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Offline Clark

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Re: Credit where credit is due.
« Reply #45 on: August 17, 2013, 08:42:19 AM »
LOS figures are in a bastardized scale.  The idea behind Stalingrad was to simulate the same style of meat grinder battles in an urban warfare setting and that would give Global Games an excuse to release a new line of figs.  The point was to be historically accurate and have the figs in a standard scale that would allow players to use off the shelf models of vehicles and such.  I can't recall if they were in 1/48th or 1/32nd. You have to understand the economics of the situation back in the day. We basically broke even on the rule books while the figs could gross a 200% mark up. The rule books were essentially catalogues for the figures that followed.  There was nothing novel about the Stalingrad figs, they were just well done and intended to be marketed as part of a game system.