Category Archives: Cold War

‘Going Dutch’: Building a Cold War Dutch Battlegroup (Part 4)

Posted on 25th March 2020 by jemima_fawr

I’ve been side-tracked on other projects just lately and haven’t really progressed with my 15mm Cold War Cloggy army.  However, I recently found some spare models cluttering up space in my locker, so decided to paint them up as 1980s … Continue reading →

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Cold War Polish ATGM Teams

Posted on 23rd March 2020 by jemima_fawr

Of all the articles on this blog, my article on the mechanised infantry of the Polish People’s Army of the Cold War has the most hits by quite a wide margin (closely followed by my series on the Cold War … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 5: The Scenario)

Posted on 12th January 2020 by jemima_fawr

As discussed in the previous articles here, here and here, I decided last year to do a demo game based on the controversial 1978 Cassinga Raid, which was an early engagement in South Africa’s ‘Border War’ in Angola.  I took … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 4): The Game!

Posted on 21st November 2019 by jemima_fawr

At long last, all that research, scenario-writing, model-making and terrain-building finally paid off last weekend as our Carringa Raid game took the prize for Best Demo Game at Warfare 2019!  As regular readers will know, I only do demo games … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 3): Smuggy McSmugface…

Posted on 17th November 2019 by jemima_fawr

I’ll post a proper battle report up later (we actually managed to fully play the game twice, but my phone ran out of photo-storage at the end of the first day…), but the game’s first outing at Warfare 2019 in … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 2 – the Playtest)

Posted on 5th November 2019 by jemima_fawr

As discussed last time, I’ve spent the last few months building the terrain and forces for a demo-game of the Cassinga Raid, with the intention of going around a few of the UK wargame shows, starting with Warfare in Reading, … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 1)

Posted on 4th November 2019 by jemima_fawr

As mentioned in recent posts, I’ve spent the last few months building terrain-boards, painting troops and sticking together aeroplanes for my forthcoming demo game at Warfare 2019, which will be held on the weekend of 16th/17th November, at the Rivermead … Continue reading →

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The Great Angolan Gecko-Hunt (Operation FOX, December 1983)

Posted on 1st November 2019 by jemima_fawr

This week I actually managed to get down to club (the Carmarthen Old Guard) and get a game! 🙂 As previously mentioned, I’m going to be running a demo game of the Cassinga Raid (Angola 1978) at Warfare 2019, in … Continue reading →

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Angola Air Support (Part 2)

Posted on 25th October 2019 by jemima_fawr

As mentioned last month, in November I’ll be putting on a demo game of the 1978 South African airborne assault on Cassinga, during the Angola ‘Border War’.  This scenario requires rather a lot of South African air power, so I’ve … Continue reading →

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NATO Helicopters of the 1980s

Posted on 20th October 2019 by jemima_fawr

Everyone who wargames with model helicopters knows that the bloody things are too fragile to play wargames with, so I do wonder why I persist with collecting the bloody things… However, they do look damn good on the table, so … Continue reading →

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