Kolchack's Gold Mystery

[sepoy1857]

This is amazing; I didn't know the gold was still missing! There are several scenarios you could make up surrounding the gold train. This is a pretty well done video. I think it aired on TV somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V8zYk_HDo94#!

[Von Stroheim]

Looks like it comes from RT the Russian news channel that broadcasts in the UK- they often repeat their mini documentaries- lot of scope for BOB scenarios here.

[Republicofalnwick]

Fascinating story. I remember reading a novel about this by (I think) Ted Willis (but if it was there's no trace of it on Amazon) right back when I first became interested in wargaming in the 70s.

The other story I read which gave potential scenarios is The Buckingham Palace Connection about a British attempt to rescue the Romanovs. I was first interested in that story by Tom Mangold and Anthony Summer's File on the Tsar, and spent months rummaging through the British Library looking for various books they referred to. The fact that the books were missing seemed to CONFIRM the conspiracy theory they had outlined. I started writing a screenplay about it, only to see Ted Willis's book get in there first....

Ah, we were young, there seemed to be conspiracies everywhere. Having spent many years since working with a writer who specialises in conspiracy theories, his opinion of the case they advance is a little more cynical. In fact he used a word referring to two spherical objects normally found in a pair.

Doesn't stop it being perfect for RCW scenarios, though. Wargamers don't need established fact, they need inspiration.

[Schogun]

Good fictional book:

Kolchak’s Gold
by Brian Garfield

[Republicofalnwick]

THAT's The one. Brian Garfield. Of course! Thanks. I thought I was going mad.

[sepoy1857]

Looks like it comes from RT the Russian news channel that broadcasts in the UK- they often repeat their mini documentaries- lot of scope for BOB scenarios here.

Ah...not heard of them until now, but I'm impressed with the quality of their documentaries. VERY interesting stuff...especially a mysterious cave filled with gold, paintings, flags, etc!