I really enjoyed helping out with some of the background and played a whole campaign based on the early days of the Scottish Republic. (I did the battle of the Bridge of Dee game , pictures of which features one of the books and wrote some material for the first sourcebook on Scotland too).
However my games and the chracters were always darker and more vicious than some of the other narrative out there - more like the spanish civil war and less cucumber sandwiches! Carpet bombing a village on Deeside for example!!
We played our campaign through to conclusion and settled down to await the new Republic, but in the way of Wargamers other periods beckoned and interest waned, so I sold off my figures to someone.
Good times though. I've still got my VBCW badge!