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Title: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Sunray on 04 June 2020, 04:57:44 PM
Yes, I am self isolating as I have all the classic "request" symptoms.

I really want a couple of  WW2 Gestapo types.  - Herr Otto Flick and Arnold Toht caricature - long leather coat, broad brimmed black fedora.  Perhaps a Luger by the side  ? 
A couple of Milice - images show police style uniforms, French berets, and a profusion of British small arms (SMLE M3 and Bren)

Perhaps a few German garrison types in side cap and MP40 ?

We already have the ALL the vehicles,11CV car, lorries, M/C combo, Resistance fighters, assorted other Germans, and Commandos (Korean winter Brits were designed with proxy in mind).
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Ithoriel on 04 June 2020, 05:38:53 PM
I've moved on from Herr Flick to Stephen Merchant as my archetypal Gestapo caricature

Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Sunray on 04 June 2020, 06:05:01 PM
But would you purchase a set of caricature figures ?  Possibly as "characters", slightly more expensive than the run of the mill.
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: fsn on 04 June 2020, 06:57:31 PM
For the Milice do you mean this sort of thing?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-720-0318-04%2C_Frankreich%2C_Parade_der_Milice_Francaise.jpg)

I could be interested in a platoon or so.

Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Sunray on 04 June 2020, 08:04:36 PM
That's the boys   Nobby.

Police type uniform with tie,  French style left pull beret, and ex-BEF smalls arms.

Would you use them as Milice against Resistance or would you use them as a proxy?

If you were talking platoon, then a couple of rifle poses, a Bren gunner, an SMG (I have noted Stens and MAS38) and an officer type in Kepi.

Some of these chaps must have been ex-French Army prior to the Vichy regime. They were on local turf, and I recall a lecturer claiming that the Resistance dreaded them because of their local knowledge.  Possibly a higher rating than German garrison troops ?
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Ithoriel on 04 June 2020, 08:51:06 PM
Quote from: Sunray on 04 June 2020, 06:05:01 PM
But would you purchase a set of caricature figures ?  Possibly as "characters", slightly more expensive than the run of the mill.

Caricatures, not really. But Gestapo and local forces yes, though I'd want Eastern Front Schutzmannschaft or Ordnungsdienst not Milice. I have a collection of figures intended to become BKC Soviet partizans, it would be nice to have local forces to deal with, from time to time, rather than the Wehrmacht
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: fsn on 04 June 2020, 09:12:14 PM
Quote from: Sunray on 04 June 2020, 08:04:36 PM
Would you use them as Milice against Resistance or would you use them as a proxy?

Oh definitely against Resistance ... and possibly Commando raids ... and I need to check up on those SAS forces as in "Fire From the Forest".

Lots of possibilities.
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: monkeynut on 04 June 2020, 10:52:09 PM
😳



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Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Sunray on 05 June 2020, 08:56:28 AM
Quote from: monkeynut on 04 June 2020, 10:52:09 PM
😳

🐵

He only joined the forum a few weeks ago,  and already he is a legend.

Knowing the style of humour on this forum,  making a request could well be known as "doing a monkeynut"

Reminds me of the 2nd Batt when in Stanley.  The boss discovered they were calling male Falkland Islanders "Bennies" after a Crossroads character.  He banned the use of the term.   From that day, the term "Stills" appeared - they were still Bennies.  :)
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Sunray on 05 June 2020, 09:10:26 AM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 June 2020, 08:51:06 PM
Caricatures, not really. But Gestapo and local forces yes, though I'd want Eastern Front Schutzmannschaft or Ordnungsdienst not Milice. I have a collection of figures intended to become BKC Soviet partizans, it would be nice to have local forces to deal with, from time to time, rather than the Wehrmacht

That's interesting. the Schutzmanner were originally issued with modified SS uniforms, but gradually German police uniforms replaced them.   Russian Cossack would also be a welcome addition.

These local force encounters are at a scale well suited to the tabletop. not to mention the variety of uniform and AP rates.   
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 05 June 2020, 10:38:51 AM
They are working on a vaccine so I heard  ;) Nice idea
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: fsn on 09 June 2020, 12:38:41 PM
I think I've had a touch of the Monkeynuts. So whilst I'm sat on this cooling cushion, I thought I'd list my wish list:

Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Raider4 on 09 June 2020, 12:58:48 PM
Quote from: fsn on 09 June 2020, 12:38:41 PM

  • Trojan Wars
  • Chariots - Egyptian , Assyrian, Sumerian etc

These are interesting, and I'd certainly consider them if available.

Quote from: fsn on 09 June 2020, 12:38:41 PM

  • S-tank & associated Swedes

Oh yes. Please yes. Sign me up for these. Now.
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: FierceKitty on 09 June 2020, 02:58:21 PM
Egyptians and Assyrians are available elsewhere if you're impatient.
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: DaveH on 09 June 2020, 03:03:45 PM
Quote from: fsn on 09 June 2020, 12:38:41 PM
I think I've had a touch of the Monkeynuts. So whilst I'm sat on this cooling cushion, I thought I'd list my wish list:


  • S-tank & associated Swedes
What about other root vegetables like turnips?
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: fsn on 09 June 2020, 03:18:31 PM
I can beet them. 
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 09 June 2020, 03:28:53 PM
Nobby - chew your own coat and leave !
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Orcs on 09 June 2020, 04:24:49 PM
People who make jokes like that should be carotted
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Ithoriel on 09 June 2020, 04:47:27 PM
I carrot believe it, can it beetroot? Has this thread bean infiltrated by puns?  Lettuce cut this off at the root before the life is artichoked out of the thread. Really, there is not mushroom for this sort of thing here. I yam sure I shallot allow this thread to be radished to a punfest. Let the puns rest in peas!
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Techno on 09 June 2020, 05:12:00 PM
 X_X X_X X_X X_X

Cheers - Phil  =) =) =) ;)
Title: Re: Monkeynut disease is spreading
Post by: Orcs on 09 June 2020, 05:39:50 PM
 ;D ;D ;D