VBCW Dying?

[carlos marighela]

Indeed. Probably kinder to take that one way journey to the vet in that instance.

[Moriarty]

If it’s any indication, the Facebook page keeps announcing new members.

[Tanker11]

I am signed up for Von Greg’s VBCW game for Historicon.

I have also used the Combat Patrol used for my solo VBCW games. Great fun.

http://kingdomofkatzenstein.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-vbcw-game.html

I also just tried the Chain of Command rules.

[Chris Abbey]

I have also used Combat Patrol for VBCW. It works fantastically. I ran a participation game at Claymore (a few years back using them). There is also a free PDF supplement for 1970's / 1980's Winter of Discontent style VBCW!

We really ought to put a VBCW supplement together for Combat Patrol.
Combat Patrol works best with each player commanding between a few sections to a platoon. You can play a Company level game with a team of players each commanding a platoon. It works very well as a multi-player team game.

[surdu]

I have also used the Combat Patrol used for my solo VBCW games. Great fun.

http://kingdomofkatzenstein.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-vbcw-game.html

Thanks for the kind words about Combat Patrol.

[surdu]

We really ought to put a VBCW supplement together for Combat Patrol.

That would be fun.  I am not sure how much VBCW is under copyright protection.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Just call it something else but I think complimentary derivative materials are not violations of copyrights, even if the name is used and it is made clear that it was made by somebody else.  Avoiding the trademarks is pretty easy. Call it diesel punk, interwar what if, alt-history etc.

[FramFramson]

Even something as simple as "The Second British Civil War" (yes the first was technically English, but- ) is both clear and a phrase too general to copyright or trademark, or to run into issues with those.

[Moriarty]

The ECW was British, and Irish. Factions fought in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in a series of wars, at least two of which were the First and Second ECW.
So the VBCW would be the third, or possibly fourth, Civil War.

[carlos marighela]

Leaving aside Carausius and Roman Britain as being prior to England being England and a separate sovereign entity, you have The Anarchy, the Baron's Wars, The Wars of the Roses, arguably two ECWs (but most commonly seen as one continous conflict maked by an interlude), The Glorious Revolution and its violent ramifications across the Irish Sea before you get to any fictional 1930s era conflict, so yeah, at least the Sixth Civil War.

You could just call it the Recent Disturbances, Constitutional Crisis and General Unpleasantness Occasioned by Edward VIII's Tupping of Mrs Simpson. I doubt that's been copyrighted and I cede any future rights I may have to the public domain.

[carlos marighela]

By the by, do steer clear of calling it 'The Simpsons'. That definitely is under copyright.

[Moriarty]

The Windsors?

[AKULA]

You could just call it the Recent Disturbances, Constitutional Crisis and General Unpleasantness Occasioned by Edward VIII's Tupping of Mrs Simpson. I doubt that's been copyrighted and I cede any future rights I may have to the public domain.

Excellent, by a strange coincidence I've just registered the following web address... I shall await the riches flooding in 

RecentDisturbancesConstitutionalCrisisandGeneralUnpleasantnessOccasionedbyEdwardVIIIsTuppingofMrs Simpson.com

In answer to the original question - is VBCW dead?

As long as people are gaming it (which they evidently still are from posts on here, and Show reports) the answer is no. The original idea had a charm to it...the shoestring forces...armed civvies in commercial vehicles, and the odd "super weapon" with a fatal flaw (eg no protection, rubbish speed, limited ammo).  What could genuinely "kill" VBCW?  Tables of massed panzers...you get to that stage and it's just an early WW2 game in all but name.

I've long since sold off my own VBCW collection, but I've started a new "what-if" project 60+ years earlier, hopefully with the same charm...but no panzers.

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=145185.0

[carlos marighela]

The Windsors?

The Sealed Windsor Knot?

[carlos marighela]

Excellent, by a strange coincidence I've just registered the following web address... I shall await the riches flooding in 

RecentDisturbancesConstitutionalCrisisandGeneralUnpleasantnessOccasionedbyEdwardVIIIsTuppingofMrs Simpson.com

In answer to the original question - is VBCW dead?

As long as people are gaming it (which they evidently still are from posts on here, and Show reports) the answer is no. The original idea had a charm to it...the shoestring forces...armed civvies in commercial vehicles, and the odd "super weapon" with a fatal flaw (eg no protection, rubbish speed, limited ammo).  What could genuinely "kill" VBCW?  Tables of massed panzers...you get to that stage and it's just an early WW2 game in all but name.

I've long since sold off my own VBCW collection, but I've started a new "what-if" project 60+ years earlier, hopefully with the same charm...but no panzers.

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=145185.0

Beware massed Gatling Guns, Mitrailleuses, Martian Death Rays etc, etc.