""The Mosque" - Force on Force, OP Firefly" Topic

Another update from our campaign using Force on Force:

April 23 – 8:23.

After US Troops started their advance into El Qualeed in the early morning hours, fighting has started to bog down. The area is crowded with civilians and enemy combatants, but it is hard to determine who is friend and who is foe. Narrow alleys are turned into death traps in no-time and when reinforcements finally arrive on the spot, the enemy has already withdrawn. The further coalition troops advance, the stiffer the resistance gets. Snipers increasingly harass the Soldiers from elevated positions, trying to disrupt their advance. After one particularly devastating sniper attack on a Command-element of the Afghan National Army supporting the attack, Coalition HQ decides to launch an attack to secure the most dangerous sniper-positions.

While some positions – like the local radio tower – are taken out by Helicopters, one of the identified targets is the local mosque with its minarett towering above the city district. In order to win public support, the Command elements decide that an airstrike on the mosque is not feasable.
Instead, mechanized elements are ordered to advance towards the mosque and secure the position.

Read more about the Mission here!

Again, a really tense fight!

Tense is right! Nice AAR.

I love the cardboard boxes, pieces of wood, bits of lichen and a tree or two. It's simple, yet effective.

I'll bet during the game, you don't even notice the lack of details. Brilliant.

David G.
gamerarchitect.blogspot.com

I think that rough and ready board perfectly captures the spatchcock nature of BUA's in that region.

Awesome game.

15mm?

Itīs 20mm, with minis from Elhiem and Britannia and a Trumpeter Stryker in 1/72.

(Sorry for the late answer, I didnīt check for new entries and stumbled over it by chance)