Come and Have a Go, if you think you're Lard Enough 2

I've now officially signed up to run a game at the local Lard Day next March, so will now have to sketch out some slightly more detailed plans, if I'm to get my act together in plenty of time. As I mentioned previously, the options are either What a Tanker! or Bag the Hun 2, although from initial impressions there already seems to be a couple of the former on offer. Mark says he doesn't mind which way I go, so I'll be working through both options over the holidays.

If I do a What a Tanker! set of linked scenarios, I think I'll need a USP to make them stand out. I've already decided to have an Operation Blackcock theme, making use of my existing winter terrain with some additional features to give it a Dutch flavour. To make the games different, however, I'm going to introduce AT guns, AT Panzerfaust / Panzerschreck teams, minefields and some 'Funnies'. I think this, along with the snowy terrain, should do the job.

The 7th Armoured Division had it's own Valentine bridging tanks which were deployed to span the numerous waterways in the Roer triangle and also had support from Sherman Flails, which were used to beat a path through the equally numerous minefields. Luckily, S and S Models provide conversion kits for both, which I have ordered and will glue together after the holidays. I just need to work out some rules and then fit them into the scenarios.

If I go down the Bag the Hun route, I plan to use my unpainted mid-war RAF and Luftwaffe aircraft, which will obviously need painting up. I may use the scenario that I was working on for this year's game, a low level shipping strike against a crippled S-Boat, or I may well work out another historical or semi-historical scenario instead. Alternatively, I might go Eastern Front or Winter War and finally get round to painting up my large lead pile of Soviet and Finnish aircraft. 

Who knows?