Thought we ought to start thinking about this one .
Hopefully most of the signage etc will have been done by CW / myself on Saturday so any other specifics ?
I'll deploy music box and flags early, ideally so the players can hear it as they sign in .
On the day
We need to get the saftey brief done early ( can CW do this as a PU marshall)?
We would like a brief "parade" perhaps on the top carpark bit, with some photos , before the Germans and DRWs deploy and the Brits stay behind
All three teams will be briefed and then the brits to be Transit Horsa'd into their start point .
Rough proposed time Line
Players on Site for 8.30 - 9
Sign in and cash 8.30 - 9.15
Saftey Brief 9.15 - 9.30
Deploy and Brief till 10 DRWs and Germans can mingle on site .
Horsa depart top field 10 am - game on from landing ?
Game one end s ? 1 am
Game 2 starts 1.30
Game 2 Ends 4.30 ?
3 hours a game should be ample .
BTW how long should the Brits take to capture the Hotel?. If we let them have a walkover it'll be all done by 11 which may mean they will be nearly 5 hours defending it 
If we aim to slow them down so they capture it after 12 it should mean both sides have a good crack at attack and defense.
I'll manage the brit parade.
I think we wing it with regards to the hotel.
If they wipe it out quickly then we just give some additional task sout.
i.e. supply drop at the medical block needs recovering
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
We may not be able to rely 100% on the transit being up and running. We should have a plan B to fall back on as regards that.
It will take considerable time to ship 30+ players from one side of the site to the other in the transit anyway... maybe we should use several vehicles?
I've put a post in uk private discussion to canvass opinion on wheter they want a parade, i've seen making people do stuff liek that backfire in the past...
Namely the near mutiny at distant thunder over being forced to do US drill and have parades.
I reckon its great but we may run into some opposition.
See what the guys think.
Not getting a lot of use in the private uk forum to be honest though.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
I don't want to to drill, by Parade I mean line them up facing each other in two or three ranks as we did at the Bulge . The Germans seem well up for it, especially after a nights singing with me 
Re Transit Horsa , be nice to get this going . Reckon you could get 10 at a time with a squish , thats only three trips and we can let the allies spread out and establish a perimeter before launching the attack . If you've got Oddballs jeep then you could use that as well , but not my LR as I'll be too busy to pee about ferrying you guys around .
PS Why am I trying ot convince you two to reenact 
I'm proposing a line up in sections, come to atention, 30 seconds of motivational 'hurrah' and a right turn to march off to the 'horsa' ... nothing too hardcore.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
I'll check on Sunday but I'm not sure if the transit has gone walkies...
Agree we should do much the same as at F&O,
get teams kitted up and ready to battle
call to clear hard standing, split into two sides (well two and a half)
PU safety breifing
CiA welcome (brief)
Orderly grouping for team photos
Germans WILL parade, might get away with an inspection, start sing song and march off into the site with much noise from boots and many choruses of Panzelied.
You are right Gadge, some don't like the parade thing (I recall Seg and Bigfish were stoney-faced last time) but meh, most of us (Germans) want to do it so we will try for something better than we managed last time (and to be fair we were a bit sheepish about it).
Sounds good ,
just a thought about this transit thing, is it worth hiring a van cheap for the day ?
How do we explain the bullet holes when we return it?
Seg and Bigfish aren't booked in this time... we might have less resistance... 
How do we explain the bullet holes when we return it?
Ah yes didn't think of that, although my thought was the transit wouldn't be shot at ( what wouldbe the point?) just used as a neat way of trucking poeple down . Hasn't Gucci got a tranny he might like to lend us for three trips at the start ?
Yes he does have a tranny... good idea!
As for getting it shot up... I'm sure he won't care a toss.
Also Bollogs has a fairly large landy... he's used that in a game before.
Gucci's got a tranny...
well i'd heard the rumour about him and ladyboys...
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Its all true...
he won't deny it
btw... bollogs has gone off on one cos someone shot at his landy... but he has since used it in a game.
I was actually being jolly funny 
meaning real bullet holes. Ah well.
Are you going to be firing real guns then?
I can see how that'd give the axis a great advantage... but is it really fair!
No regens for the allies... never!
We can't kill the allies off , they wouldn't be able to come to the next event 
Fellas,
I have a small problem. Nothing too bad so don't panic.
I was originally planning to come up on Saturday night for the event, but it doesn't look like I'm able to now as I have to be in Cheltenham on the Saturday night.
This means that I'll have to drive up from Brum on the morning. Having driven to Sheffield many times I reckon it'll take me about 1.5 hours.
What sort of time are you guys planning to arrive? I reckon a 6.30am start for me will give me plenty of time to get up there and help out with some of the set-up.
If there's stuff to be done without having to be there super early allocate it to me!
Chars
S
I'll be there overnight , and hopefuly myself and CW will have dressed the set on the Saturday . If you could get there for 8.30 to help marshall the players/get them through booking in that would be great .
Me and a mate of mine are driving up Saturday, so If anything needs doing, im sure I can get my arse up there earlier.
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