The League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers presents..The Manchurian Candidate

[Ignatieff]

More from the box brownie of the Good Doktor.....


Three brave White officers hold the coal bunker complex, while the Reds walk into a trap at the station...



an earlier shot showing the battle raging....


The White deployment, in and around the tomb of Temujin.  They deployed wide apart as rumours of a massive Red bombardment filtered through...Note the sacred banner of The Black Madonna on the left

[Ignatieff]

and yet more....


Treachery!  The Reds use their 'Rosa Luxembourg Revenge Card' to turn a large unit of irregular Kazakh horsemen to their cause (from the Red brief): "A special Bolshevik Commando unit, ‘Brigade Revenge Rosa Luxembourg’, has infiltrated the White Camp and is ready to turn on their oppressors on a pre-arranged signal from a red Very light.  Once this is fired, nominate one unit in the White Army that immediately becomes Red and starts firing/attacking on its erstwhile ‘comrades’.  n.b. does not work on White Officer units, Cossacks, anybody working for Der Baron or non-Russian units.  Its factors immediately change to T2 M2 ferocious". The umpire threw for which Division the unit came from, and the Reds chose the actual unit.  Given that Smirnoff's command was almost entirely comprised of White Officers and Cossacks, this particular Revolution chose itself...This picture shows them turning on White partisans, cowering in some scrubland.  Meanwhile in the distance Smirnoff organises the desperate defence of the railhead, unaware of the treachery unfolding in his rear, so to speak...


A nice shot of another rear, this time 'The Czarina'.  Lots of activity from the crew, and the occasional crackle of HMG fire, but precious little else...

Well that's it chaps for this time.  Unfortunately a lot of the later shots didnt come out well due to the poor winter light, but we are working on that for next time. A cracking, cracking game however, played in the true spirit of the Kriegspielers, with tins of great incidents.  Here are our favourites (but of course you had to be there to know what we are talking about!!!!!)

Roll of Honour:

- Gibby's 15 saves on the HMG
- Dave's 'Tank Terror' Attack on the trench line
- The 'Where's your Spotter' Incident
- Smirnoff's Woody Harrelson Pistol Action vs the dirty Turncoat Raghead Cavalry
- The Umpire for calling 13 straight turns in a row (9 hour stint IIRC)
- The 4am Club for valour above and beyond
- Soapy's Flatulence
- Adrian Enver Pasha and Smirnoff in the Burke and Hare incident at the Tomb
- Soapy epic journey from Inverness, leaving at 5.00am on Friday morning, and making it through the worst winter weather in 100 years to King's Cliffe by 9.20pm, and then staying up with 'The 4am Club' talking shite and putting the world to rights!
- Von Stauffenberg’s contribution to the environment – total ammo expenditure – 2(Two) 75mm artillery rounds and 1(one) burst of HMG. And he sunk the 'Baikal' with that lot!!!
- The TIbetan charge across the ice to take on the Leningrad Express- despite not even having invented bayonets for their matchlocks yet!
- Rory's heroic rear guard action aganist the Forces of Dr Isaac
- Sheps's in character playing - brewing up  my  Mark IV  10 minutes after the ceasefire came into effect
- Rory for his line "But Dad zombies could not run in the 1920s that is only a modern development". A fair call to the umpire cruelly ignored


and much, much more!!!!


.....Next up 'Return to Heart of Darkness' which we ran over the summer.  This will appear on the Colonial page, sometime over the New Year.

Vorwarts!!!

[Hammers]

Unless I have missed something, Igno, I can't see any reports on what the reeking train was all about. Also, di dthe yeti eve come into play?

[Ignatieff]

ah yes, Dr Isaacs made his appearance late in the game (these shots didnt come out unfortunately).  The Reds either side of the silent carriage poured round after round of lead into it.  This caused an ooozing of foul smelling liquids, followed by the flat waxy remains of dead bodies flopping out onto the trackside.....and then  woooohooooo!  24 zombie runners (new innovation) biting and infecting (new innovation number 2) their way through the Red rear lines, at which point we called the last move, so perfectly set up for the sequal.  As for the Yeti, no, The Dalai Lama didnt get anywhere near the mountains, but it was funny seeing the Reds look nervously over their shoulders all the time.....


(from a previous encounter in Turin, 2004...)

[Remington]

What a smashing table!!!  Beautiful shots, dear Ignatieff! I simply adore the train-station. Was this a scratch-built building? The porch looks very intricately built.

[Ignatieff]

What a smashing table!!!  Beautiful shots, dear Ignatieff! I simply adore the train-station. Was this a scratch-built building? The porch looks very intricately built.

Train station scratch built by the very talented Gary Chalk.  Other buildings equally well built by....darn, senior moment, it'll come to me!

[Remington]

Very talented indeed... I wish I knew what he used for the metalwork of the porch supports. Maybe Hobbycraft can offer some insight. Lovely work. Shake his hand for me!

[Ignatieff]

Very talented indeed... I wish I knew what he used for the metalwork of the porch supports. Maybe Hobbycraft can offer some insight. Lovely work. Shake his hand for me!

Those are very clever: lamposts with the lamp part cut off.  The decoration around the bottom of the porch roof (in green, looks fancy) is actually paper napkin stuff.  Very clever as I said.  Hope that helps

[Remington]

It does indeed! Genius! I was thinking of photo etched stuff and similar things. How naive of me! 

Thanks, Ignatieff.

[Renaud]

Now, that looks something like the Holy Grail of Back of Beyond!

This league of yours bears well its name 

[Ignatieff]

...our big summer campaign report: 'Return to the Heart of Darkness', has started on the Colonial page...

[Axebreaker]

Wow! Really,really lovely looking terrain and figures!

Christopher

[Poctaman]

Simply amazing.  Beautiful!

[The Dalai]

These campaigns are always great fun, looking forward to the next one.