The Loose Association of Wargamers

VL5 is on 20 March 2021

Hurrah... time to get planning.

16 of the 24 games up for VL5. Here's mine:

June 1942, A secret bunker somewhere under the Black Forest. Hitler prepares for Operation Barbarossa, but his Super Soldier System has encountered problems. Although his genetically mutated soldiers are unbeatable, they require extreme quantities of nutritious food to maintain their systems. Quantities, which on the field of battle, are not feasible to maintain. His scientists mention a ‘super food’, something called ‘Black Pudding’ which comes from a little town in the North West of England. Could this be the solution? The Reich focuses its gaze on Bury, Lancashire.

Erwin Rommel himself comes up with the plan. Elements of Germany's 1st Parachute Division will land near Ewood Bridge, pushing through Ramsbottom and onto Bury. There, they will kidnap Mary Heywood, Chief Food Scientist at the Bury Black Pudding Company (and Home Economics Teacher at Bury Grammar).

Will Hitler succeed, thus ensuring Russia is smashed and the War won early? Or will the Brave Men and Women of Bury triumph, again showing the world what the North of England is made of?

Are you going to allow the locals to employ "Ecky Thump" in fisticuffs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Kapers

My battle of Ewood Bridge table for VL5. I’ve tried to capture some of the uneven terrain around the house, the raised road and the hill up to the end of the table. Not 100% accurate as the table still needs to be playable. Hopefully it will provide a good game!

This hopefully gives an indication of the ascent. That armoured car is on the road at the top of the hill, behind two fences. The Leutnant in the river valley below

Tweaked the table and added a bit of character

Aye, tha’s lookin’ rite proper lad.

That's a superb looking table Jeremy- your best that I can recall
Its got a bit of everything that has

Cheers! Virtual games are tricky as you can’t load the table with terrain, otherwise players can’t see stuff. But equally, empty tables look a bit shit and make for a bloody game