An AAR of my first game of 2021, using BKC,  can be found on my Blog:

https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2021/01/bust-up-in-bristol-bocage.html

Love the report, great scenery too.

Thanks Will .

Excellent figures and lovely terrain on a small, practical sized tabletop. What's not to like?
VBCW 10mm is very tempting.

Geoff

Thanks Geoff!

 

Thanks Paul .

Excellent, Steve ! 

Cheers - Phil. 

Nice work.

Am I alone in thinking that Bristol Bocage would be a great aircraft for between the wars colonial settings.

"Biggles and the gang dashed across the darkening runway, making for the dilapidated looking Bristol Bocage at the far end.
Keeping low to evade observation by the Khedive's guards, they reached the aircraft.
The side door was unlocked, Biggles climbed into the pilot's seat while Algy removed the chocks and Ginger gripped the starting handle."

"Come on, chaps, group cuddle first", exclaimed Biggles.
"Not until Ginger says she's sorry for what she called me in the briefing room", Algy muttered petulantly....

Nice looking game Steve.

FK, getting a little weird here!

Thanks Graham .

Steve, love the idea of a 'Bristol Bocage' inter-plane, so I'd better get converting something to suit

Quote from: Steve J on 08 January 2021, 03:28:45 PM
Thanks Graham .

Steve, love the idea of a 'Bristol Bocage' inter-plane, so I'd better get converting something to suit

I think the De Havilland Dragon Rapide might make a good propotype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Dragon_Rapide

Carried such dignitaries as Franco and De Gaulle.
Therefore proven rapid transport for the rising political ambition during a 1930's power vacuum.



Odd looking bird with long nose, fixed, but enclosed gear, low engines and tapered wings.




Available in kit form:




Mods for the Bocage might include features like:
  * Dorsal gun position
  * Forward firing top wing Lewis gun like the SE 5
  * Modified fuselage shape (modelling challenge)
  * Swap in different props and spinners.

Good idea Steve and could be used as a light or medium bomber too .

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 08 January 2021, 08:53:42 PM
I think the De Havilland Dragon Rapide might make a good propotype.

Very retro-futuristic (if you know what I mean). Fits in well with the AVBCW vibe, I think.

I seem to remember that the Rapide was used as a light bomber in the 30's. I had visuallised a re-engined Bristol Fighter after all it hung around til thev early 30's

I think the Handley-Page Heyford is a perfect start for the Bristol Bocage. The wings were put on at the wrong place, has a couple of precarious mg stations and generally looks awkward and liable to break at any time.

Wow! What a plane   

Not seen this before, and from a quick wiki visit, discover it is a lot later than I would have have guessed mid to late 1930s, only just being replaced before WWII.

Quote from: fsn on 09 January 2021, 08:41:06 AM
I think the Handley-Page Heyford is a perfect start for the Bristol Bocage. The wings were put on at the wrong place, has a couple of precarious mg stations and generally looks awkward and liable to break at any time.

Yeah, don't think I'd like to be the one manning that under-fuselage MG station.

The Inter-War British bombers are brilliant, but mad! My recently bought old Airfix magazines have a long series of articles on them that are a great read, so I'll will be trawling through them for ideas .