OK folks... here's the rules:
THE RULES THE RULES THE RULES THE RULES
1. You can only post 1 thing at a time for people to try and find.
2. It must be a specific something, like "find a wargame that has ___ town on the map" or "find a depiction of ___ in a wargame" and not "list all wargames published in the 70s that feature "fusiliers". As a rule, if there are more than 4-5 possible responses, think about narrowing your scope.
3. Respondents MUST POST AN IMAGE OF THE ITEM BEING SOUGHT. If you scrape an image off of BGG, fine. If you take your own picture, fine. But you have to post a picture, not just say "oh yeah, that's in ____ game, remember?"
4. If you post the question, be prepared to post an answer if no one can find it. No fishing expeditions! You need to know the answer exists before you send other people after it.
5. If no one answers your challenge within a week, you have to post the answer yourself.
FIRST CHALLENGE!
Find a wargame counter with an image of a rabbit on it.
Note that I said "wargame" counter - no Monty Python or Red Dragon Inn (which has cards, not counters, anyway).
I think I've ID'd the game but I'm having trouble finding images of the counter.
I could have sworn Dragonhunt had a rabbit, but I can't find the counter.
OK guys - I might just post the answers to the first challenge early, to keep the thread moving.
Anyone else have a good obscure item to chase down on the scavenger hunt?
Okay, guys here is a different scavenger hunt.
Find a wargame with a Random Events Card that says:
Villain Player Only
Evil Villain Grabs Princess and Runs Off
(See rules for Abduction in Random Events Section)
This should be pretty easy for people of a certain experience in wargaming.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 25, 2012, 08:33:23 AM
Anyone else have a good obscure item to chase down on the scavenger hunt?
Sure.
Guide.
It's not on the map, on a card, or counter.
Hey, Brant, no one seems to have a clue on the two scavaneger hunts.
PErsonally I cannot think of any games with wabbit counters (or any Elmer counters either), so I'm stuck on your challenge.
Is there a time limit on the challenges before they are shelved?
I'm guessing that mine was nowhere near sexy enough. )Princess abduction is so passe.)There is a follow on question, that has a strategic aspect, Nazis, and SS. What more could a red-blooded american wargamer ask for?
Since there is no response to my first, perhaps it is time to whip it out (nod to sheriff Bart), and put out the next challenge?
Quote from: besilarius on February 26, 2012, 09:18:16 AMPErsonally I cannot think of any games with wabbit counters (or any Elmer counters either), so I'm stuck on your challenge.
OK- wargame counters with rabbits.
There are 2 that I know of. One is quite recent.
Battles Magazine #6 (http://www.battlesmagazine.com/eshop/achat/produit_details.php?id=23) featured a game called Into The Bastards (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72460/into-the-bastards-first-tank-battle) about the first tank-on-tank battle in history.
some counters from the game
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftalk.consimworld.com%2FWebX%3F233%40%40.1dd388f5%2F5580%21enclosure%3D.1dd535b5&hash=09b7c6ab6a180215a8a518b5c2d34dc6a3b052a6)
Clash of Arms also released a game called Eagles Turn East (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8702/1807-the-eagles-turn-east)
If you look at the counters on the left side, you'll see a bunch of foraging soldiers holding up rabbits. Hard to see on the BGG image, but unmistakable on the real counter.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcf.geekdo-images.com%2Fimages%2Fpic45740.jpg&hash=00d6c9efb2f5f654f831e7bbc02ccb27eb7d5129)
OK guys - I got the ball rolling... anyone else got some good scavenger hunt quests?
Quote from: besilarius on February 25, 2012, 09:26:41 AM
Villain Player Only
Evil Villain Grabs Princess and Runs Off
Can't find this one, after a few bouts of looking.
Next "find me" item -
What urban combat wargame includes a scenario in which a mob at a punk rock concert is sent out to riot in the city?
Just in time for the new release by Disney pictures.
John Carter of Mars, by SPI. Some of the big hitters from SPI were involved, Mark Herman, Eric Goldberg, Red Simondson, but it just did not find an audience.
Now, with the movie released - and getting fairly good reviews - it may suddenly become a hot property. Only thirty years too late!
oh boy, the scavenger hunt is off to a roaring start?!?
OK here's two easy ones, which wargame is about babysitting?
and for #2 WHICH SPI GAME, had a victory condition of EAT THE BLONDE!
and yes, I currently own three of the first ( two of which are for sale ) and one of the second no way in hell I'd sell it!
tic tic tic...
Battle for Seattle?
Eat the Blonde is from Creature that Ate Sheboygan.
Sorry, no images available...
Now my turn:
Which game features "severed head" counters?
^ The old SPI Middle Earth trilogy game, Gondor.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcf.geekdo-images.com%2Fimages%2Fpic107138_md.jpg&hash=ed4826ac5acc7c9b76c0dffe2376fa20e0ec360b)
Nicely done...your turn.
What wargame was one of the first games to replace standard NATO symbols on the counters with unit symbols from the German army?
The Longest Day
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg824.imageshack.us%2Fimg824%2F7181%2Fpic586704.jpg&hash=52bfb011f54a9a3f0932437d01b1d423c0bc7143)
^Excellent job. Also known as "The Longest Game". ;)
Bloody Hell's Teeth - I remember playing that when it first came out, and then SPI's Atlantic Wall - we never really decided which one was the hardest to play.
jack nastyface, you are sooooooo close to the right answer!
I'll try and take a pic and post it tomorrow.
I will also post the other one too.
huh? the longest setup?
heck no, rand game assoc, rommel: the war for north africa, was waaaayyyy earlier than longest day for german symbology....
here is the geeklink the game was from the first red box rand game series.
from 19 and 74! this is one of the earliest I know of, but their sicily game also has this too, two versions the red box one and gamut of games also.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9155/rommel-the-war-for-north-africa
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5880/invasion-sicily
pics on the geek are too large to attach
ah, what the hell! YOU MAY NOT ATTACK IN THE TURN YOU EAT THE BLONDE!
the picture attachment size is just too small here at this point so I will geek the back page to ya'll
The Creature That Ate New York!
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/100811/adventure-gaming?size=original
and the baby sitting game GLOBBO from the space gamer 62 I have never seen an original but I own three of the SJG versions
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/boardgame/2195/globbo
bump
someone start this up again :)