got this anyway even if I did not play Enlisted because it is childhood memories of how amazing Airfix was. But playing Enlisted it was like finding a piece of treasure because of their great attention to unit detail. I could totally make it Enlisted by making a rally point drawing a red circle around a cap, a few mines an ammo box.
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How boomers played Enlisted before the internet
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For real! I had these sets when I was a child. High attention to detail and much cooler than plain old army men. They are more the realm of high end European model sets. Anyone over a certain age might recognize them. Some real classic sets like
But yes much like Enlisted for old people before even the Atari 2600.
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If you really want a board game Enlisted experience, then you should check out Memoir '44. It’s bleddy excellent, and has a bunch of expansions too, such as Mediterranean, Eastern Front, Pacific Theatre, D-Day, and an equipment pack that has, wait for it, Hobart’s Funnies in it!
I highly recommend it!
I have been thinking about creating a post about era-appropriate board games. I might just have to do it now.
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Are you old enough to know Avalon hill? They made the classics but the OCD ADHD age we live in would drive these kids crazy. I do not think you can get 3-4 people to sit in a room for 6-10 hours and play board games without distractions. It is amazing how that was how gaming use to be. Some of those old school WW2 board games can go for weeks and months. Maybe people will post their physical game collections. There has to be a WW2 hobbiest or two!
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Yeah, of course! I have Axis & Allies in my cupboard right now! 
I used to have Hero Quest as a kid, but fantasy stuff never really got me. I preferred Space Crusade, and WH40K. I had a bunch of 40K before I left home. I gave them to my younger step-brother, but he eventually sold it all so he could buy a PC. Which as a techie, I was fine with.
I agree though, I can’t get my kids into Memoir 44, although they’ll play poker with me all the time, lol. And my missus lets out a massive sigh whenever I suggest we play it, so I tend to play Memoir solo.
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Milton Bradley had a whole series I owned AA, Shogun, Fortress America and Conquest of the empire. I think there was a 5th one but I also owned Heroes quest, I like Talisman better they completely digitized that game a massive amount of content. I have almost everything in that series as well. I ended up throwing away a lot of it bak in the 90’s because it just did not have the same value it does now. Games Workshop excelled at presentation, Avalon Hill, Steve Jackson games etc etc. We would play ruleless AandA America and Japan at peace takes out half the map.
Memoir '44 Online on Steam FTP!
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Yeah, the Steam version of Memoir is a bit sucky. It’s a pay-to-play-type formula. You only get a few games for free until they charge you for it. And it isn’t a pay-once thing either. It’s a shame, because boardgamegeek has a very functional version but also locked behind a paywall. Just not as predatory as the Steam version.
I suppose the next best way to play online is via Tabletop Simulator. Someone created a version for that, which is supposed to be very good.
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I literally tried to play it after you mentioned it and hit that wall. Looks cool though. I enjoy WW2 games a lot. I use to work at Microsoft back in the day so had access to ALPHA and BETA of a game called Close Combat. It was advanced for its time and a great series. Codemasters did a great series as well called Soldiers of WW2. Of course Heroes and Generals which Enlisted gained a ton of players from when it went down. Glad I started playing Enlisted it is better than HnG in a lot of ways but there are a few things Enlisted could learn. First and foremost a whistle!
This isn’t enlisted. Where are the Chinese, Moroccans, and prototype guns? Enlisted simply can’t be Enlisted without all that.
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Comically enough some of the Germans are armed with FG42’s C’s (With tripod)
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Aw man ts is peak i would have aappreciated to have these toys as a kid since the majority i had was green and yellow plastic soldiers sometimes being more lucky when buying these for getting a truck or a tank for more inmmersion hehehehe ah yes and some legos working as a bunker or sandbags
Now that im getting on my 5-8 years old memories idk why whenever i played with these minifigures i was recreating the D day maybe it was always in my blood that ww2 would be one of my favorite topics
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I had a bunch of the sets. They really were much cooler than green army men because of the scale and detail. Look at the variety of that picture not the same 6 soldiers over and over in different colors.
The set I found thrift shopping had what amounts to 4 box sets. Again the memories! I do not know if I want to open it or sell it for 50$. Is it worth 30$ profit to visit childhood again? Or save it for my son? Hard to believe how different things are with kids. These kinds of things provided just as many hours of entertainment. I just trip on the fact my old self remembers details that are literally almost 50 years old. The only thing I mis remembered was the British machine guns I remember the vickers being more round.
Paint Schemes:
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Sherman M4 Mk.1 Tank
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PzKwVI 1 AUSF.E Tiger Tank
Content:
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12 x Acrylic Paints
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2 x Brushes
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2 x Poly Cement
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Sherman Tank / L: 75mm W:35mm Pieces - 55
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Tiger Tank / L:82mm W: 49mm Pieces - 66
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Diorama (with forward command post) / L: 340mm W: 240mm
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WWII British Paratroops / Pieces - 48
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WWII German Infantry / Pieces - 48
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Depends on what ur son likes im not a father and i dont have 18 years old yet but pretty sure that if he have the same type of tastes like you he would trully appreciate getting all these stuff
I mean hell you get lots of hours of fun with this if i would have recieved at least one of these boxes as a child you would still see me playing with these toys till this very day
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Hes 8 but I do not think like you said kids now would not appreciate the creative part of a toy like this. To me that is how I got them. My dad was an international businessman and both my parents traveled a lot in the 80’s so he would pick them up when he went to England (Japan trips were old Nintendo credit card games). I looked into it sure enough different eras pre 1986 (The ones I remember), GE bought the company and ruined it now its owned by another company that makes them in India and charges insane prices for them. It makes you wonder, if toys that are as basic as a piece molded plastic and some imagination is different to how the brain works and develops? Modern video games are pure dopamine machines. This was more cerebral in nature. I do not think I have the steady hands to paint something that small. I was thinking their size also makes it almost impossible to 3D print (1/72). But I thought I could 3d print a rally point and what else is “Enlisted” that is iconic?
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