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Title: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 17, 2019, 02:03:01 AM

One of the Dynamic Dunderheads is trekking to the New Emporium by the Seaside this Thursday for a game of FFofL Up the Khyber!
Despite several severe chastisements the Mad Mullah has been leading his warriors into the next valley looting, burning and adding to his growing collection of severed melons. An emissary, sent into the Bongo Valley with a bill for 20,000 Rupees for deprivations caused, sadly, added another melon to the pile. Consequently The 2nd. Malakand Field Force has deployed young Faversham's patrol into the field to teach the Mad Mullah a short, sharp lesson!

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Romark on July 17, 2019, 07:43:55 AM

Looking forward to the Aar already  :)
Let's just hope Lady Faversham doesn't get a letter from the General  :o

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 17, 2019, 12:42:54 PM

The Mad Mullah's valley...

 :)

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 17, 2019, 12:48:59 PM

Young Faversham leads his patrol into the Mad Mullah's valley, mindful of his Colonels strict orders, to be covert. Strangely enough his wanderings are quickly gormed and the Mad Mullah drums up his henchmen...

:o

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 17, 2019, 12:51:53 PM

"When's dinner, I'm Starving?"
"It's on it's way dear, as we speak."

 :o

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Romark on July 17, 2019, 01:45:15 PM

" mindful of his Colonels strict orders, to be covert." lol
I've got a funny feeling Lady Faversham will be getting that letter! :)

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: guitarheroandy on July 18, 2019, 06:12:06 PM

Hmmm....Wandering straight into a hornet's nest of a Pathan village waving a Union Jack the size of England itself!!! Not EVER so covert!!  ;D ;D ;D
Deserves all he gets in my opinion!  lol lol lol lol

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: FifteensAway on July 19, 2019, 01:16:55 AM

Them thar domiciles look decidedly unpainted.  Or am I suffering from an optical delusion?  o_o

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 19, 2019, 09:20:31 AM

Quote from: FifteensAway on July 19, 2019, 01:16:55 AM

Them thar domiciles look decidedly unpainted.  Or am I suffering from an optical delusion?  o_o

Nopticle illusion old bean...
gerra Specsavers!

 :o

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: carlos marighela on July 19, 2019, 12:02:07 PM

That Afghan chap in the middle definitely looks like he’s up for a bit of fisting.

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 20, 2019, 10:17:53 AM

Lieutenant Faversham splits his patrol and begins the search for the Mad Mullah.

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It’s been implied in the past that calling my two bestest playmates, the Dynamic Dunderheads, is sour grapes for the many times, inexplicably, they’ve handed it to me on a plate. Nothing could be further from the truth. I call ’em this because they’re congenital idiots, read on…

The two Gurhas are Riflemen and crack marksmen, a valuable force multiplayer, for any unit. So when two sword wielding natives charge out from a nearby compound the Gurkhas don’t shoot ’em. Oh no, they charge straight into close combat and both get chopped up!

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Luckily Tommy Atkins isn’t that daft and a brisk volley dispatches the maniacal swordsmen

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Meanwhile young Faversham’s not been idle. His lads have searched the nearby building and dispatched a flag waving native while they were at it.

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Harry risks a dekko around the wall, not realising that a six foot square Colour, stands out like a blind cobbler’s thumb. He’s promptly dropped by a long range shot from the bridge.

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Harry’s not the brayniest of the Favershams to start with but his conk is the thickest. Even so Harry is down and out for a good hour. Lance Corporal Jones assumes command and advances the skirmish line to the Wadi. Where a brisk firefight breaks out.

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Well into the afternoon young Faversham comes to what passes for his senses and unseen, stealthily, outflanks the natives’s position. Seeing a giant Union Jack deep in his valley gets up the Mad Mullah’s nose a bit and he rushes up to the roof of his compound. He lets fly a shot at the hated symbol of Colonial oppression…

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Realising he’s been rumbled Harry leaps into action and proves both sides can potshot a flag.

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“Tally Ho!”

Shouts young Faversham, but falls down the Wadi, as he tries to clear it with a mighty leap. Cackling triumphantly The Mad Mullah’s personal drum banger bloke leaps up and in for the kill…

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Harry’s pistol barks twice…

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The Mad Mullah’s really on one now and begins capering up and down…

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Frothing at the mouth and screaming death to the Infidels he charges.

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It’s a very one sided fight Harry’s only a lad, the Mad Mullah a Veteran of a hundred such encounters. It looks all up till a freak gust of wind entangles The Mad Mullah in the six foot square Colour!

Harry’s pistol barks twice…

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Harry marches briskly back to the survivors of the patrol. Lance Corporal Jones throws up a thunderous salute…

“You’ll get the VC for this day’s work Sir, I’ll wager.”

Where the bleedin’ ‘ells he come from!!!???

Gunga Din plays the Last Post for Lieutenant Faversham’s fallen Heroes…

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 :)

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 20, 2019, 10:26:58 AM

Quote from: Romark on July 17, 2019, 07:43:55 AM

Let's just hope Lady Faversham doesn't get a letter from the General  :o

Lady Faversham certainly did get a letter from the General telling her that her lad has won the Victoria Cross. A further letter, from young Harry himself, told Mummy that the new pistol she had given him just before he boarded the Trooper had come in jolly useful!

;)

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Romark on July 20, 2019, 12:53:35 PM

 lol
Brilliant write up  :)
Looking forward to some more of young Harry's adventures :)

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 21, 2019, 01:27:53 AM

I'd have enjoyed it too...
if I hadn't been playing the Mad Mullah!!!

 :'(

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Romark on July 21, 2019, 10:09:53 AM

 

Quote from: Harry Faversham on July 21, 2019, 01:27:53 AM

I'd have enjoyed it too...
if I hadn't been playing the Mad Mullah!!!

 :'(

lol

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: BaronVonJ on July 21, 2019, 02:09:23 PM

Great report!

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 21, 2019, 02:59:15 PM

It's a toss up where the Tardis is going on it's next trip. Could be Tombstone for some proper FFofL action with the Earps, Doc Holliday, Curly Bill and Ringo. Or, new fangled FFofL, with the demented Pepperpots rampaging through the Galaxy!

;)

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: FifteensAway on July 21, 2019, 10:25:37 PM

Well, Harry, I see now that your buildings are, indeed, painted but maybe some work on the bases might avoid confusion in the future - and perhaps blend them better with terrain.

I vote for the Tardis to land in the Old West but I figure you're cantankerous enough to do whatever you please so please away!   lol

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: BaronVonJ on July 22, 2019, 02:17:14 PM

Very cinematic!

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Traveler Man on July 22, 2019, 07:40:03 PM

Well huzzah for young Harry!  :) Splendid write up sir.

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 23, 2019, 07:21:19 AM

Quote from: FifteensAway on July 21, 2019, 10:25:37 PM

Well, Harry, I see now that your buildings are, indeed, painted but maybe some work on the bases might avoid confusion in the future - and perhaps blend them better with terrain.

I vote for the Tardis to land in the Old West but I figure you're cantankerous enough to do whatever you please so please away!   lol

Excellent idea, thanks for that, those buildings do kind of just perch on the terrain. I have some flock the same shade as the base tiles so we'll give it a whirl and see wot's wot.
My mate and his wife said they may well stay a couple of days the next time they come over, so game wise it could well be both, Wild West and a Galaxy far, far away.

;)

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Arundel on July 25, 2019, 07:20:06 PM

My vote goes to the pepperpots!

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 25, 2019, 08:00:34 PM

Just gleaned some 'push and go' Daleks off fleabay...
might be they come across a posse of Cybermen!

 :-*

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Arundel on July 25, 2019, 11:19:46 PM

One can only hope!  :D

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: LordSpode1879 on August 09, 2019, 03:16:37 PM

Jolly good show that man Faversham!

Hope you don't mind me asking but where did you get your buildings from?

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Harry Faversham on August 10, 2019, 01:03:40 AM

I don't mind you asking at all. I bought them on here from a very nice man in the 'bazaar'.

:)

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: LordSpode1879 on August 10, 2019, 02:43:02 PM

Quote from: Harry Faversham on August 10, 2019, 01:03:40 AM

I don't mind you asking at all. I bought them on here from a very nice man in the 'bazaar'.

:)

Thanks awfully

Title: Re: Fistful of Lead Up the Khyber...
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on August 12, 2019, 11:55:47 AM

Superb stuff, Harry. Stirs the blood, sir!   :-*