In the last years we have seen games like the Memoir'44 collection, the Tide of Iron game with expansions and the games of Twilight creations.Īltogether you will find an initial collection of 35 different board games in this article, with 261 different figure poses. This period of time was obvious a good choice as production of 1:72 soldiers was growing fast, thus they benefited from this 'golden age' of 1:72 figure production. but only in 7 poses! Hasbro followed in the 80s with 4 games in the same period (mostly Risk versions). Their game 'Age of Mythology' was their ultimate with 36 different poses and 300 plastic figures in total! This amount was only beaten by the 'History of the World' game by Avalon Hill with 642 plastic figures.

They produced 10 games with figures before 2010. But things got really wild when Eagle games started production in 2001. One of them of course, Axis and Allies, is one of the most popular war games ever produced. In the 1980s it was MB who produced 6 more games in our favorite scale. And the somewhat obscure game 'Soccerboss' followed in 1969 (produced by Ariel). In 1967 3M followed with the 8 poses in their 'Feudal' game. It had only 2 poses but as far as I know it was this first game that inspired others. And where Avalon Hill always produced their war games with cardboard counters it was MB who decided to include real plastic soldiers in their 1961 'Battle Cry' game. That’s the overwhelming score if you browse through the website. Hundreds of war games, thousands of other games.

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