BoB Whacky Races

[Rob_bresnen]

your  a genious, but you are wasted on BoB- you should play Very British Civil War!

[Svennn]

F**king BRILLIANT!!!!   

[marianas_gamer]

WOW just WOW 
These are even better up close!  I also really appreciate your efficiency in being able to swap out crews with your various inserts.  Now Jim has thrown the gauntlet, please tell us about the Pygmy Rohypnol Posse!  We can take it 
LB

[Cherno]

"Car Wars - The early years" ?

Great stuff, and clever use of magnets... Everything's better with magnets!

[Rabbitz]

Wow   Just wow

[Remington]

Lovely work all of them! So many nice ideas to nick!  

Did I "borrow" the ideas from your Daimler when i did mine, without me realising? I am baffled how similar mine looks to yours. We are even missing the same headlight. If so, sorry about that and thanks!!

[smirnoff]

If you did the one on Steve's site then you were the originator. This model was done after seeing your superb piece. It started it all. So thanks go to you as you inspired me.

[Johnnytodd]

African crew in loincloths in BOB?   why not Rastas?  I love it!

[Blackwolf]

Cracking stuff,love 'em all

[Ignatieff]

WOW just WOW 
These are even better up close!  I also really appreciate your efficiency in being able to swap out crews with your various inserts.  Now Jim has thrown the gauntlet, please tell us about the Pygmy Rohypnol Posse!  We can take it 
LB

The PRP first soiled the map during the attack on Zanzibar ('Zero Hour over Zanzibar') in 2010.... That's all I'm legally bound to report......

[smirnoff]

A full explanation and personality profile of The Rohypnol Posse will appear here shortly......

[smirnoff]

And here it is (well you did ask).
Might as well apologise if anyone gets offended right now then:

The Rohypnol Posse was fully formed at the Battle of Kabolo last time the League was in Africa.
Stroganoff and his merry (?) band were holed up in the compound whose electrified fences had singularly failed to stop the zombie horde assaulting Strog and his lads. Mainly because the zombies came out of the river, totally avoiding the fences (thanks Umpire) swarmed onto and over the SS Nostromo, (turning Captain Haddock into a zombie in the process) and on into the compound…but I digress.
By the time the zombies were dealt with a free for all was going on across the river involving Austrians, Belgian Police, Reds and a massive assault by Stroganoff’s stanch ally Von Stauffenberg, who had turned up with the Flying Circus and gobs of heavy ordnance.
As all hell broke loose over the river someone decided that they needed to turn the railway swing bridge, to allow passage out of the cauldron of death where Von S and his Krauts were pouring death down on all and sundry, and make an opposed crossing into Strog’s compound.
The wheelhouse controlling the swing bridge was on Strog's side of the river and was held by Strog’s Pygmies with their trusty blowpipes.
So who gets sent across the river to take control of the bridge?
Sister Julie Andrews (with LMG) in a rowboat.
Now I (Stroganoff) had been imbibing during the game with my good friend Texas Ted (who was not commanding troops in that game) and we cooked up a plan that involved the use of Rohypnol on the blowpipe darts.
Sister Julie was peppered; the boast drifted to the wheelhouse; the pygmies (lead by a very excited Stumpy[see below]) dragged her into the boathouse and attempted an unusual and rigorous form of resuscitation (all 10 of them).
The Rohypnol Posse was born.
They have three notches on their blowpipes to date:
1)   Sister Julie (who has now joined them and is known as ‘Me Julie’)
2)   In Zanzibar they got a hold of Flashy’s pilot Pussy Galore after she got shot down
3)   The other is the cowgirl Sharon Stone from "The quick and the dead" game; to be fair we think Sharon Stone did the posse rather than the other way round.
Still to be done: Red Army Babes rarely on the table.
Corbett claims they are a myth while Trazzer says he seen them once (see below for characters).

The Posse is a mercenary unit for hire that will trek all over the globe in search of quality Beaver. This following description (from the pen of Texas Ted) is yet to be sanctioned by the League:

The unit are able travel to various countries under cover, posing as a singing group, “Me Julie, the Singing Nun, and the Von Claptrap Children”.
While in this guise they raise money for the catholic charity the “Holy Children’s Fund” (the name of this fund has been changed to protect the innocent).
They travel on Vatican passports that gives them and, more importantly, their luggage diplomatic immunity.

The unit is made up of 12 figures, 11 pygmies and one female; Sister Julie Andrews ('Me Julie') for extra fire support.
Some of the pygmies have special rules.

Corbett, pronounced Korbett; is the unit CinC and not a pygmy to be messed with. He is the only one who can keep everybody in line, acts as a +2 Leader and talks like Ray Winston.

“The Proff”, 2iC, and the brains of the outfit. Son of the local Witch Doctor he won a missionary scholarship to study chemistry at the University of Regensburg, unfortunately however was expelled just before graduation after an incident in the Female hall of residency. He only refers to it as the racist incident, and claims he was wholly innocent and was in fact set up, by right wing Aryan students. The fallout from the incident has led to the Proff having a pathological hatred of Von Stauffenburg. The reason for this was because of Von Stauffenburg’s role in the disciplinary hearings that occurred after the incident. Due to his role as a head of a department of Archaeology, at the University he found himself having to chair the disciplinary board in the chancellor’s absence at the last minute, and where he passed a sentence of expulsion without graduation on the Proff. The reason for the chancellor’s absence at the meeting has never been fully explained but the Bavarian scandal sheets of the time, refer to an incident at the university where the chancellor and the rest of the board where found wandering naked on the campus roof tops talking about giant toadstools, and the Obrigwabibikwa. The incident was hushed up and blamed on the French chef getting his mushroom mixed up.

The Proff is vital to the pygmies as he uses a combination of modern chemistry and jungle lore, to brew all the units’ potions and lotions.  

“Dec” nickname “Strangely Tall” This pygmy is the half brother of the famous Harry Flashman after an incident involving Bishop Flashman’s father when he chaired the first African Anglican Church Grand Assembly in Belgian Congo. It is believed his father succumbed to the charms of Dec’s Mother “Big Maggie O” who was performing in the pygmy mission church choir at the time. Dec also has a sister in the unit called “Big Bertha”.  

Pam- Lezza

Trazzer- Or Traz to his mates, Trazzer lives in a drug-induced haze and therefore never has to test morale, he never sees reality. For example a heavy artillery barrage to him is merely pretty colours everywhere.

Stumpy- Stumpy and his best pal Floony are a literally a couple of petrol heads and joy riders; they are fascinated by all things mechanical especially cars and aeroplanes. They form a driving combination with Stumpy working the pedals and Floony steering, they seem to possess an uncanny telepathy when driving.  If either figure passes within 12inches of a motorised vehicle that is not moving on a dice throw of a 1 or 2 on a D6 they will attempt to steal it. If in the unlikely event they come across an aircraft they will automatically attempt to steal it and fly it away.  

Floony- see above

Big Bertha, Bertha is a man-eater just like her mother. Her speciality is the double top, a double dipped dart combination of date rape drug and Viagra. Bertha is always on the lookout for male victims, she especially has a particular fondness for those hairy Scotsman. Her other role in the unit is the heavy weapons expert. She possesses a steel blowpipe; a converted car exhaust, and is capable of blowing a small grenade the size of an egg the full six inches. Like her mother she would like to get hold of a Flashman.

Saucy Jack- (He’s a naughty one) Saucy Jack Shipman is a depraved psychopath, murdering rapist and the unit sniper. He was the adopted son of the missionary medic Dr Shipman, and he adored his depraved adopted dad. Jack is a loner and is only scared of Corbett and Big Bertha, “ If only he could be allowed ten minutes on his own with sister Maria”. However he can fire his blow pipe 8 inches and is classed as a sniper, he is able to do this by using a gas canister the same gas he uses to knock out his victims. The gas gives him 8 shots before he reverts back to normal range. Unlike normal snipers Jack is not eliminated on contact but fights melee at +1 due to his vicious claw ball hammer he carries.

Special rule, at the start of the battle, roll D6 on anything but a 1 Jack moves and responds as normal. However if a 1 is rolled it means that Jack has managed to avoid the chemical cosh today that the Prof uses on him to keep him in line. If this is the case then Jack will stalk the battlefield attacking any female figures that cross his path ignoring any other orders to pursue this.

Sister Julie/’Me Julie’- Split personality nun at one moment the happy singing nun the next a gun toting maniac armed with an LMG (needs no further explanation)……

[Poiter50]

And piccies of these delightful denizens of the debauched world?

[smirnoff]

I will take some pictures later and post them up, sadly 'Me Julie' resides with Ignatieff so over to him on that one....

[smirnoff]

your  a genious, but you are wasted on BoB- you should play Very British Civil War!

Thank you.
Oddly I am normally wasted when I play BoB...but VBCW has caught my imagination.
Just what I need...another project.......