Vbcw global campaign 2025

[Red Orc]

Oh, for flip's sake, isn't technology great?

'Everyone with the link' is supposed to be able to open that.

Sorry, I'll have another go and see if I can get something workable.

[Red Orc]

OK - do you want to try again? I hope I have fixed it...

[mendoza]

Ok, I can see it.

[Moriarty]

It works for me  Am I OK to post a link to this on the Facebook VBCW page?

[Red Orc]

If you want to, go for it.

It's offered as a starting point for a collaborative campaign. I'm happy to do admin on what is happening in England. If the theatre of operations is going to spread elsewhere, people need to step up to do admin on those areas. Anyone who wants to join in on the campaign should probably post on this thread, and we can take it from there.

Of course, anyone can use the map as a starting point and do whatever they wish with it, but I will be updating the map with with info I get here.

[Moriarty]

Thanks, will do.

[Red Orc]

Well, two weeks later and nothing further has happened here...

... so I've decided to run some 'background events'. My idea was that the campaign starts at the beginning of 1937, and continues until the end of 1938. I was planning on it being twice-as-fast as real time; by the end of January 2025, we'd be at the end of February 1937, by the end of February 2025 we'd be at the end of April 1937, we'd reach January 1938 in July 2025, and by December 2025, we'd be on to November-December 1938.

So, as we're in mid February now (read, end of March), here's a quick round-up of completely imaginary action from the first few months of the war:

Fierce fighting broke out in January in the London Borough of Northam between socialist militia and forces loyal to the King, led by Lord Bayswater; the socialist forces pushed eastwards across Hampstead Heath and fought their way towards Walthamstow. Whether this is entirely to ensure that the grave of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery is not desecrated by the King's Fascist supporters is not as yet confirmed.

Meanwhile in Borsetshire, militia units of the Worcester Soviet seized territory after defeating units who had pledged to support the claim of Prince Albert and put themselves under the command of the Bishop of Oxford. A flying column from the Union of Agricultural Workers (U-AW) made a bold attack on Borchester, causing the Anglican forces to retreat in disarray towards Banbury.

A third socialist attack in early February, ranging south from their base near Norwich towards Ipswich, was repulsed by militia units of Blackshorts, militant members of the Saviours of Britain, and pledged to the King, commanded by Rudolf Spode, nephew to the Earl of Siddcup. The scene of this clash was the charming village of Stackton Tressel, and the socialists were forced to flee back through the woods of Suffolk towards their own lines.

In revenge for the loss of Borchester only a few weeks previously, Anglican forces mounted an attack in Gloucestershire, striking from their strongholds around Oxford. After fierce fighting at Carsley on the way to Cirencester, the Anglican advance was halted and eventually driven back by socialist militia units.

In late February, on the borders of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, supporters of Prince Albert staged a revolt, expelled the socialist troops garrisoned at Brinkley Court, and took over a stretch of territory between Tewkesbury and Great Malvern. This may show the weakness of socialist forces in that area, because as far as is known the Albertines have managed to hold this territory despite being completely surrounded by socialist forces.

In March, the first direct clashes between forces of the King and his brother Prince Albert occurred; a force of Albertines from Lancashire attacked loyalist forces commanded by Lord Horatio Bohun, a prominent supporter of the King. The two forces clashed at the village of Wokenwell, on the road from Oldham to Huddersfield, and the loyalist forces retreated, allowing the Albertine forces to advance their lines to the outskirts of Huddersfield itself.

Later that same month, forces of the King operating from their bases in Devon staged an ambitious amphibious assault on the socialist militia occupying Portwenn in Cornwall. However, the Devonian forces, under the overall command of the Earl of Siddcup, were unable to establish a beach-head and eventually evacuated in some disarray.

Finally, in late March, a heavy socialist assault from Northampton on the town of Middlemarch in Warwickshire resulted in the defeat of the King's forces there, and its occupation by the red forces. This must be considered a serious blow to the King's cause, and surely presages the fall of nearby Warwick in the near future.

Of course all of these could be just the most heinous propaganda; the first casualty of war is the truth, after all.

[Red Orc]

Further updates on the war no-one cares about:

In the West Riding of Yorkshire on 5 April, forces loyal to Prince Albert made a bold advance against positions of the King's men under the command of Lord Horatio Bohun. The Albertine forces took Skipton and Ilkley, and finally were brought to a halt at the town of Hotton, near Leeds.

Also in Yorkshire, in the North Riding, forces loyal to the King, also under the command of Lord Horatio Bohun, made an attack across the moors on Socialist positions on the 16th April. After heavy fighting in the town of Darrowby, the socialists were forced to flee, and Lord Horatio's forces - somewhat confusingly, militia of the 'Popular Socialist Party', a component of the British League of Fascists - occupied the town.

In a day of infamy, when all god-fearing Englishmen were in church giving thanks to that most martial, manly and English of saints, Saint George, dastardly atheist forces from socialist-controlled Gloucestershire made a raid into Oxfordshire on Saint George's Day, 23rd April, and attacked troops loyal to Prince Albert. God and Saint George gave victory to Prince Albert's force in a battle near the charming Cotswold village of Crampton Hodnett, and the socialists were soundly thrashed, running back to Cheltenham with their tails between their legs like the dogs they are.

So there you go. Events of the VBCW up until the end of April 1937.

[Red Orc]

Oh, I've updated the map with the battles between January and April 1937.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=11UUYz3VRsqkb8mIp72_JnV1joVZlsJU&usp=sharing

[Khusru2]

I'll join in.
The Suffragette Regular Army vs Sociaists
Small skirmish in Walkden, Lancashire.
Socialists, in this case a unit of miners gain victory over the Walkden Mill Workers Militia (SRA).
Casualties high on both sides

In my interwar, the SRA is fighting to put Mary on the throne and are nominally allied to the Anglican League.
The SRA and allied units are all female.

[Wellington Bonaparte]

Well done Red orc, I shall start mustering my Albertine troops around Sandringham to fight the black shirts of the BUF and the German Viking Legion recently landed at Kins Lynn docks. East Norfolk from Great Yarmouth to Naarwich is under the Boot of the Norfolk Socialist league, while a small enclave of Anglican league roots around Walsingham.

[Red Orc]

I'll join in.
The Suffragette Regular Army vs Sociaists
Small skirmish in Walkden, Lancashire.
Socialists, in this case a unit of miners gain victory over the Walkden Mill Workers Militia (SRA).
Casualties high on both sides

In my interwar, the SRA is fighting to put Mary on the throne and are nominally allied to the Anglican League.
The SRA and allied units are all female.

Thanks for the report - I'll add this to the map.

Well done Red orc, I shall start mustering my Albertine troops around Sandringham to fight the black shirts of the BUF and the German Viking Legion recently landed at Kins Lynn docks. East Norfolk from Great Yarmouth to Naarwich is under the Boot of the Norfolk Socialist league, while a small enclave of Anglican league roots around Walsingham.

Good to know that there will be some more actual action happening - let us know what transpires and I'll add the details.

I guess in the VBCW timeline I've started with, we're up to May already... so I'll assume the miners started their attack on International Workers' Day...

[Khusru2]

The LMS (the London Midland and Scottish Railways Militia) and assorted layabouts (one section of the LMS with one section of miners and the regulars of the Liverpool Free City Assault section), thought to assault Walkden form the bleak Linnyshaw Moss area.
Forewarned is forearmed and the intelligence section of the SRA is alerted to the planned operation.
Thus, sending an SRA section with two from the Primrose League Mill Workers Militia, under the command of Margaret of Grantham, to intersect them as far north as was reasonable.

The LMS were surprised to find them so far north and engaged in what they thought were terms on their favour.

But the stoic ladies gave better than they received and the socialists conceded the ground. The miners were routed. The LMS diminished and the LFCAS were mauled by the SRA and PLMWM.

For Queen Mary and liberty!

[Red Orc]

Thanks for that report! I'm updating the map right now!

[Red Orc]

In May, after the reported Battle of Walkden, two further bloody engagements took place - also on 1st May, perhaps thinking that the workers would be busy with International Workers' Day celebrations, Loyalist forces attacked Socialist positions around the village of Godric's Hollow in Somerset, but were repulsed with heavy losses.

Two weeks later, on the 15th of that month, the King's forces again suffered defeat, this time at the hands of those loyal to his brother, Prince Albert. Albertine forces attacked the seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea in Sussex, and took the town.

In June, a second Battle of Walkden took place and forces of the Primrose League, allied to the Albertines, and no doubt emboldened by news from the south, expelled the Socialists from Walkden.

A day later, the Albertines attacked the King's forces in East London, driving up from Greenwich and bringing the Loyalists to battle at Walford, expelling the King's forces from the area.

this is the link to the map, for those who might not have seen it:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=11UUYz3VRsqkb8mIp72_JnV1joVZlsJU&usp=sharing