Russian Weird War

[Hammers]

Russian Pig Grenade

[PeteMurray]

Picture 1

Vanya: Is too bad, pig, you must die.
Dmitri: Yes. Have drink. Brave pig deserve one last drink.

Picture 2

Dmitri: Do you not remember playink as boys in village? How one day we would become great heroes and save the Motherland? Is no more those days, brave pig.

Picture 3

Label: TRIUMPHANT VODKA OF THE PROLETARIAT! FOR STALIN!

Picture 4

Vanya: Good night, pig. Have good sleep.
Pig: Grink? *hic*
Dmitri: Come Vanya, do not cry. Is no point to cry for brave pig.

Picture 5

Artillery officer: Too much talking! Load the Goering Gun, you bastards!

Picture 6

Dmitri: *whisper* The birch trees, pig! Remember the birch trees!
Pig: Grink?

Picture 7

Vanya: Gun is loaded, comrade captain!
Artillery officer: About time, bastard slackers!

(Prokofiev adagio in E minor begins.)

Picture 8

(Music swells)

Artillery officer: Prepare the mortar!

Picture 9

(Fermata, open 4th)

Artillery officer: Set range!

Picture 10

Artillery officer (offscreen): FIRE!

(heart-wrenching minor 3rd)

Picture 11

CRUMP

Pictures 12-15

Shots cut between observers. Adagio movement begins to close, until at last only the quartet remains playing.

Picture 16

Pig: Grink? *hic*

Picture 17

Vanya: Brave friend pig! For certain the Medal for Heroic Livestock!
Dmitri: Ha ha! Maybe Order of Lenin!
Vanya: Ha ha! Or maybe Siberia, for not bravely sacrificing for Motherland!
Dmitri: One cannot say. But friend pig lives. For a while, I am happy.

Picture 18

Commissar (on left): Stalin will be disappointed.
Scientist (in glasses): It is to Siberia, then.
Assistant: But I am innocent of crime!
Commissar: That is immaterial.

Fade to black.

[Hammers]

After that excellent narrative I've got to scratch build me one of these.

How about this for a name:

1:st советский Полк Артиллерии Свиньи Народов (Сухуми)

1:st Soviet Peoples Pig Artillery Regiment (Sokhumi)

[Westfalia Chris]

Even if accounting for all the madly efficient Teutons, the world couldn´t survive if it wasn´t for American tongue-in-cheek games designers and heroic Soviet Porcine Kosmonaut Aviators! :: :: ::

Wonderful.

[Hammers]

... or comission Tom Maier to make one. He seems to have a knack for it.

(Schoolgirl with hamster gun.)

[revford]

Comrade Cannon Pig is about the weirdest of weird war things I've seen.  It's even topped the anti-tank dog.

Was there a good reason behind firing a pig out of a cannon?

Early space exploration?

Rapid bacon delivery and cooking system?

Or just because they could?

[Hammers]

It is for Glory of Agricultural Advances of Soviets of Peoples Republic and make benefit international struggle of working classes!

Searioulsy: I could tell you but that would sorta ruin it. :-)

[PeteMurray]

Searioulsy: I could tell you but that would sorta ruin it. :-)

I'll denounce you as a counterrevolutionary if you tell us what it's really for.

[revford]

It's all becoming a scenario for Amazing War Stories in my head now.

One of our gaming group has a nice range of WWII Russians already, I just need to find a pig and build the, well, pig launcher.

Front runners for the pig so far..

http://www.game-mart.co.uk/pd_pigs.cfm
http://www.barrule.com/Workshop/products%20-%20Mirliton%20Scenics.html

[W.B.Kurgan]

Thanks Pete! (and hammershield!) ::  ::  ::

That made me laugh tea out of my nose... :oops:

[Hammers]

I'll denounce you as a counterrevolutionary if you tell us what it's really for.

I'll risk it. My sources within the Kremlin has told me that it is a reformed capitalist pig who is to be launched back via steep trajectory into decadent Western society and wreck havoc among facist swines by handing out pamphlets containing superior Marxis-Leninist arguments.

That's cunning, that is.

[Rhoderic]

Picture 1 is SO going to be my TMP portrait from now on!

[zbyshko]

oh, please Comrades!  what is it really for?  i would like to know so that i may share the glories of the Motherland with other Patriots and encourage the other farm animals to do their part to aid the People!

[Operator5]

All animals are created equal. Some are just more equal than others.

[ushistoryprof]

While going through old posts I came across the almost deadly Russian Pig grenade...a good laugh like this one needs to be seen by a new generation of readers...all hail the brave pig artillery of the Motherland.