Turn 4 - Captain D'eath arrived on the scene (his vehicles are the light green pair, centre)...
...and promptly shot the hippo! He also tried to shoot the member of Fred's entourage who was trying to revive the hippo but failed spectacularly.
Turn 5 - While the P.O.O.F.S occupied the town, L.A.D.A advanced, blowing up the lead Saladin.
Turn 6 - More L.A.D.A fire (an argument had given them a +1 on firing for this turn) saw off the second Saladin. Meanwhile a L.A.D.A vehicle (UAZ-469 jeep) dashed forward and ran over a landmine.
At this point and for no good reason I moved the train forward a bit.
An overview of the carnage at half time.
Turn 7 - Fred was reinforced by infantry and this technical (an old VW Transporter with an MG mounted on an elevating platform). 'Helped' by another of Capt. D'eath's arguments, this promptly opened up and shot the buffalo.
One of the P.O.O.F.S's technicals - a Roco VW Transporter with Peter Pig crew.
At the airport Capt. D'eath's assassination team - disguised as P.O.O.F.S (in pink spandex) tried and failed to kill Roger Mellie. They were swiftly mown down by real P.O.O.F.S. Confused? Me too.
Turn 9 - Captain D'eath drives to the airport to 'rescue' Roger Mellie from the midst of a gunfight. RM was successfully enticed to board the Sultana which then roared off towards the Capital.
Fred's infantry (The Purple Helmets - for it is they!) had by now reached a small hill near the jungle.
The UN column reached the airport just after D'eath had driven off.
Turn 10 - Fred argued that his AT weapons had added range due to the direction of the prevailing winds in spring. March - you see?
This killed off the L.A.D.A. PT-76 but soon the T-55s both shot at (and hit) Fred's Saracen - blowing it to (very small) bits.
Endgame.
President Fred was - dead! After over a decade of surviving various assassination attempts and battlefield fire the great Fred - blessed be his name - was gone.
Captain D'eath made it to the Capital and featured in some very positive news footage. He hasn't become the new president. Yet....
The P.O.O.F.S. - Managed to find a few bits of new kit and are well placed to take power (with L.A.D.A. support).
Col. Incognito - Was militarily successful and expects to be able to manipulate the future government of Ph'tang.
Roger Mellie - Got some great footage on prime time TV and took full advantage of Capt. D'eath's well stocked drinks cabinet.
Hertz Van Rental - successfully evacuated the wounded from the airport - but didn't feature in any TV coverage.
We may have seen the last of Fred - but we will return to Ph'tang!
13 comments:
Well it's all for the best as there would have been a Coup d'état after his hippo rectal exam anyway. No self
respecting dictator can survive that sort of dressing down or, at the very least his minions will lose fear and respect for him.
Oh, I don't know about that! For all we know in the that ancient and venerable land of Ph'tang, attracting the amour of a hippopotamus may well imply a favour of the gods: becoming the beast's inamorato a very special favour indeed.
I shall not be surprised if a blackened and gently smoking President Fred makes an abrupt and startling reappearance in the capital (Ph'tangburg?), re-establishes control, and puts Captain D'Eath to ... erm ...
Cheers,
Ion
I'm afraid any re-appearance of President Fred will be dealt with swiftly by a Peoples Court.
Don M
Whichever way you look at it, Fred has been well and truly f****d!
Archduke Piccolo
You seem to be very well informed about Ph'tang - will you be in the running for President?
Martin Rapier
Oh, so you think you're in power, do you? We shall see....
Well informed about Ph'tang?? I thought I was merely spreading scurrilous and destabilizing rumours. Of course, the Archduke Piccolo belongs to a different continent and a different century.
Perhaps, however, certain CIA officials in Washington have seen an opportunity to boost the SOB - their SOB - Colonel Idi Utt B*onzo currently lurking in the deep forests masquerading as the head of the crypto-Anarchist Freedom Fighters Against All Governance (F.F.A.A.G) [What does crypto-Anarchist mean? That's the point, really...]. That Henry Kissinger has been expressing enthusiasm for such a project, as forestalling possible Cubic intervention, and as guaranteeing American influence in the sub-Sahara, is, however, giving the U.S.President some pause. Dear old Henry has sponsored some woeful disasters in the past, and got the U.A.S (United American States) into all kinds of international hot water.
Why should the Americans sponsor (covertly of course - plausible deniability and that jazz) such a rabidly left f--- I mean left wing political movement? The answer lies, as dear Henry well knows, in the very nature of the movement: it was ripe for the hijacking.
To the catch cry of the FFAAG: "When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?" Col Idi has this answer (sotto voce for now): "Adam was, Dikked, and guess who's Adam in this outfit?" The time will come when the FFAAG will find this out, snh,snh, snh...
Unless someone shoves something hurtful into his liver before that...
Archduke Piccolo
I was confident that I could rely on you for some ideas! Your 'Cubic' intervention is an interesting concept - with my painting it's more likely to be 'Cubist'....
By the way, I presume, that as this is a family show (yeah, right), that f****d means 'fried' or maybe 'frizzled'... :-)
I am to shocked for words.My stocks in the Ph'tangburg Capital Bank are now worthless.
Splendid post Tim.
Archduke Piccolo
'Finished' of course. How could you think otherwise?
Paul Foster
Ah, I always wondered who had bought into that! Never mind, I can let you have some 1918 shares in the German Army at a good price...
"Oh, so you think you're in power, do you? We shall see...."
Is anyone ever 'in power' in Ph'Tang?
I am sure those heavily armed Cubans will come in handy if anyone causes any trouble though.
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