THE RED GAMBIT SERIES

I have posted a challenge on the FB site.

Create a character of any nationality, complete with a mini-bio and submit it to me on the FB page.

my challenge will be to seamlessly include the best characters in 'Impasse' and maybe beyond.

gee_colin@yahoo.co.uk at August 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM

I have posted a challenge on the FB site.

Create a character of any nationality, complete with a mini-bio and submit it to me on the FB page.

my challenge will be to seamlessly include the best characters in 'Impasse' and maybe beyond.

Is it too late to enter this? I've concocted a chap that might fit in well...

Put it up on the fb page and we will start the comp again mate :-)

I'll have to do it from Korea - I will be going to Seoul in a few weeks, and I can finally get access to facebook again!

Id be interested in this as well, maybe a way of raising money for you ? pay for a minor character or regiment to be named??

No payment required whatsoever. You are no 63 on the site and thats my lucky number so you may suggest a unit to get mentioned or even deeply involved. Hit me with it and I will let you know if its possible.

:)Cheers!!! Well the unit would be a British Armoured one, the 16th/5th Lancers, fought through Italy in WW2 finishing up near Austria at wars end, and occupation force in Schleswig-Holstein, shameless plug really my old Regiment

Somehow I knew you were cavalry lol No problems. I have plans for the 6th Armoured Division so expect to see the 16/5L & 17/21L soon. Ive just written a section concerning the 78th Division, a unit closely concerned with the 26th Armoured Brigade of which your bunch were part. I hope it will be good for you once finished :-)

Thanks, im sure it will be good, just started Book Two, very impressed.

You may recognise the roots of the french-canadian tank crew story in Breakthrough. I heard the rough story once, many years ago, from a chap who served in BAOR. SUbstitute Sherman for Chieftain.

Looking forward to that, I actually attended a warsaw pact exercise once, as an observor, well driver too an observer, and bimbled about Germany for many years pretending to fight WP

An army bod bimbling around Germany at the tax payers expense? Whatever next!

 Regarding the French Tank crew, yes know that story well, sad but true.

I tried to do it justice and describe for the reader the horror of it. I believe that i managed to do a reasonable job, as some feedback I have received gives me the impression that the political boundaires of it all disappeared and it was just a piece on man's fraility and humanity, regardless of the uniform. I hope it wasnt too much of a memory jerker for you.

No, sadly this was not an isolated incident, a stupid one but not isolated, the ways men go, through ways of staying safe is quite suprising, i thought you actually handled that episode quite well.

Oh and a Captain Haines of the 16/5th Lancers would be great lol

ok :-)

Is it too late for a new entry?

Not at all. Give it a go. Bare bones please, so I can hang suitable meat upon the structure lol No guarantees of a central role or similar of course, but some 'reader' characters have played and comtinue to play serious roles in the series. I shall look forward to your effort:)

I have a question. Is it possible to have a female partisan from the Estonian Forest Brothers? I don't know if the Baltics are geographically out of the zone so to speak for Red Gambit. If so I can concentrate on East Central Europe instead. Just curious.