Don't want ot get too hung up over detail , however suggest we should be tentatively thinking about next years events ot get them on the calender.
Below is a list of Sites I think we could use without too much bother , and some game ideas I'd like to explore and maybe some ideas of dates. Please add game and other ideas and we'll try ot get a longish list which we can then prune back . Suggest keep it to games you'd actually want ot do !
Sites
F&O- hopefully doing their own thing !
The Hill - too far away ?
IED as well as Wales have an even bigger site in Shropshire
Gunmans Tuddingham site in Suffolk
Dave Mannings site in the midlands
Pheonix Woodland/Urban
Potential Sites
Cerberus
Proteus 
Games
The Eagle has Landed - 1 day protect Churchill event - Tuddingham? Jan/Feb
Italy - PhWoodland , May time - I know Gadge was keen on this idea , and I'd like to support it as i think it could be a cracker .
Ost Front - 24hourer IED ? Partisans and Germans March -June ?
Downed Bomber Crew - E&Evade type event IED ? March -June ?
Stalingrad - needs and urban and winter - Nov- Dec ?
Falaise Gap - Summertime not sure where ?
Put me in for PW in May guy, i'll confirm after i've spoke to phoenix this weekend.
popping over to see them on sat
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Put me in for PW in May guy, I'll confirm after I've spoke to phoenix this weekend.
popping over to see them on sat
Excellent !
Come on gents , we need ot start thinking about this.
Right - we have a date booked to use Joshes site (as our own not a co adventure) in Tuddenham on 1-2nd March 2008 .
Offers invited for game ideas, personally like the idea of "The Eagle has Landed" and all day long find the pilot plot with added usual subplots.
Keep the numbers to sub 50 .
I'm not sure that either of those would work particularly well to be honest...
Problems with Eagle has landed:
- Limited Units/nationalities possible
- no village available (I would have thought)
- pretty crap objective for a game (i.e. kill one guy)
Problems with hunt the pilot:
- pretty poor objective for a game (i.e. capture one guy)
- no historical basis... I definitely prefer something based on something real.
I think to be honest the first thing we need to know is what the terrain is like, after that we should think of possible scenarios.
PBI doing varisty in march looking incredibly liely now, Yith, evo and I have had a chat about it, we think we could make a goer of it.
Need to chat with the guys more first.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Tuddenham is part 'urban' but not village-like I suppose.
Looking at it, the buildings are mostly ruins so not sure what we could do. I'll have a think about it after Wotan as I'd like to run a scenario next time.
The only big thing I don't like about Tuddingham is that it's an L-shape which is a complete pain in the arse to build scenarios in.
PBI doing varisty in march looking incredibly liely now, Yith, evo and I have had a chat about it, we think we could make a goer of it.
Need to chat with the guys more first.
Justin at F&O is very enthusiastic...
Major has apparently been given control of running regular WW2 events at F&o.. we need to talk to him.
I'm not sure that either of those would work particularly well to be honest...
Problems with Eagle has landed:
- Limited Units/nationalities possible
Film has both UK , US and Germans
- no village available (I would have thought)
Tuddenham has a mix of WWII buildings and Woodland
- pretty crap objective for a game (I.e. kill one guy)
Churchill would be unkillable, ie both sides would fight ot have him captured. He could still be open to being mediced ot slow him downProblems with hunt the pilot:
- pretty poor objective for a game (I.e. capture one guy)
See above, could include subplots to keep interest up
- no historical basis... I definitely prefer something based on something real.
Agreed , but only personal preference , as a side note I'd skip all the cross dressing bits at the start to make it more open warfareI think to be honest the first thing we need to know is what the terrain is like, after that we should think of possible scenarios.
Yep , I pers plan of visiting the site after DDay
HS - L shape is a pain , however site recce will hopefully show possibilities as well as confirm state of buildings.
Hmm understood... It still sounds rather contrite to me...
I'd MUCH prefer something based on a real battle.
Contrite or contrived ?
Basing it on a film is a lil wank I suppose, just gives us more liberties ot take with the gameplay . Early site visit may show some other possibilities though .
From what I gather the site is too small for some sort of grand slam game , and I wanted ot keep it "lite" ot avoid the abundance of props and other stuff.
Yeah I understand...
A small unit action... maybe part of the Normandy invasion (etc) could be better?
Something with the feel of the battle at the end of SPR perhaps?
Maybe even a different part of Operation Market Garden?
(Hmmm contrite means something totally different from what I thought! lol
Yeah I mean contrived... but I was also sort of going for "silly")
My immediate thought was a BoB rip-off such as Carentan or Crossroads.
With an L-shape there are benefits as well as draw back. Bases can be clearly separated and not flanked for example.
The main drawback is trying to steer the entire day's fighting away from the elbow of the L-shape and getting play across the entire site.
I'd like to run a game at somewhere like F&O where it's a search and destroy/recon game with lots of sneaky action, maybe something like a sabotage game from the early 40's. Problem there though is no Yanks.
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I'd love to do some very early war stuff... Norway or BEF.
But yes... there'd definitely be no Yanks!
Unless we somehow shoehorned in a special secret unit of Yanks assigned directly by FDR.
lol... They'd have to be in Brit uniform or Germany might just declare war on the US! lol
Plus... there'd be no one wearing Denison smocks... The Brits would have to wear Battledress... could make it a bit expensive!
Be nice ot run a game where the Germans are mainly attacking !
Yup... I'd be happy to lose in Norway or as the BEF... lol 
They're attacking in that SPR battle...
