tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83962423697987176922024-03-05T20:53:33.452-08:00The Prydonian ChapterThe blog in which I unleash my inner geek and loose myself in the world of Doctor Who and Science Fiction.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-5821879119617886122016-01-09T05:55:00.001-08:002017-01-02T02:00:24.217-08:00Battlefield<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Notes</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Battlefield</span>
is one of my favourate late Who episodes. However whilst its production
values generally were pretty good by the standards of the decade, the sci-fi
elements were poor thanks to an unimaginative BBC props department.
Fortunately this can be rectified on the tabletop.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span><br />
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the English countryside, near the village of Carbury, a nuclear missile
convoy under the command of UNIT's new commander, Brigadier Winifred
Bambera, has run into difficulties. Lying on the bed of the nearby Lake
Vortigern is a spaceship from another dimension containing the body of
King Arthur, supposedly held in suspended animation, and his sword
Excalibur. <br />
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Ancelyn, a knight from the other dimension,
arrives on Earth to aid the King, but is followed by his rival Mordred,
and the latter's mother, a powerful sorceress, named Morgaine. They all
recognise the Doctor as Merlin - a fact that the Time Lord attributes to
events in his own future. <br />
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When Bambera reports the finding of a blue police box, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is
brought out of retirement to assist in the crisis, and stop the
Destroyer - an awesomely powerful creature unshackled by Morgaine - from
devouring the world. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Morgaine</b> - <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Moderately Wicked Witch</i></span></span><br />
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DEF</div>
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Hits</div>
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STR</div>
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AGI</div>
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INT</div>
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Morale</div>
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3</div>
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3</div>
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3</div>
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9</div>
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9</div>
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Weapon</div>
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Range</div>
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Notes</div>
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Magical Attack</div>
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6”</div>
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Special</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Information</span><br />
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Morgaine
is a sorceress from another dimension, where she has been engaged in a
long war with her former lover Arthur, who is aided by a wizard called
Merlin. She is assisted by her son Mordred and although intent on
conquest is, an honourable foe who fights in a chivalrous manner. She
will not steal, will respect truces and ceasefires, will keep her word
and usually avoid using weapons of mass destruction.<br />
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<b>Notable Appearances</b> <span style="font-style: italic;">Battlefield</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Special Abilities</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Luck</span> (1)<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Invulnerable (2)</span> - Morgaine catches bullets in mid flight and deflects swords<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Magical Attack</span>
- Morgaine attacks by matching INT v INT with a target within 6 inches.
If she wins the target looses a Hit. Morgaine may attack more than one
person, with her applied INT being reduced by one for each extra target.
Alternatively Morgaine may inflict a single Hit of damage on any machine
within sight.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Summon Destroyer</span>
- If Morgaine has Excalibur she can use two Activations to summon the
Destroyer. If she then uses two further Activations - she can unchain
him leaving him free to destroy the earth. <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Activate Missiles</span>
- If the Destroyer fails Morgaine will use the Nuclear Missile to start
a nuclear war. This requires her to spend two activations in the
control room and the missiles launch two turns later. The launch can be
stopped by Morgaine or any Hero Faction figure with access to the
controls. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Mordred</span><span style="font-size: large;"> - <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Mummy’s boy</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Information</span><br />
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Mordred
leads his mother’s knights in battle. Although he wears advanced space armour and hi-tech weaponry, he is still
bound by the knightly code of chivalry. He is more ruthless than his
mother.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Special Abilities</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Parry</span>
- Swords get a free saving throw for melee hits equal to the roll ‘to
hit. If successful the figure is not hit, but retreats 2 inches. <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Leader (1)</span><br />
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<b>Notable Appearances </b> <span style="font-style: italic;">Battlefield</span><br />
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MOV</div>
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DEF</div>
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Hits</div>
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STR</div>
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AGI</div>
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INT</div>
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Morale</div>
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5</div>
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2</div>
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4</div>
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3</div>
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Weapon</div>
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Hit</div>
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STR</div>
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Notes</div>
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Sword</div>
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Melee</div>
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Parry</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Destroyer</b></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: large;"> - Does what it says on the tin </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Special
Abilit<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ies</span> </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Invulnerable</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> - The Destroyer can only be
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Devour World</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> - Once summoned and unchained The Destroyer takes six
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">MOV</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">10 Knights</span><span style="font-size: large;"> - <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Dimension shifting swordsmen</i></span></span><br />
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Melee</div>
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3+</div>
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5</div>
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Parry</div>
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Blaster</div>
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12”</div>
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4+</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4</div>
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Pistol</div>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Knight Commander</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As above but Morale 9, Leader (1) and grenades</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Merlin</span><span style="font-size: large;"> - </span><i><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Arthur's Wizard</span> </i><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Special Rules</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">There will be no battle here!</span>
- Because of the respect all sides hold for Merlin the Doctor may force
a temporary truce by force of will. He must match INT v INT with the
target and if he wins the target may take no aggressive action for 2
Activations. Merlin may influence more than one character at once, by
reducing the INT by one for each extra target. Merlin can also use the
same skill to persuade Morgaine not to use the nuclear missiles.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Ace</span><span style="font-size: large;"> - <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Lady in the Lake</i></span></span><br />
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MOV</div>
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DEF</div>
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Hits</div>
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STR</div>
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AGI</div>
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INT</div>
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Morale</div>
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6</div>
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3</div>
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2</div>
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3</div>
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3</div>
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7</div>
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8</div>
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Weapon</div>
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Range</div>
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Hit</div>
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STR</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Notes</div>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Brawl</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Melee</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
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3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Stuns</div>
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Nitro 9</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
8”</div>
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4+</div>
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4</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Blast 2”, Scatter</div>
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<b>Special Abilities</b><br />
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<i>Luck (3)</i><br />
<i>A Good Offence - </i>Ace may re-roll one To Hit or Damage roll each turn<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Ancelyn</span><span style="font-size: large;"> - <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Courtly knight</i></span></span><br />
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MOV</div>
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DEF</div>
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Hits</div>
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STR</div>
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AGI</div>
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INT</div>
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Morale</div>
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6</div>
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3</div>
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2</div>
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3</div>
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3</div>
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7</div>
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9</div>
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Weapon</div>
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Range</div>
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Hit</div>
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STR</div>
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Notes</div>
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Sword</div>
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Melee</div>
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3+</div>
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5</div>
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Parry</div>
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<b>Information</b><br />
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Ancelyn fights for Arthur and Merlin. He is chivalrous and honourable. He no longer has power armour.<br />
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<b>Notable Appearances</b> - <span style="font-style: italic;">Battlefield</span><br />
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<b>Special Abilities</b><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Luck (1)</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">My Lady</span> - Ancelyn will not leave Bambera whilst she is in danger.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><b>Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart </b><i>- 'A man steeped in blood' </i></span><br />
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MOV</div>
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DEF</div>
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Hits</div>
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STR</div>
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AGI</div>
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INT</div>
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Morale</div>
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6</div>
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3</div>
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2</div>
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3</div>
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3</div>
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7</div>
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8</div>
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Weapon</div>
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Range</div>
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Hit</div>
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STR</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Notes</div>
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Brawl</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Melee</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3+</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Stuns</div>
</td></tr>
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Revolver</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
8”</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Pistol</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b>Special Abilities</b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Leader (2)</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Luck (2)</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Inspirational</span> - UNIT figures and Companions within 12” of the Brigadier may use his Morale for tests if required.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Silver Bullets</span>
- The Brigadier has thoughtfully pocketed some silver bullets before
leaving UNIT HQ. These only fit his revolver, and can’t be used in the
automatic pistols issued to other UNIT personnel. The Brigadier will not
hand over his personal weapon unless incapacitated.<br />
<br />
<b>Notable Appearances</b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The
Web of Fear, The Invasion, Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the
Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, The
Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Colony in Space, The Dæmons, Day of the
Daleks, The Time Monster, The Three Doctors, The Green Death, The Time
Warrior, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders, Robot, Terror
of the Zygons, Mawdryn Undead, The Five Doctors, Battlefield,
Dimensions in Time, Enemy of the Bane</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Brigadier Winifred Bambera</span><span style="font-size: large;"> - <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Meet the new boss</i></span></span><br />
<br />
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MOV</div>
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DEF</div>
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Hits</div>
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STR</div>
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AGI</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 66.05pt;" valign="top" width="88"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
INT</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 66.05pt;" valign="top" width="88"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Morale</div>
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6</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 66pt;" valign="top" width="88"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 66pt;" valign="top" width="88"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
2</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 66pt;" valign="top" width="88"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 66pt;" valign="top" width="88"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 66.05pt;" valign="top" width="88"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
7</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 66.05pt;" valign="top" width="88"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
8</div>
</td></tr>
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Weapon</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Range</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Hit</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
STR</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Notes</div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Brawl</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Melee</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3+</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Stuns</div>
</td></tr>
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SMG</div>
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12”</div>
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4+</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Burst</div>
</td></tr>
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Sword*</div>
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Melee</div>
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4+</div>
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5</div>
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Parry</div>
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*Bambera does not start with a sword but may use one if retrieved from a fallen Knight <br />
<br />
<b>Information</b><br />
<br />
After a military career in the troublespots of the world, Bambera is the now the current commander of UNIT. Her tough, no nonsense approach is respected by the men under her command. <br />
<br />
<b>Special Abilities</b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Leader (2)<br />Luck (1)</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Sergeant Zbrigniev</span><br />
<br />
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Stats as ‘UNIT Sergeant’ <br />
Assault Rifle<br />
Pistol<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Flight Lieutenant Françoise Lavel</span><br />
<br />
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Stats as ‘UNIT soldier’ <br />
Pistol<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">15 x 1990s UNIT Soldiers</span><br />
<br />
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Stats as ‘UNIT soldier’ <br />
Assault Rifles<br />
Pistols <br />
Grenades<br />
2 x Bazookas<br />
1 x HMG<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Special Rules</span><br />
<br />
This scenario uses the Special Rules for Small Arms, Hits on Vehicles and ‘Pinned’ - <a href="http://theprydonianchapter.blogspot.com/2012/01/small-arms-and-other-rules.html">Gun Rules For Gun Nuts.</a><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">The Board</span><br />
<br />
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The
UNIT convoy, 'Salamander Six', is stuck by the shore of Lake Vortigern,
which is represented by one table edge. In the centre of the board edge
is a partially excavated tunnel. In front of this is the nuclear
missile itself, with other UNIT vehicles parked around it in a rough
horseshoe. Beyond these vehicles are five bunkers, each large enough for
two soldiers and one heavy weapon, which form the outer defences. <br />
<br />
Some cover is provided by trees, low hills and ruined buildings, but none must be closer than 12” to the nearest UNIT bunker.<br />
<br />
No
figures may enter the lake (unless they use the escape hatch - see
below). The whole table counts as ‘rough terrain’ for wheeled vehicles.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">The Underwater Spaceship</span><br />
<br />
It
takes one move for figures to traverse the tunnel (two figures wide) to
the underwater spaceship. There ‘Arthur the freeze dried’ lies in state,
with his sword Excalibur, and a note saying "<i>Arthur died in last battle.
Everything else just propaganda. The Doctor.</i>" This area is best
represented by a separate board one foot square.<br />
<br />
There
is an escape hatch at the back of the ship. Figures which use it (one at
a time) emerge next turn on the shore of Lake Vortigern.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Playing the Game</span><br />
<br />
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set up first. Sergeant Zbrigniev and his men deploy within the
defences. All other figures are off the board; Lethbridge-Stewart and
Lavel in their helicopter, Bambera and Ancelyn in a car and The Doctor
and Ace in Bessie.<br />
<br />
The Knights set up second. They set
up within 6 inches of a land board edge and but not within 12 inches of a
UNIT position or 24 inches of Lake Vortigern.<br />
<br />
<b>Turn 1 </b><br />
Morgaine’s Faction automatically gets the initiative.<br />
<br />
<b>Turn 2</b><br />
Lethbridge-Stewart’s
helicopter appears over the tablet and may be shot down by Morgaine,
who cannot use any other magic this turn if she does this. If so it disappears from view over one of the land table edges, belching
smoke,
otherwise it lands.<br />
<br />
<b>Turn 3</b><br />
Ancelyn and Bambera
enter the table in their car from one of the land table edges, but not
within 12 inches of Lake Vortigern. Banbera can fire her machine gun
and drive at the same time.<br />
<br />
<b>Turn 4</b><br />
Lethbridge-Stewart
and Lavel enter the table on foot from direction their helicopter
crashed, but not within 12 inches of Lake Vortigern.<br />
<br />
<b>Turn 5</b><br />
The Doctor and Ace enter the table in Bessie, not within 12 inches of Lake Vortigern.<br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Chivalry</span><br />
<br />
Figures
should conduct themselves at all times in the manner of Courtly
Knights, with truces respected and unarmed or incapacitated figures
captured rather than killed. <br />
<br />
Failure to do so should result in a lose of Victory Points.<br />
<br />
The only figure who need not obey these rules is Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Pistols in Melee</span><br />
<br />
UNIT
soldiers may use their pistols to defend themselves in melee, but may
not fire into a melee if other friendly figures are involved.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Ending the Game</span><br />
<br />
The
game ends if the Earth is destroyed, one side has no figures left or if
Morgaine has tried and failed to use The Destroyer or the Nuclear
Missile.<br />
<br />
If the Earth is destroyed Morgaine wins,
otherwise the winner is decided by Victory Points system.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Winning the Game</span><br />
<br />
If
the world is destroyed the Monster Faction wins, but if it survives
then points must be tallied up.<br />
<br />
Points are scored for eliminating
opponents. As there is "<i>more honour with the sword</i>" Morgaine's faction cannot count figure killed by blasters.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Morgaine’s Faction</span><br />
<br />
Merlin - 7 points<br />
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - 5 points<br />
Ace - 5 points<br />
Brigadier Bambera - 3 points<br />
Ancelyn - 3 points<br />
Other UNIT figures - 1 point<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Merlin’s Faction</span><br />
<br />
Morgaine - 7 points<br />
The Destroyer - 5 points<br />
Mordred - 5 points<br />
Knight Commander - 3 points<br />
Knight - 2 points<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Notes on figures</span><br />
<br />
The
appearance of the UNIT soldiers in this episode was unique as they had
DPM camouflage, UN blue berets and carried Austrian rifles. As far as I
know no suitable figures are manufactured so I would recommend either
‘traditional’ UNIT soldiers or the black suited and red bereted ‘modern’
UNIT. I did my best by painting up Assault Group Marines.<br />
<br />
Copplestone Castings do a female figure with sword and assault rifle in the Female Troopers set from their Future Wars range.<br />
<br />
The
missile launcher on TV was a lash up on a low loader disguised under a
camoflage net. I've used a cheap 1/48 model of a US Patriot surface to
air missile by a company called Arii I found on ebay.<br />
<br />
As depicted on TV the
knights resemble 13th century European knights and any Medieval range
would have suitable figures. However Ben Aaronovitch says that when he
wrote the story he originally intended the knights to be wearing powered
exo-skeletons that, because they were silver, were mistaken for
armoured knights when they appeared in the 6th century. If you wish to
go for this ‘look’ you could use <span style="font-style: italic;">Warhammer 40,000</span> Grey Knights, Assault Space Marines, or similar, painted in a silver or metallic colour.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-54862422629309247602012-01-01T06:48:00.006-08:002020-04-22T23:44:04.251-07:00Gun Rules For Gun Nuts<br />
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<br />
Just in case there aren't enough guns for you in the original rules.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Small Arms</span><br />
<br />
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Weapon</div>
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Range </div>
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To Hit</div>
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Shot/Round</div>
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Notes</div>
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<b>Holdout Pistol</b></div>
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6"</div>
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4+</div>
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1</div>
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Pistol </div>
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<b>Pistol</b></div>
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8"</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
1</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Pistol </div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Victorian Rifle</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
24"</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
5+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
1</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>WWI/II Rifle</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
30"</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
1</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Carbine</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
15" </div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
2</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>SMG</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
12"</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Burst</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Battle Rifle</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
24"</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
1</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>LMG</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
30"</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Burst</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Assault Rifle</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
18"</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
2</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>SFMG</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
36"</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>HMG</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
48”</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4+</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Burst, STR 4</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victorian Rifles</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
All STR 3 unless otherwise stated<br />
<br />
WWI/WWII rifles includes modern sniper rifles<br />
Carbines include everything from the Winchester Repeaters used by
cowboys to the Hecklar & Koch's used by modern armed police (as in <span style="font-style: italic;">Aliens of London</span>)<br />
Battle Rifle = 1970s U.N.I.T. Rifle<br />
Assault Rifle = Modern U.N.I.T. Rifle<br />
SMG = Submachine Gun<br />
LMG = Light Machine Gun such as a Bren gun.<br />
SFMG = Sustained Fire Machine Gun. This is the usual weapon fitted to British armoured vehicles. If removed from its mount or tripod and fitted with a lightweight barrel it becomes an LMG.<br />
HMG = Heavy Machine Gun. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Modern U.N.I.T. with Carbines</td></tr>
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Victorian rifles take one action to reload<br />
LMG, SFMG, HMG take 2 actions to fire a burst<br />
Carbines and Assault Rifles may use both activations in a round to shoot<br />
SFMG and HMG may not move unless dismantled (2 actions)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Heavy Weapons with One Crew</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Sustained Fire Machine Gun with plenty of crew</td></tr>
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Because of the weight of the weapon and ammunition, Heavy Weapons (HMGs, SFMGs, mortars, Bazookas) may not move unless they have two crew, with the exception of Bazookas which may move but only with one shell in the weapon and no reloads. Additionally, HMGs and SFMGs, unless mounted on vehicles, jam if two of the 'hit' dice rolled are the same.<br />
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<b>OPTIONAL RULES </b><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pinned</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Benton and Yates pinned down</td></tr>
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If a figure survives a roll to loose a Hit that could have destroyed it, but the dice roll is one or two less than the required score, the figure counts as Pinned for its next activation and may not move or attack. This represents a soldier diving for cover after a near miss, or a monster sent reeling backwards by bullets that didn't penetrate its armour. A figure with more than one Hit is also Pinned for the Activation after it looses a Hit.<br />
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A figure cannot be Pinned it it successfully used an Invulnerable, Armoured Body or similar Saving Throw, if it has more than one Hit left or if its DEF is three or more than the weapons STR.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">ATRLs ("Bazookas")</span><br />
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Anti-Tank Rocket Launchers are powerful but short ranged and inaccurate. <br />
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They have a maximum range of 12", hit on a 5 or 6 and are STR 5 in the 1970s or STR 6 for more advanced versions, and cause d6 Hits damage.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Shooting at Vehicles</span><br />
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+ 1 Shooting at a car, van or light armoured vehicle<br />
+ 2 Shooting at a lorry or tank<br />
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Roll d6 for a hit:<br />
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0,1,2 Engine Vehicle immobilised<br />
3,4 Tires hit. Half speed until Repair carried out<br />
5,6,7 Body: roll again:<br />
1,2 Driver 3,4 Rear passenger/front cargo space 5,6 Boot/rear cargo space<br />
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- 1 (to both dice) If shot at from the front<br />
+1 (to both dice) If shot at from the rear<br />
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[More information than any normal person can want about the guns in the New Series of Doctor Who <a href="http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Doctor_Who_%28New_series%29">can be found here</a>.]<br />
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Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-51292577827935844032012-01-01T06:48:00.004-08:002016-12-31T01:04:08.108-08:00Doctor Who Miniatures Game<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw86q2CSWWSPRiojhl2s5BpOymI_7QZE2SdGeirgZ2TDx_jfCBUN-w5kjXlaYCgVgxzNKZloHraLpc0FVuy56tYX_kTY0Wrpl0yOEczIRRgrcyM4Vnp5BzrXYKQZ38PnX7POwhOTnyMFqe/s1600/article-0-08F59F61000005DC-598_634x641.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692716162951658866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw86q2CSWWSPRiojhl2s5BpOymI_7QZE2SdGeirgZ2TDx_jfCBUN-w5kjXlaYCgVgxzNKZloHraLpc0FVuy56tYX_kTY0Wrpl0yOEczIRRgrcyM4Vnp5BzrXYKQZ38PnX7POwhOTnyMFqe/s320/article-0-08F59F61000005DC-598_634x641.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 317px;" /></a><br />
Doctor Who Miniatures Game* is a tabletop wargame by Graeme Dawson, which provides a welcome escape from the grim reality of the real world, whilst promoting harmony between the generations. After all, who wouldn't enjoy pushing model Daleks around a board? Certainly not Matt Smith , as you can see.<br />
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My first wargame in the Doctor Who universe was at the Derby Old Glory Wargames show in 2008. It was put on by the Fantasy and Science Fiction Society, and used some unfathomable rules, and a barking mad scenario. However it was immense fun, and not only for my five year old son who I'd dragged along for the day. <br />
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Having discovered that whilst mini me may not be as keen as I am to wargame the whole of the First Afghan War, he did enjoy pitching UNIT into unequal combat against Cybermen, Daleks, Yetis or anything else I could paint. A faulty link stopped me buying the old Doctor Who Invasion Earth rules, which was just as well because I then found Graeme's free set, and haven't looked back. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGi4Hs7g9ZaD8tpsu9Xyyu5xI3AGLRUIcPWzY7XX1S_v821QykbIYq5zVaFAf0XcpNYQdZn1DaUwPC4oRLnChm4AfyLdJ5i5nzfCoctDe0sEBDhVoF0EQIgpzcLKFDLv_keRs9o7IukeFF/s1600/photo+2.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692682210260532258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGi4Hs7g9ZaD8tpsu9Xyyu5xI3AGLRUIcPWzY7XX1S_v821QykbIYq5zVaFAf0XcpNYQdZn1DaUwPC4oRLnChm4AfyLdJ5i5nzfCoctDe0sEBDhVoF0EQIgpzcLKFDLv_keRs9o7IukeFF/s400/photo+2.JPG" style="float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 240px;" /></a>Like Bruce Forsyth, Doctor Who links the seventies to the noughties, although Doctor Who is at least still funny. Although Graeme's rules were written for the Classic Series, they readily proved adaptable to the new series, largely because, thanks to RTD, it is mostly the same, except for more substantial special effects and flimsier plots.<br />
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The rules are quick and easy, with a format familiar to anyone who's played a Warhammer derived set, and provide enough detail to satisfy a wargaming nerd like me, whilst remaining playable by a brighter five year old. What's more, thanks to various special rules and other game features, they actually do play like Doctor Who adventures, with brain often as not triumphing over brawn.<br />
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They are supported by a friendly online group of fans, who have been innovative in designing scenarios, and also in sourcing models for use in the games.<br />
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Graeme, and co-conspirator Karl Perroton, have now branched out into other small screen adventures from the decade of my youth with 7TV, a game that uses the same mechanics as DWMG. <br />
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Whilst miniature wargaming seems to be loosing the war of attrition with computer gaming, at least as far as my children are concerned, DWMG still manages to keep me off the streets, and some of my 'straight' wargaming friends have even been persuaded to have a go.<br />
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So thanks very much Graeme for the game, and if there's anyone reading this whose never tried it, why not give DWMG a go?<br />
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*Since I wrote this Warlord Games has moved into the market of Doctor Who wargaming, and taken the name Doctor Who Miniatures Games as their own. As a result Graeme's DWMG rules are no longer publicly available. However they can still be found by those who know where to look.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-66354164603041440972012-01-01T06:47:00.001-08:002016-12-31T09:29:41.059-08:00Genesis of the Daleks - first draft<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <a href="http://www.daryljoyce.co.uk/genre-illustration/doctor-who-illustration/doctor-who-related/clash-of-empires-2">Daryl Joyce</a> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Board</span><br />
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In the centre of the board is the Wasteland, 24 inches by 24 inches of pseudo-gravel pit strewn with the debris of war; discarded pieces of equipment, fragments of barbed wire, shell craters etc. Because of the uneven terrain and the swirling smoke vision is limited to 12 inches.<br />
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In the middle are some ruins which provide a home to a wandering band of Mutos.<br />
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Along opposite edges of the board are the Kaled and Thal trench lines. Shooting at figures in the trenches from the Wasteland is at -2. Behind these lines are the Domes containing the cities of the two sides. The other two edges of the board are bounded by barbed wire, minefields and clouds of poison gas and are impassable to all figures.<br />
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At one end of the Kaled trench line is the door that leads to the Bunker, and at the opposite end of the Thal line is the entrance to their underground missile silo. There is no line of sight to these doors from the Wasteland. The door to the Bunker can only be opened from the inside although its mechanism can be jammed to stop it locking again.<br />
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The interior of the Bunker can be represented on the table if there is room, or on a separate board 24 inches by 12 inches. It consists of a series of rooms including Davros's laboratory (where the Time Ring is on a shelf), the cells, the guard room, and the mutations tanks where the Daleks Embryos are being bred. Three <br />
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Likewise the missile silo requires a one foot square board on which is the rocket and its launch gantry.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Forces<br /><br />Kaleds</span><br />
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6 figures (Human Warriors) with UNIT/Battle Rifles and gas masks deployed in the Kaled trench.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Elite</span><br />
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Davros<br />
Nyder (Administrator, Leader [1]) armed with a pistol<br />
2 Security Guards with SMGs<br />
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Davros is in his laboratory along with three (inactive) Mark III Travel Machines. The other figures must be either with him or in the guardroom.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Thals</span><br />
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12 figures (Human Warriors) with UNIT/Battle Rifles and gas masks, deployed in the Thal trench but with at least 2 figures (in Hazmat suits) detached to guard 6 Muto and Kaled slaves in the missile chamber.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Doctor</span><br />
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The Doctor and Harry Sullivan are in the Bunker having been released from their cell the door by Ronson (Human Scientist, Invent, Pistol), a friendly Kaled Scientist. Harry can use any gun he is able to acquire.<br />
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The Doctor has just opened the door to the Dalek Embryo Tanks, triggering an alarm. Harry and Ronson are either with him or hiding in another room. Their position must be secretly recorded by the player.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Mutos </span><br />
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6 mutos are hiding in the ruins. Stats are as Human Warriors but armed with Brawl only and have Morale 6. One of them is Sarah Jane Smith but as she is disguised as one of their number only the Muto player knows which one she is.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Optional rule</span><br />
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Instead of all the Kaled and Thal soldiers being identically armed, give every group of six a Laser Rifle, four UNIT/Battle Rifles and a Victorian Rifle.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Briefings<br /><br />The Kaleds</span><br />
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You are the military commander of this section of the front line. Your force is weak and badly equipped as all the best troops and equipment are taken by The Elite. At one end of your section is the door to The Bunker. No Kaled soldier may enter there.<br />
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Your mission is to defend the trench line and ensure that no Thal can cross it to attack the Dome.<br />
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The Thals are up to something in the Wasteland, and you must also send out a patrol of at least two men to disrupt their plans.<br />
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Mutos also roam the Wasteland. Although there existence is an affront to all true Kaleds, due to the shortage of ammunition you are not allowed to shoot them.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Elite</span><br />
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Davros is about to unveil his greatest creation; the Mark III Travel Machine. He requires further time to complete his work and you must ensure he is not disturbed. Three, currently inactive, machines are in the Laboratory.<br />
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Two dangerous prisoners have recently been captured. They are being held in the cells and must not be allowed to escape.<br />
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Finally any traitors to the noble cause of The Elite must be exterminated.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Thals</span><br />
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You are the military commander of this section of the front line.<br />
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Your primary mission is to defend the trench line and ensure that no Kaled can cross them to attack the Dome.<br />
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Your secondary mission is to complete the construction of a missile which will destroy the city of the accursed Kaleds. It is being loaded with nuclear fuel by Muto slaves and Kaled prisoners, but the current workers are nearly worn out and new slaves or prisoners must be caught.<br />
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Additionally there are intelligence reports of a secret Bunker located nearby and you are instructed to investigate and halt whatever is going on in there.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Doctor</span><br />
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You have been sent here by the Time Lords to strike the first blow in the Time War by stopping the creation of the Daleks. To do this you must enter the mutation tanks where the Daleks creatures are being grown and devise a way of destroying them.<br />
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You must also recover the Time Ring from Davros's laboratory and then find Sarah Jane and get her and Harry back to Space Beacon) Nerva.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Mutos</span><br />
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You are outcasts wandering in the Wasteland and your mission is to survive. You have recently been joined by a young girl who claims to be from another planet.<br />
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The Thals are known to be rounding up Mutos for some unknown reason and you must avoid being caught and if caught you must try to escape whatever the risk.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Victory Conditions<br /><br />The Kaleds</span><br />
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Thal Dome attacked - Minor Victory<br />
Thal soldiers attack your Dome - Minor Defeat<br />
The city is destroyed - Major Defeat<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Elite</span><br />
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Davros completes his work - Major Victory<br />
Davros dies - Major Defeat<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Thals</span><br />
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Kaled Dome destroyed - Major Victory<br />
Kaled Dome attacked - Minor Victory<br />
Kaled soldiers attack your Dome - Minor Defeat<br />
Thals exterminated - Major Defeat<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Doctor</span><br />
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Daleks destroyed - Major Victory<br />
All Companions returned safely - Minor Victory<br />
A Companion killed or not rescued - Minor Defeat<br />
Daleks created - Major Defeat<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Mutos</span><br />
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At least one Muto survives - Minor Victory<br />
All Mutos killed - Minor Defeat<br />
Sarah Jane killed - Major Defeat<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Random Events</span><br />
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At the end of each turn roll a d6:<br />
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<li>1-3 Sound of distant artillery fire</li>
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<li>4 One figure that moved this turn has stepped on a mine - chosen by the player who activated first. The figure makes an immediate AGI test and if successful has noticed before the mine explodes. They may not move without detonating the mine. A friendly figure needs to spend one activation making the mine safe before the figure can move again. If detonated the mine attacks with STR 5.</li>
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<ul>
<li>5 One section of the Wasteland comes under artillery fire next turn. Any figures in the area are hit at STR 4 on a roll of 4,5 or 6. -1 for being in cover or prone (-2 if both).</li>
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<ul>
<li>6 One section of the Wasteland comes under gas attack next turn. Any figure which remains in the area at the end of the turn who is not wearing a gas mask is attacked at STR 4. The gas then disperses.</li>
</ul>
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To determine where the last two events occur divide the Wasteland into four one foot squares and roll a d6. A 5 a 6 mean the attack fell on the Kaled (5) or Thal (6) trenches.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Playing the Game<br /><br />Two Player Game</span><br />
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Player One controls The Kaleds, the Elite and The Mutos.<br />
Player Two controls The Doctor and The Thals.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Inside the Bunker</span><br />
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Harry and Ronson may hide in one of the other rooms and their figure is not put on the board until a Elite figure enters the room they are located in to search it or they move into line-of-sight with an Elite figure.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Destroying the Dalek Embryos</span><br />
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Anyone inside this room is attacked each turn by a flailing tentacle which wraps itself around the figure on a 5 or 6. Any grappled figure must resist STR 3 next turn to free themselves.<br />
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Every turn he is undisturbed the Doctor can try an Invention Breakthrough and if successful has discovered how to make the tanks blow up. This is then achieved as a normal Invent. However before he can flick the switch the Doctor must overcome the morale dilemma of whether this makes him as bad as the Daleks. If he succeeds in an INT roll he realises it doesn't and he can destroy them.<br />
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There is no line-of-sight inside the tanks and any Security Guards entering to stop this can only use Brawl and can only fight one figure at a time.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Making the Daleks</span><br />
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Each turn Davros is undisturbed in his laboratory he can do d6 points of work. <br />
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When his tally reaches 30 his work is completed and, unless the Dalek Embryos have been destroyed, his Mark III Travel Machines come into operation as Daleks.<br />
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These Daleks are under the control of The Elite and can be used to attack the Thals. (They will only turn on the Kaleds and Davros after the game is completed.)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Arming the Missile</span><br />
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30 fuel cells must be loaded into the rocket before it is ready to be launched. <br />
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One Muto slave can load one cell in one turn. <br />
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The Mutos working at the start of the game are very ill from the effects of the radiation. The Thal player rolls a d6 at the end of his Activation and if the number is less than or equal to the number of remaining slaves then one dies.<br />
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Once the rocket is fuelled it can be launched immediately - killing any Mutos left in the missile chamber.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Catching Mutos</span><br />
<br />
The mutos will not move towards the Kaled lines unless a Thal is moving towards them within 12 inches. <br />
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Although the Kaleds can't shoot the Mutos, they do not want them in their trenches and if any Muto enters he must be attacked with a Brawl by the nearest Kaled soldier. His unconscious body will then be pushed back into the Wasteland.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Escape</span><br />
<br />
If Sarah Jane is amongst the slaves she can persuade them to escape by succeeding in a Morale test for them. They will then start to climb the missile gantry to get out. She can now throw off her disguise.<br />
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Everyone climbs at once. It takes an AGI roll to climb one level. Roll once per turn. Three successful roles are required to get to the surface. Figures emerge in the middle of the Thal trenches, but not within 6 inches of a Thal soldier.<br />
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Figures that fail an AGI roll have got into difficulty. Lie the figure down and if they fail their next roll they fall. If Sarah Jane falls the nearest muto will try to catch her by making another AGI roll.<br />
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The guards will not climb up after the prisoners but may shoot at them until their Morale fails and they surrender. The survivors then climb down and resume work next turn. A guard can then be posted at the top of the gantry to prevent a second escape. If the guards do not want to shoot their work force they can pursue them on the surface, but it takes three turns for them to leave the missile silo as they need permission from their officious boss and time to collect their gas masks and equipment. They enter the trenches at a board edge.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Raiding the Domes</span><br />
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Any Kaled or Thal figures which can cross the enemy trench lines are assumed to be raiding their enemy's Dome and are out of play.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ending the Game</span><br />
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The game ends when all events have played themselves out:<br />
<ul>
<li>The Daleks have been created or Davros is dead or the embryos have been destroyed.</li>
<li>The Thal missile has been launched or the workforce is dead.</li>
<li>The Companions are safe or dead.</li>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpBP1qKzF1_lDltnpb4OVFKVlTJpQnOH7IIk6Q4yYrkHB4WYRvtB7zWl4c56hforjWTHlJjpfV7TJTEftB4dwNALLEPiOeMrPeW9lLQX56vWZrZBaWbHDPe481rjweXQmcDj6L_XuRZfkc/s1600/wallpaper-genesis-of-the-daleks-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpBP1qKzF1_lDltnpb4OVFKVlTJpQnOH7IIk6Q4yYrkHB4WYRvtB7zWl4c56hforjWTHlJjpfV7TJTEftB4dwNALLEPiOeMrPeW9lLQX56vWZrZBaWbHDPe481rjweXQmcDj6L_XuRZfkc/s640/wallpaper-genesis-of-the-daleks-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <a href="http://www.daryljoyce.co.uk/genre-illustration/doctor-who-illustration/doctor-who-related/clash-of-empires-2">Daryl Joyce</a></td></tr>
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Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-25784627816199318522012-01-01T06:29:00.003-08:002021-02-21T07:22:38.999-08:00The Game of Rassilon<span style="font-weight: bold;">Note</span><br />
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This is my own variant of the scenario for The Five Doctors developed by Graeme Dawson and Karl Perroton that used to be on the DWMG website. By splicing in elements of Patrick Troughton's finale <span style="font-style: italic;">The War Games</span> I've not only upped the bodycount considerably, but also provide employment for a number of otherwise redundant 28mm historical figures. What's more, you only need one Doctor ...<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span><br />
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The hand, covered in a black glove, swept across the darkened control panel. Lights blinked and readouts changed as the fingers unceasingly worked the controls. If anyone had managed to enter this most hidden sanctum they would have heard a low chuckling. A glow illuminated the small room, and the figure moved over to a recess and picked up two model figures, before placing them on an illuminated panel, which looked strangely like a gaming board – in the centre of which was an ominous looking tower.<div><br /></div><div>There was no sign of the time scoop which had brought them here – it had returned – but to where? and when? And where exactly were they? It looked like Wales. The Doctor licked his finger and tested the wind. “Come along.We’ll try this way...”<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiH0HeN3eFKhuZaJcAxdBbmOUtvouhUBCdetJ4f1nI8NYPvsxdZbbAlLNgAvPL1Q6x-8loth0xD6lRyVF5pbunq4UugDVK5yirmLZ3olgDsa3LW6_tsyC_GTWhAnsa1QDUL3jG97Mlo9wJ/s1600/The+War+Doctor+001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692686226484708434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiH0HeN3eFKhuZaJcAxdBbmOUtvouhUBCdetJ4f1nI8NYPvsxdZbbAlLNgAvPL1Q6x-8loth0xD6lRyVF5pbunq4UugDVK5yirmLZ3olgDsa3LW6_tsyC_GTWhAnsa1QDUL3jG97Mlo9wJ/s320/The+War+Doctor+001.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Set Up</span><br />
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Six Groups of fighters are deployed, one in each of the grid square across the Death Zone.<br />
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Initially these Groups are represented by cards dealt randomly and face down.<br />
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Groups should be of approximately equal strength. As a rough rule the total of DEF x Hits for each Group should be 15 or 16 e.g. a Dalek and an Ogron, three Cybermen, four Sontarans, five Humans, a DEF 5 Hits 2 Armoured vehicle with 2 human crew etc<br />
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Four Groups should be Monster Faction and two Hero faction. Some Humans can be Monster Faction (e.g. Nazis, criminals, bankers etc).<br />
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The Doctor and The Master deploy so that they are on the junction of four grid squares<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Playing the Game</span><br />
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Each Group of fighters moves separately. They move six inches in a random direction determined by a d6 roll (count the mountains as 'North'):<br />
<br />
1 = move north, 2= move east, 3 = move south, 4 = mouth west, 5 and 6 = don't move.<br />
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If a Groups move would take them off the board or into the Mountains reverse the direction by 180 degrees.<br />
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If two Groups gets within six inches of each other there is a combat. Turn the cards over, if you have not already done so. Because of the brainwashing of the participants in the Death Zone, this rule applies even if both groups are Hero faction. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Combat</span><br />
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The 'unnatural mists' rule does not apply and combat continues until one side is eliminated or there is more than six inches between the nearest figures of the two groups.<br />
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If one side runs, the other will pursue until the loser is completely destroyed, or another enemy is encountered.<br />
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If a group has two potential enemies in view it will attack the one that looks 'more dangerous'. Aliens are 'more dangerous' than humans and Monster faction groups are 'more dangerous' than Hero faction ones.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SlCvq9v5WAQvajVcRtdGyYS4iDBhrU5U6Gon5TJo_QhXKJqJzCf215RJYEp0r78Xy8G9fFyDf_DJ38Oocfs00bgVNGOCG14k2kI7fSWBkhyphenhyphenHP1XUVdKc2NfNfUeC-LUxZJwUwEb1HvNH/s1600/The+War+Doctor+002.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692685904564577986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SlCvq9v5WAQvajVcRtdGyYS4iDBhrU5U6Gon5TJo_QhXKJqJzCf215RJYEp0r78Xy8G9fFyDf_DJ38Oocfs00bgVNGOCG14k2kI7fSWBkhyphenhyphenHP1XUVdKc2NfNfUeC-LUxZJwUwEb1HvNH/s320/The+War+Doctor+002.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 240px;" /></a><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Spoils of Victory</span> <br />
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The point of the Death Zone is for the fighters to battle it out until a handful of champions remain. <br />
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When one Group of fighters defeats another group (i.e. when one side has nobody left who hasn’t failed a Morale test) the reward is that one of the figures in the winning group gains a +1 to hit. This should be the figure that contributed most to the victory, and applies to their main weapon only.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Alliances</span><br />
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If the Doctor or The Master move within six inches of a group they can attempt to overcome the brainwashing that is making them fight and form an alliance.<br />
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The Master can ally with any group he encounters, Hero or Monster faction, but that group then becomes hostile to all other groups in play.<br />
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The Doctor may only ally himself with Hero faction groups, but may form a Grand Alliance of as many such groups as he is able to.<br />
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Any Monster faction aliens who meet The Doctor will attack him, whilst Monster faction humans will try to take him prisoner.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Getting to the Black Tower</span><br />
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There is a Yeti in the tunnels and anyone entering them will meet it on a roll of ‘1’<br />
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To move in the Death Wastes requires each figure to pass a Morale test. Anyone left behind disappears into the mists and is never seen again.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1tT16KyA5GZzxZBb2BNcQ_eK3ZfZawRTMdjM1epcHw1p5F5rAFlI5ic3pRF28MIYpk-PNQDKPIDtjQiF90satHjVxaR3DeGEN0VHMLQ2ZNoECnM-JK27i6ADO5e3tQEba8KkpyR50pP0/s1600/The+War+Doctor+003.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692685698503648690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1tT16KyA5GZzxZBb2BNcQ_eK3ZfZawRTMdjM1epcHw1p5F5rAFlI5ic3pRF28MIYpk-PNQDKPIDtjQiF90satHjVxaR3DeGEN0VHMLQ2ZNoECnM-JK27i6ADO5e3tQEba8KkpyR50pP0/s320/The+War+Doctor+003.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Endgame</span><br />
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Once the Tomb of Rassilon is opened Borusa, aka The War Lord, appears, as in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Five Doctors</span>, but this time he is accompanied by two Chancellery Guards who help in the final battle.<br />
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If Borusa is defeated, The Doctor is made Lord President in his place.<br />
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If Borusa wins The Doctor is exiled to Earth and made to regenerate.</div>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-13443253950164734812011-12-31T09:21:00.000-08:002016-12-31T09:47:31.797-08:00Doctor Who and the Daemons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Notes</span><br />
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This is a modification of the <a href="http://www.drwhominiatures.co.uk/dl/daemons.pdf">version on the DWMG website</a> which is in turn a modification of a scenario by Michael Spencelyah. It is another attempt to make a UNIT v the aliens scenario a bit different. I’ve also tried to give UNIT a purpose in the scenario, which they lack in the broadcast story, and to give it all a less silly ending.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Set Up</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHE2w11DbJtciGfvZMIqDm-zlv8XB96EyzGRnt3IzblS_GN9Gi27UD-m0bKnTVTVq0vbaGwcu24_yzq1KIpD6tnsVGgQpan4SHi0JZfFDRF0TXflbcIjewDiCqNcL6Z8rb_1yafN36BM2R/s1600/daemons_610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHE2w11DbJtciGfvZMIqDm-zlv8XB96EyzGRnt3IzblS_GN9Gi27UD-m0bKnTVTVq0vbaGwcu24_yzq1KIpD6tnsVGgQpan4SHi0JZfFDRF0TXflbcIjewDiCqNcL6Z8rb_1yafN36BM2R/s320/daemons_610.jpg" width="320" /></a>The Doctor is tied to the Maypole in the middle of the village green surrounded by eleven villagers, who also happen to be the local Morris Dancing team. One has a pistol, one a rifle, one a shotgun and the others have improvised weapons. They are preparing to burn him at the stake, thus proving Baldric’s dad’s old motto of never trust men with beards. <br />
<br />
Miss Hawthorn is with them trying to persuade them to let the Doctor go.<br />
<br />
Bessie is parked nearby.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton, are hiding in the Cloven Hoof, adjacent to the green, armed with silenced pistols. They may be in civilian clothes or may have quickly changed back into uniform if you have no suitable figures.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf7Ua6tphDPCd1aovbCii7bASyzlemZAkfALCABfkuG4wR8zvejB91bFWAwCoHtEf79TO_lT5MDTCXIl-IzD_q9HzTSGdpg0ISmhbziWkdVqIDm6oxRmK3U87Rqe_k0agykaS70jSa8JqA/s1600/who304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf7Ua6tphDPCd1aovbCii7bASyzlemZAkfALCABfkuG4wR8zvejB91bFWAwCoHtEf79TO_lT5MDTCXIl-IzD_q9HzTSGdpg0ISmhbziWkdVqIDm6oxRmK3U87Rqe_k0agykaS70jSa8JqA/s320/who304.jpg" width="320" /></a>The Brigadier, Sergeant Osgood (UNIT Technician with Invent, Repair and Luck[1]) and 12 UNIT soldiers, including a Bazooka team, are in a convoy of vehicles just off the board, stopped by the heat barrier.<br />
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Bok is on guard outside the door to the church.<br />
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The Master, alias Victor Magister, is in the catacombs with three Cultists, in full ceremonial regalia, preparing to summon Azal. <br />
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Jo Grant is also in the catacombs in her sacrificial-virgin white robes, which make her look suspiciously like the first Romana.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Optional: the UNIT helicopter is parked somewhere in the village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Remote controlled Bessie<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <a href="http://www.daryljoyce.co.uk/genre-illustration/doctor-who-illustration/doctor-who-related/clash-of-empires-2">Daryl Joyce</a></td></tr>
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<br />
Fortuitously the Doctor has fitted Bessie with a remote control mechanism prior to the adventure. He can drive her from anywhere on the board as if he was behind the wheel himself provided he carries out no other action and can see the car.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Freeing the Doctor</span><br />
<br />
Miss Hawthorn may attempt to get the villagers to free the Doctor by convincing them he is the powerful magician Qui Quai Quod.<br />
<br />
This involves first Yates and/or Benton hitting something with their pistols; a long range aimed shot at a small target ( i.e. 5 or 6 to hit). If they both miss then the villagers conclude the Doctor is a great big faker and start to light the firewood. He has five turns before he starts loosing a hit a turn from the flames (I guess the villagers didn‘t use enough paraffin).<br />
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If they succeed then next turn the Doctor may use his remote control to bring Bessie to him as a further demonstration of his magic powers. In their next activation the villagers will free the Doctor and henceforth they will <i>Fear</i> him.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Penetrating the Heat Barrier</span><br />
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Sergeant Osgood meanwhile is trying to penetrate the heat barrier. He must first make an Invention breakthrough and then build a diathermic energy exchanger. If the Doctor can get himself over to join them he can add +2 to the breakthrough roll and +1 to the subsequent rolls.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Optional: UNIT Helicopter</span><br /><br />If the UNIT helicopter is being used, then once the Doctor is free one villager may use it to try to stop the Doctor reaching Osgood and the UNIT team. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The helicopter will make a low level pass at Bessie each turn. After being buzzed the Doctor needs to make a AGI roll to avoid crashing - which results in Bessie being damaged and all occupants being stunned. Once the pass is completed the Cultist makes a Luck roll and if failed he crashes into the heat barrier and the helicopter is destroyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Summoning Azal</span><br />
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The Master meanwhile is in the catacombs reciting a nursery rhyme backwards in order to summon Azal. Each turn he is able to do this adds d6 to him summoning total. When this reaches 30 <span style="font-style: italic;">(35 if using the optional UNIT helicopter rule)</span> Azal appears. If the Master is attacked, or carries out any other action, he cannot add to his score.<br />
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If Miss Hawthorn is within 6” of the church she can use a dispelling chant to reduce this total by d3 a turn. Again, if she is attacked or carries out any other action she can’t do this.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">UNIT versus the Villagers</span><br />
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This section should have a musical accompaniment of slips, jigs and reels.<br />
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UNIT may not shoot a villager unless he has a firearm, and then only after issuing a warning (which takes one action) or if friendly characters have been fired on. <br />
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UNIT must deal with the villagers by using Capture or Brawl. One UNIT soldier can guard 5 captured Cultists.<br />
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The villagers will not harm Miss Hawthorn and will only attempt to Capture her. She may defend herself with her umbrella.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">UNIT versus Bok</span><br />
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No UNIT soldier may pass Bok whilst he is firing at them, although a Unique model can give it a try if they want to. If this happens Bok gets an extra shot in the Heroic players turn.<br />
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In this version Bok only has one Hit. <br />
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If Bok is ‘destroyed’ then one figure may enter the crypt whilst he reforms.<br />
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Bok is also ‘stunned’ for one turn when the Invention that breaks the heat barrier is used.<br />
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Benton may use the UNIT bazooka thus allowing him to use his Luck to try to overcome Bok’s Invulnerability.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Contrived Ending</span><br />
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If the Heroic characters enter the crypt before Azal is summoned they can disrupt the ceremony by attacking the Master. Unless The Master can fight them off, he has lost.<br />
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If Azal is summoned, The Master then tries to persuade him that he should rule the world. Any unique heroic model, other than the Doctor, who enters the crypt in the next turn can put in their own claim and make an INT v INT with the Master (the Doctor for some principled reason doesn‘t want to do this). If they win, their first order can be for Azal to leave the planet. <br />
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Alternatively Jo Grant could cause Azal to blow up by offering herself as a human sacrifice, but that would be just silly. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">A Masterly Escape</span><br />
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If it looks like it’s all gone pear shaped again, The Master may attempt to make a getaway. He slips out of a secret passageway and appears anywhere within six inches of the church. He must leave the board via the edge furthest away from him. The heat barrier will have gone and Bok will just be a statue again.<br />
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He may hijack a vehicle, but the Doctor can use Bessie under remote control to head him off. If Bessie can get in front of the Master in the Heroic activation the Master must change direction by 90 degrees in his next move.<br />
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The game ends when The Master is captured or leaves the board.<br />
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Plan foiled and The Master captured - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Heroic Victory</span><br />
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Azal destroys the Earth - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Monster Victory</span><br />
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Plan foiled but The Master escapes - <b><span style="font-whttp: //www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifeight:bold;">Draw</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Notes on Figures</span><br />
This scenario was basically designed around the figures made by Woodbine Designs; <a href="http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=317">The Morris and Armed Morris Dancers.</a> If anyone else in the world produces figures for armed Morris Dancers I'll eat my <span style="font-style: italic;">Gallifrey Guardian</span>.<br />
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All the other figures are available from <a href="http://www.blacktreedesign.com/uk/home.php?cat=2297">Black Tree Design</a>, but most of us use <a href="http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=46">Gripping Beast Mo-Fo range</a> for 1970s UNIT.<br />
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Yates and Benton wore civvies for this story, and massive fashion disasters their outfits were too. Fortunately <a href="http://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/geezers.html">Killer B Games's Geezer range</a> includes a variety of 70s attired figures that are up to the job.<br />
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<br />Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-8480087323328085812011-12-31T04:33:00.002-08:002021-11-17T10:14:15.880-08:00Mr. Saxon and the Sea Devils<div class="separator"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(A scenario for Doctor Who Miniatures Game inspired by </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">UNIT: The Coup</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Big Finish Productions)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Briefing: The Master </span><br />
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The RAF, the Royal Navy and U.N.I.T. deploy all their forces, and when <i>The Valiant</i> announces that something appears to be coming ashore, he has no hesitation in launching an all out attack by land, sea and air.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Objective</span>: kill all the Sea Devils<br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;">Figures and Models</span><br />
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<b>Mr. Saxon</b> (stats as in Last of the Time Lords)<br />
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<b>Bodyguard</b> (human Security Guard with pistol and body armour)<br />
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<b>A suitably expensive car.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Briefing: U.N.I.T.</span> </b><br />
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The Unified Intelligence Taskforce has the job of defending earth from unusual threats. The troops are trained, motivated and equiped to take on anything.<br />
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Led by veterans of the raid on the ATMOS factory, two squads have been despatched to the south coast of England, in expectation of an attack by the creatures known as Sea Devils. One squad will be deployed by Royal Air Force helicopter, another by Royal Navy hovercraft and the Army is providing armoured support.<b><br /></b><br />
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<b>Two U.N.I.T. squads:</b><br />
Sergeant with personal weapon<br />
4 soldiers with Assault Rifles<br />
1 soldier with an LMG <br />
1 soldier with an ATRL ('bazooka')<br />
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All have a pistol, radio with headset, two handed baton, handcuffs and two grenades.<br />
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<b>Helicopter</b> (e.g. Lynx). <br />
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<b>Hovercraft</b> with SFMG.<br />
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<b>Armoured vehicle</b> with an SFMG e.g. Challenger tank, Fox armoured car or Saxon APC.<br />
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(As the hovercraft and helicopter are primarily used to deposit troops
on the battlefield they do not need to be represented by models.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Briefing: The Sea Devils</span> <br />
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A colony of Sea Devils (or Sentient Aquatic Reptiles as they prefer to be called) has revived form its hibernation of the coast of England. Learning of the fate of their brethren up the coast and their land dwelling kin in Derbyshire they have decided that they cannot fight the humans who now rule their planet and so wish to make peace.<br />
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They have identified a suitable human with whom they wish to make contact and have invited her to a remote spot near the coast where she is to meet a peace delegation.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Objective</span>: to contact Sarah Jane Smith and make the offer of peace to humanity<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Figures</span><br />
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8 Sea Devils<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Briefing: Sarah Jane Smith</span><br />
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Sarah Jane has received an enigmatic and slightly fishy message inviting her to a rendezvous at a deserted spot by the sea. Suspecting this may not be an adventure for children she has decided to invite along her old friend Sir (formerly Brigadier) Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart. The old soldier appears to be mellowing in his old age and is now somewhat suspicious of the gung-ho approach of his former U.N.I.T. colleagues.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Objective</span>: to find at least one Sea Devil and escort him off the board, probably by hiding him in Sir Alistair's car. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;">Figures and Model</span><br />
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<b>Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart</b> (stats as normal, but armed with a concealed gun in his walking stick: 4,5 or 6 to hit, range 8 inches, STR 3).<br />
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<b>A suitably stylish car</b> <br />
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<b>Sarah Jane Smith</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">The Board</span><br />
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The board represents a deserted and inhospitable part of England's coast. One of the short edges is a beach with sand dunes. The other is a canal with a straight road running along the seaward side of it.<br />
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The rest of the board is marsh.<br />
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The sea and the canal can be represented by the board edges rather than having to be modelled.<br />
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The hovercraft may only move over the sea and the beach and cannot enter the dunes, which are difficult terrain for everyone and impassable for vehicles. <br />
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The marsh is also impassible for vehicles, and is difficult terrain for humans. However, because of their webbed feet, Sea Devils can move normally across it. Additionally, as a heavy mist lies over the marsh, visibility is limited to six inches into, or within, it.<br />
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Because they have an aeroplane in the sky directing operations, soldiers can always move as if they can see every other figure, or model, on the table.<br />
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Only Sea Devils may enter the canal, and whilst underwater can only be attacked with hand grenades.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Playing the Game</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Two player game </span> <br />
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Player one - Mr Saxon and U.N.I.T.<br />
Player two - The Sea Devils<span style="font-size: small;">, </span>Sarah Jane and The Brigadier<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Three player game</span><br />
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Player one - Mr Saxon and U.N.I.T. squad in hovercraft<br />
Player two - The armoured vehicle and U.N.I.T. squad in helicopter<br />
Player three - The Sea Devils, Sarah Jane and the Brigadier<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Four player game</span> <br />
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Player one - Mr Saxon and his bodyguard<br />
Player two -U.N.I.T.<br />
Player three - The Sea Devils<br />
Player four - Sarah Jane and the Brigadier<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Five player game</span> <br />
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Player one - Mr Saxon and his bodyguard<br />
Player two - U.N.I.T. squad in helicopter<br />
Player three - U.N.I.T. squad in hovercraft and armoured vehicle<br />
Player four - The Sea Devils<br />
Player five - Sarah Jane and the Brigadier<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Order of play</span><br />
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Sir Alistair's car is parked in the middle of the road with Sarah Jane and Sir Alistair either in it or next to it. In the two player game they may not move until a Sea Devil gets within six inches of them. <br />
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Before the game starts: The player(s) controlling U.N.I.T. and Mr Saxon secretly record which side of the board the armoured vehicle and Mr Saxon's car will enter from.<br />
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<b>Turn One:</b> The Sea Devils enter the board from the sea (obviously) and may make a full move. U.N.I.T. radar detects them and the game is on.<br />
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<b>Turn Two:</b> The U.N.I.T. helicopter may land anywhere except in the sea or in the canal.<br />
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<b>Turn Three:</b> The hovercraft enters the board from the sea.<br />
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<b>Turn Four:</b> The armoured car and Mr Saxon's car enter the board from the directions previously recorded.<br />
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However, as a military operation is going on any civilians found can be arrested for their own safety, which is achieved by a successful 'attack' using Capture or Brawl. Note that for U.N.I.T. Mr Saxon and his bodyguard also count as civilians. <br />
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Mr Saxon may shoot anyone he wants to, of course, and so can his bodyguard if he is with him. He borrow any weapon off a UNIT soldier. The Master may also either drive the tank, or use its weapons, but not at the same time.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"Oh, It's You Sir"</span><br />
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As they have not been given any orders to the contrary, the U.N.I.T. soldiers will obey Sir Alistair once they know it is him. This requires Sir Alistair to be within six inches, if he is in the open, or adjacent to them in his car.<br />
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Sir Alistair may then use his leader ability to activate U.N.I.T. soldiers. Figures thus activated may not be activated again in their next activation phase. U.N.I.T. soldiers will obey any basic order immediately (e.g. 'move over there', 'give me your gun', 'release that prisoner' etc) but more unusual orders, such as 'arrest the Minister of Defence', require the Brigadier to pass an INT test. He cannot order the soldiers to shoot a human being (or someone who looks human and is member of the government) except in the circumstances described above.<br />
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These can be put to various uses subject only to limitations of games master approval and good taste.<br />
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Examples could include:<br />
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<li>Producing a deafening blast of noise in a soldier, or the bodyguard's, headset. This requires a roll of 4,5 or 6 and affects all suitable models within six inches. The victim's are stunned for one turn. This can only be done once (they disconnect the headsets).</li>
<li>Immobilising a car. Again requires a roll of 4,5 or 6, has a range of six inches and is also a temporary effect, but can be repeated.</li>
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The laser screwdriver can also be used as a weapon that inflicts one Hit Point damage (no saving throw).<br />
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The Sea Devils carry out morale tests as normal, but as Sir Alistair's car represents safety they can 'retreat' towards it if they fail the test. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Event Cards</span> </span><br />
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A player may use an event card marked "Hero" or "Monster" if his forces contain at least one model of the correct type.<br />
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In a multiplayre game the cards are dealt as follows:<br />
The Master - one card<br />
U.N.I.T. - one card for each squad<br />
Sarah Jane Smith and The Brigadier - two card<br />
The Sea Devils - one card <br />
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The game ends when all the Sea Devils are dead, or when one has exited the board in the company of Sarah Jane or Sir Alistair.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Aftermath</span><br />
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If Sarah Jane manages to escape with a live Sea Devil a press conference will be hastily arranged at Sir Alistair's house the next day. The ambassador will then give his message of Peace Between Species to a bewildered TV viewing public.<br />
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However, a press release from the Ministry of Defence explains it all as a prank by a retired officer, disgruntled about his pension, a disreputable journalist and a man in a rubber suit. A scandal involving a minor celebrity then dominates the air waves and people quickly forget about the whole incident.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Seventies Version</span></b><br />
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The game can, with a bit of difficulty, be time warped to the classic era of Doctor Who. Sarah Jane Smith will not have her sonic lipstick and Sir Alistair returns to being The Brigadier. Increase the size of the U.N.I.T. squads to 9 men and a sergeant. The Master won't have his laser screwdriver and will be accompanied by Colonel Trenchard, who has a pistol and is effectively under his control.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Notes on models</span></b><br />
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Sands Models used to do a 28mm Griffon 2000 hovercraft, which would have been perfect. instead, I used a Demonscape sci-fi model. Instead of a hovercraft an ordinary landing craft could be used. I don't know of any models of contemporary craft, but a World War Two LCVP, like the one made by Warlord Games, would do as they haven't changed much. However, you don't actually need a model at all and you can just bring the soldiers on from a board edge.<br />
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use a Land Rover with a machine gun on or in it, just make it a rule that the Sae Devils can't shoot at it. However, if you want the heavy metal there are lots of options. I used a 1/48 Challenger tank as it looks scary and one appeared in the TV series. Other options are a Warrior AIFV, made in 1/48 by Airfix, a Scorpion or Scimitar, available in 28mm from Sloppy Jalopy, or a Saxon APC from the same people.The latter is a lot less impressive on the table, but is perhaps more the sort of thing the army would deploy.<br />
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For Mr Saxon's car, anything by Siku is the right scale. He has a choice of Porsche 911, Ferrari GTO, Mercedes SLK, Lamborghini Aventadore, and probably a few more I've missed. I went for the 911 with the big wings as I thought it suited John Simms' protrayal of him best.<br />
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For Sir Alistair you need something a bit more staid and British. Siku do a Range Rover and a Jaguar S Type. If Sarah Jane drives they also do a VW Beetle or Golf and various other more sensible cars.<br />
<br />Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-78701420471670477722011-12-31T04:18:00.000-08:002017-04-17T11:13:36.612-07:00Autons Again!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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Oh no, not again! Once more shop dummies are coming to life across London.<br />
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Fortunately U.N.I.T. are pretty sure who’s behind it and so Colonel Mace and the men plan a raid on Magister Plastics, a company they’ve had their eyes on for a while.<br />
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Unfortunately most of the men needed for the job seem to have been suddenly sent on leave, or posted to Peru or reassigned to the Women’s Auxiliary Balloon Corps.<br />
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This scenario came about from looking at what makes DWMG different from a conventional wargame. Primarily this is this the prescence of The Doctor who can usually wipe out the aliens single handedly with an Invent, travel anywhere he wants to using his TARDIS and survive where others can't using his massive Luck. He is like a sort of Super SAS, and so this scenario makes the Hero player choose whether to use him on a risky behind-the-lines raid or have him support the conventional forces - the sort of decision that a real commander has to make if he has Special Forces in his Order of Battle.<br />
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<li>Colonel Mace and U.N.I.T. are outside the gates of Magister Plastics.</li>
<li>2 Land Rovers</li>
<li>2 U.N.I.T. squads each consisting of:</li>
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<li>1 NCO with personal weapon</li>
<li>4 soldiers with assault rifles</li>
<li>1 soldier with LMG</li>
<li>1 soldier with ATRL </li>
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<li> All U.N.I.T. have pistols, batons, radios and handcuffs</li>
<li>The Doctor and a Companion are in the TARDIS, which is in the Void.</li>
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<li>The Nestene Consciousness is in the factory.</li>
<li>9 Autons are within the factory walls. </li>
<li>Meek, a human lackey, is skulking around.</li>
<li>2 Auton Copy security guards are by the gate.</li>
<li>A couple of Animated Plastic wheelie bins are in the yard</li>
<li>Also in the yard are several barrels of Auton Plastic</li>
<li>A fuel tanker is parked up in the yard.</li>
<li>Boxes, cars and so on provide plenty of cover within the factory walls.</li>
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With three players one plays the Nestine Intelligence and the Autons, one the Doctor and his companions, and the third Colonel Mace and U.N.I.T.<br />
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The Nestine Intelligence gets three event cards, the Doctor Two and Colonel Mace one.<br />
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Carbines - as Assault Rifles but with 15” range.<br />
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The Autons within the factory have orders to guard it and will be facing the main entrance. They may advance, but will not react to anything happening behind them.<br />
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Each turn, after the first, draw a card before rolling for the initiative.<br />
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Each event, apart from the last, can only happen once.<br />
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<li><b>Any Ace</b> - Sea Harrier with 4 bombs now available</li>
<li><b>Black King</b> - Armoured car arrives to help U.N.I.T.</li>
<li><b>Black Queen</b> - Car with 3 Police Marksmen arrives (2 Carbines and 3 Pistols)</li>
<li><b>Black Jack</b> - A Companion joins U.N.I.T. in Bessie</li>
<li><b>Black numbered</b> - TARDIS materialises inside factory</li>
<li><b>Red King</b> - General Fettishaw-Freak (an Auton Copy) arrives</li>
<li><b>Red Queen</b> - Auton Copy Police Inspector arrives</li>
<li><b>Red Jack</b> - A Companion is found a prisoner in the factory</li>
<li><b>Red number</b> - Auton appears from the edge of the board (odd from the left, even from the right)</li>
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General Fettishaw-Freak will order the U.N.I.T. soldiers to cease fire, which they will initially do. Colonel Mace will then have to try to outsmart him with an INT v INT to get them to attack again (“I have orders from Geneva” etc etc). Once the General is beaten U.N.I.T. can then try to bundle him out of the way.<br />
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The Auton Police Inspector can order the real police to leave.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Solutions</span><br />
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The barrels of Auton Plastic can be used to <i>Invent </i>anti-plastic (1d6 doses - each dose causes 1 Hit to Autons or the Nestene).<br />
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The sonic screwdriver can jam an individual autan within 6 inches on 4+, or all the autons for one turn if used on the Nestene Intelligence <br />
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The air strike should take out the Nestene Intelligence.<br />
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If the air strike fails the fuel tanker can be made to explode like a bomb and can be driven into the factory.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Victory Points</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Monster Faction</span><br />
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Factory still under Nestene control - 4 VP<br />
Doctor killed or forced to regenerate - 3 VP<br />
Companion, Colonel Mace killed - 2 VP<br />
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Factory occupied - 4 VP<br />
Nestene Intelligence - 3 VP<br />
Factory destroyed - 2 VP<br />
Each Auton, Auton Copy, Animated Plastic destroyed - 1 VP<br />
Meek under arrest - 1 VPMartin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-24504791703986475552011-12-31T03:59:00.000-08:002012-12-19T09:51:26.651-08:00The ExterminatorFreedom fighters from the future trying to change history pursued by indestructible cyborgs - Doctor Who did it first!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span><br />
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There have been strange goings on at Auderly House. Ghostly intruders appear and then vanish. Several U.N.I.T. soldiers guarding the building have disappeared, however crusty old diplomat Sir Reginald Styles refuses to consider holding the upcoming peace talks anywhere else. Colonel Mace decides it’s time he called in his Scientific Advisor.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Board</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span><br />
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Auderly House is an old house set in parkland and the house is approached by a long curved driveway. The estate is surrounded by a high wall that requires one move and an AGI test to climb over. Inside the grounds are trees, bushes, out houses, a tumbledown folly - meaning lots and lots of cover. The area 6 inches around the house though is grass. Outside is parked Styles’s Armoured Jaguar and a U.N.I.T. Land Rover with an HMG in the back. (Alternatively this could be an ordinary car and an armoured Land Rover, depending on the models available).<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Monster Set Up</span><br />
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The monster player gets to control both the Daleks and their Ogron side kicks, and the Guerrillas. The Daleks and the Guerrillas both want to kill Styles, although for different reasons. The Daleks think he’s a goody who will prevent a nuclear war, the Guerrillas think he’s a baddy who is trying to start one. <br />
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The Daleks will Time travel to Auderly House in three teams, each of one Time War Dalek and two Ogrons. The idea is to bracket the house to avoid Styles slowly getting into his car and driving away, which is where the original attack in 1972 went wrong……..<br />
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The Guerrillas are fewer in number and only have three figures, (John Connor and friends) who must all arrive at once. All have normal human Security Guard stats except for Connor who has Leader (2) and Luck (1). They are armed with Ogron Disintegrator Pistols (Range 12", STR 4, Disintegrator, Pistols) and High Explosives.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Natural Enemies</span><br />
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The Daleks wish to finish off the Guerrillas even more than they want to get Styles and the Guerrillas know this.<br />
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If a Guerrilla finds themselves in line-of-sight of a Dalek or Ogron they will immediately hide in the nearest cover where they cannot shoot. Whilst hiding they cannot shoot and cannot be seen unless a figure comes within 6 inches. (The ease with which they can do this, and the ability of the Guerrillas to slip past U.N.I.T. patrols without being seen suggests the Guerrillas are actually wearing some kind of hi-tech reactive camouflage clothing that can adapt itself immediately to its surrounding - but that is just speculation.)<br />
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If there is nowhere to hide the Guerrillas and Daleks will shoot at each other, regardless of what else is going on. This shooting will be simultaneous.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Heroic Set Up</span><br />
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Styles (Administrator with Luck(1)), his Bodyguard (Security Guard with Bodyguard Special Ability [see below], Body Armour and a Pistol), Colonel Mace, Martha and the Doctor are in the main house.<br />
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To guarding Styles Colonel Mace has team of twelve U.N.I.T. soldiers led by a Sergeant. Each has an Assault Rifle, Grenades, Pistol and Body Armour and a Bazooka is available. Some will be deployed either on their own or in pairs around the grounds keeping watch, at least one of which must be by the front gate and the rest can be in reserve at the main house, ready to be sent where they‘re needed.<br />
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The aim of the game is to keep Styles alive at any cost.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Playing the Game</span><br />
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The Monster player automatically moves first in the first turn. They roll for each of the four time travelling parties and on a 4, 5 or 6 they materialise. Once on the board they have a turn to move or shoot before U.N.I.T. can react. <br />
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Colonel Mace cannot react until he has word of the attack form one of his men who has seen a Dalek, Ogron or Guerrilla, and not been disintegrated for his trouble. He can then, if he wants, try to persuade Styles to leave the building. This takes a whole turn and a U.N.I.T. soldier must be assigned to Styles to see he actually moves, otherwise he will endlessly collect together his papers. Otherwise, unless Styles can actually see Monsters shooting at him, he will stay put.<br />
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Styles can be loaded into either car and as he will hide on the floor it is not necessary for the Heroic player to reveal which car Styles is in if they both drive off at once. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Doctor</span><br />
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Once he comes face to face with a Monster the Doctor will have no trouble working out what’s going on. By making an Invention Breakthrough roll he can re-tune his sonic screwdriver to manipulate the time travel devices and send them back to the 22nd century. This is done in the normal way and the Doctor has to be within 6 inches and requires a roll of 4, 5 or 6. Only one figure can be sent back at a time.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Winning and Loosing</span><br />
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If Styles is shot and wounded by one of the Monster player’s figures then they have won.<br />
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However it turns out subsequently he really was a baddy trying to wreck the peace talks. If it was the Daleks that got him then they have inadvertently changed history and exterminated themselves. That is the problem with low-tech time travel - it creates paradoxes whenever it’s used. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rule Amendment: Vehicles</span><br />
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Obviously this scenario won’t work if U.N.I.T. can just load Styles into their disintegrator proof vehicles and drive him away. <br />
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If a vehicle is hit by a disintegrator gun dice as normal to see if the car or a random passenger is hit. If it is the car, and the weapon’s STR overcomes its DEF (3 for the Land Rover and 5 for the Armoured Jaguar) the vehicle takes a hit. Roll a d6: 1,2; engine damaged, vehicle stops, 3,4; tire punctured, half speed, 5,6; hit on random occupant.<br />
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It can be fixed by a Repair, but you probably won’t have time.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rule Amendment: Bodyguard</span><br />
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The Bodyguard acts as a Blocker to anyone approaching the Principle. Additionally the Bodyguard can screen the Principle from missile fire over a 180 degree ark. Any shots directed at the Principle which are on target hit the Bodyguard.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-89474140737119629722011-12-31T01:00:00.001-08:002018-10-31T07:41:43.044-07:00Day of the Daleks[This is a scenario for the wargame <a href="http://www.drwhominiatures.co.uk/">Doctor Who Miniatures Game</a>]<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Notes</span><br />
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This is probably the scenario I'm most proud of. Games like this, where one side has more powerful forces than the other on the table, are very difficult to balance. However we've played this numerous times and Styles appears to die just about as often as he survives.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span><br />
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There have been strange goings on at Auderly House. Ghostly intruders appear and then vanish. Several U.N.I.T. soldiers guarding the building have disappeared, however crusty old diplomat Sir Reginald Styles refuses to consider holding the upcoming peace talks anywhere else. The Brigadier decides it’s time he called in his Scientific Advisor.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">The Board</span><br />
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Auderly House is an old house set in parkland and the house is approached by a long curved driveway. The estate is surrounded by a high wall that requires one action and an AGI test to climb over. Heroic figures that leave the board are safe.<br />
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Inside the grounds are trees, bushes, an outhouses, a pond and a tumbledown folly - meaning lots and lots of cover. The area 6 inches around the house though is grass.<br />
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Figures can enter or leave Auderly House by the front door with no movement penalty. Figures in contact may shoot in or out via the windows. Using the windows to enter or exit requires one action and an AGI roll.<br />
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Styles’s diplomatic car is parked in front of the house. Round the back is a U.N.I.T. Land Rover with an HMG (<a href="http://theprydonianchapter.blogspot.com/2012/01/small-arms-and-other-rules.html">SFMG if you're using my optional gun rules</a>) in the back.<br />
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Behind the house, on the opposite side of the wall, is a canal with a footpath alongside. At one end of the path is an old tunnel, leading off the board. Figures in the tunnel are out of play until they re-enter the board. As inside the tunnel is pitch black no combat is possible there.<br />
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The monster player gets to control both the Daleks and their Ogron sidekicks, and the Guerrillas. The Daleks and the Guerrillas both want to kill Styles, although for different reasons. The Daleks think he’s a goody who will prevent a nuclear war, the Guerrillas think he’s a baddy who is trying to start one. <br />
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The Daleks will time travel to Auderly House in three teams, each of one Dalek and two Ogrons. One team is led by a gold Dalek Supreme. The idea is to bracket the house to avoid Styles slowly getting into his car and driving away - which is what he would obviously do if the attack was launched from only one side ...<br />
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Both the Daleks and the Guerrillas have a detailed map of Auderly House and so can plan the point of their arrival accurately. However they have no idea who is guarding the place. The Monster player should mark on a sketch map of the board exactly where the three Dalek teams and the Guerrillas are due to materialise, which must be within 6 inches of a table edge, before the Heroic player sets up their figures.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Natural Enemies</span><br />
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The Daleks wish to finish off the Guerrillas even more than they want to get Styles, and the Guerrillas know this.<br />
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If a Guerilla finds themselves in line-of-sight of a Dalek or Ogron they will immediately hide in the nearest cover. Whilst hiding they cannot shoot and cannot be seen unless a figure comes within 6 inches. (The ease with which they can do this, and the ability of the Guerrillas to slip past U.N.I.T. patrols without being seen, suggests the Guerrillas are actually wearing some kind of hi-tech reactive camouflage clothing that can adapt itself immediately to its surrounding - but that is just speculation.)<br />
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If there is nowhere to hide the Guerrillas and Daleks will shoot at each other, regardless of what else is going on. This shooting will be simultaneous.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Not Really Evil</span></b><br />
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The 22nd Century Guerrillas are, of course, not really Monsters, but just mistaken as to what is going on. If the Doctor can get within 6" and make an INT roll he can convince them the Daleks are the real enemy and make the Guerrillas become Hero faction. In the Two Player game control passes over to the Heroic player.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Heroic Set Up</span><br />
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Styles (Administrator), the Brigadier and the Doctor are in the main house. optional Civilians may also be in the house.<br />
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To guard Styles the Brigadier has team of twelve U.N.I.T. soldiers, including a mortar team, plus Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton. Some will be deployed either on their own or in pairs around the grounds keeping watch. At least one must be by the front gate, and another, in his Sunday best, is at the front of Auderly House. The rest can be in reserve near the main house, ready to be sent where they‘re needed.<br />
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The aim of the game is to keep Styles alive - at any cost.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Multiplayer Options</span></b><br />
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For more than two players the Guerrillas become a third faction. Additional players can take the roles of the Doctor, the Brigadier, Yates, Benton and the three Dalek teams.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Playing the Game</span><br />
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The Monster player automatically moves first in the first turn. They roll for each of the four time travelling parties and on a 4, 5 or 6 they materialise. Once on the board they have a turn to move or shoot before U.N.I.T. can react. A team materialising in the tunnel does not need to be put on the board until it emerges. In the three player game the 22nd Century Guerrillas go first, followed by the Daleks.<br />
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The Brigadier cannot react until he has word of the attack from one of his men, has seen a Dalek, Ogron or Guerilla, and not been disintegrated for his trouble. He can then, if he wants, try to persuade Styles to leave the building. This takes a whole turn and a U.N.I.T. soldier must be assigned to Styles to see he actually moves, otherwise he will endlessly collect together his papers. Otherwise, unless Styles can actually see Monsters shooting at him, he will stay put.<br />
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Styles can be loaded into either car, and as he will hide on the floor it is not necessary for the Heroic player to reveal which car Styles is in if they both drive off at once. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">The Doctor</span><br />
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Once he comes face to face with a Monster the Doctor will have no trouble working out what’s going on. By making an Invention Breakthrough roll he can re-tune his sonic screwdriver to manipulate the time travel devices and send them back to the 22nd century. This is done in the normal way and the Doctor has to be within 6 inches and requires a roll of 4, 5 or 6. Only one figure can be sent back at a time.<br />
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If the Heroic player can get Styles off the board in more or less one piece then they have won. Styles goes off and negotiates a peace treaty and the world is safe.<br />
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If Styles is shot and wounded by one of the Monster player’s figures, then they have won.<br />
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However, it turns out subsequently he really was a baddy trying to wreck the peace talks. If it was the Daleks that got him then they have inadvertently changed history and exterminated themselves. That is the problem with low-tech time travel - it creates paradoxes whenever it’s used. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Rule Amendment: Vehicles</span><br />
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Obviously this scenario won’t work if U.N.I.T. can just load Styles into their laser proof vehicles and drive him away. For that reason <a href="https://theprydonianchapter.blogspot.com/search/label/Doctor%20Who%20Miniatures%20Game%20-%20rules">use my optional vehicle rules</a>, rather than those in the main rulebook.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-53530369928129230942011-12-30T12:26:00.003-08:002020-12-07T10:41:46.485-08:00Heavy Metal<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Rules for Armoured Vehicles</span><br />
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Armoured vehicles are complicated and expensive. Tracked vehicles are unable to move long distances on tarmac without damage to themselves and the road, and so will rarely be used in built up areas.<br />
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All armoured vehicles have greatly restricted visablity. Monsters can only be seen if they are directly in front of the vehicle or its turret, unless the commander of the vehicle sticks his head out of the top - which can be a little dangerous for him.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rule Changes</b></span><br />
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Armoured vehicles have most of their armour at the front and so their
DEF is + 1 if attacked from the front quarter. As the rear is less well
protected DEF is - 1 in that quarter.<br />
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Anti-tank weapons like bazookas only do a single Hit of damage to armoured vehicles.<br />
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The <i>Armoured Saving Throw</i> succeeds if the modified d6 roll is greater than or equal to the STR of the weapon.<br />
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There is no saving throw against <i>Advanced</i> weapons.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;">Hits on Armoured Vehicles</span><br />
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All armoured vehicles have multiple Hits, but each loss of a hit point has a consequence. Roll a dice after every hit is lost:<br />
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1,2 - Wheels or tracks hit. Mobility halved until a <i>Repair</i> is carried out. <br />
3,4 - Engine or driver hit. Immobilised.<br />
5,6 - Weapon or cargo hit.<br />
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Note, the crew need to get out to effect repairs. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;">Cupola Machine Gun</span><br />
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In addition to the main armament listed, each of these vehicles has a SFMG (HMG if you're not using <a href="http://theprydonianchapter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/small-arms-and-other-rules.html">my special rules for extra guns</a>) mounted on the commanders hatch. When firing it the commander isn't protected by the vehicles armour and instead counts as a normal target in cover.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Challenger II Tank</span><br />
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These were ordered by Mr Saxon to be used by the army against the Racnoss spaceship, they would no doubt be useful against smaller opponents too.<br />
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<b> Type</b></div>
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<b> Move</b></div>
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<b> DEF</b></div>
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<b> Hits</b></div>
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<b> Armour Save</b></div>
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Tracked</div>
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8"</div>
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7</div>
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3</div>
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+3</div>
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Weapon </div>
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Range </div>
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STR</div>
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Notes</div>
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120mm AP</div>
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60"</div>
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7</div>
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120mm HE</div>
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60"</div>
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4</div>
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4" blast radius, scatter</div>
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Coax Machine Gun</div>
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36"</div>
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3</div>
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Burst</div>
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Only one of the above may be fired in a turn.<br />
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<i>The 1970s equivalent was the Chieftain Tank, which was slower (move 7) and only DEF 6</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">M47 Tank</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgecWIONoUWe46V8F4hDVgHT26oa1jAHRBdHCllJxwi16FqPbWuBtDnp1uDub7gcY9cLAECyEyeVUxkEvDAgI_rbPU2C4kKgCfiUKA1N2u-wPW48fPAEja8Dxd7Z6ZW7smnlZKbJNGIz2rm/s1600/Area_51_Tanks.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="802" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgecWIONoUWe46V8F4hDVgHT26oa1jAHRBdHCllJxwi16FqPbWuBtDnp1uDub7gcY9cLAECyEyeVUxkEvDAgI_rbPU2C4kKgCfiUKA1N2u-wPW48fPAEja8Dxd7Z6ZW7smnlZKbJNGIz2rm/s320/Area_51_Tanks.jpg" width="320" /></a>Appearance: <i>Dreamland</i><br />
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The M47 was the main US battle tank in the early 1950s. In 1958 a squadron was brought in to try to deal with an incursion of Viperox in Area 51. As a tank it wasn't a great success and was quickly replaced by the M48, which has idenitcal stats.<br />
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<b> Type</b></div>
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<b> Move</b></div>
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<b> DEF</b></div>
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<b> Hits</b></div>
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<b> Armour Save</b></div>
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Tracked</div>
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8"</div>
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6</div>
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3</div>
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+2</div>
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<b>Weapon</b></div>
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<b> Range</b></div>
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<b> STR</b></div>
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<b> Notes</b></div>
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90mm AP</div>
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50"</div>
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6</div>
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90mm HE</div>
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50"</div>
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4</div>
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4" blast radius, scatter</div>
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Coax Machine Gun</div>
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36"</div>
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3</div>
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Burst</div>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"></span><br />
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Only one of the above may be fired in one turn. However, below may be fired at the same time.<br />
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<o:p> <b>Weapon</b></o:p></div>
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<o:p><b> Range</b></o:p></div>
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<o:p><b> STR</b></o:p></div>
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<o:p><b> Notes</b></o:p></div>
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<o:p> Bow machine gun</o:p></div>
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<o:p> 36"</o:p></div>
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<o:p> 3</o:p></div>
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<o:p> Burst</o:p></div>
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The cupola mg is an HMG.</div>
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<i>Current US main battle tank, the M1 Abrams, has identical stats to the Challenger II.</i><br />
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<i>The 1950s British equivalent was the Centurian, which has a cupola SFMG and no bow MG</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Scorpion Tank</span><br />
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Appearance: <span style="font-style: italic;">Robot</span><br />
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Called in by the Brigadier to deal with the titular mechanoid, it lasted about 10 seconds before being vapourised - possibly because it was in fact just an Action Man model superimposed in the foreground.<br />
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<b> Type</b></div>
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<b> Move</b></div>
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<b> DEF</b></div>
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<b> Hits</b></div>
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<b> Armour Save</b></div>
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Tracked</div>
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10"</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.4pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
5</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
2</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
+2</div>
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<b> Weapon </b></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-color: windowtext; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-style: solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; border-width: 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.5pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b> Range </b></div>
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<b> STR</b></div>
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<b> Notes</b></div>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-color: windowtext; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-style: solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; border-width: 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.5pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
76mm AP</div>
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50"</div>
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5</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
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76mm HE</div>
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50"</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3" blast radius, scatter</div>
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Coax Machine Gun</div>
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36"</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Burst</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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Only one of the above may be fired in a turn.<br />
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<i>Note: modern versions have had the 76mm gun replaced with a 30mm autocannon (see Fox below)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Fox Armoured Car</span><br />
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Appearance: <span style="font-style: italic;">Aliens of London</span><br />
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A wheeled version of the Scorpion, but armed with a 30mm cannon, it entered service in 1973.<br />
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Seen parked outside Heathrow Airport, which was not particularly useful as the aliens were in Downing Street, and was bit out of place as the Slitheen landed in 2006 and the vehicle was retired from service in 1993. <br />
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<b> Type</b></div>
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<b> Move</b></div>
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<b> DEF</b></div>
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<b> Hits</b></div>
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<b> Armour Save</b></div>
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Wheeled</div>
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10"</div>
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5</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
2</div>
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+2</div>
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<b> Weapon</b></div>
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<b> Range</b></div>
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<b> STR</b></div>
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<b> Notes</b></div>
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30mm Raden Cannon</div>
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50"</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
4</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Burst</div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-color: windowtext; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-style: solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; border-width: 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.5pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Coax Machine Gun</div>
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36" </div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
3</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 115.55pt;" valign="top" width="154"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Burst</div>
</td></tr>
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<br />
Only one of the above may be fired in a turn.<br />
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<i>The 1960/70s equivalent was the Saladin which had six wheels and a 76mm gun like the Scorpion.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Saxon Armoured Personnel Carrier</span><br />
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Appearances: <span style="font-style: italic;">Aliens of London, World War Three</span>.<br />
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Used in the Doctor's 'arrest', this vehicle is then seen parked outside Downing Street.<br />
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It is basically an armoured lorry to ferry troops to the front line and isn't designed as a combat vehicle.<div><br /></div><div>
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<b> Type</b></div>
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<b> Move</b></div>
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<b> DEF</b></div>
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<b> Hits</b></div>
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<b> Armour Save</b></div>
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Wheeled</div>
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10"</div>
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5</div>
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2</div>
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+2</div>
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Weapon - Cupola HMG only, but can carry 10 soldiers in the back.<br />
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This vehicle entered service in 1983. <br />
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<i>The 1960s/70s equivalent was the Saracen APC which carried 8 troops and which could have an HMG in a turret.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Spartan Armoured Personel Carrier</b></span><i> </i><br />
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<span id="goog_789857765"></span><span id="goog_789857766"></span>Appearances: <i>Aliens of London</i><br />
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This is an armoured personel carrier from the same family of vehicles as the Scorpion tank. It carriers 3 crew and 4 passengers, and is usually used for carrying specialist teams around the battlefield, such as anti-tank or anti-aircraft teams. It entered service in 1978.<br />
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One is briefly seen in Aliens of London, accompanying a Fox armoured car. <br />
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<b> Type</b></div>
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<b> Move</b></div>
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<b> DEF</b></div>
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<b> Hits</b></div>
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<b> Armour Save</b></div>
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Tracked</div>
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10"</div>
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5</div>
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2</div>
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+2</div>
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Weapon - Cupola SFMG only<b> </b><br />
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<i>The 1960s/70s equivalent is the FV432. Count this as a tracked version of the Saracen, move 8".</i><br />
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<b>Abreviations</b><br />
AP = Armour Piercing. A solid shell to go through armour.<br />
HE = High Explosive. A shell that goes bang.<br />
Coax = Co-axial. A smaller gun next to the main one.<br />
HMG = Heavy Machine Gun. British HMGs use rifle-calibre bullets and are STR 3. US HMGs are usually STR 4 as they fire bigger bullets.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Models </b></span><br />
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Fortunately gamers have a lot of choice of modern models, both 28mm wargames figures and 1/48 plastic kits. However things are a bit more difficult for the Classic Era vehicles, and a bit of adaptation is required.<br />
<br />
<b>Challenger</b><br />
1/48 kits are made by Kitech and Academy and there is a 28mm version by Empress Miniatures.<br />
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<b>Chieftain</b><br />
Arii do a 1/48 model kit. There used to be a 28mm version by Sloppy Jalopy. Dinky did a one that is about the right scale, but had a massively oversized gun. <br />
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<b>M47</b><br />
French company Verem/Solido do a die cast version that looks about right. Warlord Games do a 28mm version of the almost identical M46 as part of their Bolt Action Korea range. It's successor, the M48, served in Vietnam and is available in both 1/48 scale and 28mm and has identical stats.<br />
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<b>Centurian</b><br />
Warlord Games do a 28mm version as part of their Bolt Action Korea range. There is an old Corgi die cast model that is about the right scale as well.<br />
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<b>Scorpion</b><br />
Sloppy Jalopy do this in 28mm<br />
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<b>Fox</b><br />
The Honourable Lead Boiler Company did this too.<br />
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<b>Saladin</b><br />
The Honourable Lead Boiler Company did one in 28mm, but the Corgi version is pretty much dead on for scale and a nice enough model to use straight out of the box.<b> </b><br />
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<b>Saxon</b><br />
Sloppy Jalopy again.<br />
<b> </b><br />
<b>Saracen</b><br />
The Honourable Lead Boiler Company did one in 28mm.<br />
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<b>Spartan</b><br />
Empress Miniatures do one.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Other Vehicles</b></span><br />
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There are a plenty of other interesting models out there which can be used. Here is a very quick guide.<br />
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<b>Abrams and Leopard II MBTs. </b><br />
These would be used if the aliens landed anywhere except the UK. Stats are exactly the same as the Challenger, although sticklers for absolute accuracy may wish to add an inch to movement.<br />
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<b>VAB and Panhard</b><br />
Aliens invading France will find themselves up against NUIT, the French UNIT. Their equipment could include the VAB, which is the equivalent of the Saxon, and the Panhard AML90, which is like the Fox, but has a gun similar to the Scorpion. Both are availabel as die-cast models by Solido. <br />
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<b>Warrior AIFV</b><br />
Airfix make an excellent kit. As a tracked vehicle it would be less likely to be used in the UK than the wheeled Saxon and Fox. Same stats as the Scorpion, but has a 30mm cannon and carries 8 soldiers.<br />
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<b>Snatch Land Rover</b><br />
A Land Rover but DEF 5. Two soldiers can shoot from cover out of the top.<br />
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<b>Striker</b><br />
A Scorpion that fires anti-tank missiles. See the <a href="http://theprydonianchapter.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/air-strike.html">Air Strike rules</a> for how they work.<br />
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<b>Ferret</b><br />
A 1970s version of the Fox. Has an HMG rather than a 30mm cannon.<br />
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<b>FV432</b><br />
This seems an unlikely vehicle to deploy to an internal security threat, but at least you can get a decent model from Sloppy Jalopy.<br />
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<b>Humber Pig</b><br />
Slightly smaller and older version of the Saxon. No cupola gun.</div>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-37649176788706371612011-12-30T10:55:00.000-08:002017-04-17T10:47:43.858-07:00Modern U.N.I.T. and Armed Police<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPFoVWiT1k2EOGKYGarpX6OIpDo4p8LY94FAi3D1lGdvu7RLbRzQ6zNwXPLw4PQjIU7eyrsvnoG0l1pUNjzTY23S4kPcK7ZI6QNeTi-f68g6GtKlLucdAGczmfsxFP2d3BNkXH6UV0rCh/s1600/sja_unit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPFoVWiT1k2EOGKYGarpX6OIpDo4p8LY94FAi3D1lGdvu7RLbRzQ6zNwXPLw4PQjIU7eyrsvnoG0l1pUNjzTY23S4kPcK7ZI6QNeTi-f68g6GtKlLucdAGczmfsxFP2d3BNkXH6UV0rCh/s200/sja_unit.jpg" width="132" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Twenty First Century U.N.I.T</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">EPISODES</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The Christmas Invasion, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Enemy of the Bane (Sarah Jane Adventures), Planet of the Dead, Death of the Doctor (Sarah Jane Adventures), The Power of Three</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">WEAPONS</span><br />
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All soldiers have the following:<br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> <b>Weapon</b></span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b> Range</b></span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b> Hits</b></span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b> STR</b></span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b> Notes</b></span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Assault Rifle</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 18"</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 4+</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 3</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 2 shots/round</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Pistol</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 8"</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 4+</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 3</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> +1 short range</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Baton</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Melee</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 4+</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 4</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> stuns, 2-handed</span></o:p></div>
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Also available are ATRLs (‘bazookas’).</div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">EQUIPMENT</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Body armour</span> - usual rules apply<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Comm link</span> - all U.N.I.T. personal can remain in radio contact, but can be jammed. Sonic screwdrivers can make the headsets emit a high pitched sound that stuns operators.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Hand cuffs</span> - STR 7. To put them on a resisting opponent requires a successful Brawl. Once cuffed the detained person cannot run or use their arms. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">RULES OF ENGAGEMENT</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">CO19</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">EPISODES</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">World War Three</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">ROLE</span><br />
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CO19 consists of Specialist Firearms Officers (SFOs) who are used in pre-planned operations or who would be deployed to key sites event of a national emergency, and Armed Response Vehicles (ARVs) which are available at all times for emergencies.<br />
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In 2005 SFOs were deployed to 10 Downing Street during the ’Massive Weapons of Destruction’ scare, whilst ARVs were first to the scene after the ‘Plastics Dolls Deaths’ when terrorists dressed as shop dummies attacked shoppers with concealed weapons.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">ORGANISATION</span><br />
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SFOs normally deploy in teams of 15.<br />
ARVs have crews of three.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">WEAPONS</span><br />
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Each occupant of an ARV will carry a pistol. Two carbines are locked in the boot but can only be removed with permission from higher authority. <br />
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SFOs will carry a variety of weapons appropriate to their role. Most will have carbines, a couple may have sniper rifles and some may have Tasers. If they need to enter a locked building one may have a shotgun to use on the door. If responding to a riot some may have Baton guns.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>Weapon <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>Range<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>To Hit<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>STR<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>Notes<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Pistol<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">8”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">4+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">+1 at short range<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Carbine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">15”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">4+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">2 shots/round<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Shotgun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">8”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sniper Rifle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">24”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Aimed shots only<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Taser<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">2”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">4+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Stuns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Baton Gun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">6”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">4+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Stuns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">EQUIPMENT</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Body armour</span> - usual rules apply<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Radio</span> - all personal can remain in radio contact, but can be jammed.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Hand cuffs</span> - STR 7. To put them on a resisting opponent requires a successful Brawl. Once cuffed the detained person cannot run or use their arms. <br />
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<i><b>History</b>: ARVs are a modern invention, but CO19 was around in the seventies when they used Battle Rifles (UNIT Rifles) and Pistols.</i>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-39795915157840720672011-12-30T09:20:00.000-08:002020-04-23T01:30:26.318-07:00Air Strike!
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Air strikes are pretty devastating and should be able to remove most alien threats short of a Time War Dalek army. By far the easiest way to play them is to have the objective of the game to rescue a heroic character from the monsters and then to get clear before the bombs destroy the baddies.<br />
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However if you want to play the whole thing out you can use these rules.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Basic Rules</span><br />
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For a 1970s style air strike using ordinary ‘iron bombs’, like the one that destroyed the Krynoid in <span style="font-style: italic;">Seeds of Doom</span>, use these rules. The type of aircraft is not important. In <span style="font-style: italic;">The Hand of Fear,</span> for example, the aircraft were scripted as Tornadoes, but shown as Harriers on their approach and Buccaneers afterwards.<br />
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If aircraft are available they need to be called in by the senior UNIT officer on the heroic side (‘Greyhound Leader’). To make contact with the aircraft a dice roll is required:<br />
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5 or 6 if using a radio in a backpack or Land Rover<br />
4, 5 or 6 if using the UNIT mobile HQ (‘Trap One’)<br />
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Keep rolling until radio contact is made. Once radio contact is made it can be lost again due to interference, bad weather or alien related meteorological phenomena. Roll a dice every turn and on a 6 contact is lost and you need to roll again to re-establish it.<br />
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If the aircraft are circling nearby waiting to be called in, they arrive the turn after they are contacted. They must then try to find the target. Roll a dice and on a 5 or 6 low cloud or poor visibility has prevented this and they will need to circle round and try again in 2 turns. The aircraft will not bomb if there are friendly forces or civilians within 20 inches of the designated target.<br />
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Aircraft will carry between 2 and 8 bombs. They will drop them in pairs and can make several passes. Only one aircraft a turn can bomb.<br />
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Bombs are powerful, but relatively inaccurate. Each bomb dropped will miss the target by (d6 - 1) x 3 inches. Determine the direction it misses by by spinning a pencil. Bombs have a blast radius of 6 inches. They cause d6 hits and within 1 inch these are at STR 6 decreasing to STR 2 at 6 inches. e.g. if you roll a ‘2’ for the miss distance the bomb inflicts d6 STR 4 hits on the intended target.<br />
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Figures may get a ‘saving throw’ from these hits. They save on a 5 or 6 if lying down, 4, 5 or 6 if hiding in ‘soft cover’ (e.g. in a building) and on a 3,4,5 or 6 if in ‘hard cover’ (e.g. a trench). If in some sort of bunker then the bomb damage is inflicted on the bunker instead and if it is destroyed then the figures inside are hit. An ordinary concrete bunker is DEF 6. A state-of-the-art steel bunker or alien spaceship may be DEF 8.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Doodlebugs</span></b><br />
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A 'Doodlebug' is a World War Two era unguided missile, otherwise known as the V1 'flying bomb'. One was transported through time in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Time Monster</span>.<br />
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As it is launched from hundreds of miles away it cannot be 'aimed' during play and its target and time of appearance must be pre-programmed before the game starts. There districtive sound can be heard the turn before they appearv on the board. <br />
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Doodlebugs are also not very accurate, and so roll to see where it actually lands in the same way as with iron bombs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Rockets</span><br />
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More accurate, but less powerful, than bombs are air to ground rockets, such as the one fired from a helicopter that destroyed the first Viperox battle droid in <span style="font-style: italic;">Dreamland</span>.<br />
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They hit on a 5 or a 6 (hovering helicopters can 'aim'), are STR 6 and have 4" blast radius. Rockets that miss land 1d6" inches away in a random direction. They are usually fired from pods containing 24 rockets.<br />
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Maximum range is 100" and minimum range 24".<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Modern Rules</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiradr10rhkTbhEEpWyGYTqcuAy_RC2gOOgWU2RU1RSd1GGZ_7j1Y5UsQHDPjY3oyn6BiElpSdYEa28xsm2Se7zlM9DhbMI5hDqFhJL1kbdA8No79holLp1bIRDomjXlVyJF9lY05RJgQaM/s1600/UGM-84A.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5691994607402011970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiradr10rhkTbhEEpWyGYTqcuAy_RC2gOOgWU2RU1RSd1GGZ_7j1Y5UsQHDPjY3oyn6BiElpSdYEa28xsm2Se7zlM9DhbMI5hDqFhJL1kbdA8No79holLp1bIRDomjXlVyJF9lY05RJgQaM/s320/UGM-84A.jpg" style="float: right; height: 184px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a>Military technology has moved on in the last 30 years and air forces now use guided weapons. Bombs still go ‘boom’ like they used to, but are more accurate and can be delivered by guided missiles as well as aircraft, such as the Harpoon missile which destroyed Downing Street in <span style="font-style: italic;">World War Three</span>.<br />
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The miss distance for guided weapons is d6 -1 inches. Attacks can be ordered by radio still, but also by computer link, including by <i>Hacking</i>. Guided missiles can’t orbit waiting to be called in like aircraft and so there will always be a delay before one arrives. If the roll for the miss distance is ‘6’ then the missile has malfunctioned and does not arrive at all.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Drones and Attack Helicopters</span> </b><br />
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Drones, such as the ones deployed against the radicalised Zygons in <i>The Zygon Invasion</i>, fly slowly and can be deployed on the table as models. They can fly in 6 inch diameter circles to hold position. Drones carry two missiles that have the power of rockets but hit on a 3,4,5 or 6. They scatter if they miss. The drone can fly away as soon as the missiles are launched.<br />
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Modern attack helicopters, such as the Apache, carry eight such missiles. The 1970s equivalent, the Lynx AH1, also carries eight similar missiles, but has to remain within line-of-sight of the target after firing. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Shooting at aircraft</span> <br />
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This can only be done by weapons that can fire bursts, although you only roll once, and is done at a range of 25 inches. (Assume Daleks lasers have this range when, as Churchill's Ironsides, they shoot at German planes).<br />
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Shooting is at -1. Most aircraft are DEF 5, but modern attack helicopters are DEF 6. They have 2 hits, but damaged aircraft will return to base rather than continuing to attack.<br />
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Anti-aircraft guns, like the 40mm Bofurs seen in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Sea Devils</span>, have a range of 50 inches, hit on a 4+ at ground targets, fire bursts and are STR 4. Similar weapons are fitted to some armoured cars, such as the Fox seen briefly in <span style="font-style: italic;">Aliens of London</span>, but these can’t shoot at aircraft. Most armoured vehicles have a HMG instead to defend against air attack.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Surface to Air Missiles</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqG4bzzccF_rY0ZGfKvOnYRyUREitL7wXgg9tWyMOr_KDje_ZybHsBUXspQdkeXOL6PKg9hsvzc8HXju2nrCTiGW69NEECzLN9mawrJ7jNU1gPYqBCZe1vyxYO2_P77cBd7QNRzthCg9lU/s1600/dwmoe3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692427544677131570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqG4bzzccF_rY0ZGfKvOnYRyUREitL7wXgg9tWyMOr_KDje_ZybHsBUXspQdkeXOL6PKg9hsvzc8HXju2nrCTiGW69NEECzLN9mawrJ7jNU1gPYqBCZe1vyxYO2_P77cBd7QNRzthCg9lU/s320/dwmoe3.jpg" style="float: right; height: 253px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a>Slightly more effective are Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) as used by UNIT in <span style="font-style: italic;">Planet of the Dead</span>. There are two stages to shooting down an aerial target with a missile: first the target must be tracked by the SAM's radar, then the missile must intercept (hit) it. 1970s missiles such as the RAF Bloodhound (used in <span style="font-style: italic;">Mind of Evil</span> as the Thunderbolt missile) can only attack targets that are at high altitude, but modern missiles can attack any target on the table. <br />
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Tracking is normally achieved on a roll of 2+ with -1 for targets that are low, fast or small. If the target knows that it is being tracked it may try to jam the radar signal on a 4+ if it has suitable technology. If successfully tracked a missile may be fired, but the tracking must continue if the missile is to hit. The track can be broken by the further jamming, the target moving out of sight, even if only briefly, or the radar being destroyed.<br />
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If a missile has a nuclear warhead, such as in <span style="font-style: italic;">Claws of Axos</span>, the missile will automatically destroy the target. For missiles with conventional warheads the target gets a saving throw of less than or equal to their AGI. For aircraft, count a civilian plane as AGI 1, drones, WWII fighters and helicopters as AGI 2 and jet fighters as AGI 3. If being attacked by a 1970s missile subtract 2 from the dice roll. The warhead of the missile is STR 6 and does d6 Hits damage. <br />
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SAMs may be used against alien spacecraft such as the missiles, possibly fired from a Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer, used against the Vinvocci salvage ship in <span style="font-style: italic;">The End of Time</span>. Alien warships will probably be able to jam the missile's radar, but if not the size of a spaceship will make tracking automatic. To ensure destruction of large targets missiles will probably need to be fired in salvos. The Type 45 can fired 16 missiles simultaneously and carries 48. It's 1970s equivalent, the Type 42, can only fire two at a time.<br />
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Aircraft may also fire missiles at aerial targets, the process being very similar. If an aircraft is on the targets tail following it, then tracking is automatic. If the target tries to shake the attacking aircraft off a dogfight develops: roll AGI versus AGI to see who wins.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-3481774278361858572011-10-29T06:08:00.000-07:002011-10-29T06:09:02.987-07:00Seven Decades of Science Fiction Books: The EightiesThe eighties, now this is when I started reading sci-fi, so there are going to be some real favourites here. And it was a pretty good decade to get the sci-fi bug really. As well as new books we also had new sub-genres, which is a sure sign of rude health.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivbhKD47MdNIqzVY8FpfobAhA9SkNdtrsR4k0gdwo2Ds9manAhHG99a5zWYuFvEU19hI1q0iPfbCXRrM088JpSLg4BPjFGo-8XiVvG6UWq0OjxrNItPSuMfVOnbwO2taQHB-LAZ4SmpFuJ/s1600/ballad_of_halo_jones.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivbhKD47MdNIqzVY8FpfobAhA9SkNdtrsR4k0gdwo2Ds9manAhHG99a5zWYuFvEU19hI1q0iPfbCXRrM088JpSLg4BPjFGo-8XiVvG6UWq0OjxrNItPSuMfVOnbwO2taQHB-LAZ4SmpFuJ/s320/ballad_of_halo_jones.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635068058128398754" /></a>Firstly the graphic novel really came of age during this decade. Perhaps they should have their own category, but personally I'd rate Alan Moore's <span style="font-style:italic;">V for Vendetta</span> (1982-5), <span style="font-style:italic;">The Ballad of Halo Jones</span> (1984-6) and <span style="font-style:italic;">Watchmen</span> (1986-7), and Neil Gaiman's <span style="font-style:italic;">Sandman</span> (1989-96) as up their with the best novels. <br /><br />Given how visual the graphic novel is it's a bit of a surprise that the film versions have only been mediocre, but I suspect perhaps that's because people underestimate the subtlety of a good graphic novel. They may have pictures, but they still require you to have an imagination, whereas cinema doesn't.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifo0b0lfNZ1vAms4p6-YtvkOajEb3RLxfGM3XrdayhxlVdNudtyUOwReQQvOE7yuTM7pTzMcrvOoaJCJAxEk_OKupcFUCnlNIvgcwrrkR1oJQmP7nk8QBBZDFHvk3VfthesYGQeQwSkXHr/s1600/theanubisgates1sted.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 191px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifo0b0lfNZ1vAms4p6-YtvkOajEb3RLxfGM3XrdayhxlVdNudtyUOwReQQvOE7yuTM7pTzMcrvOoaJCJAxEk_OKupcFUCnlNIvgcwrrkR1oJQmP7nk8QBBZDFHvk3VfthesYGQeQwSkXHr/s320/theanubisgates1sted.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635068882197253602" /></a>A genuine new sub-genre was Steampunk. It's difficult to say when this began, but the novel that brought it to my attention was <span style="font-style:italic;">The Anubis Gates</span> by Tim Powers. A menagerie of weird and wacky ideas including sinister stilt walking clowns and an attempt to catch a body-swapping werewolf by opening a hair removal clinic. It really has to be read to be experienced.<br /><br />Then there was Cyberpunk. I suppose an unbiased list would give this decades award to the book that begins "The sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel." Not really my genre but still, great book. And those of us who've grown up with the Information Revolution sometimes forget how new ideas like this are. When I were a lad sci-fi computers were, at best, avatars of HAL from <span style="font-style:italic;">2001</span>. The one in the original <span style="font-style:italic;">Star Trek</span> seems little better than a Sinclair Spectrum. Arthur C Clarke may have said that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but it took William Gibson to show us how close we were to that point. This may not have been the first cyberpunk novel, that may have been <span style="font-style:italic;">Bug Jack Barron</span> by Norman Spinrad, serialised in <span style="font-style:italic;">New Worlds</span> in 1969, but it in the book that popularised the genre.<br /><br />Another novelty was in Bob Shaw's <span style="font-style:italic;">The Ragged Astronauts </span>, about a binary planet with shared atmosphere, hence interplanetary travel could be accomplished in a balloon.<br /><br />Rather more complex was Gene Wolfe's <span style="font-style:italic;">The Shadow of the Torturer</span>. Set in a future where the galaxy has been colonised but the earth has slipped back into medieval barbarism, the titular hero is a Journeyman of the Guild of the Seeker After Truth And Penitence. The layers of deception laid down by the author are Byzantine in their complexity and nobody is as they seem. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92DOSm2h9F7x-DxasN9rXSSPPajCLjmc9SxMhtMquSguq9c6a5RMJdcvkVL8CV_GdezONIbzNqJUxKfbmVvHe_IWgqe4CxNJN8O7n0qeTfOLHFR79wiEw6GYBtZm92Dm6Qzfv9xeqPj6n/s1600/mythago.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92DOSm2h9F7x-DxasN9rXSSPPajCLjmc9SxMhtMquSguq9c6a5RMJdcvkVL8CV_GdezONIbzNqJUxKfbmVvHe_IWgqe4CxNJN8O7n0qeTfOLHFR79wiEw6GYBtZm92Dm6Qzfv9xeqPj6n/s320/mythago.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635069757237188882" /></a>Another almost winner is a novel in an unlikely location for a science fiction story; a wood in Kent. This is <span style="font-style:italic;">Mythago Wood</span> by Robert Holdstock,a place that is it not only bigger on the inside than the outside, but also a place where myths take physical form. <br /><br />I read the book whilst living in the woods of Newbury during a record cold winter, which probably increased its effect on me a touch, but it is a magnificent and thoughtful book. Alas I have to admit that although you could make an attempt at explaining all this by means of Relativity and Jungian archetypes, I have to ultimately classify <span style="font-style:italic;">Mythago Wood</span> as fantasy and not sci-fi.<br /><br />Gosh that's a lot of worthy winners, and I haven't had time to mention Carl Sagan's <span style="font-style:italic;">Contact</span>, Margaret Atwood's <span style="font-style:italic;">The Handmaiden's Tale</span>, Greg Bear's <span style="font-style:italic;">Eon</span>, Frank Herbert's <span style="font-style:italic;">Dune</span> and many others. <br /><br />Instead I'll skip straight to the winner; <span style="font-style:italic;">Consider Phlegas</span> by Iain M Banks, the first of his Culture novels. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI_W7BIGLX1oLcEOhOr6EaDssNQ3EK1IV_bwgwu1ni_SN4F66KR1al_MR43YnaVZGmnCE_hEZX-ChdNesVSvt7Sf1Jhp2Vx_ne-0P2D1jRdqpHICLKGZtqictczQE2gByblNnHR7ET74xt/s1600/ConsiderPhlebas.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI_W7BIGLX1oLcEOhOr6EaDssNQ3EK1IV_bwgwu1ni_SN4F66KR1al_MR43YnaVZGmnCE_hEZX-ChdNesVSvt7Sf1Jhp2Vx_ne-0P2D1jRdqpHICLKGZtqictczQE2gByblNnHR7ET74xt/s320/ConsiderPhlebas.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635070190957341298" /></a>It is difficult to describe how much I love these books. Firstly here is top notch space opera, lasers, battles, robots, The Works. Secondly we also have something that has largely disappeared from the silver screen - an optimistic, liberal future.<br /><br />Banks's Culture is a strange beast. It is not only Post-Scarcity, it's also post-human. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat has been ditched in place of the Dictatorship of the Artificial Mind. It clearly works, because Banks says it does, but does beg some interesting questions. Do the controlling Minds really have the best interests of human being at heart?<br /><br />And what do those humans (and not quite humans) actually do? Banks describes their spaceships in details. Communist from the inside and Anarchist from the outside, they skip merrily about his stories. However as we only ever get to hear about how the Culture interacts with other civilisations we don't learn alot about the daily lives of its less adventurous denizens. Oodles of sex and drugs are clearly on the menu, but its not clear how they avoid the pointless debauchery of <span style="font-style:italic;">Brave New World</span>. <br /><br />But most of these questions are for the future for in <span style="font-style:italic;">Consider Phlegas</span> we are catapulted into the middle of the best space war since Bob Heinlein passed on as the Culture takes on the Idirans, a bunch of space faring warriors who make the Klingons look like a bunch of boy scouts. <br /><br />We have not yet seen a film version of any of these books, which is probably fortunate, but thanks to his non-sci-fi output Banks has at least received the critical acclaim he deserves, and which previous writers have been denied. As a book of the decade <span style="font-style:italic;">Consider Phelgas </span> could well mark the high point of the genre.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Winner: <span style="font-style:italic;">Consider Phlegas</span> by Iain M Banks (1987)</span>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-42495386102600219452011-10-29T06:07:00.002-07:002011-10-29T06:08:29.865-07:00Seven Decades of Science Fiction Books: The Seventies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-P7uB6_yghNbN9qQPkloFTQa3C1tTQv2IAr254HCsnIbmusYgyG10Mjbu-MWtT-fNyolmlV6vPtZWAtJ_-37gXhQMxHCigzdS1z3cQShod84hXOII0Nt0nS-ynpL88qmLy5bbbSDlO-C/s1600/Niven-Ringworld.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 209px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-P7uB6_yghNbN9qQPkloFTQa3C1tTQv2IAr254HCsnIbmusYgyG10Mjbu-MWtT-fNyolmlV6vPtZWAtJ_-37gXhQMxHCigzdS1z3cQShod84hXOII0Nt0nS-ynpL88qmLy5bbbSDlO-C/s320/Niven-Ringworld.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634436953778597410" /></a>In the sixties the sci-fi novel had managed the quantum leap to serious literary style, but still nobody took them seriously. Still it was a strong decade for the genre.<br /><br />In 1970 Larry Niven gave us <span style="font-style:italic;">Ringworld</span>, an artificial habitat the size of three million earths. Unfortunately it's an idea bigger than his imagination and instead of a thriving civilisation of several trillion people we land in an almost abandoned desert, which is a bit of a disappointment.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo50ysVXMb6Jf6GR6kHDFX01cOyQdY8BJUQKsmgbVyEaK29SImDkc7mREAHpFN8uLRfexm3duYR2S6xgQhcfQ4JE3-0IaUktGFQLVDMIUFbynj1xIcoUj5snkix_rr7cXQg8CjKulknyCh/s1600/Rendezvous.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 191px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo50ysVXMb6Jf6GR6kHDFX01cOyQdY8BJUQKsmgbVyEaK29SImDkc7mREAHpFN8uLRfexm3duYR2S6xgQhcfQ4JE3-0IaUktGFQLVDMIUFbynj1xIcoUj5snkix_rr7cXQg8CjKulknyCh/s320/Rendezvous.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634437287575331746" /></a>Another big concept novel is <span style="font-style:italic;">Rendezvous with Rama</span> by Arthur C Clarke, a welcome return to top form by the British master. Once again though the idea is bigger than novel and once it's all over we are not much wiser about Rama or its designers.<br /><br />One writer who could take the Big Concept and run with it though was Philip José Farmer, who in 1971 gave us <span style="font-style:italic;">To You Scattered Bodies Go</span>, the first of his Riverworld series. Here we had everyone who had ever lived brought back to life and youth for some unknown reason on a specially made planet whose surface is a 20 million mile long version of the Mississippi. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54Imdp6qp96OWqa-nsISTvT-ndQ5d6C1AdMbBfumM0kY501WUCOy7vZ45KMKUP31cvCpT9Hs0jOWEjXfttVH0FNkhI9j2Jqw764zayy3Kwd1_DrpDUQLDZMBh9A7jETRWx3GY6nFuoK9S/s1600/1699-1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54Imdp6qp96OWqa-nsISTvT-ndQ5d6C1AdMbBfumM0kY501WUCOy7vZ45KMKUP31cvCpT9Hs0jOWEjXfttVH0FNkhI9j2Jqw764zayy3Kwd1_DrpDUQLDZMBh9A7jETRWx3GY6nFuoK9S/s320/1699-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634489234356729842" /></a>Eventually pretty much everyone would turn up in Riverworld, from Herman Goering to Jesus. Framer himself even has a cameo under pseudonym. The series would run to five books and an anthology of short stories and although such high concept stuff often disappoints in the final real, Farmer does a pretty good job of bringing it to a conclusion. Basically the Buddhists were right. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-37Cadat9_w9VsQvfakDrgKD38b8WlHz4JO8Yyy5j6L7Xf0lEuT2xOD6Pr4J2ET6kqxHEZf898kJj_rkVt_5OaprX1OvdPPmEO3HEoEAv80a1XcwE5sA3pqTFC0K6aZhCRE1LTRcB_oTl/s1600/sheeplookup.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 199px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-37Cadat9_w9VsQvfakDrgKD38b8WlHz4JO8Yyy5j6L7Xf0lEuT2xOD6Pr4J2ET6kqxHEZf898kJj_rkVt_5OaprX1OvdPPmEO3HEoEAv80a1XcwE5sA3pqTFC0K6aZhCRE1LTRcB_oTl/s320/sheeplookup.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634514972405651474" /></a><br />Meanwhile back in Blighty John Brunner had two more classics left in him. <span style="font-style:italic;">Sheep Look Up</span> gives us a vision of environmental apocalypse with corrupt corporations, a compliant legal system and a President chosen because the "public obviously wanted a figurehead who'd look good and make comforting noises." <br /><br />Then he wrote <span style="font-style:italic;">Shockwave Rider</span>, which looked at the social effects of technology. A natural disaster reveals the truth, quickly suppressed by the authorities, that people are actually happier with less gadgets. The hero then sets out to destroy the corrupt system by means of a computer program that reproduces itself - the first computer virus in sci-fi. I'd dearly love to give Brunner an award, but I will once again have to pass him over.<br /><br />Another writer from the sixties still knocking them out was Philip K Dick, and this decade he produced <span style="font-style:italic;">A Scanner Darkly</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Flow My Tears The Policeman Said</span>. The latter is set in a future police state in which a television star wakes up an finds he no longer exists. Boy, aren't there a few people I'd like that to happen to in real life.<br /><br />Another author I feel guilty about not manging to give a winners medal to is Ursula Le Guin. Having started strongly in the sixties, in the seventies she gave us <span style="font-style:italic;">The World for World is Forest</span>, which is <span style="font-style:italic;">Avatar</span> for grown ups. She also wrote <span style="font-style:italic;">The Lathe of Heaven </span>, a moral tale about being careful what you wish for, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Eye of the Heron</span>, a feminist view of both men who oppress by violence and those who choose to get themselves beaten up by opposing them. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUU-jiq9IkFMT8UCM3flxVwvwBnnD-kePki61a0693PglSmPO6g0o-iM55PK28tc9WYoz1o3LQToR8ZwuGKEMeaX7PmetpUU0G5tSoaOOGJJjt8bTVm__FCYXbgf8US_a0rhvobgAraafF/s1600/leguin_dispossessed.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUU-jiq9IkFMT8UCM3flxVwvwBnnD-kePki61a0693PglSmPO6g0o-iM55PK28tc9WYoz1o3LQToR8ZwuGKEMeaX7PmetpUU0G5tSoaOOGJJjt8bTVm__FCYXbgf8US_a0rhvobgAraafF/s320/leguin_dispossessed.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634522703761897378" /></a>Best of all she wrote The Dispossessed, a political novel that compares a planet split between capitalism, with the anarchists who live on its moon. It's clear where the author affections lie, but fair play to her she gives her opponents a fair hearing and her capitalists are environmentally friendly whilst the authoritarians do seem to actually be trying to be a Dictatorship of the Proletarian. However its the anarchists who are the interesting ones. Two hundred years into their experiment centripetal forces are threatening to create hierarchies and everyone is still dirt poor. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8T1xW6iBev7MHJs3Co_xQKwaGZ0Xl5MznRpTMRQh6WTUdCvmAgQMMvVX0Lr_WrXqbxDjBBBC8znnKZyT_Yyw4aKpBGKktUy9iIhi7_2YUsSHyKnAkOPn3vGryCKxvMgsmxm7xWMtRTUxN/s1600/Hitchhiker%2527s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_bookcover.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 204px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8T1xW6iBev7MHJs3Co_xQKwaGZ0Xl5MznRpTMRQh6WTUdCvmAgQMMvVX0Lr_WrXqbxDjBBBC8znnKZyT_Yyw4aKpBGKktUy9iIhi7_2YUsSHyKnAkOPn3vGryCKxvMgsmxm7xWMtRTUxN/s320/Hitchhiker%2527s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_bookcover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634523792294645202" /></a><br />But my winner is neither a grim prediction of the future or a meditation on political realities, but something completely differnet. Douglas Adams's <span style="font-style:italic;">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</span> is really a radio show, but it turns into a decent book (or decent pair of books really as it makes very little sense without <span style="font-style:italic;">The Restaurent at the End of the Universe</span>.<br /><br />I started my review of the decade by discussing authors who went for the Big Concept, and you don't get many bigger questions than the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. You also don't get many better answers than 42.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Winner: <span style="font-style:italic;">The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</span> by Douglas Adams(1979)</span>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-3553310852002955612011-10-29T06:07:00.001-07:002011-10-29T06:07:20.178-07:00Seven Decades of Science Fiction Books: The SixtiesNow its getting really hard. Heinlein, Clark and Asimov were still busy, the former writing his best stuff. But there were new kids on the block, and a very new style of writing.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPZYqaOSKBFi6VpiS4DtAmcONGTjKn6FxEBnNfEA6NxxXVtpecoVxuKpLV6Ucibp8fKBSCXJv3wQH2BAQpx3Zl-QTKc2dz39y1Y5S-miElIxxgw6-vbvDfscidzmC08J4hgbFUyoXJ95XW/s1600/tumblr_lkq8cwurDf1qii7l6o1_400.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 228px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPZYqaOSKBFi6VpiS4DtAmcONGTjKn6FxEBnNfEA6NxxXVtpecoVxuKpLV6Ucibp8fKBSCXJv3wQH2BAQpx3Zl-QTKc2dz39y1Y5S-miElIxxgw6-vbvDfscidzmC08J4hgbFUyoXJ95XW/s320/tumblr_lkq8cwurDf1qii7l6o1_400.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633924674933280306" /></a>At the heart of this revolution was a British magazine called <span style="font-style:italic;">New World's</span>, especially after Michael Moorcock took over editorship in 1964. It never made any money, and was funded by the success of the Elric books (and apparently by the regular sale of dirty jokes to Playboy magazine written by Christopher Priest), but it helped launch a whole galaxy of sci-fi greats; J G Ballard, Brian Aldis, Harlan Ellison, George R R Martin, Norman Spinrad, John Brunner and Philip Jose Farmer. However when it comes to the best book of the decade I'm torn between three Yanks and a Brit. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiJvVt6Nj76mnHvL69vXfkr1ZM-qqGMetZ0pVlGTPL6Xv5XeQTEbjyzxZR76mJ6igfI6r8aafccbrbRIWFOfUI2wLCarWUJ_wEtKgmsKBWT79FsfNNioQA2xbM5NEivk2U8x8mYeA5mEz/s1600/261754144_c54a0fd61d.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiJvVt6Nj76mnHvL69vXfkr1ZM-qqGMetZ0pVlGTPL6Xv5XeQTEbjyzxZR76mJ6igfI6r8aafccbrbRIWFOfUI2wLCarWUJ_wEtKgmsKBWT79FsfNNioQA2xbM5NEivk2U8x8mYeA5mEz/s320/261754144_c54a0fd61d.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633925014221453202" /></a>Firstly there's Kurt Vonnegut, maybe not <span style="font-style:italic;">Slaughterhouse 5</span>, but the rather better <span style="font-style:italic;">Cat's Cradle</span>. Having survived the fire bombing of Dresden whilst a POW and then been sent to search for survivors using candles made from victims of the death camps, Vonnegut has a certain view on life. However he leavens his grim stories with ironic humour. He also introduced us to the world's best science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout, but unfortunately he's fictional so can't win.<br /><br />Then there's Ursula Le Guin. Best know for <span style="font-style:italic;">Earthsea</span>, her science fiction books are at least as good. Her debut novel, <span style="font-style:italic;">Rocannon's World</span>, gave us Lord of the Rings in space, and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Left Hand of Darkness</span>, and everyday tale of life on a planet of gender-shifting humans in which the king gets pregnant.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFEXYQwnRQ_YXKQ0n_Az5qguCBgqG6tt4bdjMqzqu5xsm4b_6CjJV1dAOaQ1OKRL0Zp5UCtC5wwxDqu4odkDJp9B8lh-fss_jS187U25TBBAQDNGO0WhWhfV5U3UII2mTFQIEKOd1wrCEj/s1600/mikemanhighcastle1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFEXYQwnRQ_YXKQ0n_Az5qguCBgqG6tt4bdjMqzqu5xsm4b_6CjJV1dAOaQ1OKRL0Zp5UCtC5wwxDqu4odkDJp9B8lh-fss_jS187U25TBBAQDNGO0WhWhfV5U3UII2mTFQIEKOd1wrCEj/s320/mikemanhighcastle1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633925311979820594" /></a>The final American is Philip K Dick. Drug addled and by the end of his life arguably clinically insane, his books resemble the decade as a whole: brilliant and revolutionary, confusing and conservative all at the same time. Unlike some of the space operas and nuts-and-bolts sci-fi stories his tales of warped realities and fractured identities have aged well and are as unsettling and believable today as when they were written. His stand out stories of the decade include <span style="font-style:italic;">Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</span>, the book that became <span style="font-style:italic;">Blade Runner</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Man in the High Castle</span>, an outstanding alternative history (or is it an alternative reality?) story.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70sv0GlH-hbyx08032kVECu0gI-gMm5CyLIzSo37wnvKQXJTl1yFAwzG5oJUcgE4N4ShbVjNHL_ZGKSCNtX5a0w5Z55MtlmAek5myfpjvPGOOw4GBqUHurKi1rIjnxibrkvaCSaqcg_UA/s1600/4524568560_7b31fb5cd1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70sv0GlH-hbyx08032kVECu0gI-gMm5CyLIzSo37wnvKQXJTl1yFAwzG5oJUcgE4N4ShbVjNHL_ZGKSCNtX5a0w5Z55MtlmAek5myfpjvPGOOw4GBqUHurKi1rIjnxibrkvaCSaqcg_UA/s320/4524568560_7b31fb5cd1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633925616530700258" /></a>The token Brit is the scandalously underrated John Brunner. He wrote a lot of mediocre storied for money, but he also wrote four absolute classics and in the sixties these were <span style="font-style:italic;">Jagged Orbit</span>t and <span style="font-style:italic;">Stand on Zanzibar </span>. The first gave us a twenty-first century America where arms manufacturers and racial tensions had stoked an arms race in personal weaponry, whilst the second gave a grim vision of the world in the year 2010. This is a planet straining under the weight of 7 billion people, a place characterised by random spree killings, anti-technological eco-terrorists, an obsession with cosmetic beauty treatments and powerful corporations.<br /><br />Picking a winning out of these is going to be tough. <br /><br />Whilst I was planning this blog I was sure <span style="font-style:italic;">Stand on Zanzibar</span> would be the winner. If sci-fi is about predicting the future then the winner has to be Brunner.<br /><br />However he is typical of the decade only in so far as he represents that strand of the New Left who still clung on to rationality whilst everyone else went to discover themselves by meditating in an Ashram in California. <br /><br />But if sci-fi really reflects contemporary themes then it's got to be Philip K Dick. Picking his best book is difficult, but my personal favourite is <span style="font-style:italic;">The Man in the High Castle</span>. Alternative history, life in fascist state, five overlapping sub-plots, a book-within-the-book and a meditation on the nature of reality, Philip K Dick shows us why this was the decade that the sci-fi book grew up and became serious literature. <br /><br />It was also massively ahead of it time. Psychedelia, opposition to the Vietnam War and the whole counter-culture thing were years in the future in 1962. So Dick isn't just a product of his time, he is, as much as Jack Kerouac and the Beatniks, a foretaste of the wackiness and rebellion that was to come. And it was to be quite a trip.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Winner: <span style="font-style:italic;">The Man in the High Castle</span> by Philip K Dick (1962)</span>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-26572616683067960682011-10-29T06:05:00.000-07:002011-10-29T06:06:12.045-07:00Seven Decades of Science Fiction Books: The FiftiesNow it's getting hard.<br /><br />The fifties was when sci-fi really took off. The age of the Atom Bomb and the Space Race people were split into believing we were on the verge of curing all the world's ills, or else that we would blow ourselves to oblivion. In the end we did neither, but we did write a lot of good books. <br /><br />This was the decade that defined sci-fi, and for me four authors stand out.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkfoWGf9kTJtPL8lbgGaUGbjqEJNr5hk9MWAz_rGDDboIkKxdyODRKvWEvzAuAlsxrwVnQwtwhI2J4OazQMLAU1cLjBYGIT0XPeVGk_rZX63y-dQ8o86SJq0273wNf3V_PIrhBix6PIBk5/s1600/bfd0dacebe958450d7886e55aef18dcc-orig.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkfoWGf9kTJtPL8lbgGaUGbjqEJNr5hk9MWAz_rGDDboIkKxdyODRKvWEvzAuAlsxrwVnQwtwhI2J4OazQMLAU1cLjBYGIT0XPeVGk_rZX63y-dQ8o86SJq0273wNf3V_PIrhBix6PIBk5/s320/bfd0dacebe958450d7886e55aef18dcc-orig.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634093353747353890" /></a>Firstly there was Bob Heinlein, an all American right wing individualist nut job, but a first rate writer. <span style="font-style:italic;">Starship Troopers</span> is scarily fascistic, but pretty much gave us the well known <span style="font-style:italic;">Star Trek</span> future of minimal states with massive navies as well as <span style="font-style:italic;">Avatar</span>-style power armour. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq3mAHBpUIBVkwscIksdnkXHXProed_rgLsdBA3sJX0WQ2d9THpSP1vpw4wUWFe3wg9iHlDfUqYwbgfz3b_8AoSUrjR-V1oUPB_9w7IFI5uNXBRZtXBLLTpIJxFev6dJcVRkTsAz5LV7hG/s1600/fahrenheit-451.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq3mAHBpUIBVkwscIksdnkXHXProed_rgLsdBA3sJX0WQ2d9THpSP1vpw4wUWFe3wg9iHlDfUqYwbgfz3b_8AoSUrjR-V1oUPB_9w7IFI5uNXBRZtXBLLTpIJxFev6dJcVRkTsAz5LV7hG/s320/fahrenheit-451.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634093675137517346" /></a><br />Then there was Ray Bradbury, who this decade wrote <span style="font-style:italic;">The Martian Chronicles</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Fahrenheit 451</span>. Bradbury though was more of a stylist than an ideas man, so he only gets the bronze medal.<br /> <br />So this leaves the two giants of the fifties to battle it out: Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke. It's a tough choice, in no small part because both have written an awful lot of guff over the years.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OY3JW7HRmPRSElAlssDth1PzZulotlMp8XxWQ1OQnqvNSKUjfpP9UP83ApPY3jWZAHTxslZvoATN8dGh1ylw02YnQh_nhB_F3zkdxZvvyNM0Kf_ARp97cvGVS0PS7_fhBY9uxX_0p2kB/s1600/foundation.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OY3JW7HRmPRSElAlssDth1PzZulotlMp8XxWQ1OQnqvNSKUjfpP9UP83ApPY3jWZAHTxslZvoATN8dGh1ylw02YnQh_nhB_F3zkdxZvvyNM0Kf_ARp97cvGVS0PS7_fhBY9uxX_0p2kB/s320/foundation.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634093927577326162" /></a><br />Asimov gave us the big picture, the fall and rise of space empires in the <span style="font-style:italic;">Foundation Trilogy </span>, time travel in <span style="font-style:italic;">The End of Eternity</span>, space opera whodunnits in <span style="font-style:italic;">The Caves of Steel</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Naked Sun</span> and robots by the bucket load.<br /><br />Clarke, the man who invented the communications satellite, eventually became the master of the 'nuts and bolts' style of realistic near-future stories. However in the 50s he was writing about broader topics and his great books of this decade are <span style="font-style:italic;">The City and the Stars</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">Childhood's End</span> and the short story <span style="font-style:italic;">The Sentinel</span> - which eventually turned into <span style="font-style:italic;">2001 A Space Odyssey</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0m62vMfzORmI5mcfgIgZwks8zjkUSdZvRITdHbe3BLjNmjNmz7zH7LUJtPBxhTfWpG-HUsCauGubGES0peIVbNulEE8kd-UGqpgnKNH0Is3ib2Sy4mYRppVbszqvYUutKeYjVczO7DPzc/s1600/3854701404_c62a1f01ab.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 198px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0m62vMfzORmI5mcfgIgZwks8zjkUSdZvRITdHbe3BLjNmjNmz7zH7LUJtPBxhTfWpG-HUsCauGubGES0peIVbNulEE8kd-UGqpgnKNH0Is3ib2Sy4mYRppVbszqvYUutKeYjVczO7DPzc/s320/3854701404_c62a1f01ab.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634094343002497458" /></a><br /><br />It's a close call, and I'm tempted to give the award to Asimov's <span style="font-style:italic;">Foundation</span> for the breadth of its vision. However the sheer 1950ishness of a space empire with atomic powered spaceships and a filing system based on microfilm lets it down and, to be honest, it's not that well written.<br /><br />So maybe it's just patriotism, but I'm going to give the award to the Englishman for <span style="font-style:italic;">Childhood's End</span>. Clarke not have predicted the future of space travel, but he did predict the future of sci-fi as he gave us giant alien spaceships hovering over our cities and the world's children being rounded up to give to the aliens fifty years before <span style="font-style:italic;">District 9 </span>and <span style="font-style:italic;">Torchwood: Children of Earth</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Winner: : <span style="font-style:italic;">Childhood's End</span> by Arthur C Clarke (1953)</span>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-51994542275351502592011-10-29T06:04:00.001-07:002011-10-29T06:04:37.138-07:00Seven Decades of Science Fiction Books: The FourtiesFunnily enough there weren't all that many great sci-fi books written in the 1940s.<br /><br />Partly his was because H G Wells died in 1946, a year after the war he predicted had been brought to an end in a flash of heat rather similar to a Martian death ray. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8YI044cq4EUZqJw3wJAyY8brgpqLo7DTttnw8E9-A-iOZWpJ7NUXW1kCV5QBcUBUGFJBeOgAqW1w4z14Amtedy_XZRFrl1gLnWeexRf2OygORZbwJmrrXUqYOu80-vBA0hRQhIh91VyvA/s1600/1984first.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8YI044cq4EUZqJw3wJAyY8brgpqLo7DTttnw8E9-A-iOZWpJ7NUXW1kCV5QBcUBUGFJBeOgAqW1w4z14Amtedy_XZRFrl1gLnWeexRf2OygORZbwJmrrXUqYOu80-vBA0hRQhIh91VyvA/s320/1984first.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634065935819203746" /></a>The winner then is rather obvious. It is of course George Orwell's 1948 taster of what life might be like during the Cold War - <span style="font-style:italic;">Nineteen Eighty-Four</span>.<br /><br />A sombre book made even darker by the fact that Orwell died just after finishing it. It appears to be his last will testament, a pessimistic look back at his life's futile struggle against totalitarianisms from Barcelona to the Blitz.<br /><br />But of course he didn't mean to die when he did. "Don't let it happen" was his motto, and he certainly didn't want anyone who read his book to give up and let Big Brother take over. Optimists have even seen hope in the essay on Newspeak at the back of the book. It's written in the past tense, so does that mean it was written after the time of Big Brother?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrBnkTTdSwbgBBQDgD9ISEOV6SNAzC-BrHTAmIqwJ7QCryaECQ3py8a6HQANpeSLi5Xe0jFj8631QF5f4nG1U2q36XUftbUWWbOAn-zdCCo7BSQCubxwGxXt8zilpGqFPHiCEo1TlxePjt/s1600/83462.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrBnkTTdSwbgBBQDgD9ISEOV6SNAzC-BrHTAmIqwJ7QCryaECQ3py8a6HQANpeSLi5Xe0jFj8631QF5f4nG1U2q36XUftbUWWbOAn-zdCCo7BSQCubxwGxXt8zilpGqFPHiCEo1TlxePjt/s320/83462.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634066833242701314" /></a>Neither was he sure that English Socialism would mutate into IngSoc. His near contemporary essay <span style="font-style:italic;">The Lion and the Unicorn</span> sets out a curious vision of a post-war England after the Revolution in which the judges still wear wigs and the pubs still serve warm beer.<br /><br />Compared to Huxley's globalised world of trivial hedonism and slick advertising, the world of Big Brother seems rather old fashioned. Doublespeak is mere crude propaganda compared to the delights of the Feelies. But Orwell still packs his punch.<br /><br />Maybe the future of 1984 came crashing down with the Berlin Wall, but maybe not.<br /><br />We are still Airstrip One, 'Compassionate Conservatism' and 'Blue Labour' show Doublespeak is alive and well but today called Triangultion. Rupert Murdoch does a good line in Prolefeed and despite the Credit Crunch the Ministry of Plenty is still trying to convince us we've never had it so good. Perhaps today we call the Ministry of Truth Fox News, Room 101 Guantanamo Bay, and as for English Socialism? Well, it has clearly been to see O'Brien and now thinks two plus two equals five.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Winner: <span style="font-style:italic;">Nineteen Eighty-Four</span> by George Orwell (1948)</span>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-83702299332386142772011-10-29T05:42:00.000-07:002011-10-29T05:43:17.944-07:00Seven Decades of Science Fiction Books: The ThirtiesSci-Fi is primarily a literary medium as frankly the pictures are better, so having done Sci-Fi films I thought I'd have a look at books. I've started 20 years earlier as literary sci-fi is at least a decade or two ahead of the cinema.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dsp63BDm7KWxbCVO5w2ZXR1sLIpUUocVHR-2VPJT_nvI2GuyiaFje0Z0-0Ptoro3ckxfrBuWMMMBGJGIXL7dDj7iM9h-3t4JuWL2erFuHBqgiGbcorfZ0b7jijna3jbM3nDt38lcYVut/s1600/51lCMglLR6L.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 209px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dsp63BDm7KWxbCVO5w2ZXR1sLIpUUocVHR-2VPJT_nvI2GuyiaFje0Z0-0Ptoro3ckxfrBuWMMMBGJGIXL7dDj7iM9h-3t4JuWL2erFuHBqgiGbcorfZ0b7jijna3jbM3nDt38lcYVut/s320/51lCMglLR6L.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633763928381809090" /></a>Had a started this list earlier the thirties would have been the first decade since the 1880s not to be won by H.G. Wells, but it would be a close call. Wells published <span style="font-style:italic;">The Shape of Things to Come</span> in 1933, his last great book, in which he predicted a devastating world war beginning in January 1940, and ending with the world run from an air base in Basra. Hmmm.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsRR4B30m36rlQ4YxkUq-THC4CU8jrbeB69QoBQyDewFG16Ry8hqa2mN6hhc42ABU3JlhEQnOyb1IpOpMn1ULNOO9QEpXBg6VMqJ8IEstl6kbWZE4FT4vyMlH4oHHEh4u4yzI-Emh_WQB/s1600/n3463.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsRR4B30m36rlQ4YxkUq-THC4CU8jrbeB69QoBQyDewFG16Ry8hqa2mN6hhc42ABU3JlhEQnOyb1IpOpMn1ULNOO9QEpXBg6VMqJ8IEstl6kbWZE4FT4vyMlH4oHHEh4u4yzI-Emh_WQB/s320/n3463.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633768472399437042" /></a><br />There was also Olaf Stapledon who in 1930 published <span style="font-style:italic;">Last and First Men</span>, a history of the entire future of the human race over the next two billion years and which included in its predictions the prominent death of a British Princess in Paris. He followed that in 1937 with <span style="font-style:italic;">Star Maker</span>, a history of the entire universe. He didn't exactly do kitchen sink drama, and his books aren't exactly easy to read either, but they are dizzying in their perspective.<br /><br />A slightly left field choice would be pulp horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's <span style="font-style:italic;">Shadow Out of Time</span>. Loecraft may have been possibly insane, potentially a Nazi and certainly a bit of a weirdo, but he could write. Most of his work is clearly fantasy or horror, but this book, whilst set in the Cthulhu Mythos universe, can count as sci-fi as its the one about the body swaping, time travelling Great Race of Yith. The final scene where the hero, now back in his own body, discovers an ancient manuscript in his handwriting would make a pretty good Doctor Who scene.<br /><br />However despite the stiff competition I will, rather predictably, give the prize to Aldrous Huxley's <span style="font-style:italic;">Brave New World</span>. The idea of a future that is trivial, uniform and soulless must have seemed pretty boring compared to the grand adventures of Wells and Stapledon. But lets face it - this is what we've got.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhru2CT0iBjEhN1GWTNdnALn3KHoEuqDv9afvuE_b_FIBP_nHZBpY2XCa78Q2ntj6syLb0QIVVz35l0suDHSIUIv96ZwGgNgXZx3GGc7mlmJMiwfq235VdZR8SvxIbfIcfQDQygFs1_nVvD/s1600/63-book-review.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 198px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhru2CT0iBjEhN1GWTNdnALn3KHoEuqDv9afvuE_b_FIBP_nHZBpY2XCa78Q2ntj6syLb0QIVVz35l0suDHSIUIv96ZwGgNgXZx3GGc7mlmJMiwfq235VdZR8SvxIbfIcfQDQygFs1_nVvD/s320/63-book-review.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633769727895281250" /></a>Huxley was a strange chap, and although always described as a dystopia, I suspect he was rather ambivalent about the future he created, at least when it comes to the sex and drugs. His later utopia, <span style="font-style:italic;">The Island</span>, quite a lot of both as well.<br /><br />But that's not the main point of the book. Instead Huxley looked at how industrialisation had changed the workplace, and imagined those forces being set to work on society. He realised that the best best way to hide the truth was not to ban books, but to deluge us with trivia.<br /><br />Huxley released that the prison we need to really fear does not have walls made of the things we hate and fear, but bars forged from the things we crave and desire. The book is hilariously funny in places, but also unrelentingly grim as Huxley describes a world that is shockingly familiar to us. When the hero finally hangs himself, you can see why.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Winner: <span style="font-style:italic;">Brave New World</span> by Aldrous Huxley (1932)</span>Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-74724805305077366272011-10-29T05:32:00.006-07:002011-10-29T05:33:21.569-07:00Six Decades of Sci-Fi FilmsNothing dates like the future, as you can see by this trawl through the best of sixty years of science fiction films. <br /><br />We were going to travel to the stars, be devoured by aliens, replace ourselves with replicants, disappear into cyberspace or be landed with a ship load of space refugees.<br /><br />Instead the shuttle has been paid off, the aliens are silent, the clones don't work, cyberspace crashes if you move too far from the base station and if we don't do something about Climate Change the refugees will be us.<br /><br />But lets ignore grim reality and look to back at the future as presented on the silver screen.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Fifties: The Forbidden Planet(1956)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68mQgCrYjE1k7OLkzRJn5CwpZkdcxTeirU-ZJYPO5LTOrZ1ZImPSSzJnjMEiHlE3J_lpVWmfg0TLJEgbYBVe1Bq0yEzl7yMr67ZWk6TvmwCP8oaTDS1_MN_PusxO7M5iVbiml9kpNS4uY/s1600/FPcapSaucer.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68mQgCrYjE1k7OLkzRJn5CwpZkdcxTeirU-ZJYPO5LTOrZ1ZImPSSzJnjMEiHlE3J_lpVWmfg0TLJEgbYBVe1Bq0yEzl7yMr67ZWk6TvmwCP8oaTDS1_MN_PusxO7M5iVbiml9kpNS4uY/s400/FPcapSaucer.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628562190428964674" /></a><br /><br />Well you know you're in the the fifties when you watch Forbidden Planet. Spaceships that look like flying saucers, computers the size of tower blocks, and women relegated to housework.<br /><br />But what a great film this is. Having grown up int he seventies watching corny CSO special effects on Doctor Who, I couldn't believe a film that looked this good could be made so long ago. As a prediction of the future it is probably pants, but as a vision of how we hoped the future would turn out, it's fantastic. Great style doesn't date, and neither does the look of this film.<br /><br />As a take on Shakespeare its interesting too, with the Krell's supersized superscience replacing magic and a bit of Freud creeping in for good measure to impress pseudo-intellectuals like me.<br /><br />And yes, that is a young Leslie Nielson of Police Squad! as the romantic lead.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Sixties: 2001 A Space Odyssey (1969)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzws-d3CK_dEmz6MPfJ3-QWh4_AiEG41D26KmRWT3Z6ClcdBQ-H8MVsVeD_ihn7kEtLCet-D6nRNV5TqACwIBIczotNs22phjshPj9unMDQVi4aMfP8_qLJ0AmqSxBSVDu-igS05aMI_a/s1600/Discovery1b.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzws-d3CK_dEmz6MPfJ3-QWh4_AiEG41D26KmRWT3Z6ClcdBQ-H8MVsVeD_ihn7kEtLCet-D6nRNV5TqACwIBIczotNs22phjshPj9unMDQVi4aMfP8_qLJ0AmqSxBSVDu-igS05aMI_a/s400/Discovery1b.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628570815194730450" /></a><br /><br />The first time I watched this film I couldn't make head nor tail of it. I then read Arthur C Clark's novelisation and realised it was obvious. I then watched the film again and thought, hang on a minute.<br /><br />And that's what's fantastic about Kubrick's film. He took Clark's nuts and bolts sci-fi story of heroic space exploration and benevolent aliens and turned it inside out. Now the aliens teach the ape-men to make clubs that turn into orbiting nuclear bombs, and the shiny future is full of charmless, corporate yes-men who lie to the public and miss their daughter's birthday. <br /><br />And then there's Freud again. I mean, look at the <span style="font-style:italic;">Discovery One</span>, swimming towards the black hole and then giving us the Star Child. <br /><br />True, you need to be on pot to really want to watch a film this pretentious, this long and this slow, but then this is the sixties and most of the audience apparently were. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Seventies: Alien (1979)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBDtHcMlWinslYtoNH9YbD7BqqjJNhPAK-2hjN-lUes_XZPHlvfeB4Tt64G3aS0tUeMwL92YzR5xwoR6uKpMtO6MEofGMYkUvOJW0KpgqpAO1xgs7iLygaZzUL6rgubuOK0k_S7bPcpOMt/s1600/Alien_%25281979%2529_-_main_cast.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBDtHcMlWinslYtoNH9YbD7BqqjJNhPAK-2hjN-lUes_XZPHlvfeB4Tt64G3aS0tUeMwL92YzR5xwoR6uKpMtO6MEofGMYkUvOJW0KpgqpAO1xgs7iLygaZzUL6rgubuOK0k_S7bPcpOMt/s400/Alien_%25281979%2529_-_main_cast.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628576660602401522" /></a><br />If you were expecting <span style="font-style:italic;">Star Wars</span> then you're reading the wrong blog. <span style="font-style:italic;">Alien</span> is the genre defining film of this decade. <br /><br />Now you could argue that the genre concerned is the slasher movie, but it is a sci-fi movie really. Here we have space not as mysterious and exciting, but as the boring, everyday workplace of a bunch of interstellar truck drivers. <br /><br />Apparently J.G.Ballard was approached to write the novelisation of <span style="font-style:italic;">Alien</span>, but he looked at the monosyllabic dialogue and turned the offer down, only to realise his mistake when he saw the film. You can see where he went wrong though. The script is okay, but it's Ridley Scott's direction and H.R.Giger's designs that make it a classic. <br /><br />And of course Freud is there in bucket loads too, as this alien doesn't just eat you, it impregnates you and you give birth to its off spring. Yuck.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Eighties: Blade Runner (1982)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5DnfwZOtBgZy2qNBmMrpU6slbc8io8EwMGOqe0dcSBGpsrkayKD1jsDWdZCB_G_EuIJSRuZ8nExBZomloMO0k-luvTeDoZsqCRchEom5AJm6mBhSVN_-fueQWmJEu3A6QDPgxJGEJWqpU/s1600/BladeRunner_Spinner.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5DnfwZOtBgZy2qNBmMrpU6slbc8io8EwMGOqe0dcSBGpsrkayKD1jsDWdZCB_G_EuIJSRuZ8nExBZomloMO0k-luvTeDoZsqCRchEom5AJm6mBhSVN_-fueQWmJEu3A6QDPgxJGEJWqpU/s400/BladeRunner_Spinner.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628579637226260562" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Blade Runner</span> almost gets my vote as best movie of all time.<br /><br />Almost, but not quite, and the reason is a rather annoying one.<br /><br />Everyone knows the debate about whether Decker is a replicant. It seems fairly clear director Scott intended him to be, and every time they retouch the film and release a new version this becomes clearer. But, and its a very big but, no matter how they tweak it they can't get round the fact that Harrison Ford was clearly not trying to play a replicant. It's not a bad performance by Ford, but that' part of the problem. His Blade Runner is too human.<br /><br />But Ford isn't the star of th show. That is clearly Rutger Hauer. This is Mr Guinness's finest moment. He is handsome, noble and menacing throughout the film, in the way that only Robert Shaw could equal. He murders his father (Freud again, need I say) bumps off the nice J.F. Sebastian, is really mean to Decker, and then ends the film with one of the best soliloquys in cinema. <br /><br />Ultimately Blade Runner may not amount to a hill of beans, but so well made, well acted and well designed is this dystopian classic that you'll come away thinking it was more profound than Proust.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Nineties: The Matrix (1999)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnGUXZxUsKPRbMyGZ98IyAyo_zrB7igxegrrmo5se68qRNgm1sIdkJWjrMuHkjY0LGSvn824M0vwGbLSvWI6GvMakETimXH4-9_VWBPD7jEUyP5vNElo8TpyYJhyphenhyphen88Z4bcrbvHiuGjze5P/s1600/The_Matrix_Poster.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnGUXZxUsKPRbMyGZ98IyAyo_zrB7igxegrrmo5se68qRNgm1sIdkJWjrMuHkjY0LGSvn824M0vwGbLSvWI6GvMakETimXH4-9_VWBPD7jEUyP5vNElo8TpyYJhyphenhyphen88Z4bcrbvHiuGjze5P/s320/The_Matrix_Poster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628727174714014882" /></a><br /><br />In the nineties computerised special effects arrived and the only limit to what could be shown on screen was human imagination. Unfortunately that turned out to be a fairly serious limitation, and mostly we just got superhero stories, but we did get the Matrix.<br /><br />Okay, so the sequels have reduced the concept to utter silliness, and the idea (and the name) were both nicked from a Tom Baker Dr Who story (1976's <span style="font-style:italic;">The Deadly Assassin</span>), but it was still a jaw dropping film when it came out.<br /> <br />Not that it's an optimistic film, along with the runner up for this decade, <span style="font-style:italic;">Terminator II</span>, it shows a pretty grim future. <span style="font-style:italic;">Alien</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Blade Runner</span> may have shown that the future doesn't hold much for those at the bottom of the social ladder, but these films suggest that the only things that can look forward with optimism are our PCs.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Noughties: District 9 (2009)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFC1cfvAQOmaSInrnRVYR9S_gW8DC56wpaLCYm8hSrXhPhFWThw0BtkbVU37ZNWR8gR1BD-HJ0TD09tgGRMZm5ysH0C8IMbKBAfK6LRry0th20BTbbtoyudt_0q44koVauVTOiIVvbmDnn/s1600/District_nine_ver2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFC1cfvAQOmaSInrnRVYR9S_gW8DC56wpaLCYm8hSrXhPhFWThw0BtkbVU37ZNWR8gR1BD-HJ0TD09tgGRMZm5ysH0C8IMbKBAfK6LRry0th20BTbbtoyudt_0q44koVauVTOiIVvbmDnn/s320/District_nine_ver2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628729594242665394" /></a><br /><br />The special effects continued to get better, but whilst this has revitalised the fantasy genre and TV sci-fi, in the movies it was largely the same backward looking stuff, as epitomised by that vapid rubbish <span style="font-style:italic;">Avatar</span>, which re fought the Vietnam war with ten foot high smurfs three and half decades after everyone else moved on.<br /><br />There were a few exceptions though, and chief amongst them was <span style="font-style:italic;">District 9</span>, a stunningly original South African film. The hero who becomes more humane as he becomes less human, and the alien racism analogy had been done before, although possibly not done better. However the invasion by crap aliens was new. Previously First Contact was either a Very Bad Thing or a Very Good Thing. Here it's just a hassle, another problem for the UN, another opportunity for the evil corporations.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Summary</span><br /><br />So what have we learnt in sixty years of sci-fi films? Well, if this list is anything to go by the optimism has certainly gone.<br /><br />In the fifties and sixties we looked forward to boldly going in search of adventure and excitement, admittedly in the service of some sort of quasi-fascistic state.<br /><br />In the seventies and eighties it became apparent that this Brave New World wasn't for everyone, and that there'd be a lower strata of workers either to be used as alien-fodder for the corporations or abandoned on a dying earth whilst the elite moved to Mars.<br /><br />Then in the nineties the future was given over to the machines, and any aliens we met were in a worse state than.<br /><br />All said, I think I wish I was back in the fifties.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-8239003568284256252011-10-25T02:40:00.002-07:002013-01-02T13:20:17.972-08:00The Best of Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOs2gp02WX_m-AYCXCzKLcTi7c-3Zqzf7tgpAa_PtnacUbkbecrjifmyKcxmoM3ijAN5vMd6F6y28_sCLd2SXw0LdjcqP7Rf8qCDrtVaMQc7KA7fsxlIeddCjJ2S_auEZB7qGm8FJF8jh/s1600/MCGANN_1493740c.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690545812894335634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOs2gp02WX_m-AYCXCzKLcTi7c-3Zqzf7tgpAa_PtnacUbkbecrjifmyKcxmoM3ijAN5vMd6F6y28_sCLd2SXw0LdjcqP7Rf8qCDrtVaMQc7KA7fsxlIeddCjJ2S_auEZB7qGm8FJF8jh/s320/MCGANN_1493740c.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a>Well this should be easy. Paul McGann, the Doctor for one night only. What's his best story then?<br />
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Well, I could cheat and consider media other than TV, in which case I'd go for the animated version of the Douglas Adams story <span style="font-style: italic;">Shada</span> that he voiced.<br />
<br />
But no, I'll have to play fair and nominate the story known only as <span style="font-style: italic;">Doctor Who The TV Movie</span>. This was an attempt to revive the series by setting it in the USA, something it notably failed to do.<br />
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It's
not so much that the story is actively bad, it just has a complete
absence of anything good in it. This is Doctor Who by numbers with lines
such as "Would you like a jelly baby?" (groan), "Don't mind him he's
English" (cringe) and "I'm half human" (roll around on floor going
'nooooooooo!'). <br />
<br />
Eric Roberts makes a passable villain, although he's clearly not The Master, and Daphne Ashbrook makes a passable companion.<br />
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certainly been worse stories on US television, but is it Doctor Who?
Only just. Yes there's a blue box, but where is the multi-layered plot,
the monsters who turn out to have hearts of gold, the moral dilemmas etc
etc. <br />
<br />
But enough of the plot, what about McGann? Well,
before I answer that lest have a quick recap of the debut stories of
the various Doctors. William Hartnell was of course perfect from the
word go, Patrick Troughton's first outing is, alas, lost forever whilst
Jon Pertwee spent most of his first story out cold in a hospital bed.
Tom Baker left us for a while in the TARDIS leaving Sarah Jane to carry
the story whilst Peter Davidson spent most of his debut in a box. The
less said about the intial appearances of Colin Baker and Sylvester
McCoy the better.<br />
<br />
So you'd have to say McGann's debut
performance was probably the best since The First Doctor's thirty three
years earlier. He was The Doctor straight out of the box. Debonair and
romantic, he could have been the best of Doctor Who. Instead he will
remain a one hit wonder.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-42616245550227698332011-10-25T02:40:00.001-07:002013-01-02T13:21:58.555-08:00The Best of Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRIJ7VL5AXLKHw9U03AupUm3Zxc1dthAVdf7AkEnenkLodKkp0uziClpSQ0NsNfGI0X7pRJmlI4CzZi6LWQIHoj61y5zRAha7QbsjcnIhS5_OBusmCrNwJC5B-0iWIvpC5W0mUjmhNSk5/s1600/Seventh_Doctor.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631546084877664994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRIJ7VL5AXLKHw9U03AupUm3Zxc1dthAVdf7AkEnenkLodKkp0uziClpSQ0NsNfGI0X7pRJmlI4CzZi6LWQIHoj61y5zRAha7QbsjcnIhS5_OBusmCrNwJC5B-0iWIvpC5W0mUjmhNSk5/s400/Seventh_Doctor.jpg" style="float: left; height: 393px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 300px;" /></a>If any actor who played the Doctor has grounds for asking for his money back its Sylvester McCoy.<br />
<br />
Originally
recruited to clown around with Bonnie Langford in a series of
embarrassingly bad episodes, it seems he'd been taken on by an
out-of-touch production team to see out the twilight of the series in
some pre-CBBC slot for adolescents who haven't the energy to change
channels. It was so bad you really did want to hide behind the sofa.<br />
<br />
But
then Andrew Cartmell took over as script editor. He couldn't save the
write off that was McCoy's first series, but for the show's 25th
anniversary series he got to work on his Master Plan. Out went the
comedy Time Lord and Bonnie Langford, and in came a darker Doctor and a
companion with a back story.<br />
<br />
Now you can argue that if
you were going to do this you wouldn't really want to do it with actors
of such limited range as McCoy and Sophie Aldred, but that's what
happened and, to be fair to the two leads, they did their best and, if
nothing else, their genuine affection for each other did show through.<br />
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McCoy's second season began with a bang with Ben Aaronovitch's <span style="font-style: italic;">Remembrance of the Daleks</span>,
which took us back to Foreman's Scrap Yard in 1963, gave us duelling
Dalek factions in league with the National Front and introduced us to
UNIT's forerunner The Intrusions Counter-Measures Group.<br />
<br />
The series then went off the rails a bit before coming back strongly with the pointless, baffling but wonderfully surreal <span style="font-style: italic;">Greatest Show in the Galaxy</span>. Don't ask me what it's about, but menacing kites and a killer bus conductor work for me.<br />
<br />
McCoy's
third series though was his best. Four top notch stories and not a bad
episode amongst them. The show had been throwing up at least one utterly
cringe worthy script a year since Tom Baker hung up his scarf, so this
was the best series since the <span style="font-style: italic;">Key to Time</span>. <br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjpdFUCfuYwpwxKi1GdYCohn8FnN0_F41ji7v6r4HyHNcyf1h9-A0KnBbARjMaE5Voowpz9-dhBhgIrLsGd6K8pu1hc581R9m0MXp6sbE9YRnacskKMBBEY_1RVmgb0UyTiTEvNZHA-fd1/s1600/SeventhBrigBessie.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631547252005960690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjpdFUCfuYwpwxKi1GdYCohn8FnN0_F41ji7v6r4HyHNcyf1h9-A0KnBbARjMaE5Voowpz9-dhBhgIrLsGd6K8pu1hc581R9m0MXp6sbE9YRnacskKMBBEY_1RVmgb0UyTiTEvNZHA-fd1/s320/SeventhBrigBessie.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 243px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;" /></a>First there was <span style="font-style: italic;">Battlefield</span>,
a welcome return for UNIT and the Brigadier as they fight an honourable
foe in the form of Jean Marsh's Morgaine and her dimension shifting
knights. Fortunately UNIT are all tooled up with their new ass-kicking
female Brigadier and a range of bullets for all eventualities.<br />
<br />
Then there was <span style="font-style: italic;">Ghost Light</span>, which was very much in <span style="font-style: italic;">Sapphire and Steel</span> territory being set in a Victorian mansion populated by strange characters and evolutionary throwbacks.<br />
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Next we had <span style="font-style: italic;">The Curse of Fenric</span>,
set in Northumberland in World War II and featuring code breakers, a
Viking curse, Russian commandos, vampires, Nicholas Parsons as a
consience troubled vicar, and lots of hints that the Doctor is now 'more
than just a Time Lord'. Okay, so it was a vampire story film <i>during the day</i> due to technical limitations, but it really was on location in the north of England (Yorkshire standing in for Northumbria).<br />
<br />
Finally there was <span style="font-style: italic;">Survival</span>,
in which Anthony Ainsley as The Master finally stops doing a poor
impersonation of Roger Delgado and becomes the feral predator I suspect
he always wanted to play.<br />
<br />
And that was that. Literally. The BBC canned the series and it was all over.<br />
<br />
So what's the best Seventh Doctor story then? Well I'd have liked it to have been <span style="font-style: italic;">Battlefield</span>,
but the pacing is a little uneven thanks to it being stretched from
three episodes to four episode and the knights look cheap (because they
were). Still it was nice to see old Lethbridge-Stewart doing all right,
married to the previously invisible Doris and living in a huge mansion.
How he paid for it I've no idea. Maybe he pocketed a few of the gold
bullets.<br />
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So the winner has to be <span style="font-style: italic;">The Curse of Fenric</span>.
Had it featured a more iconic Doctor and a more iconic monster it would
be a contender for the best ever story, I'm sure. Watching it now I
realise that thanks to Cartmell the jump from the old series to the new
wasn't that great after all.<br />
<br />
With a contemporary theme
(pollution), the Doctor hovering in the background letting his companion
do all the work and poor old Ace gets put through the emotional
wringer, this could have been an RTD script. But whereas the new series
likes to paint it characters in black and white, here we are in shades
of grey again and there is no Ghost in the Machine ending, but instead a
complicated denouement that I would explain to you if only I could
remember it.<br />
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Shortly after broadcast Doctor Who was no more, but at least the old series went out on a high.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-46306127641762352972011-10-25T02:39:00.001-07:002017-01-03T01:33:03.378-08:00The Best of Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPKioPrO3s5CD_AHksg48oDS1RRBdGXpEwFGFnd7bSl9SbySw1whuoa7G-TJg51XNvxt_vEz8UAN548IaL60hyphenhyphen-__KHBrX3-4nuFnjpgjAb-f0PvgZcne67aFnhNtnF-PyLTvgm1U8h40/s1600/Sixth_Doctor.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630327642899205042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPKioPrO3s5CD_AHksg48oDS1RRBdGXpEwFGFnd7bSl9SbySw1whuoa7G-TJg51XNvxt_vEz8UAN548IaL60hyphenhyphen-__KHBrX3-4nuFnjpgjAb-f0PvgZcne67aFnhNtnF-PyLTvgm1U8h40/s400/Sixth_Doctor.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 332px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 250px;" /></a><br />
Colin Baker - he was the crap one right?<br />
<br />
Wrong. He was the loud one, the fat one, the one worst served by the BBC in terms of stories and production values, but he was a pretty good Doctor. Egotistical, boastful, verbose, unpredictable and occasionally violent, he was a bit different from his predecessors. <br />
<br />
Colin Baker got the role on the basis of a scenery chewing performance in <span style="font-style: italic;">Blake's 7</span> and a speech at a wedding. The costume is, admittedly, a disaster, but that was imposed on Baker by John Nathan-Turner, a producer who had really lost the plot by this stage.<br />
<br />
So dressed like a wally Colin Baker had to navigate some of the worst Doctor Who stories ever written. Is there any point in watching? <br />
<br />
Well yes, because of all the actors who flew the TARDIS, none could deliver a comic line better than Colin Baker, and given some of the guff he was asked to act in, you need a good laugh.<br />
<br />
However if I want you to love Colin Baker there's no point in going over episodes like <span style="font-style: italic;">The Two Doctors</span>, in which the welcome return of Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines was ruined by a dull script, or <span style="font-style: italic;">Timelash </span> in which Paul Darrow from <span style="font-style: italic;">Blake's 7</span> returns the favour to Baker by putting in an OTT performance, but looses the battle against risible sets and dire special effects.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZfr08jXVcJXHJQ__i1kKsBRe57Q97QFb2f2pSjDRE9091TzO2NUDpP5qS_7KeiQ8iGjbdzGrq9MqDtbDYl5kmaHpJ8Uqx2ot5YO7EjnHQiZsXQr1qOnBEcUaWx-XA4OpyFbF8GlOrdAjm/s1600/Revelation_of_the_Daleks.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630330040245474962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZfr08jXVcJXHJQ__i1kKsBRe57Q97QFb2f2pSjDRE9091TzO2NUDpP5qS_7KeiQ8iGjbdzGrq9MqDtbDYl5kmaHpJ8Uqx2ot5YO7EjnHQiZsXQr1qOnBEcUaWx-XA4OpyFbF8GlOrdAjm/s320/Revelation_of_the_Daleks.jpg" style="float: left; height: 266px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<br />
Instead lets go straight to the highlight of Colin Baker's brief tenure; <span style="font-style: italic;">Revelation of the Daleks</span>.<br />
<br />
Like all the best Dalek episodes, the metal dustbins are kept in the background for most of the story. Instead we have a complex series of at least five overlapping subplots, set around a cryogenic storage facility for the dead rich.<br />
<br />
Davros is secretly making a new Dalek army from bits of dead humans (hmm, so that's where RTD got the idea from ...). Meanwhile we also have Orsini and Bostock, an errant knight and his squire on their way to assassinate Davros. Then we have the to rival Dalek faction out to get Davros too and whilst all this is going on we have bodysnatchers, some dodgy food production, power struggles in the management structure and a loopy DJ.<br />
<br />
An idea of what we have in store is given when one of the characters comments on recently departed client "<i>I hope we're on time, she's already beginning to froth.</i>" After that the killer lines come fast and furious. The founder of Alternative Comedy, Alexi Sale, plays the DJ, but it's a credit to the rest of the cast, who deliver the blackest of lines with deadly seriousness, that he isn't the funniest. <br />
<br />
The best double act of all though is the Doctor and Peri. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant always sparkled when together. Take the fob watch scene - you have to see it to appreciate it - which shows how good they are at spinning out even the weakest of puns. <br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4iHBAScryDl17d1x95WWnhSQ2GY8SGBqUXV5VNrUkAw3isdqfUqNl-qwo8_o-gVI_DVlG2J9ZS_VPyB6AiGktNX1PNqTnLrjtkO_Cls7cQFuy2WOLSBkT_WsQMkIcB7Kt2Zv0WEJqbB6T/s1600/sixth_doctor__blue__by_klr101-d2yy2qb.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690546937325757906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4iHBAScryDl17d1x95WWnhSQ2GY8SGBqUXV5VNrUkAw3isdqfUqNl-qwo8_o-gVI_DVlG2J9ZS_VPyB6AiGktNX1PNqTnLrjtkO_Cls7cQFuy2WOLSBkT_WsQMkIcB7Kt2Zv0WEJqbB6T/s320/sixth_doctor__blue__by_klr101-d2yy2qb.jpg" style="float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 232px;" /></a>The only down side to putting Revelation forward as his best adventure is that he's barely in it. There's so much going on that he's periferal to most of the story, and in the end Davros's empire more or less falls apart under its own contradictions, rather being brought low by some inexplicable special ability of the Doctor and/or the TARDIS. But that's another reason I like the story - it's realistic, that's how Dictatorships usually end.<br />
<br />
If every Sixth Doctor story had been this good we'd all be singing the praise of Colin Baker as one of the great Doctors.<br />
<br />
Alas they weren't. <br />
<br />
However the Sixth Doctor has gone on to a long and productive second lease of life in books and audio releases, and Colin Baker has had the pleasure of being voted the best audio Doctor of all. He has even, thanks to the animated webcast <span style="font-style: italic;">Real Time</span>, obtained a costume worthy of his character. All of which must be some compensation for being so diabolically treated by the BBC.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-63954728321199905222011-10-25T02:38:00.000-07:002014-12-28T12:38:17.588-08:00The Best of Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1PxiSu75jgYIpqMbY_eyhTrXPDZ0n6LZjlDFXpCrZdWDt-ClNzAWuoeqRjY_jrhFNaFtrGoH6OqT5PxlMqmA6QpKvtulHPhEZMhs2SAHhNhEUPceU6XIdZrVkgv9qZnVbAsvUq6P8ig08/s1600/Fifth_Doctor.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1PxiSu75jgYIpqMbY_eyhTrXPDZ0n6LZjlDFXpCrZdWDt-ClNzAWuoeqRjY_jrhFNaFtrGoH6OqT5PxlMqmA6QpKvtulHPhEZMhs2SAHhNhEUPceU6XIdZrVkgv9qZnVbAsvUq6P8ig08/s400/Fifth_Doctor.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629914484025080066" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 263px;" /></a><br />
<br />
We're now in 1981, and properly into the John Nathan-Turner years.<br />
<br />
Now before I go on I should saw that Doctor Who fans owe a considerable debt to the man who produced the series for the whole of the 1980s. Without him the show would probably have died a death shorty after Tom Baker hung up his scarf, and if that had happened it's hard to see the show eventually coming back in the way that it did.<br />
<br />
However what Nathan-Turner actually did with the show was not good. By executive order he removed all elements of magic, myth and horror, banned his actors from humour or ad-libs, disintegrated the sonic screwdriver, reduced the Doctor to a rather helpless victim of events, and extracted the show from its regular Saturday teatime slot. So with everything that made the show good expunged, I switched off.<br />
<br />
So Peter Davidson isn't my favourite Doctor then. A good actor, Davidson might have made a great Doctor had he been a little older, served with better scripts, and been allowed to play the character the way he wanted to. Choosing the best of the Fifth Doctor stories then isn't going to be too hard, as there are only really two I'll watch again.<br />
<br />
I suppose in passing I should mention <span style="font-style: italic;">Kinda</span>, very meaningful but don't ask me what it means, and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Black Orchid</span>, very atmospheric but a bit ridiculous, but as I've not watched either in nearly thirty years I can't really say more.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkBRQiMGxG7KQ4KBOGSNaIUruzhQFVgfi79XanqX5PTM-mZD7FrjJTpy26bjyQVTSrKWO0m7UjvGhgzeBMTZgfKA-QFjGMlCa-amax-oBEX9RRORt3JmGA_5AoT22I7ocL0S3YoaCMZDh/s1600/Five_Doctors.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkBRQiMGxG7KQ4KBOGSNaIUruzhQFVgfi79XanqX5PTM-mZD7FrjJTpy26bjyQVTSrKWO0m7UjvGhgzeBMTZgfKA-QFjGMlCa-amax-oBEX9RRORt3JmGA_5AoT22I7ocL0S3YoaCMZDh/s320/Five_Doctors.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629914859405335650" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 253px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;" /></a>I'm tempted to give the award to <span style="font-style: italic;">The Five Doctors</span>. The plot isn't great. It couldn't be otherwise really as Terrance Dicks had to cram in so many Doctors and Companions that by the end the latter are reduced to doing nothing more than standing around and shaking hands with each other. But it does have a sparkling performance by Patrick Troughton, an enjoyable turn by Jon Pertwee and Richard Hurndall in the role-of-his-life as the First Doctor. It also has Tom Baker who, even in some out-of-context footage from the aborted <span style="font-style: italic;">Shada</span>, easily out Doctors his successor. <br />
<br />
The story can also claim what may be the best battle scene in the old series, when the Raston Warrior Robot obliterates a cyberman patrol - Doctor Who isn't usually remembered for squirting innards and severed limbs. The cyberman are otherwise total crap in this episode, as they are throughout the 1980s, but they do at least die spectacularly well. <br />
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Considerably better is <span style="font-style: italic;">The Caves of Androzani</span>.
Robert Holmes again comes up with interesting characters and Peter
Davidson actually has some acting to do, possibly because Homes didn't
understand his Doctor and wrote as if for Tom Baker.<br />
<br />
Davidson
starts off in typically wimpish form with lines like; "What do we do
now?" - "Surrender." and "How do we get out of this?" - "I really have
no idea." And he has to be rescued from his own execution by a villain
of all people. However by episode three he seems to have grown some
balls and manages to eventually rescue Peri and save the day. <br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9S_WDvHVFGXcrq4TZfc3hjbTNb_2XIm1nGScAAitC59EsTIuJGM8BhazbgqNSowuzFam0s63LZtrQYZ6k3Gw9Y_9qCHvvjBxTJyLpLJ19iphR4vROFBpfCCp0mPCUX9IspPiGQrSsEAk/s1600/Enlightenment_(Doctor_Who).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9S_WDvHVFGXcrq4TZfc3hjbTNb_2XIm1nGScAAitC59EsTIuJGM8BhazbgqNSowuzFam0s63LZtrQYZ6k3Gw9Y_9qCHvvjBxTJyLpLJ19iphR4vROFBpfCCp0mPCUX9IspPiGQrSsEAk/s1600/Enlightenment_(Doctor_Who).jpg" height="236" width="320" /></a>But even better is <i>Enlightenment</i>. I've had my doubts about including Special Editions with new effects, but as in this case all they've done is replace first rate model work with second rate CGI the difference isn't huge.<i> Enlightenment </i>takes
what the BBC can do well, acting and historical sets, and runs with it.
There are no planet invading monsters just the enigmatic Celestials and
- unfortunately - the Guardians. <br />
<br />
<br />
Lynda Baron (nurse Gladys Emmanuel from <i>Open All Hours</i>)
flirts with Turlough whilst wearing thigh length boots and Tegan is
only mildly irritating. The result is enigmatic and interesting,
something Doctor Who rarely managed during the eighties.Martin Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003428642599537927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396242369798717692.post-9829417540113898562011-10-25T02:37:00.002-07:002013-01-02T13:46:25.666-08:00The Best of Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZSN4cBIqNqAIByE7nx5zL4F7sbYgShYqBPrxpwr3Vjs_EwoFfsyIjTriGrLRI-6-WRnKAcx6_q2GfMdzC_EBkn8DMhyfoEZVojtgnyfuJUy4goqz3R38GqpS4aIOSEQIXLdIG3RdpC4Q/s1600/Fourth_Doctor.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628937375177745378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZSN4cBIqNqAIByE7nx5zL4F7sbYgShYqBPrxpwr3Vjs_EwoFfsyIjTriGrLRI-6-WRnKAcx6_q2GfMdzC_EBkn8DMhyfoEZVojtgnyfuJUy4goqz3R38GqpS4aIOSEQIXLdIG3RdpC4Q/s400/Fourth_Doctor.jpg" style="float: left; height: 322px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 300px;" /></a>Ah, the Tom Baker years, and Doctor Who reaches heights never attained before or since. <br />
<br />
And depths too, to be honest, but we'll forget about that.<br />
<br />
The
curly one started off with a few earth based stories left over from the
Pertwee years, then blasted off into space for a series of Gothic
horror film remakes that are amongst the best of the series. He then
said good by to the earth and ditched his last human companion to search
for the Key to Time. <br />
<br />
Then things started to go a bit
wobbly. They gave the job of script editor to a zany comedy writer - a
very brave move. The seventies then came to an end, Douglas Adams left
to become a demi-god, and a new script editor was appointed to vowed to
end all the "late sixties hippie ideas derived form Third World
cultures" which had infested the series. Arguably it was all downhill
from there.<br />
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But back to the highlights, and what a lot there are. <br />
<br />
There's <span style="font-style: italic;">Terror of the Zygons</span> with its atmospheric Scottishness, although it does have a terrible CSO monster and the Brigadier in kilt. Not good.<br />
<br />
Then there are the best of the horror remakes; <span style="font-style: italic;">The Pyramids of Mars and The Brain of Morbius,</span> both of which also have the incomparable Sarah Jane. <br />
<br />
Another near-perfect story is <span style="font-style: italic;">The Robots of Death.</span> Agatha Christie in space with a claustrophobic setting and wonderfully scary Regency-style robots.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkJ0Psz-xEGYvKHWIMIzHz9-YQaK14SWi9Px3qJgJwtbY20PdkXZ_1OjjQVOQbn1L_0w2xeUKUph3ioSNQ-SKgMcn5ZoXN3Xfu3y3n8oNw8oETt-Y7FZbFH9uqnUVgZhzLSv82qxv2o3yQ/s1600/Talons_of_Weng_Chiang.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628939730301271778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkJ0Psz-xEGYvKHWIMIzHz9-YQaK14SWi9Px3qJgJwtbY20PdkXZ_1OjjQVOQbn1L_0w2xeUKUph3ioSNQ-SKgMcn5ZoXN3Xfu3y3n8oNw8oETt-Y7FZbFH9uqnUVgZhzLSv82qxv2o3yQ/s320/Talons_of_Weng_Chiang.jpg" style="float: left; height: 245px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">The Talons of Weng Chiang</span>,
a tribute to the best of Victorian noire is another near winner. A
collection of cliches from swirling fogs to inscrutable Chinese, giant
rats in the sewers and sneaky oriental assassins, it also has some of
Robert Holmes's most sparkling dialogue, not just from the Doctor and
Leila, but also from a great cast of supporting characters. Brilliant
stuff.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLUdGGLzn8cn7hCpNmJhkg9eU7CPujPtp5VRehiBvh7_dl-s4Ez7TGz5jBT0Z8uP4VD674L7L12PJHJxmbfPd6JDzBaywwPUGk8TOWfmMIp-z6VUsn69wmS9CttOSOaKNLkiW0Wh6aGHdR/s1600/marytamm1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629099657268233554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLUdGGLzn8cn7hCpNmJhkg9eU7CPujPtp5VRehiBvh7_dl-s4Ez7TGz5jBT0Z8uP4VD674L7L12PJHJxmbfPd6JDzBaywwPUGk8TOWfmMIp-z6VUsn69wmS9CttOSOaKNLkiW0Wh6aGHdR/s320/marytamm1.jpg" style="float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a>The
Key to Time was an interesting concept for the next series. Alas, it
didn't produce any classic episodes, but Mary Tamm looked superb and
easily gets the prize of best dressed companion. If her Ice Maiden
costume doesn't tickle your fancy, then just look at her mock-Medieval
outfit for <span style="font-style: italic;">The Androids of Tara.</span> personally I think Tom Baker (and Richard Dawkins) married the wrong Romana.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5xHvtOTuNP0FEI1YWyHm11jGhaQvUVNfG_9fnV3WMFI2wAoHiTQxg5aTkjd9yhzULc1GH4TtkY9DjtWczMbEv5Of1uw78MmLdbUBIhbLgPBjW7Al_I2Ynt83Mk1njVzYzsqj8Ewc9QHG/s1600/tammm09.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628936970837115026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5xHvtOTuNP0FEI1YWyHm11jGhaQvUVNfG_9fnV3WMFI2wAoHiTQxg5aTkjd9yhzULc1GH4TtkY9DjtWczMbEv5Of1uw78MmLdbUBIhbLgPBjW7Al_I2Ynt83Mk1njVzYzsqj8Ewc9QHG/s320/tammm09.jpg" style="float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 203px;" /></a><br />
The
Douglas Adams years tend to divide fans, and I'm not completely in the
camp that thinks he was the best thing that ever happened to Who, but <span style="font-style: italic;">The City of Death</span> is very funny, very stylish thanks to being shot in Paris, and actually a very original idea. <br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Shada</span>
doesn't count as it was never broadcast, but I also suspect it wouldn't
have been as great as many fans expect. I mean, it includes the Doctor
on a bicycle being chased by a flying globe. How rubbish would that have
been?<br />
<br />
As I've said, Tom Baker's last season was a bit uneven, but there's he no doubt he went out on a high. <span style="font-style: italic;">Logopolis </span>
is an interesting story, as The Doctor comes up against his most deadly
enemy to date, namely entropy. Baker acts his socks off here, and the
final fall from Jodrell bank is a fittingly dramatic way for it all to
end. <br />
<br />
So what's the best of the Fourth Doctor then?<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMMQOG9Z7kfLwNK1J82Ogdi1OvmpwpvDO1YR6ySia8ze_SfO2NlkA1f7IQmWqw3-h5cLTMT1R0LOOJR4remlonnCJGs0yn5UlJK5jXA1n356PeXadF3erVEMgGHq-7WJhjRxYxGMN68zx/s1600/Genesis_of_the_Daleks.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629100312599168306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMMQOG9Z7kfLwNK1J82Ogdi1OvmpwpvDO1YR6ySia8ze_SfO2NlkA1f7IQmWqw3-h5cLTMT1R0LOOJR4remlonnCJGs0yn5UlJK5jXA1n356PeXadF3erVEMgGHq-7WJhjRxYxGMN68zx/s320/Genesis_of_the_Daleks.jpg" style="float: left; height: 237px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a>Well it was almost <span style="font-style: italic;">The Genesis of the Daleks</span>.
Here we have Doctor Who at its peak: Tom Baker, Liz Sladen, Ian Marter,
a Terry Nation script, the Daleks, Davros, the camp chap from <span style="font-style: italic;">Allo Allo</span> in a minor roll, they're all there.<br />
<br />
Why
doesn't it win? Partly I suppose I've watched it so many times it's
lost some of its fizz, partly its a touch too long, partly I have my
doubts about the point it's trying to make - is genocide really that bad
when we're talking about the Daleks? <br />
<br />
Mainly though its because I prefer dark humour to deep thought. <br />
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The Time Lords had been on the periphery of the Doctor Who universe for a while. We'd had sneaky peaks in <span style="font-style: italic;">The War Games</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Three Doctors</span>,
but now we were going to find out the whole truth. All seeing, all
powerful and supposedly all good, they could have been stupefyingly
boring, but not in Holmes's capable hands.<br />
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Instead of
the vaguely Buddhist ascended masters hinted at before, here we had a
bunch of old fuddy-duddies who can now barely work the technology they
have inherited and who now care more for status and tradition that
science and art. No wonder there are so many renegade Time Lords.<br />
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The
set design is spectacular, the acting first rate and then there's The
Matrix, an idea so good someone else had to make a film about it. <br />
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But most of all what makes it great is the script. With ideas nicked from <span style="font-style: italic;">The Manchurian Candidate</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Porterhouse Blue</span>,
and contemporary references to Harold Wilson's resignation and the
Kennedy assassination Holmes created a masterpiece leavened with his
inimitable dialogue. <br />
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Then there's the ending. The
Master is defeated, Gallifrey is saved, so what do the Time Lords do?
The embark on a cover up of course. Delicious, simply delicious.<br />
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A classic episode from a classic Doctor.<br />
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