70's game (matchbox?)

[gopher]

Hi all

I'm looking for a game that I had in the late 70's/early 80's that consisted of a plastic "demolished" house that came in parts (front left, back left, front right, chimney floors etc) that you fitted together and put your German (1:32) troops on.

You then fired an air propelled rocket from the back of an American armoured car (M8?) via a plunger (that really hurt your hand and caused your parents (downstairs) to shout "Stop the banging!") at the house causing it to fall apart and destroy the enemy within.

I know I'm not making it up, does anyone here remember it, and what it was called??

Cheers

Paul

[catretriever]

I've never heard of it, but I 'm imagining it was called "Kill the Filthy Hun" or "Bomb the Bunker" or something like that . It was the '70's after all

[yertis]

I know Airfix did a model "part demolished farmhouse" in both 1/32 and 1/76.

[wedg1e]

Holy CRAP. This takes me back... although I preferred 1/72nd scale, German armoured vehicles (my bro got the Alled forces, someone had to be the bad guy).
I was also crap at wargames... if I'd been in charge, WW2 WOULD have been over by Xmas...

[Zorro]

yertis said:

I know Airfix did a model "part demolished farmhouse" in both 1/32 and 1/76.

That's part of it !If it's the one I'm thinking of the whole game was called Combat something.I had one of those as part of a big set with pillboxes that fired discs. It was a sort of sand colour, I remember placing enemy units on the chimney stack so I could ping them, wow twas only like yesterday.

German Afrika Corps on the right.

[v8thunder]

I thought this was going to turn into 'Does anyone know of a Pirate Memory Game?'

[yertis]

Here you are:


Very collectable...

[gopher]

Good try guys but not the one I'm thinking of.

This was a German town house - double fronted with the 4 main quarters slotting together, the chimney was seperate as were the "floors" - bits of wooden floorboards (in plastic) that slotted in the inside front. Also bits of corragated steel covered the downstairs windows.

IIRC there was enough room for about 15-20 of those soft plastic 1:32nd scale soldiers - the ones with the oval stands. The more the you hit the house the more bits fell off and the more Jerries you killed!!

aaarrgggh - It came up in a conversation today, and it's doin' my head in!

[gopher]

v8thunder said:

I thought this was going to turn into 'Does anyone know of a Pirate Memory Game?'

yeees - a bit like that, but perhaps a little less piratey....?

[sparkythecat]

"Margaret, Margaret There's a gentleman here wants to know, have we got a model of a German town house - double fronted with the 4 main quarters slotting together, with seperate chimney and seperate floors was with bits of wooden floorboards (in plastic) slotted in the inside front and bits of corragated steel that cover the downstairs windows?".


"Well, tell him to FK Off!

"She says you've to......"



>> Edited by sparkythecat on Wednesday 15th December 23:06

[yertis]

gopher said:

Good try guys but not the one I'm thinking of. This was a German town house - double fronted with the 4 main quarters slotting together, the chimney was seperate as were the "floors" - bits of wooden floorboards (in plastic) that slotted in the inside front. Also bits of corragated steel covered the downstairs windows. IIRC there was enough room for about 15-20 of those soft plastic 1:32nd scale soldiers - the ones with the oval stands. The more the you hit the house the more bits fell off and the more Jerries you killed!! aaarrgggh - It came up in a conversation today, and it's doin' my head in!

Hmmmmm... not much to go on is there. Sounds like the sort of toy we used to find only at the back end of the Grattan or Freemans catalogue (before the lingerie section became more interesting).

[rich 36]

I had an 1;32 tray shaped ditch and gun-emplacement effort for christmas once, but only one moving part
Field gun trigger, do'nt remmber the germans though.
love to see it anyway
Was it modeled on the blairs newly tennanted appartment by any chance?

[Zorro]

yertis said:

Here you are: Very collectable...

Thanks m8. That's the one I had, British tank and the German Halftrack. Had a big combat playing surface as well. Talk about a trip down memory lane.

[selmer]

sparkythecat said:

"Margaret, Margaret There's a gentleman here wants to know, have we got a model of a German town house - double fronted with the 4 main quarters slotting together, with seperate chimney and seperate floors was with bits of wooden floorboards (in plastic) slotted in the inside front and bits of corragated steel that cover the downstairs windows?". "Well, tell him to FK Off! "She says you've to......" >> Edited by sparkythecat on Wednesday 15th December 23:06

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