*Edit*
This was pulled form another thread, rightly so, but it should be read as part of a jocular conversation, not as an announcement.
OK, well from next year we are running all our Rifle only games in early war.
why?
Because people who apparently are interested in WWII, and know everything about cammo patterns in Normandy, in 1944, in September, on a Tuesday still walk around saying Polish Cavalry Charging Panzers. 
ps we WILL be doing the invasion of Poland, and there will be Cavalrymen on the Polish side.
if i have to be a horse then can i at least be the front 
seriously though I'm looking forward to more rifle only games.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
sorry I know its only a myth, but its a very cool and romantic myth. People state that this myth is something which castes the Polish forces in a bad light, but if it had been true i believe the opposite.
The contribution of the polish forces during the war are greatly under played and should, i believe, be given much greater recognition.
A hero is not a man who takes on overwhelming odds, a hero is a man who does what he must even though all hope is lost. For hope, no matter how faint can fuel the smallest embers of courage, but a hopeless man acts out of desperation that his actions may instill hope in others.
my usual codswollap but i am just a romantic fool.
Oh no you are right. As much as the Germans thought is showed the Poles as idiots, the Poles thought it showed them as romantic yet doomed heros. Myths tend to please, which is why they become so persistent.
However all Polish Cavalry will be dismounted.
Polish armour however... 
Polish armour however...
And early war with no Panzerfausts, how cruel, will have to get working on my nerf launching Kar 98 attatchment
POLISH CAVALRY DID CHARGE THE PANZERS
I READ IT IN BATTLE MAGAZINE !
Helmans panzer force, he also fought the lancers with a sledgehammer
full story here
http://www.bestofbattle.sevenpennynight ... .uk/?p=102
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
ah, the rampant creepy pop paedophiles were not the only endemic vomworthyness of the 70s I see. 
An invasion of Poland game does sound interesting (been looking for an excuse to get a polish loadout) and i do like the concept of a rifles only game, would it be possible to get some information on where one could purchase a polish loadout... even just a look alike would suit my needs(read addiction 
).I also think that there needs to be more early war games as everything seems to be very 44 concentrated, not that there's anything wrong with that...
Here`s a scan of a Polish infantryman from a Europa book. Shouldn`t be too difficult knocking up a lookalike set of kit.
Thanks, i reckon i could find a look alike for everything there... But I'm not sure about the tunic, time to go surplus hunting...(like i need an excuse 
)
Early war kit guides will be forthcoming in the new year, along with places to get the stuff from.
There is actually very few Tunics 'readily available' that are like the Polish one - but with the right one, you can do a fair few other nations with one Tunic.
However one feels like one is hijacking Chomley's thread... but they started it... with horses.
That's great, recently i have been fixated with the more or less forgotten nations of the early years, but decided not to do any loadouts because there wasn't any games, so hopefully I'll be able to get a few games next year, had to kind of cancel my plans for Bastogne because of my maths exam (on the 6th ) so I'll probably look at getting to games next year once I'm free-ish. 
If we're talking early war, I've always liked the look of this chappie...
That's great, recently i have been fixated with the more or less forgotten nations of the early years, but decided not to do any loadouts because there wasn't any games, so hopefully I'll be able to get a few games next year, had to kind of cancel my plans for Bastogne because of my maths exam (on the 6th
Then just you wait - forgotten nations, here we come.
Could tie early war French, British and German with a Dunkirk game...and possibly Some French and Dutch invasion games too, maybe Greek as well that way we could have British
british officers tunic might work for polish
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
I think the British officers tunic is open collared, the Polish is closed.
We are looking into, and building examples of how to do these forgotten nations with very little outlay, to create the 'silhouette' and get the important features of the look - so people do not have to get whole new uniforms, but allowing us to play outside the 'big three'.
Definitely on the cards are France and Poland. Italy is proving tricky, but we are working on it
for the Italian side we need reversible tunic's seriously though might make an interesting scenario if the game was set at the period of the Italian change of sides or even a game set with Vichy French troops changing allegiance .
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
Weapons wise all we'd really need are:
Mannlicher-Schönauer's
Steyr-Mannlicher's
Carcano's
And they all look relatively the same so maybe the odd VSR conversion wouldn't go amiss...
And i think that a greeny-brown closed collar tunic would go quite far
Actually weapons wise all that is needed would be a 'long piece of wood', ie a wooden rifle. Of course if people want an Italian rifle just for fun, then well hey ho that's great, and I am sure it would be allowed by just about every organiser for just about any side as a rifle no problemo.
