EUREKA MINIATURES HOME GUARD

Following this post on the latest French Resistance figures usable for VBCW, hard on their heels comes the new Eureka Miniatures "Home Guard/Ex Diggers" (100 Club) range, which again has some very useful VBCW possibilities. Some close up photos, straight out of the packet:

WWT080 - Home Guard with Rifles

WWT081 Home Guard Lewis LMG and Loader

WWT085 Home Guard Officer

WWT082 - Vickers MMG and Crew

WWT083 - Home Guard with Beer Bottle Bombs

Brilliant stuff, particularly the beer bottle bombers! For the purposes of the "Went the Day Well" VBCW rules, you'd have to find an additional figure for the rifle armed infantry, plus an additional figure for the Vickers MMG (heavy weapons having a crew of 3), but otherwise you have a ready made infantry section of ten, including the LMG and officer (best suited to Local Defence Volunteers in the VBCW?) with heavy weapon support and a serious(?) anti-tank capability. The extra figures shouldn't be a burden, as the Eureka figures are a standard sized 28mm and should fit in with most other VBCW ranges.

Now, the eagle-eyed will have noticed that one code has been missed out above, namely "WWT084". Eureka list this code as "Home Guard in Hessian Sack Ghillie Suits", but Hereford VBCW gamers will instantly recognise them as particularly well-trained "Mommets":

WWT084 - Ghillie Suits or Herefordshire Mommets?

The Twiggy Mommet movement is Herefordshire's unique contribution to the VBCW, invented by JP right at the beginning of the VBCW campaign. A collection of independent rural protestors, usually armed with forks, scythes and the occasional musket or rifle, they are wont to intervene in events when they consider that the "people's rights" are being trampled upon, or some authority has committed some particularly egregious injustice. That said, they do move in mysterious ways, disguising their identities with sack hoods and marking their "territory" with - or giving warnings by means of - scarecrows or (of late) rabbit icons.

The origins of the Twiggy Mommet movement can be found on JP's original blog HERE

Amongst other things, the Mommets have used their rural skills to become particularly adept at sapping and mining (it may be that some of the Twiggy Mommet movement are "free miners" from the Forest of Dean) - these "Mommet Molemen" and their tunnels played a significant (if unseen) part in the County Golf Cup (Spring 2017 Big Game). It may now be that they are willing to deploy specially equipped Mommets as snipers......don't get close to a rabbit icon!

[Note] Eureka Miniatures Home Guard/Ex Digger range don't yet appear on either the parent Eureka Miniatures site, nor the Eureka Miniatures UK site. However, a quick email to the very helpful Nick Simmerson at the Eureka Miniatures UK website will produce results....please mention that Hereford1938 VBCW sent you along!