Arriving by supply truck are tents, ropes, tarpaulins, tables and seats.
Once sentries are posted we will set about construction of a comfortable headquarters encampment.
We will need:
Small-tent area for storage of personal effects and sleeping, set away from main activity area.
Command and control tent.
Covered eating and cooking area.
Covered briefing area.
Camp fire - area scraped clear of combustible debris, fire pit dug, adjacent firewood drying stack
Latrine - pit dug, log/branch seating arrangement, tarpaulin screen, occupied flag system
Radio listening station.
Secure POW compound.
Would I be right in thinking that the German base will be a legitimate target for the Allied teams to attack? Is it worth bringing schumines and plan to lay trip alarms on the obvious routes in? I'm not wanting to speak above my station, just wanting to make sure I bring the right gear.
I would say bring it if you have room. At the end of the day if we can not use it its no biggy.
theres nowt so Permanent as temporary
Schumines are a good idea. The German camp will be a hard target for the enemy to attack but there is no reason why we cant make it harder. Dave Barrett is bringing a load of barbed wire so we could make safe routes in and out of camp, the rest mined and wired off. I have a couple of mine warning signs so I'll bring those as well to cover areas that aren't actually mined!
By the way, there would be no point in the enemy attacking a sleeping area but the core of the camp - commanders and radio comm centre must be defended at all times. If we lost the radio station then that would be a disaster since one of our primary roles is to keep Regional Command appraised of terrorist activity in our sector.
I do have a few 12 bore blank mines, and with one real mine to four dummy trips, I think we can at least make any area look un approachable. (A bit of the old Baden Powell at Mafeking type thing) I cant bring too much as I'm cadging a lift but will do what I can. Boshman printed up some really good "Achtung Minen" signs for Alsos, they should be off putting.
Well we sound to have lots of them, but if you want any more Achtung Minen signs we have the four here that we can easily bring along so feel free to let us know. 
Super, thank you Craig - pop 'em in the car if you have space please.
Hope the allies can read German!
Craig could be on minefield duty? Dressed as a civilian wearing a sandwichboard stating "Minefield Sign Translator - Just Ask!!" written in German, French and English 
Having him set up for a life in the service industry!
Unfortunately even if I am set up for life I think the job would drastically reduce said life span.
What's the rules re pyro? I have a few 12 bore blanks for the trip mine, and I have a dozen crow scarers which are very loud. Some sites I know have issues with pyro, especially at this time of the year so I thought I'd better ask before I pack them. Also have standard enola gay type pyro, is anyone aware of what's allowed?
Also been given a roll of para cord and a roll of mine tape, can bring them if you want to tape off areas, to make them look mined, dont know if that's too modern for us.
Since grenades kill outright and we are aiming to capture prisoners the potential for grenade use will be limited and last resort only.
The site use TLSFX but there isn't a restriction on make so Enola Gay are OK, crow scarers are a different matter since they aren't made for throwing at people then we are on dodgier ground H&S-wise.
White plastic mine tape is fine as a substitute for white cotton tape I'd say!
12 gauge is OK but we will have to be very careful on placing of mines to prevent risk of injury when crawling or if some numpty decide to try and disarm - we will play this by ear.
That's fine I'll leave the crow scarers at home,and only bring a couple of 12bb's and one schumine, which can just be set with no blank for fear factor if nothing else. Got a full roll of the white mine tape so will bring that.
Not wanting to teach anyone to suck eggs but whenever I set a harbour area for modern 24 hour games I usually put a para cord perimiter up so that night sentries can easily see where they should be and hopefully trip anyone that's not using a designated approach area, do you want to go for that here, or H&S worries about trip hazards?
I know it's bloody stupid all this H&S malarky, we are shooting bb's at each other etc but the bloody ambulance chasing no win no fee brigade put a stop to a lot of sh#ts and giggles, so I fully understand if it's a no no, but have the necessary if it's needed.
I'd say natural hazards were more of an ...err.. hazard, but I suppose the idea is to minimise risk. 
Anyhoo, since we will only be playing for one and a half hours in darkness so we can make a judgement on the day about camp security and what the risks of attack are. Nice idea though. Works both ways of course, the enemy might be thinking along the same lines, given they will have both equipment caches and bivouacs with few men to guard them. 
That's true although from how I interpret the info is that Jeds will be very light and on the move and the SAS have to be prepared to move their camp at a moments notice, so I recon they'll go more for camo and concealment rather than white tape and perimiter stringlines. The German base is a fixed position so in it's nature a target to be attacked, and thus more heavily defended. Like you say, it's best to call it on the day, I'll bring the para cord anyway for spare guy lines or general lashing of things together. Part of our brief is to make as good a camp as possible, I'll have to brush up on my scouting camp gadgets
Yes, what you say is true, no visible white tapes! But I meant in the general sense the enemy will be likely to put up passive defences of one sort or another, be it mines, trips, alarms. The enemy can't carry everything - they must cache gear and they don't want to lose it and will take all steps necessary to secure it. The SAS will have a base somewhere that will be coordinating operations (sorry, German commanders have no idea where!) and it is one of our tasks to find it.
Yes, German camp will be to the north of the road and between 'j' and 'i' on the map. We will be at the highest point in the area that we can pitch a camp.
I have one of Bosh's Schumines,I'll bring it with me.
I'm bringing a Kelly Kettle for use on friday, would it be "frowned upon" in the Axis encampment or are we happy with a device that boils 5 cups in 5 mins?
Aye, perfectly authentic for the period, good stuff.
Incidentally, troops will incur the wrath of our CO if see to be carrying supermarket shopping bags or toting nylon gun bags. All horrible stuff like this must remain out of view, hidden in your tents if needs be. Lets try and keep this as real as we can - cooking on esbits and open fires is cool, portable gas stoves are OK (not much different to petrol or paraffin stoves after all). No need for an exhaustive list, use your common sense, but an orange Sainsbury Local plastic bag (and the like) is a real suspension of disbelief killer!
