VBCW masters!

[Paint it Pink]

I have the source books, but intend to use Too Fat Lardies Through the Mud & the Blood, which are a bloody fantastic set of rules for both WW1 and the post-war interregnum. Can't recommend them too highly. Also, if you go this route, then Artscow has some very nice cards that you can get too for playing the games innovative initiative system with.

All I need now is to get Leon to make some International Liberty tanks, and some Russian T35s and I'd be good to go.

[Hurrah]

All I need now is to get Leon to make some International Liberty tanks, and some Russian T35s and I'd be good to go.

So only the little stuff then 

Cracking looking figures by the way.

[Luddite]

Cast these up and i may well buy them.  Heavily committed to my 28mm AVBCW stuff though.

Absolutely love it!

[sunjester]

Great to see these figures. Three of us decided to start on this "period" at the weekend when we found a stand selling some lovely N gauge 1930's cars and lorries. As with everyone else using 10mm we first decided to use our early war stuff with just a few add ons, but I don't think it will stay that way.

We aren't using the official sourcebooks but making up our own factions, so far we have  the BUF, a socialist/communist workers movement and I'm fielding an aristrocracy-led anti-fascist force. I'm basing my army around the Honourable Robert Henry Brand, younger son of the 3rd Viscount Hampden, who was an international banker, brother-in-law to the extremely wealthy Lord and Lady Astor, and an outspoken anti-nazi in the early 1930s. For an aristo an all round good bloke!

[Nosher]

These minis make for some tempting home guard types already for defending blighty against the threat of Invasion and those nasty FJR types...

All we need now is a Dads Army Range

[snafu]

Nosher

thats on my to do list....   

[Hurrah]

These minis make for some tempting home guard types already for defending blighty against the threat of Invasion and those nasty FJR types...

All we need now is a Dads Army Range

Yep, my thinking to. If it can be used for a very British civil war, it can be used for sealion (some of the Spanish civil war armoured trucks could fit in as local home guard improvised armour as well, and the Guardia de Asalto cap is just like a train drivers cap in any scale!)

[Luddite]

Dunno - for £12 I expect something to be free from spelling mistakes & to have [at least] a basic grasp of grammar as well as pics that are shot in high resolution...it may be that everything's been sorted [I think they're onto 2nd edition?] but I unloaded my copies after first reading. Some of their 'local' info is off too - can't remember the exact example but some of their Somerset stuff was wrong...

I think you missed the point Nik.

Given that this is a work of speculative history that is increasingly written by the players, none of the stuff is 'wrong'.

The essence of AVBCW is to take your local area, sort out what you feel like playing and have some fun with it, as you say here...

I think that once you've got to grips with the base concept, it's easy enough [& more satisfying] to do your own local research & come up with plausible units, scenarios etc. And you can spend the cash you've saved on more Pendraken figs 

The AVBCW sourcebooks really are just 'examples and inspiration'...something to get you to go to town on your own version of the conflict. 

You don't like what you've read about Cornwall?  Do your own research and sort it out as you think it should be.

Personally i think its one of the freshest, most fun things to hit wargaming in a long while - but then i was a contributor to the Northern War supplement (Chopwell Communists & Durham).   

We're doing it in 28mm but given Pendraken's release i've dug out some original 1938 military maps i have of Dalinton south into Yorkshire.  Considering doing something larger scale in 10mm in that area...

[Maenoferren]

a sneaky lot around Chopwell bet they hide in the woods around there

[Squirrel]

Seeing these new releases has confirmed my decision to use Pendraken 10mm for larger VBCW conflicts!

What specific figures are you guys using for BUF? Someone mentioned SCW figs with 'chip bag' caps .... which pack would that be?

Cheers,

Kev

[snafu]

Im on with the first few BUF right now. Il be sending these to leon at the end of Feb eith a few other goodies.

[republic of tolworth]

Good chap!
Just started to do my first proper BUF unit. I shall put them on hold for a while

Ah the gentle sounds of MG fire along the A3

[Sandinista]

Ah the gentle sounds of MG fire along the A3

That is an average Friday along tolworth broadway

[Squirrel]

Im on with the first few BUF right now. Il be sending these to leon at the end of Feb eith a few other goodies. 

Excellent! Perhaps I'll concentrate on other forces for now, just preparing an order .........

Cheers,

Kev

[nikharwood]

I think you missed the point Nik.

Given that this is a work of speculative history that is increasingly written by the players, none of the stuff is 'wrong'.

Ah - not arguing about the speculation: my point is about geography...there are place names wrong & towns located in the wrong part of Somerset...that's poor if you ask me and certainly is wrong...after all, you don't even have to buy a map anymore