The box
Measuring some 195mm across the flat sides and with hexes 26mm across the flat sides this has ‘Portable Wargaming’ written all over it!
The pieces that make up the ‘puzzle’ element
As you can see they are 26mm across….
….and around 7mm thick.
One of the features of this shop is the central aisle - the ‘middle of Lidl’ as it has come to be known - that usually contains all manner of items ranging from assorted tools, garden bits and pieces, items of clothing and children’s toys and games.
It is always worth a look down this aisle and today proved the wisdom of doing so as I picked up a copy of the above for a mere £3.99!
The uses for this wonderful piece of kit are many. With some careful terrain building - the pieces contained therein could be used for hills or similar - a laptop sized wargame could be fought whilst sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea and a chocolate hobnob! One thing that crossed my mind would be using this for Gladiatorial type games or indeed, any kind of duel setting.
I may well have to go back and try and get a couple of other copies of this!
14 comments:
Good spot!
I just like the look of the game!
Cheers,
Ion
David,
Thanks to you, I’ll be off to the local branch of Lidl tomorrow!
All the best,
Bob
This looks to have a great deal of potential. Perfect for Risk pieces or 6-10mm figures.
The times I've been scanning that aisle for potential gaming material, and you land on that :-D Lucky so-and-so.
Great find David.
A single character figure in 10-15mm would look great on those hexagon pieces. Or a small group of 6mm figures in a little vignette.
What an excellent find! Hope you are on commission from Lidl, as they are besieged by gamers Continent wide…
Alan Tradgardland
I immediately thought of a gladiatorial arena when I saw the photo of the box. Not my sort of thing though. I could see it being used as a campaign map, with the hexes being double sided to give a good mix of terrain.
It certainly was! I would like to get another two or three sets as there are cunning plans afoot…. :-)
All the best,
DC
It does look fun - there are rules and cards also included for the game and how to win it.
I have a couple of ideas to play around with that will make use of it - something skirmishy methinks….
All the best,
DC
All the best
Go on Bob - you know you want to!
All the best,
DC
I am thinking 15/20mm skirmishes or using 3mm armour…..
It is certainly a versatile set for sure!
All the best,
DC
I really want to go back and get another two or three sets. I could paint them the required base colour and organise terrain to suit.
2 or 3mm would look great on this methinks.
All the best,
DC
Funnily enough my daughter used to have a part time job at Lidl so I could have used her staff discount but sadly no commission!
All the best,
DC
I hadn’t thought about a campaign map but that is certainly a good idea!
Plenty of things to think about though - but not for too long as there are ships to be built!
All the best,
DC
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