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Offline Malamute

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« on: December 22, 2007, 12:08:44 PM »
Dear Reader,
Terrible news has been announced concerning the deaths of both Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson whilst undertaking the investigation of a case concerning our national secuirty.
You will recall the home sceretary recently mislaid secret plans and maps detailing our strategies in the ongoing war with Prussia. ( It is widely rumoured he lost  the plans whilst in the company of the delightful Miss Fanny Fitznizentight, a socialite of dubious ancestry...)


And so was set the scene for our annual Christmas game. The scenario involved the recovery of these missing documents somewhere in the Limehouse area of old London.Various groups were attempting to find the plans and either return them to the government or use them for their own nefarious gain.
The players included:-
A group of shadowy government agents; the men in black bowler hats.
Professor Moriarty and followers.
The Harmes gang, a group of Prussian sympathisers.
A  band of Prussian agents.
Holmes and Watson aided by the Baker Street irregulars and various Bobbies and civilians.

All the players had a starting base on the table and were given clues as to certain locations on the table to visit to pick up further clues as to the location of the plans.
Each turn the players were also allowed to move a certain number of civilain figures who may, or may not be characters belonging to each player. This allowed each person the opportunity to disguise his own movement and hide his true figures from the other players by pacing decoy figures around the table.

The action played out as follows;

All the players eventually established the location of the plans hidden in the Ten Bells pub. Holmes was disguised as a drunk  and trailed Moriarty in a Hanosm cab.

The Government agents the " Men in black bowler hats secured the plans first and then tried desparately to return to government HQ without losing them.

At this point all hell was let lose as The Harmes gang, the Prussian agents and Moriarty all revealed themselves and attempted to steal the documents.

During the action Holmes threw off his disguise and went to the aid of a small group of policemen who were under fire from the Prussian agents. Armed only with whistles and truncheons they were not fairing well. Holmes entered the figting firing his revolver until it unfortunately jammed. He was subsequently charged by the dastardly Prussians and went down under a mass of bayonets!

Watson unaware of the demise of his friend  rushed Moriarty's carriage just as he was preparing to exit the table with the captured plans. Fortune favoured Watson with a fluke number of moves with successive movement cards drawn for the card deck. He shot Moriarty's driver and then proceeded to fire his revolver repeatedly into the carriage killing Colonel Sebastian Moran(Moriarty's right hand man) in the process.

Unfortunately his luck eventually ran out as he was killed by the blast from a shotgun fired by one of Moriarty's thugs.

The Harmes gang was defeated as their leader was shot early on and the remaining gang members fled the table.

The Prussians were eventually surrounded by a combined force of police, Men in bowler hats and a unit of guards stationed at the nearly palace.
Moriarty thought victory was in sight as he was one move from the exit point when a government agent shot his remaining thugs one of whoom was carrying the plans. Rather than risk attempting to pick up the fallen documents Moriarty fled.





















The Bruiser one of the Harmes Gang members tangles with the Government's Men in Black Bowler Hats.


A combined force of civilians and goverment agents see off the dastardly Prussian agents.
"These creatures do not die like the bee after the first sting, but go on age after age, feeding on the blood of the living"  - Abraham Van Helsing

Offline Driscoles

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2007, 01:22:57 PM »
You have such a beautiful victorian age table mate. Absolutely beautiful...
I will move to Blighty  :)
Björn
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Offline Hammers

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2007, 02:22:05 PM »
The green devil of envy is gnawing at my innards. Wonderful...

Offline meninobesta

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2007, 02:43:42 PM »
that's obscene!  :love:  :love:  :love:
Cheers,
Pedro

Offline Chairface

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2007, 03:01:13 PM »
Absolutely inspiring. Such a gorgeous table.

Not Holmes AND Watson....  :cry:

Offline matakishi

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2007, 04:00:04 PM »
You must stop this madness at once!

Might I suggest that upturned shoe boxes with windows drawn on them make perfectly acceptable (and cheap) wargames buildings. Writing Victorian street names on them will give a genuine 'English' feel to the whole layout.

Please feel free to send me all your existing scenery so that you'll have room for your new, soon-to-be-made buildings.

Thanks  :)

Offline matakishi

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2007, 04:03:08 PM »
Oh, and since you'll be parceling stuff up, you may as well send me all your Dracula things too.
A super Transylvania table can be made by piling old tea caddies up and covering them with Christmas wrapping paper (so long as it has trees printed on it).

 :)

Offline Lowtardog

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2007, 04:49:39 PM »
Top hole simply top hole old chap :D  :love:  :)

Offline R A Norton

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2007, 05:18:34 PM »
Fantastic!  Awesome terrain!  It's really a piece of art.
What rules set do you use?

Offline assi

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2007, 05:45:44 PM »
Damn... just beautiful!! I'M WORTHLESS, I'M WORTHLESS!!

Are these Buildings selfmade?
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Offline Gluteus Maximus

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2007, 06:45:53 PM »
Quote from: "matakishi"

Might I suggest that upturned shoe boxes with windows drawn on them make perfectly acceptable (and cheap) wargames buildings. Writing Victorian street names on them will give a genuine 'English' feel to the whole layout.


If you write the names in different languages on scraps of paper, then blu-tack them to the buildings, you can change the nationality by simply swapping, say Victorian English for Samurai Japanese, 15thC Swiss or Wild West Mexican.

Voila! Instant, high quality  multi-functional scenery.

Always works for me..... :lol:

Offline ChukTuttle

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2007, 06:49:47 PM »
I don't know what was more of a turn-on, trying to picture Ms. Fanny "Fits nice and tight" or the overhead shot of your table. :P
Look Daddy, I painted one of your robots!!!

Offline Thunderchicken

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2007, 07:27:20 PM »
Absolutely stunning!

Will you be running any demo games at any shows in the future?
Don't!

Offline majorsmith

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2007, 07:55:37 PM »
wow!!!!!!!!!! the scenery looks excellent!!!! it looks like you had a fun game, amazing stuff :love:  :love:

Offline Arcticman

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson murdered December 15th 1881!
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2007, 09:17:51 PM »
So beautiful! So beautiful! I want to be 28mms tall and live there! :love:  :love:
Great scenery! Sounds like a very intense and fast moving game.
Poor Holmes... poor Watson though.

 

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