Know your enemy! Nato vs Warsaw Pact

Know your enemy! Nato vs Warsaw Pact

Friday 31 January 2014

Warsaw Pact: Bulgaria

My Bulgarian force consists of a Parachute company and a mountain infantry section supported by BTR 152 carriers, IS 2 tanks, and SU 100 sp guns as Bulgaria was low on getting modern equipment
The Bulgarian special forces were small, thus they will be used in conjunction with other nations.
For my Team Yankee games, this force will fight alongside a Czechslovakian, Hungarian group.

Saturday 25 January 2014

The Wild Geese (1978) Quotes

 This film while not a NATO/Warsaw Pact straight out conflict, does touch on the proxy wars fought in Africa.

Tuesday 7 January 2014

NATO: Air support Harri

And for NATO these aircraft were a great asset as they were jump jets able to take off from any area without the use of runways. 
One of these is actually and Academy kit and the other is a toy car airplane 

New pictures to follow




Warsaw Pact: Air support

Thanks to www.juniorgeneral.org I can print off top down files to recreate some scenarios which could have happened in the late 1980s or 1990s. It saves money on buying plastic kits which don't hold up as well as laminated paper. However I am slowly building up a small section of support aircraft


Jets 2

Russian Mig-29

Helicopters

Soviet Aircraft

Germans forced to to fight each other

 Federal Republic of Germany troops , West Germans

against

 Democratic Republic of Germany, East Germans

The interesting thing was, both Germanies never fought each other, but their equipment and uniforms were used by the ethnic factions in the Yugoslavian Civil wars of 1991-95.

I am in the process of upgrading the images of my own collection to this page.




Clash of Arms 1 Para vs VDV

If the Falklands War of 1982 did one thing, it was to prove to the world how tough The Parachute Regiment  was. They landed at Goose Green 700 strong, took out a 1500 man garrison, then Tabbed across East Falkland and still battled it out.

The VDV had proven its worth in the hills of Afganistan. It would have been very interesting to have seen how both would have fared on a European battlefield


Pictures of my own units to follow 2018/19/20

Clash of Arms, 4 CMBG vs Czech MTR

One of the scenarios I had from the board game FIREPOWER, (Avalon,1984)(www.boardgamegeek.com)


 was the 4CMBG holding a village against a Czech Motorized Rifle Regiment.
For the Canadian troops, I used a mixture of US Vietnam figures as Canadians with 2 Leopard 1As, 2 M113, 1 M113 TOW, 2 105mm guns and 2 M109s

The Czechs attacked with 3 T-72s, 2 T-54s 2 T55s 2 BTRs