Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:17 pm
Rubbish! Why rent it when I’ll give it to Gary for free?
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Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:08 am
Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:19 am
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.".
Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:59 am
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.
Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:51 am
Perfect. There's my backstory sorted!grizzlymc wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:19 am 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.".
Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:30 am
Class them as slow moving veterans an you're sorted.
Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:55 am
Gary will need to attach some zimmer frames to the front of each figure...
Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:57 am
Then they'll get +1 for rested weapons
Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:36 am
and -2 to reaction times for being caught having a senior moment.
Re: VBCW Ayton 3rd May 2019 Organisation Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:44 am
That applies to nearly all of us. Except Purps of course, who will be frollicking around like a spring chicken.