Bolt Action Unboxing: British LDV Section
July 11, 2017 by johnlyons
This week John and Gianna take a look at the British LDV Section for Bolt Action from Warlord Games.
The British Local Defence Volunteers were made up of those, such as the old and the young, who were ineligible to serve in the regular armed forces. Later known as the Home Guard, they are the inspiration for the comedy TV show "Dad's Army".
The set includes ten figures who, without their uniforms, you can tell was a force made up of local tradesmen and shopkeepers.
Are you old enough to remember Dad's Army?
A cracking and character unit that will suit Operation Sealion as well as Very British Civil War
Thanks very much for the mention, John and Gianna. 😀 Another great video! Indeed we ran an article series on Operation Sea Lion a while back, along with the supporting thread in the History Forums. Here is a link to the last part of the article series, which in turn has links to all the previous parts, if anyone is interested. We take Sea Lion apart pretty thoroughly, and really try to take a look at whether such an invasion could have been staged, and if so, its chances for ultimate success. We also talked about what John was mentioning… Read more »
On the “pre-staged” resistance networks, etc:
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Special Opperations Executive (SOE) was the organisation that handed out the notes. They’re seperate to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS now MI6) what was doing a lot of code breaking, Counterintelligence and propaganda. Also what John said about just doing your bit fighting for your country isn’t necessarily true because the Germans had lists of their own of people to assassinate. You can’t win. The guy in uniform is wearing a WW1 Officers uniform and doesn’t have ranks on it. If you wanted you could paint some Lieutenant Colonel insignia on him and use him as Frank Bourne who was… Read more »
combination of ridiculous and insanely brave, the volunteers were very much there to fight and die, and hopefully take out a few of them beforehand. Locally, volunteers manned air observation positions on the tops of hills here in the Peak District, keeping watch on the bomber moving towards industrial centers like Manchester. Other volunteers were tasked with policing not just the areas around POW camps but guarding work details – my nan has a story when she was young of how the guard fell asleep, leaving an Italian prisoner of war to assault a girl who was passing by. Bizarrely,… Read more »
Thanks , @bigdave ~
Still my favorite “Home Guard” scene, the poor Free Polish fighter pilot who is shot down during the Battle of Britain, successfully bails only to land in a British farm field, where his accent gives the local “volunteers” the wrong idea. 😀 😀 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEcL6SvjuPE
On a more serious note, I completely agree with you. The idea for many of these units wasn’t to “win” or even survive. Much more of a: “Just make sure you take at least one of the bastards with you.”
Great unboxing some really unique models. Who dosent love a handcanonen 😀
About the dark pats of the home army, I think ive heard the term to describe them as the “scaly wags” Im not sure i spelled it correctly, but they where suppose to operate as John described it. Their motto was “Terror by night”
I cant remember where I have seen it. Maybe it was QI or something .