VBCW Malta

[Vanvlak]

On rules,  My suggestion is use what you like and what you feel works.  If you have a set that you use regulary use them.  As said the event cards are the key items as they give the flavour to the game which I fear rules dont do.  There is a free set hidden somewhere? Go hunting on the VBCW site and please ask questions we try to help

Will do - it does seem the event cards are a must.
I am currently using no rules regularly, although I can be accused of owning many!
Last I played ( over a year ago now) was 40k, so not quite ideal....

But I own a copy of T&T to begin with, so there's a start.
Thanks  

[Vanvlak]

I would rather game malta VBCW than aussie VBCW. the idea of a 6 or 7 way fight on something small like malta is intriguing.

Which rather goes against my vision of breaching the Victoria lines 
Seriously, I am planning on easily storable stuff (hence the 10mm approach), and there's loads of potential here. Although I aim to include a handful of tanks, these would be distributed amongst the forces - there's not enough space (or the right sort of space) for a tank battle here! And I can have agents coming in furtively by sea from Italy and all that stuff too.

[Vanvlak]

I would say tanks are a must so you could have that amazing brickwork cammo the brits had for malta but doing that in 10mm scale....

what was malta's population back in the mid 30's?

Ow, you rotter, I was thinking of dozens of ways to avoid that camo. 
For the uninitiated:


Population: around the 250,000 mark in the '30s.

[Tym]

1930's Camo is different again, worth google a search.  Some amazing ideas

[Vanvlak]

1930's Camo is different again, worth google a search.  Some amazing ideas

True - I had seen a few unusual ones way , have to retrace the site.
But it would be interesting to speculate whether the rubble wall camo would have appeared in the late '30s instead of during the war.
Thanks for proposing I be let off the hook though! 

[Rob_bresnen]

sounds like a very interesting setting for VBCW. Look forward to following your thread. Welcome aboard.

[Vanvlak]

sounds like a very interesting setting for VBCW. Look forward to following your thread. Welcome aboard.

Thank you - I must say the VBCW chaps are the politest yet, and seen in the context of the exemplary LAF, that's something! 

[FramFramson]

The Malta camo talk reminds me of this awesome diorama:



Stand back from your screen and look.

[Vanvlak]

Yep - it does work, doesn't it?

[Vanvlak]

They would...
meanwhile I havedug up a trio of old Chenillettes d'Infanterie Renault type UE and amtrying to decide whether they're 10mm or 15mm scale - the latter, I think.
I also have an Indian elephant: what do I do with that in Malta?!

But - on a more positive note - I have received from Pendraken a couple of Renaults FT17, a Vickers E type A and (my favourite, if hopelessly obsolete and out of place) a St Chamond 
Now I need troops.... and a truck or two.
This would be nice, but I have more chance of getting thast pesky rubble wall camo right than doing this:

[FramFramson]

aint nothing that cant be made better with the addition of a vickers gun.

Praise the lord and pass the ammunition!

[Arlequín]

If we are being true to the times, we should not be discussing 'the elephant in the room'. 

[FramFramson]

I admit I'm not too sure either. No reason we can't discuss fascists, real or otherwise.

Maybe he was just joking and we're not catching on?

[Arlequín]

Okay guys, that fell flat... I was joking. 'The elephant in the room' is an idiom for something that is so blatantly obvious or apparent, yet is being ignored for some social or political reason. A lot of it went on back then. An example would be old Colonel Blimp, asleep at the club with his trousers unbuttoned leaving him 'exposed'; everyone can see it, but nobody wants to mention it to another, nor indeed cause the colonel embarrassment by pointing it out to him... apply it to any glaring social phenomenon, or event, as you wish.

Forget I said anything... 



   

[Tym]

It is a strange world the 1930's the british and this comes out in the VBCW.  Each faction plays out its role in a P G Woodhouse way.  Just remember VBCW the world you want to create and enjoy.
 I don't really want a serious side for this period of gaming way to many issues so I tend to take a light hearted view of it all. 
 
Googling Malta 1930 on images turned up some great refernce pics.  Even Cricket teams!  they make figures for them!  Love the idea of a St Charmond.  Got one myself but in 28mm,  Used by my Anglican League force.  Bishop of Lichfield dont you know!