"Cuba Libre - Cronistria Fight #5" Topic

All,

It's 1100 on 13 April 1990, and Team 6-1 is on the run. Thirty minutes ago the team, led by Lt "Mikey" Trojas (who is also the commander of the Cuban Liberation Expeditionary Force's contingent in Cronistria), assaulted a building held by the Cronistrian National Guard (the military arm of the Cronistrian Communist Party). The CNG had ambushed a Cronistrian Democratic Militia (CDM) patrol and captured a key lieutenant. So key, in fact, that the leader of the Cronstrian Democrats, Andraz Gregor, personally asked for Lt Trojas' assistance in recovering the man.

So Mikey led his team to the target building and rescued the CDM Lieutenant. One of the men, Badger, had been hit, but Slate patched him up and he was quickly back in action. Which was a good thing: Team 6-1 began to exfiltrate to the southwest, and had only been moving (on foot) for approximately ten minutes when the sound of vehicles was heard to the northeast. It quickly became apparent the team was being pursued.

CLEF commandos dash across the bridge (bottom right) while trading fire with Serbian commandos (top left). To see how the fight turned out, please check the blog at:
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So, a helluva fight! I didn't play any games this past weekend, but I played two games on Monday, and my plan is to play two games each day until I go back to work on 4 January. We'll see how this shakes out, and be patient as I'm playing my butt off and will have to catch up the batreps later. Also, I've decided to keep playing through on Cronistria and push back the launch of my South Leon campaign as I'm waiting on more troops.

I've almost finished up some good guys from Flashpoint Miniatures, then I've got a bunch more good guys on order from Geoff at QRF. I've also got a BTR and some helos on order from The Warstore, and I need to order some more Peter Pig bad guys. It's kind of depressing really, to realize how much more stuff I need and how much more painting I've got to do yet. And this doesn't even mention the two massive Napoleonic projects I've got going on, the modern aircraft (for Cuba Libre), my Battle of Britain stuff, a bunch of new 10mm modern Brits, a bunch of various WWII stuff in 10mm, and all my crap in modern 6mm… But I'll keep plugging away.

V/R,
Jack

Jack…good stuff man. ben

Thanks Ben, I appreciate it.

Whatcha workin' on? ;)

V/R,
Jack

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I'm working on a new modern skirmish scenario book, Al-Fajr. It's based on David Bellavia's epic memoir, House-to-House, and it follows a platoon from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry (Army) during the second battle of Fallujah.

I know you mentioned that it would be too close to home for you. But if you change your mind and want to give it a try, let me know. I have a long way to go yet. Ben

Sounds awesome, Ben. But Army??? ;)

Yeah, I'll wait on this one; maybe buy it later though, use it as somewhere else as part of my Cuba Libre saga.

I'm knee deep in gaming, still trying to carve a few minutes out every once in awhile for War of Liberation maps.

V/R,
Jack