Yvonne Ryan’s Express

 

As you can see I’m still having fun with AI.

Starring Frank Sinatra as Morris Bagshott, Trevor Howard as Lance Somersby and the gorgeous Raffaella Carrà in an unlikely casting as Barry Crouch the Marxist ironmonger. Shot on location in Droitwich. 

So here we are with mission three of my five mission AVBCW campaign. The scores on the doors so far are the Brompton Local Defence Volunteers 3 and the BUF Government forces 7. 

This next mission sees the Brompton lads on the attack with a mission importance rated as high (meaning they have to lose 4 or more men before conceding the game, while the BUF lads have a moderate mission importance requiring 3 casualties for the loss.

The fluff

Yvonne Ryan is an IRA agent based in Birmingham with a warehouse full of weapons and ammunition that she’s willing to pass on to the Brompton defenders - if they can find a secure way of collecting them. Brompton’s council appointed militia commander, known only as “The Major” is aware that the rail line from Brompton to Birmingham is still open and that a locomotive is currently sitting outside of the Parkside industrial areas engine shed which could be used to secure the IRA shipment. 

Solomon Bernstein, owner of Bernstein’s jewellers (two down from the Gaumont cinema on the high street) and latterly one of several defence league squad leaders, has been tasked with securing said engine - which is easier said than done considering the BUF control the engine shed it sits outside of. To make matters worse Solomon’s sentry’s are reporting that the BUF seem to have designs of their own for the loco and are attempting to raise steam on it.

Special rules

On each BUF turn that they have a man on the engine they’ll roll 1D6. An eventual score of two 6’s indicates the engine is ready to roll and can be removed from the board for an automatic BUF win. They start with a full squad in the engine shed and a full squad in the factory building opposite the phone box.

Solomon has an 8 man squad of Rotary Club Fencibles plus a die decided reinforcement of either a flame thrower team, a Lewis gun team or the towns only armored car (unlucky for some).

Can Solomon secure the locomotive and collect Yvonne Ryan’s ammo before the BUF steal the loco from under his nose?

I guess we’ll find out shortly.

Before I sling my hook here’s a quick “reasons to be cheerful” picture, in case you’re in need of it. 

The long dark is nearly over. Huzzah. 

Toodleooh from la belle France.