do you play with your toy soliders?

I still play with my toy soliders.when im done setting them up i just try knocking them down with a rubber band or crumpled up knapkin.

 

I used to love to play with toy soldiers, tanks, planes, etc. My friends and I used to set up huge battlefields the size of a big living room. We would then of course simulate the battles and compete against each other to see whose set up would win

 

Who doesnt play with their toy soldiers lol

My brother and I would set up rows of soldiers up like formations that they used in the civil war and revolutionary war and then shoot at each other's formations with raw beans and sling shots lol. It was always fun mowing down each others guys with rubber bands also.

 

Not in the sense you mean it. I do miniature wargame which is sort of a high-tech version with rules and such.

 

Sooo... do you make sound too when you move those tanks?

Regards
Kruska

 

Nope. I did until I was 18 I recall but after that, no....

 

Freud said that there are two types of men in the world: Those that play with their toy soldier and those that lie about it.

Sorry

 

I think that you are referring to "sharpening their bayonets...."

 

If you say that playing the ww2 video games has replaced the toy soldiers then I must answer the question: Yes!

 

I am not allowed to come near the collection. My three boys seems to have claimed ownership, and any meddling around battledrill is MOST unwelcome...

 

My Napoleonic soldiers are collectables and very fragile, so no, depsite having several hundred on the field with cavalry and canons ready .

 

Theres no shame in playing soldiers when the kids are around,the hankerchef is a cheat though

 

I did that with my older brother when I was five. I remember one time I had like six (actually firing) cannons (I guess they were supposed to be AT guns) and I destroyed my brother's tanks (I still have those tanks, they are Shermans in fact) and I owned him... my own personal boardgame

 

Did several things like that. My best friend and I collected 1/48 WWII aircraft, which we set up all over the basement. We usually had two or three airfields, complete with hangers, ground crews, and support equipment, and one aircraft carrier with accessible hanger deck and island. We built it all from blocks, boards, pieces of pegboard, and so on, so as to make them destroyable (once the aircraft were removed.)

We'd them zip around making machine gun noises, imitating the "Thatch" weave, dropping bombs from our "working" Monogram models, and what have you. It was great fun. Of course the mid air collisions were something of a pain. (Had to repair more props than you can shake a stick at.) And of course one didn't take the B-29s on too many missions. (Sort of scary that between us we had three 29s in 1/48th. Not to mention a good dozen other heavy bombers.)

My little brother and I liked using lego miniatures. We'd set them up, catapult stuff at them, and do damage accordingly. Even started using dice at some point. Of course lego never did WWII, so no WWII there.

These days I use 1/2400 naval miniatures, dices, rulers, rules, and what have you. And that's back to WWII and it's good clean fun.

 

Well there's a third nowadays, those who blog about it...

 

Haha I still do when I have the time I have to admit. I prefer to paint toy soldiers now, but I still believe that toy soldiers can blow away video games in some respects.

 

Well, for starters, you can't paint a videogame. Nor easily modify it. Though there are those with that special skill set. Still, I think it's easier to learn the modification both of the toy soldiers themselves and the rules of engagement under which they commit their tiny atrocities and acts of led or plastic heroism.

 

im like gardner i have wargames in 1/72 (cos its cheaper than 1/48th) me and my friend are actually gering up for all out war! he has a better army from what intelligence i have gathered (we are very secretive, he wont tell me i wont tell him)
but when i was younger i used sand pits, very very handy for having battles.

 

Not too long ago, I built a ton of warships, primarily IJN and USN. I remember lining up my fleets on the blue (appropriately coincidental) carpet and with my brother, we'd simulate naval battles and sometimes landings. We also used to play carrier battles complete with the little tiny airplanes that come with aircraft carrier models. But after one too many accidents where we stepped on the odd ship, we decided to save as many as we can and put them away for display.

 

i hate seeing displays. i have lost probably up to $200 worth of models to stepping on but i never gave in. should whip em out karma and keep the pacific a live theatre lol