Outdoor & pub games
Crossbows and Catapults
Alga, 1983
Crossbows and Catapults is a skill game published by Alga in 1983. It is played with 2 players, from age 6 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 6+
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The box
- Publishers
- Alga, Base Toys, El Greco, Harbert, Lakeside, Tomy
- Designers
- Ray Frigard, Henri Sala
- Year of release
- 1983
- Also known as
- Barbarernas sista kamp · Castelli Catapulte Cavalieri
About the game
Crossbows and Catapults, also known as Battlegrounds, is a game of physical skill first released in 1983. It has since been published by several different game publishers including Lakeside, Alga (Brio), Base Toys, Tomy and currently Moose Toys (under the name Battlegrounds Crossbows and Catapults). In the game, two sides, originally Vikings and Barbarians but later other names were used, build fortifications from plastic bricks and then attempt to destroy the other's castle with rubber-band powered crossbows (similar to ballistae) and catapults firing plastic disks. In the most recent version, launched in 2007, the two sides were Orcs and Knights.
In the Tomy version, the two armies are called the Impalers of the Clannic Shelf and the Doomlords of Gulch. The Impalers inhabit the Clannic Shelf, a large floating rock island 500 metres above the surface of Otherworld. The shelf has a gravitational effect on the Doomlords, causing them to have a shorter, squatter frame than the Impalers.More from Alga
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