Some thoughts for "the wild geese" game at Colours 2025

[Smiley Miley 66]

Martin has kindly invited Myself and Simon to  this years Colours, and put on a game. As we have put on 2 PBI consecutively and AK47 should be out by then we thought ? AK47 game it is ! Simon expressed a wish to do something out of the Film of The Wild Geese ?
So we are going to recreate the "Run to and for the plane!"
So we will have Simon with the "good guys" the Professional Mercenaries.
Myself with the SA border force being the maddened Africans !
So if anyone has any suggestions, ideas, on what we could include or do please comment?
Miles

[Sean Clark]

Ate you going to use Stewarts scenario? It's very well balanced and everytime I've played it, it has ended in a nail biting finish!

[Colonel Kilgore]

Current thoughts are to just focus on the final scene on the ground i.e. the Wild Geese getting from the village to the plane, without getting their rescued prisoner killed.

For armies, we'd be going off piste a little in that it's purely Professionals (Wild Geese) against purely Regulars (the Simba) as per the film. Which will require a little tweaking of existing army lists, while sticking to the force points and principles. All will of course feature in The Mill once we have something that works.

Simon

[martin goddard]

Sounds hippy groovy.

martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

It will be well cool, Martin.

Simon

[Smiley Miley 66]

We found out an interesting fact. In the film the Mercenaries were equipped with British stock of uniform and Arms. But in the book they were equipped with Ak and RPD type weapons !
Miles

[Colonel Kilgore]

Likely because the action was filmed in South Africa, which had better access to British weapons?

Simon

[martin goddard]

I assume all know the origin of wild gees as you may be questioned on it at the Colours show.


Collectively they were known as the 'Wild Geese', a name that evokes pictures of wild-eyed soldiers of fortune who braved the secret voyage from Ireland, donned the uniform of the King of France's Irish Brigade, and charged with levelled bayonets against their English oppressors on the battlefields of Flanders.


martin

[Smiley Miley 66]

I didnt know the full story but I had heard something. Is this the time of ECW or later ?
Miles

[Bankinista]

Cannot say when the "Wild Geese" term/name started but the concept of Irish serving in other armies started much earlier. Osprey do a Wild Geese MAA book.

Derek of Cambridge