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Author Topic: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down! UPDATED 28-12-2010  (Read 4340 times)

Offline Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers

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NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down! UPDATED 28-12-2010
« on: November 13, 2010, 01:24:13 AM »
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.
« Last Edit: December 28, 2010, 10:02:54 AM by Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers »
Crikey, sir. I'm looking forward to today. Up diddly up, down diddly
down, whoops, poop, twiddly dee - decent scrap with the fiendish Red
Baron - bit of a jolly old crash landing behind enemy lines - capture,
torture, escape, and then back home in time for tea and medals.
Blackadder 4

Offline Thunderchicken

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2010, 08:18:53 AM »
Hoorah! Been a while since we've had a battle report from your direction Fuzzy. Looking forward to it.
Don't!

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2010, 08:37:21 AM »
What the deuce, the Hermes shot down you say?!  Dashed bad form that! :)

 Looking forward to seeing pics... ;D
« Last Edit: November 13, 2010, 08:55:31 AM by Malamute »
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Offline Wirelizard

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2010, 08:52:19 AM »
Black Aeronef Down?

Offline Mors

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2010, 09:44:17 AM »
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.

Offline gamer Mac

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2010, 11:16:35 AM »
Sounds good.
Looking forward to the photos.

Offline Hat Guy

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2010, 11:19:47 AM »
Just taken a break from painting, guess I'll get back to it if we're milking it.  lol

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2010, 02:11:03 PM »
Dashed bad form that! :)

 lol

Looking forward to the battle!

Offline Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2010, 04:26:56 AM »
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.

Offline Chairface

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2010, 04:43:45 AM »
Looking forward to it!

Offline Christian

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down!
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2010, 05:01:08 AM »
What a cool blog! Can't wait for the latest report!

Offline Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down! UPDATED 28-12-2010
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2010, 10:14:31 AM »
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.

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down! UPDATED 28-12-2010
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2010, 10:46:02 AM »
The  Vizier and his ghosts were some nasty bloks
"Peace" is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down! UPDATED 28-12-2010
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2010, 12:22:30 PM »
Well written account, with beautifully painted miniatures! A pleasure to read.

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Re: NEWS FLASH! HMES Hermes shot down! UPDATED 28-12-2010
« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2010, 01:00:49 PM »
That's the kind of VSF romp I like...  :)

 

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