VBCW SPRING BIG GAME 2020 - ASSAULT ON NEWQUAY!

The VBCW Spring Big Game 2020 ("Assault on Newquay") will take place on Saturday, 21st March 2020, 10am - 5pm, at the Burley Gate Village Hall, Herefordshire.

The Scenario

An amphibious raid by the "Bristol Fleet" on the sleepy port of Newquay (and potentially its satellite, Aberaron), the Welsh entrepot for Sir Gilbert Hill's smuggling supply lines, all the way from the Cardiganshire beaches to Pontrilas and Abbeydore in Herefordshire. If only Lord Mountbatten had consulted the memoirs of Admiral Mortimer Silverflint R.N., Dieppe 1942 might not have been such a disaster after all.....

Additional scenario information and rules (e.g. naval bombardment, "Shoddy" tanks, aerial bombing etc., etc.) will follow in a separate blogpost. For now, however, please note:

(1). the Annual Modelling Challenge 2020 is live! See full details HERE. "Assault on Newquay" will feature a lot of Government "Shoddy" tanks disembarking from LSTs, plus a lot of Government air power. There's still time before the Spring Big Game to produce your entry for the "Anti Everything" challenge - and, whether you do or not, please remember to claim your free cheep, cheep semi scale VBCW aircraft from the Umpires at the Big Game itself!

(2). speaking of which, this Big Game's Umpires Award returns us to the field of "genuine 1937 relics" - nothing less than the "Coronation Cup" itself. It's real, its genuine, and it's a VBCW Cup that one lucky, lucky player is destined to take home!

The Practicalities

For those who have not previously attended a Hereford 1938 "Big Game", the Burley Gate Village Hall is located on the A465 between Burley Gate Roundabout and the village of Stoke Lacy. The Village Hall is adjacent to the Burley Gate Primary School. Full information and a helpful PDF may may be found here. 

The cost for the day is the "new charge" of £20, payable on the BIG DAY itself. As explained before the Autumn Big Game 2019, unfortunately the Hall's day hire rate has recently been sharply increased, and we can therefore no longer maintain the previous charge of £10 (fixed since 2012!).

In addition to a crisp £20 note, please remember to bring:

(a). your lunch. We provide coffee, tea and biscuits. If you want something more substantial during the course of the day, pack it with your troops! (Usually, the adjacent Burley Gate Community Shop is open on a Saturday morning, so any emergency food needs can be met).

(b). your troops. Goes without saying, really. Your troops as notified to the Umpires by way of your emailed Platoon Roster.

(c). your camera. If you intend taking pictures of the inevitable triumph of your troops, and the destruction of the enemy. The Umpires really like photographs of the action to illustrate the After Action Report.

(d). your paraphenalia. Dice, rules, measuring tapes, scatter terrain - all the "small stuff" that you usually use. The Umpires are always grateful for telephone poles, road signs, hedges, gates, bushes, sandbag emplacements etc. etc. - any small items of VBCW scenery that add to the overall effect.