WELSH COUP IN HAY ON WYE!

Just as the eyes of the world focus on SHOBDON in anticipation of the Spring Big Game 2019, news reaches us of a coup d'etat in HAY ON WYE !

Hay on Wye Strategic Map.

His Majesty's Government have held HAY ON WYE without substantial challenge since the early part of the Herefordshire VBCW. Originally occupied by a substantial garrison (albeit without an identified Royalist/BUF commander or any substantial organisation), the demands of campaigning elsewhere and the Government disaster at the siege lines of Kington (Autumn 2017 Big Game) both contributed to a drastic reduction in garrison strength.

While details are still sketchy, it is reported that the small remaining garrison downed arms and fled in terror before a screaming horde of rabid Welsh Nationalists lead by a certain "Kenny Gwain" and his "Abergavenny Sheep Rustlers", who wasted no time in raising the Welsh standard:

The instantly recognisable features of the "conqueror of Hay", Kenneth Gawin, Esq.

What does this development mean for the Herefordshire VBCW? The loss of HAY ON WYE is undoubtedly an early blow for Major (CRO) Everard, the newly appointed Government C-in-C. With the historic advances of the Anglicans from Ross on Wye towards Hereford and the recent triumph of Sir Gilbert Hill at the Battle of Winforton Pontoons, this embarrassing loss of Hay on Wye renders it doubtful whether the Government now have any formed troops south of the River Wye.

But it is not only Major Everard who will have to contemplate a response. Sir Gilbert Hill, if not still "confined to quarters" at Kentchurch Court, must now worry about the security of "his" Golden Valley, particularly the Golden Valley Railway:

Were Gwain and his Abergavenny Sheep Rustlers now to advance south east from HAY, Sir Gilbert and his famous Golden Valley Invincibles (now on the north side of the River WYE, having of course crossed by pontoon) might have to make a strategic re-assessment and retrenchment. As it is, however, the latest aerial reconnaissance reports suggest that Gwain is in fact moving north, along the Welsh border, no doubt to effect a conjunction with the Communist forces of Comrade Professor Winters for the purposes of his attack on SHOBDON.....