The Bulgarian Connection

Roy, "Tom?"

Tom, "No go. Drawn a blank so far, sir. He's gone to ground deep".

Derek, "Maybe his latest girlfriend is a nurse? Stitched him up and is mopping his brow."


Roy, "Get this Tom, the Smith & Wesson is Bulgarian. War Office issue, part of a shipment sent in 1915. So what's a Bulgarian revolver from the First World War doing on our rock revolutionary?"

Tom, shaking head "Grandad's Spanish Civil War memento? Stage prop?"

Derek, "Bulgarian? I could murder a kebab. There's that Bulgarian kebab place as you turn left off the High Street towards Tooting Bec. They do nice chips too!"

SILENCE

Roy, "Tom get onto SIX now! I want ALL Eastern Bloc targets in their play book. From Norwood to Croydon, Micham to Crystal Palace. Derek, still fancy a take away?"

 A mile away, in a flat above the KING OF KEBAPCHE Takeaway.

Galina,  "Alan, you were foolish to meet him. No good could have come of it."

Alan, "I just thought..... I dunno what I thought. Thought he could have handed us a popular rising. Turn the despair and anger into action.....Maybe."

Galina, "You need politically motivated soldiers who want to fight for a socialist cause, not a pop one. You're wound is good now? You are ready to move? Petar does not want you to stay. He thinks you will bring bad luck this time". 

Alan, "What about us?"

Galina, "What about the cause? We have placed a lot of trust in you. Your weapons are in the car. Five AK47's, 12 Skorpion sub-machine guns, 3 Makarov pistols, plastic explosives, fuses and a quantity of ammunition. We have left further ammunition where we agreed......Shte mi lipsvash tiva."

Galina, "Shhhh.....Do you hear something?"


Cheers
Mark

The Streatham Powerplay

No.2, "We had better call everyone in on this Roy. The more resources, the quicker we'll catch him. Don't you think?" 

Roy, "He's injured. We know that much. We don't know how badly, but a 7.62 tends to leave a mess. Damn it! He might just as easily have hopped on a bus out of there and be squirrelled away with some posh trot totty in Hampstead."

No.2, "He's gone to ground and will head for friends locally. You know the routine. Riga wasn't it?"

SILENCE

Roy, "Get me enough bodies on the ground and I'll put every chemist shop and veterinary surgery under surveillance. We'll turnover every clinic and surgery within 3 miles for known sympathisers. If anyone so much as goes home with a band aid in their pocket, Special Branch will be on to them".

No.2, "I'll pull out all the stops for this and will turn out every cook and bottle washer from Hereford if I have to. I'm sure Dickie would appreciate a result. Something to celebrate between ourselves though, eh!

You'll need some extra muscle on the streets. This pop chappie has caused a stir. Even in Hampstead."

 

High wire fencing on the playground,

High rise housing all around....
High time to pull it all down

Cheers
Mark

Fallen Icon

Here is the Nine O'Clock News. Sid Vicious, controversial bass player in the Sex Pistols'  has been shot and killed by an army checkpoint in Streatham, south London earlier today. An army spokesperson for the Emergency Government said that Sid Vicious, real name John Simon Ritchie, was shot when he failed to stop after a warning was given and when challenged appeared to throw an object at the soldiers manning the checkpoint.

Checkpoint Zulu Two Two

Streatham High Street

11:32am

Sporadic violence followed the news of the death of the pop icon and the security forces have been placed on high alert. Further news, in Jordan...

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The Sun can reveal that Sid Vicious was mistaken by the army for Mad Trot Terrorist Alan Tate. Punk Rockers around the world are in shock. Violence has erupted in major cities throughout Great Britain. In  Berlin and New York violent demonstrations have been held by distraught fans.

Punk Rocker Janet Scissors, 19, said "The streets aren't safe. They'll just shoot anyone." Lewis Benjamin, 24, known as 'Dog' in Punk Rock circles, said "Whitehall think they've got us up against the wall but this will just put more teenage guerrillas on the tarmac."

Checkpoint Zulu Two Two

Streatham High Street

11:33am

Office 5 Whitehall, S Branch, transcript of report

by Private George, 'Dodd', McLaren

Err, nineteen, Sir....

I turns to Carol, sorry, Corporal Davies and says, "That's Tate. It's him, it's bloody Alan Tate!" She says, "You're a bit keen aren't you? He's in hiding. Wouldn't be wandering the streets of Streatham for us to capture would he?" She looks at the rogues gallery on her clipboard, then at him. He's with another fella. They look dodgy. See us looking and split up.

She, Corporal Davies, leans in the van and says "Mac we have him, Tate. Quick he might do a runner." They must have heard her or maybe Mac and Titch, Sergeant MacDonald and Private Hewitt getting out the back, as they run.

Sergeant MacDonald shouted "Go!" We went after them. One, I don't remember which, threw a can of Iron Bru or something at us. I dropped to my knee and shouted "Army. Halt or I Fire!" and aimed at the one in the black jacket. Tate. I'm sure it was Tate. I fired two rounds. Missed. He dived into the department store, Pratts. Corporal Davies and I followed, but it was like a jungle in there. Lot's of customers. Places to hide. Sorry, we lost him in the confusion.

....The other? I heard shots, then Sergeant MacDonald shout and fire his weapon about the same time as me. I saw the man in the overcoat sprawled on the ground as I sprinted after Tate.

"Bloody mess Tom!"

Tom, "It's grim reading whatever way you cut it Sir. Shootout in a busy street. Popular icon killed. The press is having a field day"

"A gun was found though? Fired?"

Tom, "Yes. Smith and Wesson. Three rounds fired from chamber. Only recovered one spent round. Too bloody to determine who fired it."

"Perhaps for the best. If we say it's this Viscous fellow, it hands the other side another Che bloody Guevara. A pop rebel turned real rebel. We'll be facing another 1,000 urban players and 10,0000 dickers in a week. No. Deny all links to Clash Action Front. Tate was never there. No weapon found on the scene. Mistaken identity. Have all the green army involved posted to defend an oil rig to keep them out of the way of the press".

PHONE RINGS

Tom, "Tate's been injured. That was SB. Forensics have confirmed the blood on the rear exit Fire Door.  The plods also recovered the object thrown at the checkpoint. UXB Pipe bomb in a Fanta can."

"Get it sent over once it's safe and have June bring in some Penguins".

The Navy Lark

00:37hrs Zulu: HMS Shoestring slips her station off Penzance and makes a dash for a pro Government port. Whoop! Whoop!

I loved Seastrike (WRG Edition) as an adolescent and have picked up a group of tasty Triang Minic 1/1250 waterline diecast Royal Navy warships from eBay to regain some of that innocent pleasure within a Winter of '79 setting.

The models aren't at all bad and came in between £1.50 and £3 each from a private seller.  OK, not quite what I wanted in terms of pure 1979 warships - but have you seen the price of 1/1200 and 1/1250 warship kits? I felt that for a bit of a laugh and an excuse to go Whoop! Whoop! over the kitchen table they would be fine.

Now, Seastrike was fought around a series of islands. Could easily set the naval engagements off the Orkney's, Shetland and Hebrides, but I was also wondering about using Container and Tanker shipping to fulfil the same role within the Channel or Irish Sea?


Cheers
Mark

SITREP: New RH Models

Been a victim of my own success at work. Taken on Business Intelligence and Sharepoint in addition to the online HR Portal. H suddenly became ill too and at one stage we feared for her life, but she's safely in the hands of the medicos and we expect a successful conclusion. All leading to a very quick shift in gears, as you might expect, and wargaming has once again taken a back seat.

Still, managed to grab a day off today for some R&R and to just STOP. May even get back to my Winter of '79 workbench this weekend.

Meanwhile, Rolf at RH Models (Liberation Miniatures) has been beavering away at his usual eclectic release schedule, bringing out several new packs suitable for Winter of '79 and more.

Urban Meltdown;
Urbmeltsqu ; 11 figures , 10 with SLR and 1 with Bren £5.35
UrbmeltsquT; as above in 44 pattern British helmet  £5.35
Urbmeltbren; 2 figures with Bren , 2 NCO's with FN , 1 sniper nya
UrbG3; 9 figures with G3 rifle - use for TW2K West German Home Guard etc NYA

Falklands era Brits 1970's/80's
FalkcomH; 5 figure command pack helmets £2.50
FalkcomA; Command pack in berets - 6 figures. £3.00
FalkcomT; as above 44 pattern helmets £3.00
FalksmgH; 2 figs with stirlings helmets - new/remade £1.00
Falk4; new figs revised as a 4 figure pack £2.00 (GPMGs in helmets)
FalksamT; blowpipe fier in 44 helmet nya
FalkgunT; 4 gun frew in 44 helmets nya
SasFalkrad; 2 radio figs - wool knit cap £1.00
SaSFalkFN: 8 figures with SLR nya
SASFalkMort; 3 man mortar crew nya
SASFalksni; 3 figs with L42 nya

Argentine
ArgSqucc; 10 figures in parka with FN Rifle in canvas covered helmet £4.80

Miscellaneous
ultpccom; Multipupose command pack in officers peaked cap - 6 figs £3.00

Rolf will be at Warfare in Reading on the 17/18th November. If you are going, pop along and say Hi from me. I'm particularly looking forward to the SAS with SLR (SaSFalkFN) and civvies with G3 (UrbG3) becoming available and those SAS signallers (SaSFalkrad) plus civvies in '44 helmet with SLRs are definitely on the shopping list.

Over the past while, I've been buying my RH Models via Pumpkin Models on eBay and thoroughly recommend him as an eBay trader.

Feels good getting back to the blog!

Cheers
Mark

Shut It!! Style figures.

There is an interesting discussion going on over at the Guild. Talk of some new figures that might interest us in 79 land.

http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=314&t=25375&p=276741#p276741


Mike

Panic In Detroit Towers

Breaking news on all Cit-Vid channels................

The exclusive Wealth-Hab-Zone of Detroit Tower was the scene of carnage today as an armed jailbreaking mob of vicious convicted crim-perps shot their way out of the Crim Zone of Penal One.

The Crims storm across the bridge and head for the security gate

The Security booth is taken by "Smiling Al", the crim leader 

Armed with illegal zap pistols the mob overwhelmed the PSC guards manning the security booth and powered down the nano fence. The guards fought hard and numbers of the crims were shot off the bridge from the max sec perp pen. A thin line of PSC troopers was simply overun by a knife and pistol toting gang of liberty hungry thugs, followed up by hardened gangers with armed with burp guns

The crims flood into Detroit Towers

As the PSC caved in, the gangers flooded into the Hab Towers, innocent citizens fleeing by turbo lift and skimmer, carrying what they could. A few hardy citizens joined the remants of the PSC and tried to hold the streets but were shot down by the murderous crims.

Citizens flee as the last few PSC troopers hold off the crazed crims

Meta City is in a state of panic as military gyro copters loaded with Security Consultants are being lifted in to make an assault on Detroit Towers. Reports of vid delivery men being shot by nervous citizens have been denied by the Mayors Office.

Mayor Brumby of the majority Popular Liberal City for the People Party has promised a full investigation and a review of sentencing policy, "this can't happen again," he said on vid link from his apartment on Hab-Sybarite-2.

NEXT! GANG fights MERCS asTHE CITY strikes BACK!!

Thrill overload WARNING!!

Figs - GZG (perps painted by Major Mike), terrain, SWM minis map, rules W79 "Kill-o-Zap" back of a postcard. Inspiration, Dredd3D, 2000AD case files vol1. Inbound: 15mm.co.uk Law Officers plus bikes. Apologies its 2079 not 1979.

Cheers!
Maff