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AKULA’s After the Bomb project 1980s imagination - pg31 Police Vans
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AKULA:
“After the Bomb” - the starting idea
Twilight 2000 as a setting is obviously an influence, but the main source of inspiration is actually the short-lived Jericho TV Series, set in the US...again with the focus upon a small town, post a nuclear event. The game will be as much about scavenging for supplies, and protecting what you’ve already got, as out and out combat, although I expect there will be plenty of scope for that as well.
- set in early/mid-1980s in the north east of England
- takes place post a “limited” nuclear exchange between NATO & USSR
- Games will centre around a village/small town & how it’s inhabitants fare
- focus on scavenge and survival
- rules will probably end up being homegrown
- will fictionalise place names, but based in part on actual locations (please avoid naming real towns in the thread)
Thread Index - Key Pages
Page 1 - Game Outline, Reference Material & Useful Links
Page 2 - Campaign Map, List of locations & initial figure WIPS
Page 3 - Painted British Soldiers, Regional HQs & Bunker Locations
Page 4 - Bedfords & Saracens
Page 5 - Police Cars
Page 7 - US Army Vehicles, British Police & Tents
Page 8 - More Police, RAF Personnel & Royal Observer Corps
Page 9 - Supply Counters, Police Mobile Command Centre & Army Supply Convoy
Page 10 - Fire Engine & Green Goddess Proxy
Page 11 - RAF Chevette plus helos...Lynx, Wessex & Sea King
Page 12 - Landrover with Wombat
Page 14 - Ambulance crew plus a second landrover
Page 15 - Territorial Army plus more Regulars
Page 16 - RAF Chipmunk, Soviets in Snow suits plus a AN-2 Colt
Page 17 - More Soviet Airborne plus Soviet Vehicles
Page 18 - Soviet AA HMGs plus British Snipers
Page 19 - A HUGE AN-12 Cub Transport Plane & a platoon of US M1 Abrams Tanks
Page 20 - Loads of Soviet armour/vehicles plus some British civilian vehicles
Page 21 - SU-7 Fitter Soviet Ground Attack Aircraft
Page 22 - Soviet Mi-8 Helicopter
Page 23 - More Soviets, another Mi-8, a Mi-24 Hind & a RAF Rapier SAM
Page 25 - A Soviet RPU-14 MRL plus....an Ice Cream Van
Page 26 - Wartime Leader...with Handbag
Page 27 - More Brits including a General
Page 28 - More vehicles...Military, Police & civilian
Page 29 - Another refugee vehicle plus a Rapier Supply Trailer
Page 30 - Farmer in his Landrover
Page 31 - Police Support Unit Vans
Useful links
Probable Target List(within the UK)
https://www.robedwards.com/2014/06/revealed-the-106-cold-war-nuclear-targets-across-the-uk.html
https://robedwards.typepad.com/files/probable-nuclear-targets-1972-national-archives.pdf
Governing Britain After The Bomb
https://www.subbrit.org.uk/features/struggle-for-survival/
“Target NorthWest - Defence Preparedness”
https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/110194.pdf?v=76a08c0ba94dc5109274c2014ba19e88
Home Defence & Emergency Planning
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/osp14.pdf
http://www.civildefenceassociation.org.uk/HistCDWebA5V5.pdf
Civil Defence Rescue Manual
https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/5384/A12.CD.H7%20Civil%20Defence%20Handbook%20no%207%20Rescue.pdf;jsessionid=479002CD5CA36F512040074BE12C98F4?sequence=1
UK Cold War Communications - UKWMO, Royal Observer Corps
http://www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/Page221.htm
ORBATs
https://coldwargamer.blogspot.com/2012/05/orbat-1980s-british-bg-part-7-infantry.html
https://www.battleorder.org/military-organization
https://www.fireandfury.com/orbats/modcwbritish.pdf
Reference material
To come up with the setting, I’ve looked at some contemporary sources to give a flavour of what I have in mind. First up there is a 1982 pamphlet “Target NorthWest” which while it makes a lot of assumptions, does tackle the main issues, such as fallout, communications, food etc
I’ve also looked at a couple of different contemporary UK Government studies for what a UK target list may or may not look like.
As the various papers/scenarios (such as Operation Square Leg) talk of a range of anything between 150-1000 megatons being used against the UK in an all out nuclear exchange, I’m going to go for a more “limited” scenario....otherwise the game will only consist of cockroaches, especially as the fallout will be spread over a wide area by the prevailing wind ;)
That’s it for now...my next post will set out the general surroundings for the campaign map
carlos marighela:
Oh come on, that map was long ago revealed as part of desperate joint marketing effort by Stoke and Swansea’s respective tourism boards to encourage people to visit. Let’s face it, what else would work?
Visit Stoke-on-Trent. Last on Anyone’s List to be Nuked.
:)
Paul @ Empress Miniatures:
If you drop enough bombs you will not need many figures or trucks. Not sure I like this project lol
Dags:
--- Quote from: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on April 23, 2021, 12:09:08 PM ---If you drop enough bombs you will not need many figures or trucks. Not sure I like this project lol
--- End quote ---
Don't worry, Akky will be doing it at 1:1 scale so you'll still be able to retire early ;)
Looking forward to seeing how this pans out 8)
voltan:
I'm just hoping the Bed sitting room is amongst your inspiration file.
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