Released by Almark, and if memory serves sculpted by Charles Stadden for a battleboard game I can't remember the name of? The figures had a prong on the bottom of their stand which fitted in holes all over the battleboard, you had a spring loaded popgun that traversed beneath the board which blasted the little man into orbit to splashdown under the sideboard, that's if you'd guesstimated yer ranges correctly...
Sadly, 'Assualt Regiment Lion' never lived up to expectations, the Dice Gods humiliated them at every turn. So much so that my dastardly foes called them 'mere guarders of power stations'!. So humiliated was the unit it sulked in it's tents for nearly 25 years. The plague has stopped said dastadly foes travelling to the new Emporium by the Seaside... a perfect chance for the Regiment to re-emerge and commence intensive trayning!
Yep, them studs fitted into the holes in Triang's ''Battlegame' from the 60s. A tub of the original figures had different coloured, gloss painted helmets, that had a points value in the game.
steve_pickstock wrote:I had some - they may still be around somewhere, but I don't ever recall, the stud on the bottom. I may have mistaken it for sprue and trimmed it off.
You probably got the Almark set like me, they came on a normal sprue