Tank Command Board Game (Uncut) | Ashens & Guru Larry

[@kaledvoulch_]

All war is controlled by someone at the back pulling the strings, this game is no exception

[@reviewality]

Deep...

[@zombiehalo9588]

Kaled_ that's really deep i love it

[@elfofcourage]

Kaled_ in a way, you’re right.

[@drake8050]

For a minute I thought the game had projectiles and the bunkers were designed to shield the player from them, except through a horribly obvious miscalculation they're shaped to deflect them right into the player's eyes.

[@IAmTheRedCyclone]

If only

[@zootius]

Christ, I begged my mum for this game for Christmas in 1986. It looked so exciting in the Argos catalogue! My mum tried to talk me out of it - somehow she perceived its crapness - but I was adamant. Santa delivered. That was the day I realised the world was full of disappointment!

[@DOSRetroGamer]

I doubt she forsaw any crappyness. She probably was just against 'playing war'. Btw I would have loved to play this game even if it's not exactly complex.

[@voxlvalyx]

I laughed *way* too hard at "Deleted scene from World War II".

[@rex8286]

`I almost pulled my Lanyard knob off!` -Guru Larry

[@TheMentalRelapse]

You and Ashens make a great team. I always look forward to your colaborations.

[@MaestroDrake]

"Oh dear, Thomas, you were going too fast." 🎩☝️🚂

[@theawesomegamr]

Larry and Ashens playing a board game, instant like!

[@JosiahMKP]

I really do see you everywhere now o_o

[@theawesomegamr]

JosiahMKP I get that a lot lol. I comment too much xD

[@advokatie]

The Awesome Gamer I've never seen you 0.0.

[@theawesomegamr]

Dandog002 Nice...?

[@advokatie]

I don't know XD

[@SPACKlick]

I used to play this with my brother at my grans, I had entirely forgotten it existed. Wow.

[@XarboyMkII]

This was filmed in 2013? Why are you holdin' out on us, Larry? This is so great! More old board games! Or really anything with both of you two. You're always hilarious! :D

[@JoeyJoJoJoestarJuniorShabadoo]

The game does teach kids that war is a pointless aggravating back-and-forth grind of attrition where there is no real winner.

[@watchman_1029]

2019 and youtube still exists just, and ashens is making a film!

[@dyljaymac]

More specifically, his second film! Didn't his first film come out around when they film this too? lol

[@MizfitZer0]

I have no idea how they are playing this or determining how many spaces they move ect... but it is always fun to watch larry and ashens on screen together 

[@rainepargiello3869]

I love the intro theme on this episode so much. it just seems to me that Larry set it up and is either embarassingly proud of it or just trying to go with it while Stuart's basically thinking "Larry what have you done"

[@zeldajunkielol2]

Larry and Ashens is the best channel combo.

[@soullessSiIence]

Nah

[@italjahcorntrashroller]

I had a 10ft by 10ft ocean on card board with 2 battle groups, and u shot at each other with subs, loaded with red plastic disks, when u hit a ship it had multiple tabs and ruber bands and parts of the ships would explode off, torpedo run maybe? Plz review.

[@gary_rollinson]

I think it cool your friends with asher and really like your video's and his a well

[@Larry]

thank you, we have another coming up soon!

[@gary_rollinson]

Cool can not wait

[@OliverHarper]

Great stuff gents!

[@kameronnelson5092]

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[@juelztate4269]

@Kameron Nelson Instablaster =)

[@kameronnelson5092]

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[@kameronnelson5092]

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[@juelztate4269]

@Kameron Nelson no problem =)

[@DaFan86]

LARRY, I FUCKING LOVE YOU. YOU AND ASHENS BOTH. I HAVE BEEN A FAN FOR YEARS, AND I'M CAPS-RAGING MY LOVE FOR YOU. Haha, in all seriousness I really do appreciate the work both of you do; some of the most entertaining and uplifting people I've seen :) You've helped many people (me included) through some rough times and I can't thank you enough. Keep up all the awesomeness! :D

[@Larry]

Aww, bless you! We try our best to make different stuff really!

[@MAMECADE]

This was great Larry, I've seen this game before but never demonstrated for me. Thank you.

[@franzbauer4401]

Much apprecaited for uploading this.

[@broshmosh]

"This is 2013!" Welp.

[@lily91109]

At least it's not 2017.

[@Tozzywozzy01]

This game should literally be how Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un settle their differences.

[@jimjambananaslam3596]

It's been 5 years and I'm still waiting for KZbin to be beamed into my brain :/

[@DennisFromRLM]

@@lily91109 2017 looks pretty good to me

[@JakeMcaulay]

just what i need after a hard day of work you guys are bloody funny together always have me in stitches

[@Larry]

Lol, thanks bud!!!

[@leinadzadro2644]

Seems like you guys still have a lot of fun with it, a bit disappointed you didn't go blind because of having too much fun lol!

[@mylondonsun]

This was a fun watch - it reminded me a lot of a trick-based card game (spades comes immediately to mind). As always, you guys are a lot of fun to watch together :D

[@MrTacosaredelicious]

Love these board game videos!

[@cjmfebruary]

Greetings, I own a copy of this game. I like your idea of using the cotton swabs to replace the missing shell pegs. I used some plastic pegs from an old Battle Ship game that work as well. Me and my child enjoy playing this game. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. You both are very funny! Thanks for the laughs! I hope to see more videos from you both in the future. Take care! :)

[@ngastakvakis4425]

I'm surprised to see nobody talking about the tank types and which they are supposed to be/represent, so that's what I'll do.

[@ngastakvakis4425]

So it seems to me that the sides are supposed to be british and the germans in africa. Funny thing is, the tank models (chassis') are that of Soviet T-34s, lol.

[@CrustyHulkHogan]

N'gasta Kvakis I have a feeling the people who made this game just found the closest picture of a tank they could find and modeled the pieces after it

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I've seen the advert which featured the voice of the late Nicholas Courtney whom played Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart in Doctor Who.

[@alm5966]

I wanted this game so much as a kid but never got it. I thought the tanks moved by themselves but now I've seen the game in play I know I was spared the disappointment by never getting it as a Chrimbo pressie.

[@TheOldTomster]

So basically, you can automatically win every time just by choosing the numbers 10, 9, 8, and 7 at the start of each game. If your opponent does not do the same, the game will become essentially unwinable.

[@TheOldTomster]

Mm.. Yeah, you're right.

[@Sivos909]

It still requires strategy. Usually what you want to do is save your high numbers for when you go past the middle mark. That way you can get them closer to the mines faster. You can also use them to push your tanks away from the mines, but you must anticipate if your opponent will use a high number to go further and see if you can even push him off. For instance, if you used your 10 and your opponent hasn't, you can implore a 1 to reduce the amount of steps he/she takes if you believe them to be the kind to save the high numbers for going past the middle point. It still has strategy to where you must be able to read your opponent's moves and time which numbers to use when. These two are pretty much just picking at random because they want to have fun more than they want to win; that's why they keep going back and forth.

[@benyere]

Watched it all In 2018. Loved every second

[@odinswolf1969]

my mate had this, I loved it

[@SparksNZeros]

I absolutely loved the megadrive release of cannon fodder!

[@footsoldier857]

Where was your Amiga version?

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Watching this in the distant future of 2018 and it is indeed being beamed straight into my brain.

[@bwakenshaw]

I picked up a copy of this in a charity shop when I was a kid! Funnily enough it had a load of parts missing too. Ah well, I recently found a copy of Heroquest still in the shrink wrap in a charity shop so you win some you lose some...

[@ChapBloke]

I actually owned this game, briefly. I found it in a shop when I was on holiday in Keswick, bought it back to my B&B to see what it was like. After reading the instructions I decided it was pretty much a load of toot and swapped it the next day for a rather nice Corgi M60 Patton.

[@taotd]

6:01 I don't know about America, but we have those coin deposit systems in Canada

[@trenchmccoat273]

taotd In America, most of the smaller cities don't bother with the coin slot things, but I know larger stores in larger cities and airports do.

[@yobaseen21]

Yaaaaaay, I'm so happy this popped up on my sub feed, another great video love you guys! :)

[@Larry]

Cheers! We hope to make this a monthly series now!

[@yobaseen21]

Oh my god yay! that's even made me more happier thanks :)

[@bwakenshaw]

***** Fantastic news, Hope you've got loads of games already picked out!

[@r3tr0gam3r89]

Its 2019 now, KZbin still exists. Have you done the Video games based on game shows series? I would be much interested!

[@Elgauno]

All these old board games remind me of the 80's Transformers board game. I lost the actual game years ago but I still have the fantastic box with the great art they had on the toys at the time. Wouldnt mind seeing you guys play that.

[@noobiesmurf]

The kid on the front of the box is not blind, he is reading the other kids mind to psych him out! It's part of the game.

[@bravotwozero007]

You need to do crossbows and catapults next :)

[@Larry]

If we can get one some how we may!!!

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Crossbows and catapults was awesome. I dont think i played it right once

[@Captain1diot]

I used to have Cannon Fodder on the Amiga 500. If you look on KZbin you should be able to find the intro music video.

[@Sou1defiler]

OMFG I remember getting this for my Christmas, me and my dad sat for like 4 hours playing this.

[@Fawltykog]

Wonderful, i'm old enough to remember this board game but only sitting on the shelf* of the local toy shop 'Zodiacs' here in sunny Hatfield back then. Wasn't there a 'Zaxxon' board game? *The board game not me i hasten to add, sitting on shop shelves was frowned upon.

[@briankinnear1314]

The commercial for it was excellent!

[@jameshayes3175]

Playing an obscure board game while making Cannon Fodder jokes? Heaven on Earth.

[@sandakureva]

Larry legit sounds like a really fun person.

[@CaitCatM]

Oh wow, I remember getting this second hand from somewhere in the 90s. Think it lasted one game before I realised some part of it had broken.

[@PipePunk]

puro teto ya en yupuf

[@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939]

It's gone midnight on a Saturday and I'm watching two grown men play a children's board game... I wish I were good enough to have a girlfriend :P

[@longier3693]

I used to have that got it for My birthday one year with another game called crossfire

[@Rocker3182]

My dad had this game, and I think I completely wrecked it when I was a kid...I think there's still a couple of the tanks lying around somewhere tho. No idea what happened to the actual 'board'.

[@ZenEmu01]

Back in the day I had far more fun painting the tanks. I'm not sure I ever actually played the game more than once.

[@ListerDavid]

You should try and get hold of the old catchphrase board game. My friend had it, we played it for an hour once. Lol

[@sirmugman]

i've not heard of this game, its very strange. also were do you get these games?! is there just an "old board games shoppe" near you or is it just chairty shops are really good hunting grounds?

[@Larry]

eBay nowadays! But I've gotten a couple of donations from fans recently.

[@sirmugman]

aren't you the lucky one

[@tinnyle2719]

The 90' was much cooler then frikin child friendly hungry hippos

[@MagnaRyuuDesigns]

Actually Larry in the US we have a store chain that has the put a coin in (A quarter here) and get a Shopping Cart.

[@brianm6337]

Well- tanks for that entertainment. :D

[@83rockboyyo]

Stuart was complaining in splinter cell about the "bloody hell" soundbite.... remember this video?

[@Sc0pee]

That ending was brilliant :)

[@AshleyTMDW]

Come on Larry, you said there's gonna be a show based on games made of game shows in 2017. Any update on the progress? :P

[@kip258]

Top 10 anime crossovers! :D

[@VectrexRoli]

Another entertaining video, thanks Larry! :-)

[@Larry]

Cheers Roli!!!

[@italjahcorntrashroller]

It cost 5- 25 cents, to rent a cart, a whole pound That's airport pricing. So it cost 1 euro, 2 $, for a troli in the UK?

[@DiazVolt]

Well the whole "beaming KZbin into your brain." Thing isn't too far off since we are getting the holo lens. Gotta love technology.

[@CynicalGamingBlogTerry309]

There's nothing quite like watching two classy English blokes playing a children's board game

[@hatboxful]

Very nice chaps!

[@italjahcorntrashroller]

U should combine this with ur in door fire works.

[@seanwaters4737]

Do more movie reviews larry I loved them

[@kitwew]

oh wow that tommy tank mix is ear-scrapey as fuck. top choice

[@reckley]

A friend of mine had this game but, we just blew up the tanks rather than play it properly. Until now I didn't know how it was played!

[@gferrol118]

"You've invaded no mans land" better than invading no mans sky

[@20110102]

now i want to play this with popcaps for the mines.

[@DesolatorMagic]

This is intense AF

[@nerd_biker]

As a child I *really* wanted to buy this game... after watching the first "round" of your game, I'm glad I never did! :)

[@Larry]

I did have this as a kid, but all I ever did was play with the tanks.

[@Kingsultansapainca]

Guru, could you please link me that hideous corruption of Thomas the Tank Engine you used in the beginning? Thanks.

[@Larry]

it's the intro music to the ZX Spectrum version of the Thomas the Tank engine game. So there's no links really I'm afraid, but a few videos on KZbin of it!

[@TheOsteveo]

Had this when i was a kid great times

[@Mutant1988]

Tank Command Board Game (Uncut) | Ashens & Guru Larry 2013? So this is an old video then? Or was that just a flub?

[@Larry]

No, we recorded it last year, just issues delayed it from going up.

[@dirtpipedan]

***** blindness?

[@pixelartingames]

This is one of those games you took into school on the last day.... or is it a actual training platform for Generals...?

[@italjahcorntrashroller]

No Americans except the natives are from here, we have every laungue culture in the world living togethar in the open, more than a few of us routinly travel the globe, just saying a pound for a cart seems like a lot.

[@kabr0ne]

You've been sitting on this vid for nearly 2 years?

[@Larry]

Well someone else was supposed to edit it for us, but they kept delaying it, so I did it myself in the end.

[@XanthinZarda]

***** By not editing it? :B

[@gferrol118]

"That will come in 2017 well... Less than 2 weeks left in 2017 and still not done it

[@h3nder]

Yeah it kinda is 1970's version of World of Tanks...

[@Larry]

lol, pretty much, but with less micro transactions :D

[@h3nder]

***** And less noobs.

[@jackhenderson1039]

StaTeBoliUvoGoogle? Except a little more realistic.

[@Reyon88]

Larry can't english for shite

[@florianwinter240]

Fabulous music

[@kenanrifat8135]

Mann I hate waiting for the HD options to load.

[@GameBantz]

You guys need to play loopin Louie! :p

[@italjahcorntrashroller]

Other guy thanks for the little add ins, u can not tell how cheap that is from r side. It looks boring as fuch, but I still want 1.

[@TheVoodooKids]

We need to adapt this into a blockbuster movie.

[@freebite]

I'm not sure how many people have already pointed this out buuut.... aldis does that whole use money to entice people to put shopping carts back, though they use quarters because we don't have dollar coins in circulation anymore.

[@ICBPenguin]

America does have those insert coin to get shopping cart things, they just aren't everywhere.

[@ChibiWes101]

In America a few stores do have the coin-locked shopping carts. I've only seen it at Aldi Stores, but I'm sure its not all that uncommon. Less common than free-roaming carts yeah. But still :P

[@alphapennsylvania9439]

Ideal made very high quality toy soldiers and these where leftovers made into a game.

[@TheTetrapod]

I do in fact require a copy. It is the only way to defeat SERN. They rule over a dystopian future using miniature plastic tanks. I was sent back in time to acquire Tank Command. I just stopped here because I wanted to meet my father, who fights in the resistance under the name Gerry Bungie. Please reply if you have info.

[@ronrickards5733]

How do you know who gets to move?

[@erniemiller1953]

This came out when I was a kid and I wanted it so bad. But mom said no. By the time I had a paper route, it was no longer on the shelves.

[@erniemiller1953]

AFter seeing it played, I am glad I did not get it.

[@PoisonedAl]

Was that the Spectrum version of Thomas the Tank Engine? I remember that game had two modes: Insultingly easy and impossibly hard.

[@GenaTrius]

ALDI did bring the whole "put a coin into the shopping cart" thing over here, but we use quarters. Wal-Mart and the like have their employees shifting carts around all day and night, though. Even have special machines for moving big lines of them around. Pretty damn stupid, really.

[@TheOnComingStorm121]

You have ALDI in the country where you live? Oh you poor bugger... =/

[@llpalm08]

All the big supermarkets over here have employees doing that also, even if they use the £1 locks because people don't want to go back to the front of the shop and put the trolley back in the zones so there are special undercover trolley parks across the car park.

[@yobaseen21]

***** There's thousands of ALDI'S in Great Britain.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

yeah, stupid bastards providing jobs to high school kids, the unskilled, and handicapped. what could they be thinking?

[@GenaTrius]

Thomas Jenkins Yeah, that is a good thing. I just figure there's got to be something better for those people to be doing than milling about outside in 90+ degree weather.

[@theravenpirate4744]

"It'll come out in 2017" I'm still waiting :(