"Battlegroup North Pics" Topic

I paid a visit to Yorkshire Air Museum on Saturday, not so much for all the military vehicles on display as to see what wargaming was going on in the main hanger. Here is a link to my blog post with a few pictures.

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nice photos! is this in a museum?

Yes, it's at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington (just a couple of miles from York).

Ours was the "Airfield game" (it's me in the photo taking to a youngster & his dad…

As we said in our covering "spiel"…

The Battle of Britain ran during the Summer & Autumn of 1940 and that is the setting for our game…

At a remote airfield somewhere in Southern England new airplanes for the RAF are being tested & evaluated as are captured German ones. In addition, some light bombers are being converted into fighters to help in the night war against the Luftwaffe, and, to help in the evaluation of early radar, there's even a new advanced radar installation on site… the German High command is aware of this and has decided to launch an airborne assault to not only put the base and installations out of commission, but also set back the development of new fighters for the RAF

You, the public will be playing the dastardly German Fallschirmjäger, whilst we will be taking the part of the plucky Brits.

Can a motley assortment of Dad's Army, the Scouts, a local army detachment recently returned from Dunkirk and Doris the NAFFI lady beat off the best that the Luftwaffe can bring to bear?

Only time, lucky dice roles & us cheating unashamedly will tell!

Hi Fozman

Thanks for that. I have copied your spiel onto the blog entry.

I didn't originally expect to blog about the show, but when it turned out my wife had taken some pictures it seemed a shame not to use them, but of course, I was lacking a lot of additional information.