Saturday, 9 November 2013

The end of President Fred? part 2 - enter the hippo....

An overview of the field of battle.  All toys and terrain from my own collection - except for Martin's splendid home-made hills.
The 'airport' - the plush terminal building can be seen behind the fuel tanker.  The Mitsubishi van in the foreground belongs to the TV crew.
To add to the fun and offer more opportunity for atrocities I brought along a train, a village and a school bus!
Turn 1 - the P.O.O.F.S. successfully argued that the time they had spent training would allow a +1 on their firing.  They soon set off for the airport with the intention of their victorious uprising being filmed and transmitted in the west.  Sadly it was knocked off the BBC news schedule by an amusing story about a gerbil in Doncaster...
Fred's armoured column was soon on the move.
Mr Mellie and his cameraman at the airport.
Turn 2 - A successful argument (from Captain D'eath) specified that the amorous but short sighted hippo would get er, friendly with the lead armoured car.  Here can be seen the hippo, the Saladin being f****d and the dice which led to the success of the argument.  As can be imagined, this had the effect of halting Fred's movements for a while!
The P.O.O.F.S. were accompanied by a couple of 'technicals'.  This one, an old Matchbox Morris is equipped with two MGs and crew by Peter Pig.
Spurned by the Saladin, the hippo moved on to the President's personal Saracen.  Whatever next?
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11 comments:

  1. Don M9 November 2013 at 17:54

    So Fred has been Hippo humped?

    Say it isn't so! lol

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  2. Archduke Piccolo9 November 2013 at 21:23

    Cripes, that hippopotamus enjoys his oggins, doesn't he just? Obviously rooting (not to put too fine a point on it) for ... someone ...

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  3. Geordie an Exiled FoG10 November 2013 at 00:01

    Should that be "Dry Hippo Humped"

    I think the Hippo has met its match with that Sherman and its 75mm next up ;)

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  4. Paul Foster10 November 2013 at 00:57

    Outstanding fog of war here Tim.

    Full marks to the Hippo!

    Her I was thinking that a South African armoured vehicle was about to enter the fray.

    Perhaps I was not so wrong!

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  5. Al10 November 2013 at 06:30

    Great mix of kit Tim

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  6. Tim Gow10 November 2013 at 18:11

    Don M
    It was a very traumatic experience for both Fred and the hippo!

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  7. Tim Gow10 November 2013 at 18:12

    Archduke Piccolo
    Wargaming, modelling and now wildlife documentary. It's all here!

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  8. Tim Gow10 November 2013 at 18:12

    Geordie
    You think? Stay tuned.....

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  9. Tim Gow10 November 2013 at 18:13

    Paul Foster
    I'm sure you weren't the only one to reach the wrong AFV related conclusion....

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  10. Tim Gow10 November 2013 at 18:14

    Al
    Plastic and metal kits, dodgy old die-casts and some toy animals!

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  11. Col11 November 2013 at 07:49

    That's so funny! You need a bumper sticker..."If this armoured car's a'rockin, don't come a knockin"

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