And the Umpires speak : The issue of how best to simulate a 28mm Fallschirmjager landing (2 full Platoons of troops, together with their Platoon HQs and sundry support weapons) had long vexed even the planet-sized brains of the campaign umpires. Drearily, the Umpires were about to be forced to the conclusion that only the "Featherstone method" would do (standing on chairs, throwing or dropping torn up pieces of tissue paper from a height above the table) when Umpire Roo had a moment of inspiration (nay, genius) - the Elefun Machine!
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| A boxed set of Roo's Patent Fallschirmjager Random Relocation Device. The "coloured butterflys" were coded as against the available troops - infantry sections, support weapons, HQs etc... |
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| ...and then blasted from a happily buzzing Elefun machine onto (or off) the table itself! |
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| The Elefun in action! The machine was relocated at prescribed intervals across the table, travelling from "east" to "west", just as the "Tante Jus" had travelled in the skies above Mortimer's Cross. Farmer Giles (to whom we owe this photograph) contends that the Umpire's "cherubic expressions of child-like wonder" at the Elefun's operation were "something to behold". In fact, it may just have been relief that the machine actually worked... |
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