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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
Rainbow Six, do you know that the Bovington Tank Museum has a WW1 era Rolls Royce armoured car, one of the type as used by the Royal Navy Air Service (who were the pioneers of British armoured car use)? Bovington is a bit of a hike from Portsmouth but with a small landing craft the group could sail into Poole Harbour (all the way to Holton Heath) then follow the railway line to Wool (2km from Bovington)
While other groups would probably loot as many of the modern vehicles as they could, I'm thinking they might ignore a WW1 vehicle.
I'm thinking of the irony (and the potential morale points) of the Portsmouth garrison recovering the armoured car from the museum, repainting it in RN colours and putting it to work (as it is maintained by the museum in working order for parades and ceremonial duties). Although a bit slow by modern standards, it's a very rugged design and with modern tyres would probably be quite agile (it was apparently a good performer in it's day with the tyres of that era)
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Thanks Stainless, I've looked at Bovington a few times, but hadn't noticed that before. In my T2K World Bovington is the most westerly part of HMG's main enclave in the south of England and is occupied by Falcon and Ajax Squadrons of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (I had 2 RTR as the resident Regiment at the Royal Armoured Corps Centre at Bovington Camp at the time of the nuclear exchanges; the Regiment's Cyclops Squadron is also in the UK, but is operating in an infantry role).
The two Squadrons have around a dozen operational MBT's (including some taken from the Tank Museum) plus a number of other lighter armoured vehicles, making them the largest armoured unit in the British Isles in the summer of 2000 (in my T2K World).