Much-Piddling Home Guard

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 (2^nd 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, 10^th 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

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