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  1. Stephen WhiteJune 4, 2018 at 4:33 AM

    We had our version of Little Wars yesterday.

    Mike Fly Gołdyn (and Cameron Dickson) created a game based on the movie "The Wild Geese". For this we used Wars of Insurgency rules with a few homegrown modifications - mostly to the Officer and NCO Wild Geese, to make them more 'survivable/invincible'.

    We played 2 games, over the course of the day.
    As it was a mostly public participation styled game, we needed members of the gaming public ..... to participate.

    Due to a variety of time constraint factors, most beyond our control, the actual game had not been run since its conception.
    Therefore, game 1 turned into the real, playtest game, with the 'public participants' being provided by the helpers.

    Game 1 was short, sharp and bloody!
    The Wild Geese were decimated, almost at every stage. The Simbas did most of the damage "down by the river".

    Game 2 had some REAL public participants.
    This time the Wild Geese made it past the river, through Kimbali, the abandoned village and onto the airstrip.
    Along the way, Alan Faulkner (the Wild Geese leader) was killed.
    It all came down to who could get on the Dakota and away.

    As you would expect, the Simbas through everything they could at the Wild Geese and there were many casualties on both sides - much frantic dice rolling!!

    At the end of the game A number of the Wild Geese, President Limbani (totally uninjured!) and a couple of village women (don't ask??) were on the plane as it flew out.

    Game over, victory to the Wild Geese.

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