. . . Attracted to the image of a figure
and the news - upon closer inspection - that there were more.
As with a lot of these games it's mostly
air, stored in two loose-formed boxes supporting the board over the component
compartment, but it was all there, with four figures, and a raven!
The figures (of a type I call Mocherette -
but that's for another day and another page!) are a mix of two modern tourist box-ticking
types - Yeoman Warder and Guardsman, and two historical figures - a knight in
armour and Anne Boleyn. There's also a micro-model of the White Tower, the
raven (approximately 54mm) and a gold-chromed crown ('Crown Jewels' token),
which had its own plush, velveteen bag with a draw-string.
The figures are a standard 25mm (I didn't
have the Airfix - or any - guards to hand!), and the knight is a scaled-down
copy of the old Peltro-Westair figure later carried by Kinder. All four are a tad
crudely-finished (the Yeoman leans drunkenly to one side and the Guardsman
holds a pop-gun), but nothing which a bit of paint wouldn't hide at this scale!
Saved bits going into the collection,
everything else went to the recycling bin. It's a tourist item really; the
company behind it (The Green Board Game
Company) has clearly approached or been approached-by Historic Royal Palaces to knock something together for the gift
shops in the latter's high-heritage-factor, end-destination, tourist-trap, leisure
facilities!
Indeed - because of the tourist-link, it's
likely that a fair few of these have been taken out of the country?
The map may have some use for role-playing,
but I think it's a bit too busy to be easily converted and if one was minded to
do something in a real place, it would be easier to start from scratch.
The play, as far as I could tell, was a
combination of Cludo (Clue) and Magic the Gathering (!), no; Monopoly,
having a card-driven, collect-items-to-act, race-against-the-other-players
mechanism, with moves in-turn, round the board. I've scanned the paperwork in
case it ever proves useful, but I can't see myself getting much mileage out of
the whole, and all this stuff takes-up a lot of space - for what it is - better
to get it recycled before we all drown in human detritus.
I've actually visited friends in the Queens House buildings (well; now the Vichy French are calling me
big-headed I might as well talk like a big-head!), which are used by some of
the permanent staff to live-in and they are fascinating; from the outside they
look like a row of large, semi-detached Elizabethan town-houses, but inside they are a warren of tight,
narrow corridors, steep, snaking staircases, low ceilings and beams you can easily
brain yourself on!
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