Need an excuse

[joroas]

I've looked at Foundry's  Dad's Army Range for a while and it on sale.  But I need convincing to buy.  I have lots of the Artisan Pulp Range and am thinking of the following background:

Small island, defended only by Home Guard, too small for regulars.
These are backed up by a reasonable police force and detectives


Issues to deal with:

Murders are solved by Poirot, etc.
Shot down Luftwaffe crew
Landed U-Boat crew looking for stores, info.
Spies
Smugglers
Black Marketeers
Local Lord's private army with a view to becoming the new ruler
Resistance fighters wanting home rule
Archaeologists investigating local sites
Cultists
German landings looking for a quick victory and a foothold
Ley lines attracting German scientists

Thoughts?

[Lowtardog]

SSounds like a plan to me

[matakishi]

Sounds like you have several excuses

[gamer Mac]

Forget the excuses 
Sounds like you have it all worked out. 
Get on with it man.
Buy it, build it, paint it, and then play it.
Don’t forget the loads of pictures for us.

[Michi]

Here is my favourite excuse:

England´s capital is in urgent need of a proper public transport system. London transport got its red AEC Routemaster doubledecker buses recently, but there is trouble coming along: The evil Reich has launched V1 flying bombs and other mean things against the city. The battle of Britain is raging and the public transport has to be protected to keep the city alive. Rocket scientists were developing the ultimate answer to the threat from above and finally produced the backpack for flying conductors to guard their bus or tube train.
Young women from all over the country volunteer for London´s new air service. They are chosen for light bodyweight and agility, equipped with the all new backpacklauncher and swimsuit-styled flying combinations for aerodynamic reasons. Armed with a powerful Lewis 2.0cal. repetition assault gun, they are destined to throw themselves against those flying bombs to gun them down before they reach their destinations. The girls become famous for brave and daring deeds. Nobody knows, who they really are, because they have adopted typical London Transport names, but it is rumoured that many of them are young nobles andit is said that even members of the Royal Family were taking flying lessons with those backpacks. The forces have already begun testflying them as well, yet with no good results, as the weight of a fully equipped soldier is too high. Meanwhile the men are collecting cigarette pictures of the young flying ladies...

[joroas]

I really didn't need too much persuasion, just wanted to push it out.

I forgot to mention:
the Vicar's concern about the restless graveyard
Nazi sympathisers and Blackshirts
resistance fighting against German Occupation

Need to work on a back-history and map

Yes, all my Pulp hits in one go.  WWII, Wierd WWII, Gangsters, Zombies and BCW 1938

I am now thinking Dads' Army on bikes chasing the new Dixons resistance on bikes.  What a Carry on.

[georgec]

Don't forget:

The Ancient One sleeping in the sea caves
The curious Wicker Man being built by the locals
The Chain Home Low radar station attracting every thing from Brandenburgers through Foo Fighters to Sea Deamons
That a new-arrived blue police box will not look out of place for once

You shoud get much about 20-years-worth fo gaming from this lot - have fun !   

[joroas]

The Ancient One sleeping in the sea caves
The curious Wicker Man being built by the locals
The Chain Home Low radar station attracting every thing from Brandenburgers through Foo Fighters to Sea Deamons
That a new-arrived blue police box will not look out of place for once

You shoud get much about 20-years-worth fo gaming from this lot - have fun !   

Ideas duly borrowed.

Thanks

[former user]

seems like a pretty big Island with all those people running around there 

could You also squeeze Cpt. Nemo and Zorro in?

of course the period versions

seriously, there is this novel by J.Verne - "Propeller Island"  with a mobile Island - as pulpish as You can get

[joroas]

Yay! just bought them for 20% less than retail and I got free postage...........

could You also squeeze Cpt. Nemo and Zorro in?

Not Zorro, buI am looking for a role for the Captain America that I bought this year, too.

Some of PMC's new scenery look suitably nondescript for the 20th Century.

[former user]

and Wolverine of course, and the Phantom

[gamer Mac]

Some of PMC's new scenery look suitably nondescript for the 20th Century.

Sorry being thick this morning, PMC's

[joroas]

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/pmc_games/

Check them out

[joroas]

Yay, not only did they arrive today, but I also won a Jones' Van on Ebay............

[Arlequín]

Yay! just bought them for 20% less than retail and I got free postage...........

Not Zorro, buI am looking for a role for the Captain America that I bought this year, too.

Well there's always the guy who is falsely accused of a crime, loses everything incuding his girl, spends many years in a penal colony, escapes and returns to seek revenge. Also the guy horribly disfigured who fears a Guy Fawkes mask and has pledged to avenge all who fell foul of a tyrannical regime. Finally there's the foreign visitor who is an identical match to the king and stands in for him when he is kidnapped.

You might need some terrain with 39 steps too!