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Category Archives: Cold War
My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 1)
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
The Great Angolan Gecko-Hunt (Operation FOX, December 1983)
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
Angola Air Support (Part 2)
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
NATO Helicopters of the 1980s
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
Some Angola Air Support
In November I’ll be doing my first show demo-game for many years at Warfare 2019 in Reading. My original plan was to do a large ‘Cold War Hot’ game based on the book ‘First Clash’ by Kenneth Macksey (the Canadian … Continue reading
“Beware of the Leopard!” (Part 2) – West German Panzers of the 1980s
One of the perennial problems with historical wargaming, particularly when researching a particular army for a specific battle or timeframe, is finding out exactly who was using what and when. In the Industrial Age, it becomes much more than just … Continue reading
‘Going Dutch’: Building a Cold War Dutch Battlegroup (Part 3)
Following on from my previous updates in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I’ve recently added a few more bits and pieces to my 15mm 1980s Cold War Netherlands battlegroup for the (under-development) Battlefront: First Echelon variant of … Continue reading
Some M48 Chaparral SAM Vehicles (Butler’s Printed Models)
Last September I posted here about my first experience of 3D-printed models (SKOT APCs from Butlers’ Printed Models). Since then on the Cold War front, I’ve been working my way through the stack of unmade plastic kits and unpainted lead … Continue reading
LANDJUT 1984: The Defence of Gnissau
The Warsaw Pact’s Northern Front crossed the Inter-German Border two days ago, rapidly breaking through the forward units of the German Schleswig-Holstein Territorial Command, annihilating the 81st HeimatschĂĽtz Regiment and surrounding the 71st HeimatschĂĽtz Regiment in LĂĽbeck. The Danish Jutland Dragoons … Continue reading
‘Going Dutch’: Building a Cold War Dutch Battlegroup (Part 2)
This week I’ve been painting more Cold War Cloggies! As discussed in Part 1, I’m adding a Dutch force to my 15mm Cold War collection and am presently building up models to create an Armoured Infantry Battalion or Tank Battalion Battlegroup circa … Continue reading