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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: leadboy on December 28, 2021, 12:31:43 PM
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I've put up the fully illustrated story of the Hereford1938 Autumn Big Game 2021
("Advance to Leominster") on the Hereford1938 blog, starting from Part One
http://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2021-11-20T02:34:00-08:00&max-results=7
and concluding at Part Seven:
http://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/2021/12/autumn-big-game-2021-part-seven.html
The Bishop of Lichfield triumphed over Roderick Spode (with the assistance of a schoolgirl Anti Tank unit
and a host of nicely painted Hinterland Hussars), while the Communists introduced Red Cavalry, new products from the Presteigne Motor Works, etc. etc.
A bit of light holiday reading!
http://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/
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Good man and seasons greetings Clive🎄
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Merry Christmas Roo! :)
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Great to catch up on the campaign. Quite excellent stuff as usual. The blog commentary, the games, the photos. Lovely stuff. Well done chaps on keeping up the high standard of this exemplary campaign.
Despite his absence, Sir Gilbert is keeping a close watch over proceedings.
Doug
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Hi,
great pics, thanks for sharing! :)
Please post a teaser pic in the thread next time!
Makes it easier to click the link !
Cheers and all the best.
Björn
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Having grown up near Presteigne and being a big fan of VBCW I fully approve.
BALM
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Doug good that you keep an eye on proceedings, the Golden Valley has been quiet of late…in all the best ways😉. Be great if you could join the Old Fuard to celebrate the 10th anniversary coming your way soon.
Stokkies Joubert (In captivity).
Roo
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Doug good that you keep an eye on proceedings, the Golden Valley has been quiet of late…in all the best ways😉. Be great if you could join the Old Fuard to celebrate the 10th anniversary coming your way soon.
Stokkies Joubert (In captivity).
Roo
Roo - I have now relocated even further from the seat of action; I’m now in Darkest Dorset, a strange and wily place, peopled by secretive folk barely on the edge of civilisation. So a trip up for the 10th anniversary may be problematic - is a date fixed yet?
Doug
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Hi Doug,
We haven't fixed a date as yet, but are aiming for March.
Will circulate on the email group in the New Year, and post
on the blog and here.
Cheers, Clive.
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March in Hereford? Could be doable :-)
What’s the ‘buy in’?
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Moriarty chap, no buy in beyond I’ll be there….plenty of troops about in collections if you need them, just let us know a favoured faction based on the scenario and we can help out if you don’t have them yourself (we are pretty accommodating fellows). We play ‘Went the Day Well’ rules with a few tweaks….it’s the I’ll be there that is most important.
Welcome to PM either Leadboy or myself and we can brief you up but Clive’s
blog has plenty of content
Roo
2IC to Clive
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Too kind, sir! Happy to bring down troops - are we looking at squad or platoon? I can supply Cultists, Civilians and Nuns at squad level in 28mm - I assume this is an appropriate scale? Would paint to suit scenario/faction with enough lead time. The main stumbling block would be dates, which are obviously up in the air atm.
Will see my way to shooting off a PM to the relevant bods
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Moriarty, replied to your PM before I read this. We're looking at a Platoon organised to
WTDW rules - the present "Platoon Generator" (which I don't think will change for the
next Big Game) is on the blog at:
http://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/2021/09/vbcw-basic-platoon-generator.html
Nuns, civilians and cultists could well make up a fun Anglican Force, if you're so minded,
and make you an ally of the Bishop of Lichfield, clear winner of the last Big Game ("Advance
to Leominster") with a resultant (as yet unspecified) "advantage" for the next Big Game
("Assault on Leominster")!!
Will keep you posted on exact dates in due course.
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Hi Leadboy,
Thanks for that! I can manage a platoon organisation, no problem. Will post the pictures as I finish the figures :-) I’ll leave it to the organiser/s to sort out the faction.
Cheers,
M
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Moriarty, brilliant. Look forward to the pics!
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Cultists and part of the platoon command squad. Looks like the satin varnish went a tad shiny, will have t try again :-(
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And now, hopefully, the right way up . . .
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Oooh, cultists, lovely! Haven't had cultists in the
campaign before and need to think of plot lines....
Lots of eccentrics in Herefordshire, and lots of
Country Houses 'disused' since the start of the Civil War!
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‘We luvvz a Cultist, we do!’ ‘Have you a minute to talk about our Lord & Master Great Cthulhu?’
The plan is to add two squads of ‘villagers’ to make up the platoon. Just need to sort out a few more bodies for the platoon HQ. Busy squirrelling through the loft for suitable volunteers :-)
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Know the feeling only too well.....Sir Gilbert Hill of the Hereford VBCW and Borsetshire (DougEM4) is the man for villagers and irregulars and other such types - his blog has his VBCW journey starting here -
https://velodoug.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/sir-gilbert-hills-volunteers-aka-the-golden-valley-invincibles/
and lots of other stuff, too, including Borsetshire Thruppets! Cheers.
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Hah! Just had a look at his page - those Morris Fanatics look very intimidating!
I’m afraid my Villagers are not as comely as his - I piacked up a job lot of ‘19th century civilians’ which turned out to be mostly Irregular Miniatures Old West types. A suitable ‘paint job conversion’ and some spare weapons from the Warlord (?) plastic Zombie Survivor set, and off we go. Should finish the basic paint job today, inshallah. The intention is to paint/varnish, then add the weapons later for ease of removal for when they have a less warlike role.
The good news is that I’ve found some ready volunteers for the brave band from my Lead Pile, so now I have the full 35 figure platoon :-)
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Progress!
Both extra sections done, just some differentiation for the bases to make clear which unit is which. The remaining three members of the platoon HQ to the front - sniper, runner and cantiniere. Not sure what to do with the ‘hanged man’.
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Lovely! Are you doing LMGs for your infantry sections? And we all
await your Platoon Leader and 2 i/c (SNCO, normally) with full
VBCW backstory!!
PS. Re the Hanged Man, if nothing better occurs in the interim, you've
given me an idea for a future 'Modelling Challenge" as I have a BUF
Executioner somewhere in the painting queue. So keep him safe for
that!
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No lmg’s, these are not that organised :-) I’ll get the unit ID features put on the bases, then post the whole.
If you have a use for the Hanged Man, your’e welcome to it - the best I can think of is in a ‘wicker man’, but it’s a bit more than I care to take on!
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No worries Moriarty. Looking forward to the complete Platoon!
Re. the Hanged Man, no, I meant you hold on to him to use in a future
Modelling Challenge! My BUF Executioner carries a big axe and would
regard use of the rope as rather...well...too merciful. No doubt inspiration
will strike in due course as to the proper place for a "hanged man".
Cheers.
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The full ‘Cultist’ platoon: HQ with officer, standard, runner, sniper and cantiniere; ‘household’ squad, ‘villager’ squad (yes, they killed Kenny) and ‘farm-hand’ squad. Not sure what the standard will be, yet.
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Good looking platoon, Moriarty. Sir Gilbert Hill would approve. Enjoy the game - you’ll love it. I doubt I’ll make it - I’m rather busy with Sir Rufus Pitt-Bulstrode and his trials and tribulations in Borsetshire.
Doug
aka Sir Gilbert Hill
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And the Spring Big Game 2022 is on for 26th March....
http://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/
Look forward to seeing the Platoon in action!
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Speaking as a man who knows Sir Gilbert there is not much he doesn’t approve of…that said for once I find myself in agreement a fine selection of folks for for battle! Doug…Stokkies send his regards from Anglican captivity…still
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Speaking as a man who knows Sir Gilbert there is not much he doesn’t approve of…that said for once I find myself in agreement a fine selection of folks for for battle! Doug…Stokkies send his regards from Anglican captivity…still
One thing he doesn’t approve of is biltong chewing colonials which is why he ensures their incarceration whenever he encounters them… :D
However being an English gentleman, once the Boer is safely locked away, he responds with a heart "What-Ho" to Stokkies salutations….!
Doug
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For the latest news of Stokkie Joubert's incarceration at the hands of the Bishop of Ludlow, of course, see here:
http://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/2021/09/another-visit-to-capital-county.html
The Anglicans, eschewing execution, torture and firing squads a la BUF and/or Communists, have
poor Stokkies on a "community rehabilitation programme" of marmalade making, tea pouring,
hymnals, constant prayer and sexual abstinence. It's not clear how long the poor chap can last out....
Ps. Of course, he's potentially available for a 'prisoner exchange' with the imprisoned Bishop
of Hereford, but we'll have to leave HMG to make up their mind about that. If they delay an
offer much longer, the once free roistering Stokkies might emerge a broken man....
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For the latest news of Stokkie Joubert's incarceration at the hands of the Bishop of Ludlow, of course, see here:
http://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/2021/09/another-visit-to-capital-county.html
……. and sexual abstinence. It's not clear how long the poor chap can last out....
I trust they at least left him his favourite ewe?
Doug
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And the Spring Big Game 2022 is on for 26th March....
http://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/
Look forward to seeing the Platoon in action!
Thanks for the ‘heads up’ :-) I’ll check the work schedule and make sure I’m free. Any recommendations on accommodation? I’ll be travelling from Durham, so expect to stay over Fri & Sat night.
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Hi Moriarty,
Well, lots of accommodation. The best hotel IMHO is the Castle House Hotel, where, of course, Reichsmarschall Goering spent his time during 1938. Alternatively, you can go to the other end of the scale and do the Travelodge in Pomona Place (site of the famous cider works in 1938). Or there's the traditional and reasonably priced Green Dragon in Broad Street (the site of an attempted murder of the imprisoned Bishop of Hereford in 1938 by a deranged Lord de Braose, Lord of the Marches and Governor of the City). Lots of choices if you book reasonably in advance!
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Hi, thanks for that! Looks like it’s a go, so I’ll be making arrangements next week :-) Can I take it there will be no mad, alcohol-fuelled wargamers raising hell in the Green Dragon on Friday night, at least?
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Well done that man. None on the Friday night, at least, but we could give it a go on the Saturday night after the Big Game? It's the campaign's 10th Anniversary, after all, so we're overdue an evening. PS. The Green Dragon is the traditional "County Hotel" type, so hell raising opportunities are somewhat foreign to its ethos! We should take detailed arrangements to PMs, for you'll need to be picked up from the Green Dragon on Saturday morning to get to Burley Gate Village Hall!
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……….. for you'll need to be picked up from the Green Dragon on Saturday morning to get to Burley Gate Village Hall!
Oh no - not another innocent destined to be whisked off to a hellish fate :o
Doug
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Innocent . . .well, more ‘not caught, yet’ :-)
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I have been watching this thread with interest and although I have never played or painted anything remotely VBCW I am very much an admirer of the spirit in which you chaps and chapesses approach the subject.
Sadly I cannot make the looming Herefordshire show down (and have no suitable troops to deploy even if I could) but I did wonder whether I could be so bold as to offer a small contribution. Moriarty's cultists and associated villagers, while undoubtedly capable of fighting with the fanatical strength possessed by those who know that they alone know the true secrets of some ineffable mystical thingy, do seem to be lacking somewhat in terms of armoured support.
S.H.O.D.D.Y. (a company that, lest we forget, was forged in the fires of 1938) is ever on the look out for gaps in the market (and for something to do with its warehouses full of slightly used tank hulls resulting from their short-lived "full refund if your tank's turret is blown clean off within the first 5 minutes of battle" marketing ploy) and has turned its attention to the oft-neglected cultist segment.
I present to you the SHODDY Cultist variant, officially designated the "Circle (Ritual, for the use of) Armoured Platform". This is designed to allow worshippers of dark and possibly tentacled entities to carry out their complex and unpleasant ceremonies right in the heart of the fast moving 1930s battlefield.
(https://myalbum.com/photo/fJKMGrrLJUsb/360.jpg)
Compared to the base model SHODDY, the SHODDY C(R)AP boasts improved reliability (if/when it breaks down you can summon a demon to pull it along), enhanced engine deck protection afforded by the rear mounted summoning circle (just be careful lighting those torches given the fumes from the petrol tanks below) and whatever it loses in terms of firepower by not having a main gun, is surely more than made up for by the ability to call upon the power of the true God(s)/Goddess(es)/Evil Spirit(s)/Dark Lord/Old One(s) etc (delete as appropriate).
(https://myalbum.com/photo/qtU72ck7SqJF/360.jpg)
The Tank Commander/High Priest is magnetised so he can face the front to preach to the unenlightened or swivel towards the rear to orchestrate a sinister rite.
(https://myalbum.com/photo/jRbkDWrbvCwu/360.jpg)
(https://myalbum.com/photo/AwAYRFaz9hWo/360.jpg)
If all else fails it does have a bow mounted Bren gun.
(https://myalbum.com/photo/zbXAfmdKwKRq/360.jpg)
Once it is painted I will post it to you Moriarty (do your guys have an insignia or logo?). I hope you like it but of course there is no pressure for you to actually use it in the game.
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Love it👏👏
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I dug out my VBCW stuff today (yes, I’m still alive), and am looking forward to the big day! (Viruses and the like notwithstanding).
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I have been watching this thread with interest and although I have never played or painted anything remotely VBCW I am very much an admirer of the spirit in which you chaps and chapesses approach the subject.
Sadly I cannot make the looming Herefordshire show down (and have no suitable troops to deploy even if I could) but I did wonder whether I could be so bold as to offer a small contribution. Moriarty's cultists and associated villagers, while undoubtedly capable of fighting with the fanatical strength possessed by those who know that they alone know the true secrets of some ineffable mystical thingy, do seem to be lacking somewhat in terms of armoured support.
S.H.O.D.D.Y. (a company that, lest we forget, was forged in the fires of 1938) is ever on the look out for gaps in the market (and for something to do with its warehouses full of slightly used tank hulls resulting from their short-lived "full refund if your tank's turret is blown clean off within the first 5 minutes of battle" marketing ploy) and has turned its attention to the oft-neglected cultist segment.
I present to you the SHODDY Cultist variant, officially designated the "Circle (Ritual, for the use of) Armoured Platform". This is designed to allow worshippers of dark and possibly tentacled entities to carry out their complex and unpleasant ceremonies right in the heart of the fast moving 1930s battlefield.
(https://myalbum.com/photo/fJKMGrrLJUsb/360.jpg)
Compared to the base model SHODDY, the SHODDY C(R)AP boasts improved reliability (if/when it breaks down you can summon a demon to pull it along), enhanced engine deck protection afforded by the rear mounted summoning circle (just be careful lighting those torches given the fumes from the petrol tanks below) and whatever it loses in terms of firepower by not having a main gun, is surely more than made up for by the ability to call upon the power of the true God(s)/Goddess(es)/Evil Spirit(s)/Dark Lord/Old One(s) etc (delete as appropriate).
(https://myalbum.com/photo/qtU72ck7SqJF/360.jpg)
The Tank Commander/High Priest is magnetised so he can face the front to preach to the unenlightened or swivel towards the rear to orchestrate a sinister rite.
(https://myalbum.com/photo/jRbkDWrbvCwu/360.jpg)
(https://myalbum.com/photo/AwAYRFaz9hWo/360.jpg)
If all else fails it does have a bow mounted Bren gun.
(https://myalbum.com/photo/zbXAfmdKwKRq/360.jpg)
Once it is painted I will post it to you Moriarty (do your guys have an insignia or logo?). I hope you like it but of course there is no pressure for you to actually use it in the game.
Hi Bearwoodman,
You are too kind, Sir! That looks exactly the sort of thing that any self-respecting New Messiah of the Old Ways would have in the ‘back barn’! His Lordship’s pride would swell to bursting (have to do something about that) to see such a fine Tabernacle Of Terror on the field of battle, if only to get it out of the way to store the harvest.
No specific icon required - you already have a Chthulu-esque effigy on the front plate, which will fit in splendidly with the be-tentacled, squatting effigy I have in mind for the summoning circle.
Could I impose upon you to send ‘as is’, due to the game date being 26 March, and I would need to paint it before travelling down to Hereford on the Friday previous? Happy to pay for ‘next day’ delivery or similar.
Cheers,
M
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Bearwoodman!
Very good to see you back directing the commercial ventures of SHODDY, travelling back in time from the far distant future to the land in which there truly is only chaos, i.e. Herefordshire 1938! You set the Umpires a distinct challenge to make up fun new rules (i.e. deploy another back of an envelope) for your Armoured Cultist Mobile ("ACM").....
If you can, you must make it to one of our Big Games sometime, even if you can't make next Saturday - we have plenty of spare armies so you wouldn't need to worry about that. Just bring along a SHODDY section of ACMs....I suspect Moriarty's arrival will set a new trend "in County" for all sorts of strange country house cults and dark "country things".
Admiration as ever for your modelling skills!
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Leadboy: I am suitably honoured to receive such a invitation and will do my best to attend a Big Game at some point in the future, work and family commitments permitting. In the meantime I will have to make do with enjoying the reports of the action from afar.
Moriarty: I can confirm that the vehicle has now emerged from the workshop and is on its way to you. I realise that the day of reckoning is almost upon us leaving you with very little time to prepare it for battle and therefore I took the liberty of applying a basic paint job to the tank before dispatching it. I have left off any unit insignia, squadron markings or serial numbers etc so you could add these if required but I did have a go at painting markings on the circle itself. I hope it is not the wrong kind of eldritch symbol!
(https://myalbum.com/photo/kvzUyKaCWU5S/360.jpg)
(https://myalbum.com/photo/KKkxbC6oiB5w/360.jpg)
(https://myalbum.com/photo/43GdSWqcsXDG/360.jpg)
I have tried to paint it in a fairly subdued colour scheme as befits a mid 20th Century European battlefield. Its billet in His Lordship's "back barn" must have spared it from the worst effects of the weather, but the paintwork has clearly seen better days. As for what the mice have done to the electrics... well, when H-Hour arrives and the order comes to move off from the start line you will find out!
(https://myalbum.com/photo/hvxb7x2CPJkz/360.jpg)
(https://myalbum.com/photo/dJiBsHniGmYa/360.jpg)
(https://myalbum.com/photo/wcMd9RkdmSQZ/360.jpg)
The Tank Commander is wearing a very strange mask.
(https://myalbum.com/photo/UemgiNY85K4y/360.jpg)
It is definitely a mask, isn't it?
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Hi Bearwoodman,
Oh -yes-, that’s -definitely- a mask . . .
The AWV (armoured worship vehicle) looks just the ticket! Thank you very much! I especially like the ‘pendant’ side plate - obviously a design feature as ‘sacrificial’ armour to absorb any incoming fire :-) Typical S.H.O.D.D.Y. innovation (although I may have to add a protruding tentacle).
Don’t worry about the Arcane Inscriptions, I won’t change a thing!
I’ll let you know when it arrives, so Message me your PayPal details and I’ll pay the postage.
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Simply awesome. Saw it in fully painted state and what a joy to behold…the commander of BUF W.Y.R.D. Force was not quite so enamoured if it as it systematically dismantled his defence line before driving though the limited barricades thrown up by HMG stragglers on the fringes of Leominster before destroyed the statue of Commander Arrowsmith in the final actions of the day!
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"Have you a minute to talk about Our Lord and Saviour, Great C'thulu?"
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Are you actually reporting that a SHODDY design successfully advanced towards the enemy (in a straight line!) without throwing a track or spontaneously catching fire? Would you mind if we quoted you in the next brochure?
Sadly, judging from the photographic evidence of the recent action that has emerged to date, it appears that at some point the vehicle suffered a collision with an item of street furniture immobilizing the tank and causing a degree of damage to a minor example of local public art. SHODDY will record this as "lost due to operator error" (although to be fair, this is how SHODDY records all losses - usually the error is purchasing a SHODDY product in the first place).
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Ah! Not sure if the presence of an Elder God threw a spanner in the traditional, S.H.O.D.D.Y. works :-)
But yes, the AWV performed admirably, trundling inexorably towards Ultimate Victory, and another step toward the End of the World As We Know It was taken :-) It might have helped that all the enemy anti-tank guns were on the opposite end of the table, facing a large armoured column . . .
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We await the next batch of photos with anticipation and trepidation.
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As for what the mice have done to the electrics... well, when H-Hour arrives and the order comes to move off from the start line you will find out!
Imagining wiring so faulty that a body would turn to Lucas: The Prince Of Darkness as an UPGRADE... whew, now that's really beyond the pale!
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It is deepest, darkest Herefordshire in ‘38 so frankly the impossible just me become possible…