VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread

[Jeremy]

Rubbish! Why rent it when I’ll give it to Gary for free?

[Etranger]

Of course Colour Sergeant Bourne was still alive in 1938, so perhaps the idea has some legs . . . . I'll give it some thought.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Bourne, OBE, DCM by then ...

[grizzlymc]

Picture the scene, the survivors of Rourkes Drift, black and white, are having the celebratory annual dinner in The Forge. A rain sodden Rozzer bursts through the door, "we are under attack by an enormous BUM". Good citizens of the empire all, the Borderers fall in in one formation and the Zulus in another, Colonel Bourne looked appreciatively at his men, smiled at Induna Kobelizi and muttered "Takes you back, doesn't it? Let's go kick some arse.".

[Buff Orpington]

One of the oddities of life was that Bourne spent WW1 as a major commanding the musketry school in Dublin. Some of his former trainees went on to train the IRA.

[garyp]

Picture the scene, the survivors of Rourkes Drift, black and white, are having the celebratory annual dinner in The Forge. A rain sodden Rozzer bursts through the door, "we are under attack by an enormous BUM". Good citizens of the empire all, the Borderers fall in in one formation and the Zulus in another, Colonel Bourne looked appreciatively at his men, smiled at Induna Kobelizi and muttered "Takes you back, doesn't it? Let's go kick some arse.".

Perfect. There's my backstory sorted!

[Buff Orpington]

Class them as slow moving veterans an you're sorted.

[Count Belisarius]

Gary will need to attach some zimmer frames to the front of each figure...

[garyp]

Then they'll get +1 for rested weapons

[World2dave]

and -2 to reaction times for being caught having a senior moment.

[garyp]

That applies to nearly all of us. Except Purps of course, who will be frollicking around like a spring chicken.