Family Gaming Moments

Con-fusion

Vassal
I have had the Grenadier Dragon Lords (6mm dragon combat) game since 1993. I put together the dragons from the original set, and bought a whole bunch of blisters because I liked the game. But, I never got around to opening any of the blisters, because we found that 6 dragons was enough to have fun without getting too unwieldy. The blisters have sat in a box ever since. Well, that box has now been opened.

My daughter came up to my office this morning with a bunch of blisters in hand, and asked what these cute little dragons were. We've been blissfully tearing into the ancient cardboard and assembling little dragons ever since. Pure joy.
 
When I was 12 my dad came into my room one night to turn the tv off. In the process he stepped on my RT land raider destroying it completely.
 
Great stories.

I have played my first games of Space Hulk, Heroquest, Dungeon and Warhammer Quest with my chils.
... and my daughter has started painting minis with me.
Happy days.:grin:

I let my wife borrow one of my very out of print dragons to take into her school for a display.
It came back with an ear missing.
Completely un-replaceable part.
Thanks for that. :roll:
 
When my brother and I got our hands on our box of Space Fleet, we starting playing and were turning around each other until we both realised we were trying to do the same Nelson Maneuver our Dad had explained to us the day before (how low for french lads I know...) and thought it was super cool.
 
My 3 year old loves playing in my workshop, where I have all the scenery and vehicles set out(it is child friendly!) He was quite young when he got the difference between toy and model, and has not really broken anything yet. HOwever, trying to game with him is rather futile, as he is still learning the concepts of "turn" and "roll the dice, see the number" Trying to wargame at this age is a trial!
 
ramshackle_curtis":3r7pmy5g said:
HOwever, trying to game with him is rather futile, as he is still learning the concepts of "turn" and "roll the dice, see the number" Trying to wargame at this age is a trial!
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I think that might be a boy-girl thing. My daughter started picking up taking turns and rolling dice when she was one. Our first "game" that she was really into was toss the thugs. We'd roll a giant d6, load that many Milton Bradley plastic chaos thugs onto a spatula, and launch the lot toward a nominated target (generally a stuffed animal). My son, on the other hand, at two still only seems to fully comprehend "Cole smash!!!"
 
I remember playing one of the first games of 3rd ed with my son when he was around 6 or 7. He chose to use a small skirmish force of chaos thugs & I used some skellies. It was going fine, until he lost a couple of thugs & then he decided to try and run from them & hide behind a building :)

Understanding the turn sequence & the other rules wasn't the issue, it was his child sense of fear i.e. run away!!!! That made it hard to play a game with him at that age. Chess has helped him appreciate the notion of sacrificing troops in order to acheive objectives.

Now, at age 8 he loves playing wargames.....just abhors losing now that's all ;)
 
Perhaps he was sensible, and we're just butchers! Some objectives aren't worth the loss of life.
 
Well Christmas Eve we had a family game of Space Marine (5 of us with the smallies ranging from 11 to 17).

We all took one titan each and went for it with one objective in the middle of the table.

We had a great time and as it happened the youngest child won after my Slasha Gargant Blew up with the last dice roll of the game.

they've all asked for another game soon.

Cheers

Vogon
 
Asslessman":3d5ux93d said:
phreedh":3d5ux93d said:
Me and the 4 year old shared a Rogue Trader moment yesterday... :)

http://youtu.be/YBZDiHYiuo4

Never mind the obscure grunting in Swedish. :oops:
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Gosh, he even has all the recasting material ready for use !
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Ixnay on the ecastingray! :roll:


Vogon":3d5ux93d said:
Well Christmas Eve we had a family game of Space Marine (5 of us with the smallies ranging from 11 to 17).
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Sounds like a christmas well spent, Vogon!
 
That was gold Mattias!

I was excitedly worried (if that is even a correct term) that the minis were gunna explode across the room when the blister ruptured, but luckily the crisis never came to pass.

Try telling your son their not toys -as is written on the packaging- he looked super excited to see what was inside.

Great work indoctrinating your son into the world of RT :grin:
 
Haha...that video was great...and no lead damaged! or play doh for that matter... :lol:

Looks a lot like my boy...also 4yo.

Cheers,

Blue
 
optimus":8t057pqt said:
I was excitedly worried (if that is even a correct term) that the minis were gunna explode across the room when the blister ruptured
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You and me both mate :)

Blue in VT":8t057pqt said:
Looks a lot like my boy...also 4yo.
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Nutty little guys, eh Blue. :grin:
 
When Heroquest first came out, my older brother brought it back from the local toy shop and my family all sat round together painting the figures (with humbrol enamels of course!).

Still makes me misty eyed.
 
My not-really-a-nephew (friend's son) was always keen on the physical toys of gaming (i.e. the figures) and loved the 40K art when he was a nipper but always struggled with games as I don't think he quite twigged that what happens in turn 2 follows from what happened in turn 1 and so. We played Wings of War once and when he got shot down it was clear he didn't understand that it had happened as as result of the times he'd been hit by machine gun previously.

However the point I knew he'd caught up with things came in a game of Talisman when he was nearly 10.

There was a magic portal card on the outer ring. Roll a d6 for a random location with a 6 putting you into the very centre of the three rings. He landed on it, picked up the die, rolled a 6, jumped to the centre (quite early game as well), and then immediately slapped down a Spell card that allowed the player to remove any face-up Adventure game from the board removing the magic portal. So he jumped straight to the centre and removed the means by which myself and his Dad could chase him leaving us still on the outer ring.

And then he just grinned at us. A lot.

I didn't know whether to give the little bastard a good slap or be deeply, deeply proud of him.

Coop
 
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