Last month Phil organised a Chain of Command Operation Seelöwe game for Jen, Jim, Andy and myself, with the Fallschirmjäger (commanded by Andy and Jim), having seized Bristol (Whitchurch) airport in a lightning attack, the German paras are now advancing down the Wells Road towards the city. All that stands in their way was Jenny and I commanding the brave (old) men and boys of the Local Defence Volunteers - the Home Guard!
Let's be 'aving yer! A section of the Whitchurch LDV advance towards the German lines - before deciding Nazi para sections sporting two spandaus are not the best thing to attack over open fields - so they retire into a nearby house.
Acthung! The spandau totting Boche hide behind a hedge as the LDV occupy the building.
C'mon lads! Let's sort those Nazi bounders out Bristol fashion!
Vorwärts! Another section of heavily armed Fallschirmjäger advance towards the British lines...
And a third! Blimey, this could be tough on the old boys of the Home Guard!
Boom! The LDV fire a Victorian era museum piece they acquired at the advancing squareheads!
It only had one shot, but it managed to inflict some Shock on the advancing paras. Take that Fritz!
Rat-a-tat-a-tat! The LDV open fire on the Nazis with a Vickers machine-gun hidden in a house...
Fallschirmjäger fall dead and their comrades take Shock, as they pay the penalty for advancing across open ground! Gert lush!
Five runs rapid fire chaps! The LDV open fire on the Nazis who have occupied their local!
Unfortunately the Germans return fire...
Their two spandaus inflicting Shockand a couple of casualties on the brave Local Defence Volunteers!
Their weapons might be as old as their enemy's parents, but the brave boys of the LDV put them to good use, especially this Great War era Lewis Gun which took up where it left off in 1918!
Boche fall to the floor, the Nazi paratroop leader shot stone dead!
Join in chaps! Another section of the Home Guard arrives and they join in firing at the nefarious Nazis!
Who under fire from three sections of the LDV, a Lewis gun and the Vickers start to amass casualties and Shock!
Gott im Himmel! This is too much! One section of the Nazi super-men run away. "Deutschland Uber Alles my arse!" cry the LDV!
The Vickers continues to pour hot lead into the Fallschirmjäger ranks...
Shock and casualties mounting up on the remaining Squareheads. But the two spandaus keep the LDV honest and the British Force Morale is beginning to drop to a worry level.
A burst of fire from the Lewis polishes off two of the retreating Fallschirmjäger - the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi are all, and the German Force Morale plummets to zero!
A resounding victory for the brave old souls and boys of the Whitchurch Local Defence Volunteers, with the Nazi plans to storm Bristol port thwarted before they got anywhere near the city. Thanks to Phil for putting such a great game on and letting Jenny, Jim, Andy and myself play with his toy soldiers (and Jen for us to play with her lovely houses).
A lovely looking game and Captain Mainwaring would be jolly proud, even that stupid boy Pike did his duty well!
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