Winter of '79 Contact

 

Mortar section set up to provide fire support into the town

further fire support from a Saladin

Welsh insurgents take up positions

British dog teams sent in to clear out the barristers office

the insurgent convoy pulls up and hordes of Welsh seperatists begin to open fire on British troops occupied in buildings.

Insurgency anyone? 1960-1990

 One of my little projects since 2000 has been to deploy insurgents into my gamming table. I have several from Cold War African conflicts, South East Asian types and European civilians with firearms and some North American people 

American veterans who could be mercenaries or CIA contractors in any 1960 to 1980 era conflicts 

my Asian types who could be in Korea, Indo-China, Malaysia or Indonesia 

My Africans, Cuban and Soviet supplied

Angolans armed with Mausers, could be fighting the Portuguese 

My European or North American types armed with an assortment of weapons found in depots

and, my Walking Dead inspired figures who could either be fighting a Red Dawn in America or Zombies or each other.

All need a bit more paint.

Resource book: Soldiers of Fortune The Twentieth Century Mercenary 1986

This book by Peter MacDonald (1986 Gallery Books) was one of the books which I got as a teenager.
Over the years, I have utilized the book as a reference to Cold War gamming in the world.
my insurgents which I have will fight scenarios from this book.

Syria, Warsaw Pact Invasion of Turkey, September 1985

In order to throw off NATO, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact and Arab allies plan on invading Turkey to open another front.

The Syrians

T-55 squad

Soviets

Motorized division with T-72s and T-62s

Bulgarians 

WW2 Soviets gear

Kurdish fighters 

Modeled with Iranian Basaiji.

have invaded Turkey to threaten NATO southern flank. This is in response to the NATO invasion of Syria.

NATO forces:

Turkey:

Mechanized Division 

M-60, M-48, M-41

M113 Infantry battalion 

FRANCE

AMX Tanks

AMX Armoured cars

APC mounted infantry 

Artillery support 

An unexpected bonus from my Navy vet friend

I stopped by his place to drop off some ship kits, he was going through his kits and passed these over

Soviet Anti-tank gun. May end up as support for my North Koreans

A Sherman Crab tank

A HUMVV

 Armed survivors, who could join the illregulars I have now. 

ZOMBIES, or civilian casualties.

Jordanian vs PLO 1970.

One of the conflicts which is being covered by Battlefront Miniatures is Oil Wars which has a big bit on the Iran Iraq conflict of 1979-89.
There is also their earlier Arab Israeli wars also.

However I have been reading one of my history books Guerrilla Warfare (1985) by Buson Books. One of the conflicts covered is the Jordanian army offensive against the PLO in September 1970. This included a Syrian brigade made up of infantry and armored vehicles.
The Jordanian army was using a mix of British Ww2 infantry kit, Artillery but had US Armor and British Armor.
The Syrians had Soviet equipment.
The Palestinians had small arms from the Eastern block,and or surplus kit from WW2

So I should be able to put an action together of this.

 a Centurion tank which I was able to pick up this year.

Several armor and infantry reinforcements for NATO and Warsaw Pact

I made a large trade with a new friend and recipient of a Centurion and Chieftain tank. Not to mention the Cold War era infantry that I got for both sides. Fun fun. More to follow

 

The first set of figures I got are Ceaser US Army which I will paint up as generic US equipped troops for any nation from 1945-80. Many ideas I have are for Asian, African, and South American armies.
Next up are Soviet/Warsaw Pact armed troops. These definitely will find themselves on the battlefields of Asia, Africa, South America and perhaps the Middle East

Communist insurgents, guerrillas, with a T-34/85

Further trades are being made. I've  decided to trade my Napoleonic French for some more WW2 and Cold War figures and kits.

In my recent trade I was also able to get a collection of figures which are suitable as modern armed militia types armed with AK-47s gpmg s RPG sevens Uzis as well as an assortment of weapons suitable for the time of 1950 up to 2000.

Once I get some paint on these I'll add these as well.

Chechnya 1994-96

This was one of the conflicts which raged while I was at university. The other was the former Yugoslavia.
This is another modern style conflict which I can recreate on my table top with the figures i have and the ability to use Soviet kit from WW2 and the Cold War.
The small scale of the actions fits with the kits I have now, which is great as I have put myself on a self imposed moritoruim on buying any new kits. Anything new I get is either in trade or in cash.

This is a war of BTR-70s, BTR-80s, BMP-1 and 2s T-72s and T-80s
The Russian forces I will be using my Cold War Soviets while the Chenyans will be made up of a mix bag of Ak armed types. I have some civilian type vehicles which will be getting some added on weapons,
Some of the new figure sets which I have collected recently include modern Islamic Fighters which are armed with a k s gpmg and RPG weapon systems.

Russian paratroopers advance on the city

first objective for the Russians are 

Warsaw Pact Airborne and Communist insurgents

I have not dropped off the Team Yankee gamming, I've been fighting Bolt Action games
I plan on painting up and basing some new figures in the coming weeks.
Pictures to follow.
I've revised my basing on my Soviets and Warsaw Pact. If I can, I shall be adding some more photos shortly.

Vortex novel Larry Bond 1991

Interesting reading an alternative history if South Africa had not ended apartheid.
it gives a few ideas for Team Yankee spilling into Africa

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.