The Glenpool Strike: A VACW Campaign (1)

[section 8]

The background for my campaign which begins in 1937 after FDR's second election. The crises is precipitated by FDR's proposed "court packing" legislation and other New Deal programs.

As the crisis begins to unfold, a company of Black Legion shock troops are dispatched on Ford tri-motor planes from Michigan to Tulsa Oklahoma. Their objective is to capture the Glenpool oil field and associated refinery. Unfortunately the Tulsa airfield is located on the northeastern edge of town, and the Glenpool oil field is southwest of Tulsa just across the Arkansas river. So the Legion troops will have to take the airfield and then find their way through possibly hostile territory to take the objective. They do have some local contacts in the area to act as guides and supply them with some supplies and equipment.

After the first two planes land and the airport is secured, one squad is sent ahead to scout out the route to the refinery in a captured airfield truck. After they depart, the local communist forces are tipped off and are able to set up an ambush for the Black Legion on the crossroads of 31st and Sheridan

Trees being a scarce resource in these parts, the local communist forces had to improvise a barricade to stop the Black Legion truck. They stopped the truck, but they certainly didn't make nice with the local farmers livestock.



The local chaps and the Black Legion get out of the truck to check things out, just before the firing begins.

[leadfool]

Did you ever do anything else with this concept?  Our campaign in i1933.

[commissarmoody]

The blog links have a few reports and background information. 

[section 8]

Did you ever do anything else with this concept?  Our campaign in i1933.

This is the first time I've been on in ages, and much to my surprise this old post is on the front page. Not much else happened with this campaign as I wasn't able to get any of my friends interested in the concepts. So it was just a few gun games with my son.

About two years ago I got interested in the VACW / Second American Civil War or what ever you want to call it. So I wrote another background for the game with the war starting in 1932 with the Bonus March that spins out of control. President Hoover ends up getting killed in the fighting, along with most of his cabinet, and many Congressmen. As a result Gen. Douglas MacArthur imposed martial law across the country, and assumes the role of interim president. With the election coming up he runs for president against Roosevelt and loses in a landslide.  J. Edgar Hoover, of the FBI (or whatever they were called then) convinces  MacArthur that there was widespread voter fraud and that the Communists, Socialist etc stuffed the ballots boxes, as a result he refuses to step down as interim president. He voids the results of the election and by Jan. 1933 the country gears up for civil war.

[commissarmoody]

Oh cool, your on the FB group. I was the dude who posted the links up in the the group.