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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2009, 01:02:14 PM »
I do hope You know that the Grand Duchy of Fenwick is not entirely fictional  ;)


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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2009, 01:09:11 PM »
I do hope You know that the Grand Duchy of Fenwick is not entirely fictional  ;)
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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2009, 03:49:02 PM »
@ former user and Froggy, I had forgotten, but now I haven't, so thanks for that.

I possibly wouldn't have used "Fenwick" anyway though, as they (the Fenwicks, that is) *allegedly* disinherited my mam's family in the 18th Century. On the other hand, they do have a cool department store in Newcastle. But in principle, Lord N's Regiment of Foot (or something similar) is a very good way to go I think.

@ Georgec, thanks for that link, there's one wiki article I can really appreciate!

I hadn't even thought of Borsetshire, only having got as far as Trumpton, then turned left towards Chigley (I'm decided that I'm going to have a Viscount Chigley running around somewhere). But the Borset Fusiliers has a certain ring to it... and it has the 19th/45th East african Rifles, which is kinda where this all started. But no 56th Heavy Underwater Artillery.
« Last Edit: October 14, 2009, 03:58:23 PM by Red Orc »

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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2009, 03:58:10 PM »
the call it Duke McFenwick  ;)

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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #19 on: October 14, 2009, 08:09:05 PM »
In my pulp games I've been using the "East Transnistria Border Police".
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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2009, 08:30:10 PM »
The Mummerset Light Infantry

Barsetshire Auxiliary Reconnaissance Force (BARF)

Linchester Auxiliary Recovery Force (LARF)

Bicycle Autonomous Reconnaissance Force

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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #21 on: October 16, 2009, 07:12:19 AM »
126th foot, Parliment's own Musketeer Patrol, (Gladstone's Gits") POMP

127th Parliment's Internal Military Police, (The Lounge Lizards) PIMP 

Canada's regiment,

Toronto and Terryton Territorial Operations Organization,   TATTOO

These guys could be sent to Africa to fight the :
Wahabist Organization of Greater Sudan,.....WOGS,
or the
North Africa Territorialists and Indiginous Victims,   NATIVs
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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2009, 01:42:05 PM »
There is a small industry in inventing fictional British regiments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_British_regiments

My favourites would be the Loamshires, used by the British Army as its own fictional regiment.  The Borsetshires are another illustrious unit, located between Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire and on BBC Radio 4.

The Royal Loamshires featured in the so-so film "Bullshot Crummond" - a "pastiche" of Bulldog Drummond, of course. Funny in parts, but dire in others  :?

That's a name I've used before and "Hawkeye MacGillicuddy" is a regular participant in my games, but my personal favourite is the "Rutland Light Infantry" [Britain's smallest regiment] as featured in Eric Idle's "Rutland Weekend Television" in the post-Python 70's .

They've fought all over Africa for Queen Victoria [Gawd Bless 'Er!]  :)

I do like A.R.S.E though  lol

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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2009, 07:51:22 PM »
For my British I have the Wessex Brigade, including:

The Midshire Heavy Infantry (standard infantry supported by impervious suits)
The Prince Consort's Own Fusiliers (known to all as The Prince Alberts  ;) )
The Great Western Railway Volunteer Rifles (abbreviated GWR on their supporting armour, which is of course painted in GWR colours)

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Re: Imaginary units
« Reply #24 on: October 17, 2009, 10:22:27 PM »
I built not just a unit, but an entire new nation - the Free State of Norway (Mars Colony). Everything they have is the Norwegian First (insert unit name) because they are a fresh start, and will soon be putting the Norwegians on top where they belong.

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