Winston Churchill in a VBCW

[The Gray Ghost]

Which side would Winston be on

http://www.grippingbeast.com/product.php?ItemID=2578

[eastern barbarian]

Very interesting question- not sure he would be on any side really. He might have been very reluctantly anti-government ( but surely leading a faction that would try to come to some sort of agreement very quickly). Can't see the Fat Conservative siding with us Reds . Anglican League perhaps?

[Arlequín]

As Winston was a close friend and mentor of Edward VIII and that in real life offered to form a King's Party to support him in the Abdication Crisis, he'd be a Royalist imo.

[eastern barbarian]

But I thought in VBCW he resigned from the government? I seem to remember that from the sourcebook?

[former user]

maybe

but what government in a civil war?
he might have been wiped out or in jail as a most influential person?

[paul c]

"But I thought in VBCW he resigned from the government? I seem to remember that from the sourcebook?"

Churchill was out of government in 1938; no friend to either Baldwin or Chamberlain and unpopular in the Tory party at the time. I agree with Jim Hale, on balance, that he would be a royalist, but by the late thirties he was no fan of Mosley or fascism generally. He was more pro Spanish republic than people realise, for example. So still out of govt, perhaps leading the King's faction at court?

[Arlequín]

There was difficulty in using 'real people' for the VBCW setting, in that their families might take legal action if they were associated disfavourably with certain factions. It is a matter of record in some cases, so pretty safe ground there, but for others not so. I'm not sure why Churchill was left out to be honest, but I'd imagine that given the respect he receives in Britain, it was decided to not associate him with the BUF whatsoever, even as the head of the 'King's faction'. Churchill's major fame came in WW2 and while he was a prominent politician in the 1930s, his moment of glory was to come later. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to put myself in his shoes and predict what he would do in that situation in any case.   

he might have been wiped out or in jail as a most influential person?

I suspect that this might have been what happened had it been covered in the sourcebooks. I can't see Mosley brooking any opposition to his position, or his influence over Edward.