And a Good Time
Was Had By All

Monopoly

Review by Wally Simon

Sometime during our 3 week stay, we managed to get in several rounds of MONOPOLY... the British version, with Boardwalk and Park Place replaced with Mayfair and Park Lane, respectively, New York Avenue with Vine Street, and so on. An interesting development during this series: whoever got the 'greens', nominally a high priced monopoly, went under... no one seemed to land on the greens.

The greens are costly to buy, expensive to develop, and cost an arm and a leg if you land on them... yet all tokens seem to ignore them like the plague. Our 5 minute analysis indicated that the square just before the greens is GO TO JAIL.-- hence many times during the game, tokens are short circuited off to jail and never get a chance to enter green territory. This, in part, would seem to be the answer as to why the greens were losers. Anyone out there agree?

We paid a quick visit to Mr. Edward Suren, dean of the 30mm world. Suren figures are the creme de'la creme to the 30mm figure connoiseur noone can afford a Suren wargame army, with figures costing somewhere around two dollars for infantry. Surens are 95% tin, 4.5% zinc, and 0.5% copper, which, in essence makes them pewter.

Interestingly enough, London possesses only 2 sources of 30mm figures. One, as stated, is Suren. The other is the Stadden line, now being produced in Sweden. Staddens are no bargain either; the infantry figures also sell for about two dollars per. All of which makes the FUSILIER line mentioned previously seem like a winner; they sell in the order of 70 cents for a foot figure.

British gamers, like those in the US, are focusing on 15mm figures. At 7 pence for a foot figure (slightly over 12 cents each), that's the best buy the British wargamer can get. I saw 20mm figures advertised for 15 pence (27 cents) and 25mm ones for 20 pence (36 cents). Fairly cheap by our standards, but with a suffering British ecomomy, not cheap enough to get the British gamer to buy any but the 15mm castings.

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