The Case of the Non Disappearing Plot Points.

 Dateline 10th April 198odd.

 Place Dunsapie Town(not far from the Garvald Film Studios)

Junkers W34 forerunner of Tante Ju.

More groovy planes.

Downtown Dunsapie.

Dunsapie Docklands.

             Oot tae sunny Garvald for a rip roaring delve into the realms of 7TV involving British Bobbies,Hispanic gangs,Blade Runner participants and our heroine Gertrude Agnes Winklepicker last seen flying a Gloster Meteor out of the renegade state of Graustark.Once again welcome to the world of El Presidente.

Waiting on a ride.

That film is showing everywhere.

Things to come.

The source of my investigation.

     On arrival I found the table had been set up to the usual high standards of El Presidente with a town supplemented by a harbour and the landing spot for a seaplane that El Presidente had picked up and was itching to get into a game.It was to provide one of the plot points with which  Oor Andrew had to find.Also set up was the gang’s compound from which he was to venture out and purloin some goodies.Oor Andrew was given charge of a Hispanic gang which was to provide backup for his nefarious schemes and these  were to support the actions of their leader who came in the guise of a Samuel L Jackson lookalike.My force for good consisted of the aforementioned Gertrude Agnes Winklepicker backed up by the local forces of law and order complemented by another relation of Dorcas Knight,Starry Knight who proved to be worse than useless.At least she drove the police car and its inhabitants to their ultimate demise.Lurking amongst both of our groups were individuals from Blade Runner.My two were Roy and Zhora who we are led to believe witnessed a raid on a local garage.Oor Andrew’s two misfits were actually categorised as hostages and they came in the form of Pris and Leon.El Presidente had come up with a side story of all four of the miscreants become targets of the Tyrell Corporation and runners backed up by Rachel hunting them down.

The sicarios hideout.

More downtown pre action.

Not a lot doing.

Waiting on the price to rise.

     The game kicked off in the usual way with everybody jumping into their cars and heading for their objectives.Gertrude Agnes Winklepicker had said a sad farewell to her previous companion who went by the name of Jim.His replacement came in the form of Dougie who came with a terrifying snarl but little else as we found out to our dismay.My inhabited police car headed rapidly towards the garage with Starry Knight driving and Sergeant Pearly White hanging on for grim death as the car hurtled towards its destiny and a lot of bullets in the process.Gertrude tried her hardest to keep up with the police car but the drawing of a countdown card meant that Getrudes’s motor bike had stalled and she couldn’t move for a turn.

Horsing about.

Another short of the Dunsapie airport.

The forces of good and evil meet.

The heroines and heroes answer the call.

     Starry Knight  had arrived at the side of the garage just in time to be met with a hail of bullets from the bad guys.The majority of the bad guys were being driven in a large black Citroen DS straight out of Day of the Jackal and wasted no time in blasting away at my white Ford Granada.Andrew’s driver nicknamed the Chuffer produced a machine gun and proceeded to spray and aerate my newly valeted car doing away with poor Starry in the process as well as the two members of the public who had reported the disturbance at the garage who just happened to be Roy and Zhora.Sergeant Pearly was not amused and proceeded to shoot back but to no avail.

Bullets and horses**t a flying.

Dougie lurches in.

Here comes the Tyrell Investigative Corporation arrive.

This would have been Mr Ray’s gang if he hadn’t been away on a comeback tour.

      My other three members of the local constabulary had changed tack and instead of following the Granada headed towards the sound of the over revving Peugeot which was in the process of taking Samuel towards his first objective but on seeing the Peugeot reversing back towards the ensuing fracas decided again to change tack and head towards their beleaguered colleagues.It was during this exchange of gunfire a wild accusation was thrown in my direction about how I still had a lot of plot points remaining in my pool and since I wasn’t allowed to debate the point using arm wrestling I duly informed the opposition that I had used my plot points rather candidly but the sounds of derision still echoed round the room.

Dougie is still hanging on but not for long.

  Amidst all this accusation hoohaa Sergeant Pearl had replied with her revolver and scored an immediate hit on one of the sicarios sending him spinning into oblivion.This sound of gunfire and the doing away of a further two replicants who were actually hostages brought the attention of three of the remaining Tyrell Investigative Corporation who proceeded to head for Oor Andrew’s sicarios doing away with one in the process.After this deed was done they just melted into the background their part in the game over.

Bing warbles a song.

     My three remaining very special constables emerged from the side street and headed for the cover of the bullet riddled Granada.This drew them to the attention of the Samuel L Jackson lookalike and the newly arrived Foxy Loxy.Eventually joining  the fracas Gertrude sent the snarling Dougie into biting range of the Chuffer meaning she was pinned.Dougie seemed up to the task even although the evil opposition had already dealt him a wound.Wait till the Garvald S.P.C.A.get to hear about this especially as Oor Andrew is a dog owner! The Chuffer was joined in the fight by another sicario and both of them combined to do away with poor Dougie.Looks like another trip to the Cat and Dog home for Gertrude.

Gertrude hides behind the Land Rover.

       Sergeant Pearl finally gave up the ghost and went down to another cowardly sicario shot.Since Chuffer had been released from Dougie’s snarling fangs she meted out revenge courtesy of her machine gun and done away with two of my constables and inflicting a couple of wounds on poor Gertrude.Due to the vagaries of the game my lot had to perform which was basically a bottle test which they failed and Gertrude was last seen heading towards Seafield Cat and Dog home to replace Dougie.She would probably be better buying a second hand tiger.

And is finally seen heading for the Cat and Dog home.

      Once again another great game played out to the usual cat calling and accusations.All figs,scenery and scenario provided from the vault of El Presidente’s mansion.We’re still a bit underwhelmed by the new rules and we usually refer to the earlier rules for clarifications especially this time concerning more than two characters being involved in fisticuffs.

       See You All When I See You and hopefully with some solo games to bolster up my silly game playing.

      This has been a Garvald Film Studios Production.

The Unenthusiastic Skulker.

 Date-28th February 192ish.

Place-Garvald’s Twin Town in the Back of Beyond.

             

Artsakh-Garvald’s Twin Town.

                The first game of the year saw us return to the deserts and backwaters of Artsakh which to some I would imagine would qualify it as Garvald’s twin town.Tonight’s game was to be the last rule tester before a few of the Gothenburg Gamers headed out to Scotland’s backwater of Kirriemuir to do battles with the League of Gentlemen Wargamers in their biannual get together.

Garvald’s Twin Town 

A Picture Postcard view of the local market.

                Four ne’er-do-wells and myself gathered to play out these final run throughs with all the amendments and rule simplifications .Basic forces had been set up and we were ready for the off but we had to delay kickoff as we were waiting on the Mad Baron of North Berwick to arrive.After his grand entrance we got down to the nitty gritty with each unit facing another.Due to a late call of Donald and I were left in charge of three units so I let him have some extra cavalry and an armoured car to help him cut swathes through the Mad Baron’s forces and his partner in crime Comrade Gilchristi.What was I thinking off? I expected to be able to concentrate on removing El Presidente’s Chinese rabble from the playing field and bask in my glory but that wasn’t to be the case. I systematically took the Chinese apart but on glancing to my left found that the chief Skulker’s forces were diminishing with a lot of dead horses lying about and an armoured car that was needing a visit from the local AA.

Donald’s forces given some support.

My Brits about to bestow the British way of life on some Oriental heathens.

         After our usual visit to the local hostelry in Garvald we got down to fighting to the bitter end.In Donald’s case that didn’t last long. I duly got down to business of eradicating the enemy with a combination of cannon fire and a stiff upper lip clearing the Chinese infantry from the field and thoroughly dismantling the enemy’s armour.The Russian allies that I had appropriated were found to be under enthusiastic in moving forward to take the village but eventually one of the units finally arrived at the railway station but found themselves in opposition with their fellow countrymen albeit in the form of Redskis courtesy of Comrade Gilchristi but alas his infantry didn’t want to occupy it as enthusiastically as myself.My lads duly entered the station bought some railway tickets and proceeded to fire at the Comrades’s lads with some good old lead shot.

Corned Beef on the hoof.

Comrade Gilchristi’s infantry looking to see if they have enough money to buy some train tickets.

My Russian conscripts seemed to have lost their way to the village.

         On the other side of the pitch Chief Skulker was not making as much headway as myself and as previously stated was finding his part of the battlefield littered with equine corpses as he struggled to deal with the cavalry onslaught from the Mad Baron and his erstwhile ally as first his lesser cavalry were coming up trumps against Donald’s supposedly better cavalry and as for his armoured car it was coming up second best against what looked like a lorry with some scrap metal on it.

Donald’s Armour looking as proud as a Peacock-For Now!

The Mad Baron’s hastily put together armour.

And his “inferior”cavalry.

        I must have been distracted with events going on in my flank as I lost track of my own advances and found that El Presidente was beginning to cause a few casualties amongst my lads culminating in the destruction of my armoured car.To rub salt into my wounds Comrade Gilchristi had sneaked a machine gun team into an adjoining building to the railway station and was taking aim on my ensconced infantry picking them off and forcing them to vacate the premises and then proceeding to shoot them in their retreating back and that was their fellow countrymen.Their remaining colleagues on seeing this decided to head for cover in the other buildings.Donald was still playing to form as he was whittled down to a squad of Japanese sailors (what they were doing in the middle of a desert I don’t know).They took cover in the village but the vicious two way assault was too much for them and they eventually dissolved into a mass of sushi.

           

The “better cavalry “getting the s**t kicked out of them by the “lesser”cavalry.

Comrade Gilchristi’s sneaky machine gun.

Japanese sailors passing their useless armoured car whilst heading for the local Premier Inn.

        With the destruction of our left flank and the wrath of the Mad Baron and the Comrade’s coalition about to descend on me the full time whistle was blown .My only bit of luck in the evening.

Comrade Gilchristi’s infantry coming to the market to buy some apples.

Whilst the Mad Baron’s forces devour the rest of the village.

And the suburbs.

      An interesting game played in order to check out the final draft of the rules.An ok set of rules based on Men Who Would Be Kings with a few added rules (and bad spelling).Hopefully they will go down well on the day.All figs and scenario came courtesy of The Three Stooges-El Presidente,Cheif Skulker and Comrade Gilchristi.

The Mad Baron/Comrade Gilchristi’s coalition forces basking in their victory.

       See You All When I See You.

     This has been a Garvald Film Studios Production.