In preparation for the much-anticipated DevLAM '18, I am preparing a Dad's Army type game set in my home village of Much-Piddling. The scenario is somewhat insane, too involved and impossible to play, so I'm definitely going to run it! We shall probably use
Bolt Action rules with the
Unternehmen Seelöwe supplement.
Here is a rough draft of the scenario which will evolve over the coming months:
Dad's Army Game (|A Working Title), Version 1.0 - DevLAM '18
Die Luftwaffe
I see John
as Staffelkapitän Peter Wilhelm Stahl (2nd from right), Iron Cross
First and Second Class, German Cross in Gold of the highly secret and elite Kampfgeschwader
200. Stahl heads a detachment within KG200 responsible for flying large
aircraft (including captured allied planes) on special long-range flights under
difficult navigational conditions. As there will be minimal Luftwaffe figures
in the game, John will also command the Nazi fifth column in Devon (obviously
there will be German agents dressed as Nuns, maybe even a pram or two?) and
maybe a Fallschirmjäger unit.
Der Kriegsmarine
Doug of
course is Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien,
Iron Cross First and Second Class, U-boat War Badge with Diamonds and Knight's Cross
of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Prien is in command of the new type
VIIB Unterseeboot, U-47.
Home Guard, Royal Navy, Women's Land Army, Much-Piddling Women's Institute etc.
I see myself
as the bumbling and incompetent Captain Bertram Wilberforce Snapcase, 10th
Earl of Snapcase. Snapcase is in charge of the local home guard only by virtue
of his position in the county. At the time of the incident, he will be the
senior office present in the vicinity! Oh Lord!
Scenario
It is 1940
and the Battle of Britain is underway. Two female SOE agents have stolen the OKW
plans for Unternehmen Seelöwe
and, impersonating Abwehr agents are about to be dropped into England by
parachute from Stahl’s plane. Stahl believes they are on a secret mission for
the Abwehr in England. Hanna Reitsch
is flying as Stahl’s co-pilot. The plane also contains secret early German
radar equipment for testing, codenamed Hohentwiel. The agents decide on
a risky strategy of setting the plane alight after crossing the English Channel,
in order to force the plane to land in England. They can then deliver the
plans, capture Stahl and hand the radar equipment over to the RAF for
examination.
Stahl manages to transmit a May Day call giving his location as near
Much-Piddling, Devon before crash-landing the plane. Fearing the secret radar
equipment may fall into enemy hands, the Germans mobilise all resources to
either recapture or destroy it. U-47 (the nearest German force) is patrolling
the Atlantic and is tasked by the Kriegsmarine to land a force of sailors near
Barnstaple to retrieve the Luftwaffe crew, the secret plans and the radar
itself. Meanwhile, agents of the Abwehr in Devon have been alerted to the
plight of the downed airmen and the fact that SOE agents have the secret plans.
To avoid being shot by the Luftwaffe crew, the SOE girls are currently with the
plane crew who think they are protecting them. The agents will make a run for
it if they think the circumstances are right.
Objectives
OKW Secret plans
Radar equipment
Possible capture/kidnap of important characters
Forces
Doug –
U-Boat crew
John – Plane
crew, fifth column (possibly small unit of Fallschirmjäger delivered by glider, Otto Skorzeny?)
Martin - Home Guard, Royal Navy, Women’s Land Army, Much-Piddling WI
Notable Characters Who May Be Present!
HRH Princess Elizabeth
Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark
Winston Churchill
Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup
Recommended Watching
Went the
Day Well?
The Eagle Has
Landed
Cottage to
Let
