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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Yankeepedlar01 on February 18, 2010, 07:07:57 PM

Title: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on February 18, 2010, 07:07:57 PM: Some scenes from a 'RATE OF FIRE' scenario fought out between Phil, Jon and myself in GHQ this week. In both games I was the plucky, but unsuccessful Brits, while Jon and Phil were the Nazi invaders, bent on destruction and domination...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030038.jpg)
The peaceful inhabitants of Market Blanding, just before 'the balloon went up'...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030043.jpg)
Home Guard squad patrol the lanes...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030047.jpg)
Local Home Guard commander captured for posterity by the BBC...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030050.jpg)
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030049.jpg)
While a local greengrocer wonders why he can't be in the picture...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030052.jpg)
Meanwhile, Germans have silently landed and survey their objective...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030037.jpg)
The Bridge at Market Blandings....
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030044.jpg)
Defended by a squad of Regulars...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030045.jpg)
Supported[?] by the local Home Guard...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030042.jpg)
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030041.jpg)
The Germans gather for the final, telling attack...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030039.jpg)
They press on, despite being flanked by Jones' squad holding the farm...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030040.jpg)
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030048.jpg)
These brave defenders sold their lives dearly, well, before they fled anyway....
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030054.jpg)
Perhaps we might have fared better with more dynamic leadership...
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030055.jpg)
As it was, we might just want to be excused....

As you can probably tell, the Germans won both games, though the Home Guard heroes did their bit for King and Country and went down fighting....
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Phil Robinson on February 18, 2010, 07:47:43 PM: Yes Tommy you put up a brave fight, but this is what happens when you send old men and boys to fight a mans war ;)

Some great pics there Dave, and wonderful terrain ;)
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Post by: Calimero on February 18, 2010, 08:04:39 PM: Nice little battle report 8)
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Silent Invader on February 18, 2010, 08:12:29 PM: Lovely. Great picure of 'Uncle Arfur'
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Ray Rivers on February 18, 2010, 08:36:40 PM: :-*

Wonderful board, minis and report!

Cheers!
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: mortimer on February 18, 2010, 11:18:53 PM: Fantastic!!! Lovely work...
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Arlequín on February 19, 2010, 01:33:48 AM: Excellent job there gents! What's your opinion on the rules themselves?
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Overlord on February 19, 2010, 02:07:42 AM: Very nicely done. I must get around to painting my Dads Army figures at some point.
Dont tell him your name David. :D
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on February 19, 2010, 07:52:32 AM: Quote from: Overlord on February 19, 2010, 02:07:42 AM
Dont tell him your name David. :D

"Stupid boy!" ;)

Jim Hale ~ We found the rules provided a fast and fun game, which is all we ever ask. A vehicle set is in the offing, playtest version in the download section of Crusader Publishing's site.
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Captain Blood on February 19, 2010, 08:53:48 AM: Great looking set-up. Very evocative. I'd forgotten how good those Dad's Army figures were. They really do capture the essence of the characters. Brilliant stuff.
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Hammers on February 19, 2010, 09:13:37 AM: That quality of that game board is all I strive to get to myself. Fantastic. Another things which strikes me, if the comparison is needed at all, is that this kind of what-if is ,to me, somewhat preferable to VBCW.
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on February 19, 2010, 10:28:10 AM: Quote from: Hammers on February 19, 2010, 09:13:37 AM
Another things which strikes me, if the comparison is needed at all, is that this kind of what-if is ,to me, somewhat preferable to VBCW.

While I wouldn't want to pour scorn on another chap's view of what's preferable, I have to agree with you about this one. I cannot see any feasible situation which could have bought us to Civil War in 1936 or there abouts, whereas I can see the feasibility of Operation Sealion, even if it was "Doomed, all Doomed!" ;)
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Malamute on February 19, 2010, 11:08:47 AM: Wonderful stuff David. :-*
I love the additon of Jone's and Hodge's vans. Of course if you had the modified Jone's van with firing holes it would undoubtedly been a different outcome. ;)
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on February 19, 2010, 02:59:10 PM: Quote from: Malamute on February 19, 2010, 11:08:47 AM
Of course if you had the modified Jone's van with firing holes it would undoubtedly been a different outcome. ;)

"Bang,two, three!" It is then! ;)
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Arlequín on February 20, 2010, 03:06:38 PM: Quote from: Yankeepedlar01 on February 19, 2010, 10:28:10 AM
While I wouldn't want to pour scorn on another chap's view of what's preferable, I have to agree with you about this one. I cannot see any feasible situation which could have bought us to Civil War in 1936 or there abouts, whereas I can see the feasibility of Operation Sealion, even if it was "Doomed, all Doomed!" ;)

I'd disagree slightly there... only Britain took the threat of an invasion seriously and had there been a different government in power, might have thrown in the towel, which was the idea of threatening an invasion in the first place. It became apparent to OKW very early on that it just wasn't possible to do. Nevertheless it has to be the most popular fantasy scenario of all time, followed closely by Napoleon winning at Waterloo.

Regardless though, while a constitutional crisis and a swathe of resignations might have followed Ed 8's refusal to abdicate, the chances of a civil war happening are even less remote than an invasion in 1940-41.
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: abhorsen950 on February 20, 2010, 04:21:35 PM: Its nice like it alot.

Steve
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Post by: joroas on February 20, 2010, 10:49:21 PM: Nice, that is the look I want for my fictional village as a stand in for all sorts of games. Is it just me or does everyone use Conflix and PMC buildings? Lovely stuff and very, very cheap.

My pseudo-BCW idea is an isolated British island, at the start of WWII, plagued by several factions taking advantage of the unsettled situation to push forward their own agendas. I could not resist buying the Musketeer range and the Gripping Beasts Morris Men as a result.
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: skip on February 24, 2010, 04:18:21 PM: especially like the dads army figures, superb
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Arlequín on February 24, 2010, 09:41:54 PM: They are.. the Sgt Wilson figure is my favourite, assuredly John LeMesurier in the lead! :D
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on March 11, 2010, 05:49:12 PM: Thanks for the encouragement and the witty replies. I'm not sure that Churchill was a flasher though....
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: joroas on March 11, 2010, 07:48:55 PM: Quote
I'm not sure that Churchill was a flasher though....

Wasn't that a different thread? Oldtimer's disease?
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Phil Robinson on March 11, 2010, 07:52:02 PM: Quote from: joroas on March 11, 2010, 07:48:55 PM
Wasn't that a different thread? Oldtimer's disease?

No, probably too flush with victory two nights on the trot ;)
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Post by: richardpate on March 12, 2010, 08:22:01 AM: :) nicely done
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Bullshott on March 12, 2010, 07:19:43 PM: Great looking game. THe home guard have come up a treat.
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Fjodin on March 16, 2010, 07:55:25 AM: GREAT PICS! Could you tell me what scale it is?
Title: Re: Went the Day Well? {Or~ The Bridge at Market Blandings, 1940...} ~Picture heavy.
Post by: Phil Robinson on March 16, 2010, 01:26:58 PM: Quote from: Fjodin on March 16, 2010, 07:55:25 AM
GREAT PICS! Could you tell me what scale it is?

28mm.