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Given the rise of cheap stuff from China, alla Dollar Stores, one could get a few bags of those little plastic army men and have a good tabletop battle. You get also find little nick-nacks that would work great for terrain such as little decorative trees and such.

The store by my house has packs of firemen and police men, I suppose I could have a battle Cops vs. Firemen. Those axes are going to hurt.

Yeah.

sounds like when I was a kid.

I re-created my grandfather's time in North Africa. the german's never knew what hit them.

Man! I would love to get my paws on a Twilight 2k core rule book.All I have is the U.S. vehicle guide.That reminds me does PB have a CWB source book with modern vehicles?

Figures from china? Better not put 'em in your mouth.

batlchip wrote:Man! I would love to get my paws on a Twilight 2k core rule book.All I have is the U.S. vehicle guide.That reminds me does PB have a CWB source book with modern vehicles?

they were re-printed not that long back. do a google search and see if it's still in print or if T2K13 has come out yet.

Miniatures are great, but it takes so long to paint them and now they are expensive. They cost twice as much as they did in the mid-90s...

Jefffar wrote:Figures from china? Better not put 'em in your mouth.

Too late...

Does anyone outthere remember the tiny plastic soldiers? I think they were called "H O Men." At least that's what my cousin called them. I think I'll check out the hobby stores and see if I can get a hold of some. They'd allow you to have more room for terrain (drawn or 3D- whatever your poison).

I have those at the local dollar store too. Little painted army men. They usually come in sets so you have terrain to play with now....

I have a bunch of 1:72 men (I think HO is 1:76th, so 1:72 is probably OO)

Jefffar wrote:I have a bunch of 1:72 men (I think HO is 1:76th, so 1:72 is probably OO)

20mm is what they translate to depending one how big they actually are. IIRC, 1:72 means that 1 inch equals 72 in the real world. So a true 1/72 should be roughly 25mm tall. Most modern '20mm' are more like 22-23mm tall. The plastics are pretty thin compared to the more chunky metal figures. The metal boys run around $1-1.50 per figure. That sounds expensive, but you're generally only collecting maybe a platoon or so of figures... which isn't too bad.

Plastics are still a lot cheaper, however you can't cherry pick what you want. You're stuck with the poses you get and sometimes it's hard to just build a couple of decent squads out of the figures you get. The metal figs are just worth the money. They are even cheaper if you go 15mm (now you're talking $.50 a casting).

Also, SJG games has it's Cardboard Heroes line. The "Modern" set has cops, civilians, guerrillas, terrorists, US Army Rangers, Special Forces, Delta Force, Navy SEALs, Special Air Service, and lots of other goodies that can be used, including a wide assortment of US and former Soviet Block weapons.

Dominique wrote:Also, SJG games has it's Cardboard Heroes line. The "Modern" set has cops, civilians, guerrillas, terrorists, US Army Rangers, Special Forces, Delta Force, Navy SEALs, Special Air Service, and lots of other goodies that can be used, including a wide assortment of US and former Soviet Block weapons.

Good point! If you go to DriveThruRpg you can find other companies that make paper minis (usually in 25mm or so). That is the cheapest bang for the buck as you can print as many of these guys as you want. You just have the one time charge of buying the set and the costs of printing which are fairly low.

Here's a good set:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_i ... 19800&it=1

This company makes tons of other stuff too!

Rockwolf66 wrote:

batlchip wrote:Man! I would love to get my paws on a Twilight 2k core rule book.All I have is the U.S. vehicle guide.That reminds me does PB have a CWB source book with modern vehicles?

they were re-printed not that long back. do a google search and see if it's still in print or if T2K13 has come out yet.

Twilight 2013 came out in PDF around XMAS and started shipping in hard back in April. It is a nice reboot of a great setting. It will do until Warpath come out.