A new section of Marders

 Way back in the day while I was in Funabashi, Chiba Japan, I had gotten several Roco Mini-tank versions of theater.

However I had yet to get Battlefront Minatures ones.

Today that changed!

Plus I now have a unit card for the vehicles thselves.

So my Panzergrenadier Regiment will be able to take on the Soviet hordes.

Currently I now have I believe 8. So I can run 2 companies of Panzergrenadiers in Marders with the rest in M113s.  

One of the cadets on my staff was so keen on building kits he did up 3 of them. Next night shifts on duty we shall battle.

Once i get back to my home I will set up my West Germans to see what I have and what I need.

4CMBG vs DDR Panzer Division

 

My cadets running a game of Fortress America during a game night

Several of the cadets are very interested in FOW so we ran a Team Yankee game 

The Canadian Forces attempted to drive out the East Germans.  The Canadian gunners of the RCHA did well as did the Dragoons but the East Germans however held the position. 

Warsaw Pact push against a NATO force

T-62 of the Soviets with Czechoslovakian Motorized Rifle Battalion and a T-72 Czechoslovakian Battalion advance towards the French

French helicopters have fallen due ti Anti-aircraft fire

A West German reserve tank Battalion of M-48 and M-41s attempt to block the bridge

French artillery battery with West German Flak battery 

Half of the T-72 Battalion falls victim to accuracy of the French and German guns

 Czechoslovakian Motorized Rifle Regiment pushing home their charge.

The Warsaw Pact wins the battle. A Soviet T-62 battalion flanked the West Germans. The French pulled back to a further defensive line.

A new bridge

 

I got this KATO bridge from Great Hobbies in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia back at Christmas. 

I had wanted to get while still in Japan. My plan is to build up terrain to have a railroad for my 20th century games to fight around.

Canada: ADATS

 

Canadian Chinook

 

The Third World War

 General Sir John Hackett's novel on the 1985 hypothetical idea of a Soviet invasion. 

I picked this up at the Atlantic Canada Aviation museum gift shop for 40 cents! It was on a table of books listed as 80% off. 

Ive looked inside and I'll have to try and tape some pages back in.