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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 2890439" data-attributes="member: 5328">Glastonbury is in Dorset, which is in the territorial responsibility of <a href="http://www.army.mod.uk/3div/organisation/index.htm" target="_blank">3(UK) Division</a>, the 'Iron' Division. Divisional HQ is at Bulford, Wiltshire. So you are certainly going to need to control the divisional CO, Major-General Graham Lamb, and the divisional headquarters. Now by a bit of a coincidence, the Iron Division is the only battle-ready division in the UK, with three brigades in various army camps around the Salisbury Plain, plus divisional troops. You ought to have everything you need, from light-role infantry to main battle tanks and 155mm field howitzers.He's the soft spot. Do they need him to speak the spell?Infantry with rifles, machineguns, and mortars ought to deal with her.Are his defences good enough to deal with heavy machinegun fire? The sides of Glastonbury Tor are steep and open: I'll make sure that the whole area is in interlocking fields of fire from heavy machineguns as well as the atillery.Eh. I have thousands of bullets. She's toast.The stealth is the difficult part. My biggest worry is that he will leave the others behind, sneak into the garden with the Well and get some water without being seen or heard, waltz up the Tor invisibly, and pull the whole thing off without being spotted. Precautions #1 against him is to fill the Chalice Well with large boulders, pour a concrete cap on top of it, etc. Precaution #2 is to mine St Michael's Tower on top of the Tor.Bad. Can she be jammed or distracted by any known means?Some of those can be bad. I wouldn't mind if he wasted his efforts on combat spells, because he doesn't have enough firepower or survivability to cope with the mechanised infantry I can dispose against him. What worries me is Improved Invisibility. Boulders in the well, concrete on top of it. Command detonated claymore mines in the Well Garden.I evacuate the town of Glastonbury on some pretext. I issue a terrorism alert for the area within, say, twenty miles, set up roadblocks with my armoured infantry, issue descriptions to the police and locals.I send three battalions of light/mechanised infantry to patrol the levels. That is enough to let me keep sixty or seventy eight-man sections patrolling a wide area. Their camps ought to be outside Glastonbury itself.I send a regiment of Royal Engineers to fill the Chalice Well with boulders and set a twenty-tonne reinforce concrete cap over the top of it. While they are at that they can mine St Michael's Tower with a tonne of explosives, and REME can set up a lot of remote surveillance gear on the Well and the Tor.I send a battalion or two of armoured infantry to fortify a belt around the bottom of the Tor: rifle pits, machine-gun pits, and mortar pits. Barbed wire entanglements. Some heavy machineguns will be dug in to concealed locations, with orders to fire only on targets that attempt to climbe the Tor. The Tor itself is not to be occupied, and everyone is to have cover from shell fragments. Heavy mortars are to be manned in shifts, ready to fire missions called by the light infantry patrols.I place my FH 70 howitzers, AS 90 self-propelled guns, and MLRS rocket-launchers 30-40 kilometres away, registered on the Tor, and protected by infantry. After either my infantry reports being infiltrated or something tells me that the well has been dipped, I issue a ready order to the artillery. Then, if anyone steps out onto the Tor, I tell my infantry to hit the dirt and slather the hill with 155mm high-explosive shells and mines and bomblets from the MLRS.Army aviation is on call for flying targets or ground strikes, and I'll have anti-aircraft missiles: Swingfire and what-have you.If the worst comes to the worst, I blow the top off the Tor.</blockquote>

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