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Thanks, @unclejimmy – eh … Lemme say 7PM UK Time tomorrow, after the 40K weekend has perhaps died down a little.  It won’t be a big deal.  Just a small little demo game of USMC vs. NVA, 1967 hill fights during the build-up to Tet.

I agree the “MiG-28s” (F-5 Freedom Fighters) in Top Gun were pretty sad.  The only “real” MiGs they could’ve gotten at the time though are MiG-19s and MiG-21s captured by Israelis.  These things would have been pathetic against F-14C or D Super Tomcats.  At the time the Su-27 and MiG-29 was barely in the protoype stage, clearly these are the next-gen Soviet fighter craft they were “aiming” for with the MiG-28.  I remember being 15 in the theater and laughing.  They couldn’t even get the name right.  MiGs all carry odd numbers, you dumbasses!  But hey, compared to Iron Eagle (came out earlier the same year), Tom Gun was practically a documentary.  A different time.

That Waterloo set is awesome!

We don’t really do French Foreign Legion or Napoleonics here.  In the States those slots are taken by Wild West “Cavalry vs. Indian” sets for kids and American Civil War.

@ceppie – no, my GoN set is long long gone.  Apparently people are still selling them on e-Bay.