Ed123 said:
I liked the hulking Heroquest ones. There was also some little spin-off involving a Chaos/Orc siege of some tower in the middle of a tablecloth map that had kewl chaos knights.
Ah yeah, that was Battle Masters. It was like a beginner's version of Warhammer, in that it was fast-paced and actually fun, and simple enough for even normal people to get into. Played it once with me Dad, brother, and uncle. By the end of it my Dad and uncle (as the poncy knights and heroes) were taking it totally serious, while we destroyed them with our hordes of goblins, orcs and chaos knights. The figures weren't bad by mass-produced kiddy plastic standards of the time, but as usual the evil side got all the detail and love.
Some images of it:
Brings back memories. It had an interesting, if basic, random card deck element, and the system for firing the cannon was cool.
Did anybody else ever see or buy any of the old Asgard lead figures? They were kind of the older, cheaper, more basic (and more varied) version of Games Workshop ones - sometimes they were a bit wonky/bendy, and ingesting the lead as a child has left me stunted and insane, but they had an old-worlde hobbyist charm to them that GW's corporate moneygrabbing could never quite replace.
Their humans were also proportioned like humans. Still got quite a few of 'em.
Actual wargames - miniature semi-accurate recreations of Waterloo and Bull Run, etc. - were always cool to watch, when the mad old eternal bachelors would hold their weirdo meet-ups in the community centre.
