England Prevails...: News: Guards Division Rebels

News: Guards Division Rebels

25th November 1988: the crisis in Britain deepened and Civil War loomed as elements of the Guards Division and Household Cavalry Regiments resisted attempts by the Security Service to arrest senior officers in the units as small arms fire rocked London. The rebels subsequently decamped from the capital moving northwards up the M1 towards Leeds with the aim of securing the Royal Ordnance Factory there.

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Haselrigg11 May 2010 at 02:39
Go Guards! I play Parliament for the 1640's but I am an unabashed Royalist for this one!!
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Back in the 1990's James Clay wrote a couple of articles for the SFSFW journal Ragnarok about a contemporary fictional civil war in England. With glasnost in full swing the idea of using existing modern wargames armies on England's green and pleasant shores was hugely attractive, especially with the addition of foreign volunteers joining the battle...

With the popularity of a Very British Civil War set in the thirties, my thoughts have turned back to James' idea and the numbers of green painted modern armour and troops I still had which I had no desire to repaint and send to Iraq or Afghanistan.

So this blog aims to resurrect James' idea, develop the background and give me an excuse to use my 20mm moderns in a temperate war zone.

Finally yes, I did point out to him there was a second (and third) English Civil War in the 17th century but he didn't care so neither will we!