Wednesday 19 February 2014

Mae pont yn rhybyell: 1979

Just a taster of tonight's Winter of '79 bash. This was a ding dong match between Emergency Government forces and Welsh Territorials, stiffened by a small Royal Marine cadre.

 Terriers redeploy to meet unexpected threat from rear

More Territorials hold their own
Yes, that's a Bellona Bridge

Close up of a Monmouthshire Territorial
painted for me by Jim Brent


Have to say that tonight's game was everything I wanted from Winter of '79 and I know Maff would say the same. Part-time TA soldiers take on Paras, bolstered by armoured recce elements. Despite and unashamedly 1970's Airfix feel to it all, we had great fun as the actioned see-sawed along over one and a half hours to an epic finish.

Was it a "Bridge Too Far" for Maff? More on Friday once I get a chance to write up the AAR.

Cheers
Mark

10 comments:

  1. Brilliant! Sounds like great fun for all, which is the whole point of it!

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    1. A simple game on the face of it, but it delivered!

      Cheers
      Mark

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  2. Great to see that your getting into the winter of 79 games again.

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    1. Thank you, thank you thank you!

      Cheers
      Mark

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  3. I like to see the old Bellona stuff on the tabletops.How long you have it?

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    1. Tell you a secret. I was looking in a long forgotton box just before the game and came across the Bellona bridge, a very sorry Bellona Nissen Hut, the separate buildings from La Haye Sainte and a heap of other things I played with back in the seventies.

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      Mark

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  4. This was an epic of a game; I won't preempt the AAR but it rattled along with both of us seeing a win only for the other to snatch it back. It didn't bog down in a firefight - though there were firefights galore. I think with our SAGGERS version of SWATTERS Mark and I have a set of rules that does exactly what we want. At the end we agreed that the rules could easily carry NATO vs WARPACTsomewhere in Germany.....

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    1. It was like a great England v Wales rugby match. I think we should call our house variant SLOGGERS rather than SAGGERS Maff.

      Cheers
      Mark

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