1938 AVBCW with BKC 2

Started by sunjester, 22 February 2019, 08:09:02 AM

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sunjester

I had two of my gaming mates over for another AVBCW game the other day. Colin defended with the Socialist Workers, whilst Henry and I attacked with the BUF/Royalist (aided by a German contingent). A lot of fun was had by all.

A write-up and pictures on the blog https://grahamsgaming.blogspot.com/2019/02/10mm-avbcw-scenario-with-bkc.html


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mmcv

Great report, looks like a fun game.

Steve J

Great to see some more 10mm AVBCW action :).

Shedman

good stuff - between yours and Steve J's AARs this is getting quite tempting

Glorfindel

Looks excellent.   I've seen this done many times with 28mm figures and thought the
background was fascinating but, if I'm going to have a bash, would much prefer doing
it with 10mm or 6mm figures.

The hook for me really being the way that you can focus on a local setting.  Raise cadet
forces from your old school (assuming it was around at the time) or socialist militia from
the local factories etc.   Hmmm.   Another project for the future methinks.

Really good to see how this looks with a smaller scale.


Phil

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sunjester

Thank you all for the kind words chaps.

Glorfindel, be careful AVBCW can be get to be a bit of an obsession. Here is how far I got dragged in a few years bac, when we first got into this at the Tring Wargames Club!
https://sites.google.com/site/grahamswargames/a-very-british-civil-war-campaign?pli=1

Steve J

It can be great fun creating your own background fluff, as can be seen from our mini-campaign that we set up a good few years ago:

https://sites.google.com/site/avbcwstormcloudsgather/battle-reports/the-battle-of-hanging-hill

Ithoriel

I'm currently being pushed to join in a 3mm scale AVBCW campaign using BKC2 or 4 rules.

Something I am resisting as I don't need a further addition to the lead mountain.

THIS. THREAD. IS. NOT. HELPING! :)

Interesting and lovely looking stuff all round. Well done folks.
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Sandinista

I still have loads of 10mm figures for this, played many games using BKC2. Tempted to get them out again

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mmcv

Inspired by this I've been investigating/planning/making up what this would look like for my own local area (Belfast/Northern Ireland). As Glorfindel mentioned, being able to build it up around your own local history adds a lot of interest to it.

From what I can tell the "official" line on most AVBCW threads regarding Northern Ireland is a dismissive "Irish Free State annexes it", but given the myriad political and religious complexities, not to mention insane division and factionalism, refactionalism, new factionalism, provisional factionalism, free factionalism, anti factionalism, reformed factionalism, new reformed free factionalism...and so on, there's a lot of scope for different... factions in Northern Ireland to make for some interesting games.

Regardless, may prove a good project to get me into 20th century warfare. Now to raid some family bookshelves for various histories of the local area. Because what I need now is another potential project to add to my already lengthy list of potential projects...

sunjester

Go for it mmcv!

To be honest, other than placing Prince Albert at the head of a more democratic opposition, I haven't really looked at the "official" resources at all myself, except as an initial inspiration. It's a fantastic opportunity to take interesting local history and give it a mighty spin! :D