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Category Archives: Cold War – Angolan Border War
My ‘Partizan in the Cloud’: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978
This weekend should have been spent schlepping up to Newark for my annual pilgrimage to the Partizan 2020 show, but as with so many events at the moment, Partizan has been forced to cancel. However, they are running the show … Continue reading
See You At Crusade! (unless you spot me first, obviously…)
The car’s all packed and we’ll be heading off in the morning at oh-f@£&-hundred-hours to the Crusade 2020 show in Penarth. So I hope to see a few of you there! 🙂 And the offer still stands: if anyone wants … Continue reading
My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 5: The Scenario)
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
My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 4): The Game!
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
My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 3): Smuggy McSmugface…
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
My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 2 – the Playtest)
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
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
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