My First Wargame Reports From 1970!

As I was cleaning up the garage, after the Great Inundation I came across numerous items from my childhood. Among them were these wargame reports I wrote when I was 11. I scanned them and loaded them here, complete with original writing and spelling errors!

On the 14. 7 .70 a war-party of two Comancheros and 22 Indians attacked Fort Jackson. 

A troop was sent out and battled the war party. The last Indian bit the dust. ? Palefaces were left out of 28.

 On the 19 . 9 .'70 two cars, one motorcycle and sidecar, 5 royal guards, two jeeps, three cannons, one rocket launcher, one ammunition limber, two tanks and 21, soldiers set off for their base. When the mission was almost complete they were attacked by 18 German snipers and a plane and fired at by 2 cannons and a tank. In the finish the Germans were wiped out but only one Royal Guard, six soldiers, one cannon and ammunition limber and the motorbike and sidecar survived. two cars that went were blown up.

  The British, American and Australian victory was largely due to an American plane that came to meet them. All German artillery was blown up in the fighting. The American planes' reward was a shell by the Germans.

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  Yes, it sounds cringeworthy, but I was just a little bloke. The Western game Comancheros were probably Timpo Mexicans. I watched the John Wayne movie, 'The Comancheros' which had a big influence on me. The other figures would have been Timpo 7th cavalry, cowboys and Indians plus cereal copies of Crescent western figures and the odd Britains Swoppet ACW figure. There were probably also some assorted Hong Kong and Timpo figures.

  The WW2 game involved the Lone Star Desert and a Crescent armored car and cannon set. Timpo Swoppet figures were Aussies, Brits and Germans, the ones with the pot shaped removable helmets. The eccentric bit was the inclusion of ceremonial British guardsmen who were Crescent and Timpo plastics. The planes I had completely forgotten about.

  The rules were moves of 6'' for infantry and 12'' for cavalry and vehicles. Firing involved shooting matchsticks from cannons and 'tanks' (armored cars) or rolled and thrown marbles with tombowlers thrown from cannons and armored cars' guns. Vehicles could also run over troops! Only one figure/ vehicle was moved each move and, if I recall rightly, one shot was taken from each big gun and one from troops.

  Those two games were, I think, solo ones, were played on my bedroom floor or on the wooden floor in the asbestos garage.

  I still have most of the figures but I dropped a box of my Lone Star today and a couple of figures, including a mine sweeper, broke.

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