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Yep, that’s the little blighter… must have been dreaming about a gun crew with it!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
My dear General, thanks for your help, that poncy looking chap will do perfectly! I’m no big fan of the Frenchies and the Occifer will be taking part (hopefully as a mark for Daniel Hagman!) in our Fistful of Lead Harpe and Sharper games… so, long as he looks a gaudy ploomed nobber, job’s a good ‘un!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Oh, thanks for that… the thick plottens!
Kind of… Peninsula 1808.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Thanks for that chaps, might give ’em a whirl and see wot’s wot.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Impartiality is mi’ middle name!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
This’ll put the wind up Ivan’s T8Os, Jerry’s turned up to the party!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
The souvenir ticket came from Major Dennis Munford R.A. He fought at the bridge with Johnny Frost’s lads, directing gunfire from the firing line in Oosterbeek, one of the few radio links that worked! I also have the R.A. cap badge the Major wore at Arnhem Bridge.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
When you’re lerning to be a proper artist type drawing person you’re told to sharpen yer pencil with a Stanley knife then use a nail file to bring them to a point. I was 15 going on 16 and we were about to draw a nice young lady, I was at the Stanley knife bit of proceedings, when she clothed off. First time I’d seen a proper naked women…
so I sliced the top of mi’ thumb off.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
The figures are by a company called King and Country. The presentation plaques were given to the ‘actors’ at the premier of the film ‘Theirs Is The Glory’.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
For this game the Doctor was about as much use as a chocolate teapot! ‘My’ Doctor was William Hartnell and I’m going to figure out some traits for him… great galactic brayn but a bit niggly who doesn’t suffer fools easily!
As for a sequel, now it’s common knowledge that earth’s such a soft touch, Cybermen are getting interested, and of course, the demented pepperpots are squawking about doing for everybody… as usual!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Despite the Brigadier’s optimistic statement a squad of Bonkers drag Mildred the milkmaid from her hiding place in the telephone box, as two of them give cover, the third heads back to the spaceship with the captive…
Sergeant Benton and the lads deploy and a bloody firefight erupts on Two Acre lane…
The two Bonkers are riddled, but U.N.I.T. takes heavy losses Sergeant Benton falls, and there’s only one Tom left standing. But he’s got a sniper rifle and gets the Bonker who’s abducting Mildred in his sights… BANG!!!
He gets Mildred right through the melon, but considering the unspeakables the Bonkers have planned for her every orifice it could be considered a mercy killing, his next shot gets the intended! On the Bonkers left flank they advance across the field, one of them puts an end to the U.N.I.T. sniper’s guilty conscience. As the Bonkers close in on their next victim the Brigadier and Flash leap into action! Flash jumps upon a rain barrel and goes for the Bonker’s squad leader first stunning the alien then ripping out his whistlepipe in a savage attack! The Brigadier Shoots one Bonker with his 12 bore, but is then atomised by a plasma rifle on full auto. The same rifleman then does for Flash, the U.N.I.T radio op and bazooka man… the Doctor runs for cover!
A stunning, but costly, triumph for the Bonker’s who round up two subjects for experimentation and retire to their spaceship…
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
An outing of Galactic Heroes, I presume? PPS You don’t happen to remember who makes that Brigadier figure, do you? I like ‘im.
Yep, ‘Galactic Heroes’ game for Wednesday. The Brigadier comes up regular on fleabay…
Britains Farmer With Shotgun No 2045
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
The Brigadier’s country estate…
The Brigadier and Flash out for a stroll…
A bit of a rum do in Two Acre field!!!
The Doctor and U.N.I.T. arrive…
Sergeant Benton and his lads deploy…
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Thank you, we love playing with those old toys… kind of makes you feel young again!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
All that can be said about the Battle for Hangman’s Hill is that… it’s a good job the Reb’s General got killed, as it saved the Confederacy the trouble of shooting him themselves, for gross dereliction of duty! The Reb battery on Hangman’s Hill potted away at the Yank guns killing half a dozen gunners and destroying one cannon. The Yanks on the other hand scoured the Reb Infantry to their front, decimating two full Regiments…
The Yankee left flank entering the woods and engaging the opposition, who for some reason, just stood there and let the Yanks have the full benefit of the cover from fences lining the road!?
Over on the right flank the Rebs weren’t as dozey and a stiff firefight ensued for the road.
This action was settled by a magnificent bayonet charge by the bluecoated infantry. By the time the Reb second line got up the Yanks were settled in cover and soon put the Rebs to flight with accurate musketry.
Pretty much the same happened on the right, the Yanks new fangled rifles proved devastating agin the muskets of the Rebs…
By mid morning the Confederate Army was broken and streaming back from Hangman’s Hill in utter rout. The Union General dismounted atop the hill and had himself a hearty and well deserved breakfast!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Thank you Sir… for the screen rights!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
As The Bloggon’s electoplasm departed the blaster shredded slimy green body, he used his vile talents for one last dastardly… a burst of physic energy sent the creatures of the swamps of Zooney demented!!!
One of the right flanking Stargard Troopers were trampled and killed before his comrade could bring his blaster rifle to bear!
Both Gladys and Dolores were in a fight for their lives as a giant creature attacked, Stargard Troopers fell thick and fast, their enhanced armour no match for a berserk Zonney creature. Even the Stargard ace scout (bloke with the coathanger on his back) was caught and trampled by the heavily armoured horned monster…
The heavily armoured horned monster then turned it’s attention to Glady’s, it charged… Glady’s stepped in front of Dolores and emptied her blaster on full auto. With a planet shattering bellow the heavily armoured horned monster fell dead at her feet!
Several galaxies away, watching on live feed from his Trooper’s helmet cams Field Marshal Trollope laughed…
“I say Gladys good shot, ol’ girl!”
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Takes me back to when my two were little. Teaching them the technique for turning out decent wargame figures is time well spent as it’s always more fun playing with your own little creations.
When I took the lad to Arnhem Bridge he rummaged in his rucksack and out popped the command figures he’d painted for his British Airborne. He took a piccy of his Heroes on the Bridge too Far…
why didn’t I think of that!!!???
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
We’re not finished on Zooney yet… there’s a sting in the tail/tale!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
The Bloggon, incandescent with other worldly rage at this abject failure of his master-plan, leads his remaining minions to the attack!
Point blank blasting drop a couple of the Stargard Troopers, their return fire is devastating both The Bloggon’s minions getting their quietus.
By now the Bloogon’s reckoning his day can’t get any worse, and he’s wrong, it can and does. Glady’s draws a bead on his canister and lets rip on full auto… The Bloogon goes down and out! The stunned Stargard Troopers stagger to their feet, thankful again, for their enhanced body armour. The prison dome is opened and Dolores Trollope is liberated!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
The right flanking Bloggers took full advantage of the wadi, diving in and opening fire. But, Gladys wasn’t a Commander in the Stargard by being a slouch, she bolted forward and dispatched the two aliens with double taps through the melon!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Both sides deploy and advance. The Bloggers try a sneaky flank attack on the Stargard’s Spaceship, but Gladys’s lads are wise to that old chestnut. It’s apparent that the Blogger’s antique weaponry and ‘spray and pray’ blasting is no match for the Stargard’s excellent body armour and even better marksmanship…
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
This dodgy looking bunch have just landed!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
I’m always the baddy in these games, for some reason I had naive hopes for the martial prowess of The Bloggon.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
I think the card deck for ‘Galactic Heroes’ is the best one yet, looks like something from the Eagle in the 60s. Regarding the rules, I’m a big fan. We started with the Wild West and it gave us just what we wanted… Hollywood style mayhem and a pack of cards, just like real Cowboys!
The tickling up a bit of the close combat rules is nice, in the past we were very lary of getting stuck in as they were that decisive. Last but not least, you can play the game/games perfectly with a normal set of playing cards and the printed tokens from the rulebook. But don’t, get the dedicated playing cards and the custom plastic tokens, the game looks much better for it. When we have a multi player game each Hero gets a spent brass .22 rimfire case next to him to record his activation… sad, innit?
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
As the pregnant lady is being dragged, screaming from the awful sight of the massacree, she hears a very, very distant trumpet… it’s the Boy General himself at the head of the Powder River patrol!
Eagle eyed viewers will have noticed another Cheyenne War party has also arrived. May I introduce a Redskin that makes even The Great Lame Tosspot look bright? Here is, Chief Chicken Hawk Squawking…
In a costly oversight him and his Braves have brought knives to a gunfight, two of his blokes get cut down in the charge. This enrages Smelly Moccasin who’s still lurking on the bluffs, two quick shots from him and the odds are even!
Chicken Hawk Squawking clears the creek in a mighty bound and after a protracted fight both him and the Boy General succumb to their wounds…
There’s by now more distant trumpets blaring than a Yorkshire Colliery brass band contest. The rest of the Cavalry patrol show up, as do another band of Dog Soldiers…
The fight eddies and swirls in the dust of the Plains, when it clears there’s one unhorsed Trooper, last man standing. But the Redskins have not been idle. Smelly and his cohorts sneak up and the lone yellowlegs falls to Smelly’s unerring carbeen…
Victory to the Injuns!!!
Smelly Moccasin, of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers!!!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Things aren’t going well for the pilgrims as Smelly’s second shot kills Hank the stage driver, and the Redskins break cover to rush the survivors. Doc Pearson valiantly attempts to protect the pregnant lady, but at 63, he’s no match for a Cheyenne Dog Soldier wielding a tomahawk, him and the guard are quickly massacreed then scalped and pregnant lady made captive!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Tune in next week…. same time… same channel!!!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Thanks chaps, really appreciate that.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Because otherwise I’d still be playing Grant’s ‘Battle’? Or even worse, those ‘ultra-realistic’ horrors that were the vogue in the 80s.
Like you I moved on from Grant and Featherstone to those ‘ultra-realistic’ horrors’ and learned something pretty quick after what passed for my brayn exploded… the KISS Principle.
The KISS Principle has been the only constant in the last half century of playing with toy sowjers. As we’ve got older myself and the rest of the Dynamic Dunderheads only tinker with old skool rules to make ’em even simpler. Factors, charts and computations to produce a thick or brilliant General… who needs ’em. Dream up a magnificent flank attack with the Hussar Brigade, then declare you’re movement phase over, only to have a brayn fart because, in the heat of battle, you forget to move said Hussar Brigade!
KISS made easy thanks to senile dementia!!!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Yep, he shoots down one of his Squadron mates thinking he’s killed him, cracks up and can’t face the next sortie, very bad case of LMF. Then his mate turns up at the ‘drome very much alive…
our Hero then leaps into his Spitty and wins the Battle of Britain single handed!!!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
I always kind of thought the first two Doctors, Eccleston and Tennant had an edge to them when they had to be a war Doctor, properly dark and scary like the show that put my generation behind the settee! There was a line in the first series when the Doctor and Rose are in some nutter’s Alien Tech museum. She looks at a Cyberman’s melon stuck in a glass case and asks the Doctor…
“What’s that?”
He replies…
“The stuff of nightmares!”
For us… it was!
These days the pc brigade have turned the series into a farce… in my ‘umble opinion.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Bovington Tank Museum, Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airfield, Yorkshire Air Museum and East Kirkby Heritage Centre.
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
Do you know who’s planes they were? Are they based on anyone in particular?
Right you shower, gather round and listen!
Spitfire pilots of No.19 Squadron at Manor Farm, Fowlmere. Sergeant Jennings is on the left…
Sgt Bernard J “Jimmy” Jennings of No 19 Squadron in Spitfire Mk I QV-I beats up RAF Fowlmere…
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
