I’ve decided not to follow a formal campaign structure for my forthcoming strike project but will instead run games taken from scenarios in Neil Thomas’ One Hour Wargames book. The first faction (Government or Strikers) to win 3 consecutive games will be deemed to have won the whole campaign.
The factions will start with the initial force pools listed below from which six units must be selected to become their at start order of battle. New units may be drawn from the force pools to replace losses between games, but the winner of a game will also be able to draw down any one unit from the independent / unaligned forces to add to their own.
Strikers Forces
Armoured carrier & 6pdr gun
FT17 tank
Austin armoured car
Lanchester armoured car
2 x civilian busses
1 x command group
1 x mortar
1 x Vickers HMG
2 x Factory defence militia
3 x Workers Defence Force infantry
1 x 4.5 inch howitzer
Indépendant Forces
Whippet tank
Civilian lorry
Traction engine
Seabrook armoured lorry
Thornycroft AA truck
Model T flat bed
Motorbike & sidecar
1 x Cavalry
2 x Police (K division)
2 x Naval shore party
2 x Scottish infantry
HM Gov Forces
Tank MKV
Tank MK II
Birch gun
Fascist Earnhardt armoured car - “Carlotta”
Rolls Royce armoured car
2 x Military trucks
Staff car
1 x command group
1 x mortar
1 x Vickers HMG
1 x Fascist infantry
2 x OMS militia
3 x Regular Army infantry
1 x 4.5 inch howitzer
The units pictured below are included in the lists above and are the last ones required for this project. I’ve a few cardboard buildings to make up and some resin bits and bobs to paint but I expect the next post to be a battle report.
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| Model T flatbed for the workers defence force command group and a staff car for the officers of the regular army. |
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| A Rolls Royce armoured car of Major General George Lindsay’s experimental mobile force. |
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| A Lanchester armoured car, less glamorous than the Rolls but equally capable. This one was being refurbished at a Birmingham company for onward sale to China when it was seized by the Factory’s Defence Militia. |
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| Part of a shipment to Russia this Austin armoured car was liberated by a Liverpool dockers collective and quickly pressed into service. |
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| A traction engined road roller…because…erm…it’s cute? I suppose it’d make a decent road block or artillery tractor. |