SPRING BIG GAME 2022 - LAST TRAIN FROM LEOMINSTER (PART THREE)

To the west of Leominster, deep throated Communist "huzzahs!". For this "titanic battle against the forces of reaction", Comrade Colonel Professor Winters has re-taken personal field command. On this occasion, however, his men needed no "ideological encouragement" from Winters - for everyone knew that their main objective was the Leominster brewery, and the prospect of loot was too delicious:

On the right flank of the west table, Leominster Brewery

On the roof of Leominster Brewery, BUF Observers and Signallers

Within and to the rear of the Brewery, a strong garrison of veteran Blackshorts
commanded by Eustace Spode, nephew of the 7th Earl of Sidcup, Roderick Spode.

Staff Captain Maynard, North West Regional Commander of His Majesty's Forces and veteran opponent of Comrade Winters, anchored his defence line on the Leominster Brewery. To its left, he had lined up his own forces - the Wulfhere BUF, the Spanish Blue Division, the Hereford Auxiliary Reserve Division ("HARD") - to cover both Leominster itself and the lengthy approach road to the Brewery. With their notorious fondness for creating immense traffic jams, he was counting on Winters using the old Communist tactic of "driving all the armour down the approach road" to save his thinly stretched defenders.....

The Brewery Approach Road to the left, with Maynard's forces lining the hedge.

Out numbered and out gunned, Maynard makes frugal use of his available armour and AT resources

The Wulfhere BUF have had time to dig in and camouflage themselves...

Maynard's tactical gamble has worked. At the top left, a newly trained Communist brigade
of T-26 tanks begin their anticipated "long march" along the Brewery Approach Road.

Maynard's men lying in wait as the Communist tanks advance.
Note the first signs - even from the other side of Leominster -
of the malign effects of the "Shoddy Cult" -
a plague of cards infests the table.

ON TO PART FOUR...