All,
It's 1700 on 10 April 1990, and Team 6-2 has been lying in ambush for over twelve hours. Recently the Cronistrian National Guard (CNG), the communist armed forces in Cronistria, have stepped up patrolling on the northern outskirts of the capital. Lt Trojas, the Cuban Liberation Expeditionary Force (CLEF) Task Force commander, met with MSgt "Tico" Benitez, leader of Team 6-2, to discuss, and they decided to ambush a CNG patrol.
Tico moved his team to the northern outskirts and they took up ambush positions, lying in wait for a CNG patrol to show up. At long last one of Tico's men called out on the intra-squad radio: "contact, enemy infantry, 12 o'clock, 150 meters." Perfect! The enemy patrol was walking directly into 6-2's kill zone. But Murphy made his appearance, and just as the CNG's point man entered the kill zone from the north, a group of approximately a dozen civilians entered the kill zone from the east. "@#$%!!! Stand down, DO NOT engage." Terse moments passed the CNG patrol hailed the civilians, halted them, questioned them, searched them, then allowed them to pass. But as the civilians moved west out of the kill zone, the CNG patrol moved east out of the kill zone…
SPOILER ALERT: an alternate title for this fight could be "TF Rojas' first ass-whoopin' of the campaign."
CLEF troopers (foreground) pressing forward, exchanging fire with the bad guys. To see the disaster, please check the blog at:
linkSo, that's game 1 of 2 from this past weekend, I'll post the other as quick as I can. On a down note, I wasn't able to start my 15mm campaign in South Leon; on a different note, I ended up on the couch watching "The Battle of Britain," and now I've got an itch for some Bag the Hun (just placed an order for some Hurricanes, Ju-87s, Do-117s, BF-110s, and Ju-88s to go with my Spits, Me-109s, and He-111s), starting in France then rolling into BoB.
V/R,
Jack
returns to show us how he painted 
