Know your enemy! Nato vs Warsaw Pact

Know your enemy! Nato vs Warsaw Pact
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 December 2021

Battle of Asal Uttar 1965

Part of the Second Indo Pakistan War I can fight this action either as a Team Yankee or Bolt Action game. I have fought on action but will so another.
This is one of the actions i will try to fight while up in Nunavut the winter of 2023 

Friday, 2 August 2019

Indian invasion of Portuguese Goa 1961 Operation Vijay

Part of India's reconquest of territory from Eurpoeans.
The information from this incident comes from several different sources, namely the Osprey book on Modern African Wars Angola and Mozambique.
As noted with other actions in the era, the equipment of both armies is rather unique.
India had begun to acquire some new weapons in tanks, but for the most part, their forces would be little different from their father's or uncle's appearence 20 years earlier.

The Portuguese likewise would also be sporting Second World War kit having been neutral then and getting military assistance from America during the inception of NATO.
Portuguese units
4 motor recce squadrons
8 rifle companies cacdores
2 artillery batteries

India:
50th Para Brigade
2nd Para Maratha
1st Para Punjab
2nd Sikh Light Infantry
7th Cavalry (Shermans)

Actions around Fort Aguada can be recreated as well as Verna where a 500 man Portuguese force was

63rd Indian Infantry Brigade:
2nd Bihar Battalion
3rd Sikh Battalion
4th Sikh Infantry
4th Rajput




Friday, 22 March 2019

Indo-Pakistan War, 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence

Wargames Illustrated Issue 377 for March 2019 had an interesting article on actions in the Dinajpur region

Luckily the amount of figures and kit to use are small, no more than 4 tanks per side, and figure wise, less and 50 per side.

it should make for an interesting looking table as a mix of ww2 and cold war gear.
I recieved through a trade several figure sets which can be fitted out as Pakistani forces and a Centurion which will go to my potential Indian army. The Indians are in WW2 British kit

Additions to my collection have recently included American style uniform troops suitable for the 1950s to 1980s range with weapons from the 1940s through to the 1950s which would suit for the Pakistani army of the 1970s.
7/28/2019 update:
This is one of my actions I am going to try out this week, once I can clear off my last game bits.
I'm going to use the Team Yankee rules for the action. Bolt Action could also be used so I'll try with both on two different actions
Indian infantry taking heavy casualties 

Indian Centurion knocked out

Indian 25pdr battery very ineffective 

mixed Indian cavalry unit of Comets and T-62s

Pakistan infantry in jeeps aggressively hit the village 



despite losses to their m47s they continue to advance 

the village falls, East Pakistan is still a part of Pakistan