NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down! UPDATED 28-12-2010

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

NEWS FLASH!

This just in from our telegraph station in Khartoum.

HMES Hermes enroute to Mogadishu to meet with delegates of the Madhi forces encamped in the area has reportedly been shot down in the suburbs of Mogadishu. We have no reports of casulaties but on board was a detachment of the 24th South Wales Borderers plus the Hermes naval crew and correspondent for the Times, Reginald Oakwood.

Latest reports indicate a large militia force has surrounded the downed Aeronef.
General Gordon in Khartoum does not have forces available at the moment to effect a rescue mission, and so he has contacted via prismatic ethergraph a Prussian force located to the south of the town and asked for their assistance in rescuing survivors of the downed Hermes.

More news to follow......


Battle report to follow  

Cheers

Fuzzy.

[Thunderchicken]

Hoorah! Been a while since we've had a battle report from your direction Fuzzy. Looking forward to it.

[Malamute]

What the deuce, the Hermes shot down you say?!  Dashed bad form that!

 Looking forward to seeing pics...

[Wirelizard]

Black Aeronef Down?

[Mors]

Sounds great. Has Reginald Oakwood got a a Optigraphical Moving Image Camera with him? Im sure Sir Ridley Scott of South Shields will be able to use any pictures gathered.

[gamer Mac]

Sounds good.
Looking forward to the photos.

[Hat Guy]

Just taken a break from painting, guess I'll get back to it if we're milking it. 

[Ray Rivers]

Dashed bad form that!

 

Looking forward to the battle!

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Sir Ridley Scott may be the Times photographer on board 

Yes Black Aeronef Down is what I was aiming for.

The game will be played this coming Friday. I am busily finishing terrain for the game.
Lots of North African adobe style buildings.

Cheers
Fuzzy.

[Chairface]

Looking forward to it!

[Christian]

What a cool blog! Can't wait for the latest report!

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Fellow VSF fanciers

It took time for our correspondent to make it out of the Sudan and back to Cairo to transmit his report. The ether link leads to his full account of this sad affair:

http://littleleadmenofvalour.blogspot.com/2010/12/black-aeronef-down.html

The link is pic heavy and full of vsf goodness.

The narration is the work of fellow NWA'er and Arab player James Wright aka Hat Guy on LAF


Cheers

Fuzzy.

[commissarmoody]

The  Vizier and his ghosts were some nasty bloks

[Chairface]

Well written account, with beautifully painted miniatures! A pleasure to read.

[Hammers]

That's the kind of VSF romp I like...