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All,
I recently watched the movie “13 Hours,” regarding the attacks on the US Special Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi, Libya, on 11 September 2012. While I found the movie a bit depressing and very frustrating, I was also inspired for a bit of wargaming. Not likely a replay of the events that day, I tend to stay away from real life stuff, but something close, historical fiction inspired by reality, if you will. For that matter, I’ve also recently had an eye towards the movies “Lone Survivor” and “Tears of the Sun” for the same purposes.
In any case, I had a yearning to paint up some modern PMCs, and so I began perusing figures I’ve got lying around. I came close to using some Peter Pig Modern USMC or Modern Israelis, but neither seemed to fit the bill. But then I gave another look to some Eureka Modern Australians I had lying around and thought, “ya know, those might work.” Well, let me know what you think; did they work?
A small, 6-man team of contractors, or maybe even Special Operations guys, in civilian attire with military weapons and gear, based up to work for desert and temperate climes.
http://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2016/07/15mm-private-military-contractors.htmlNot sure when these guys will see the table; I’ve got plenty going on already and nothing really planned for them. I’ve got another post to make with my GHQ microarmor for WWII East Front, and then I’ve got two batreps to post. Number one is the boy and I played our first WWII East Front game (the campaign will be called ‘Panzer Aces’), and then I played the fourth game of Royal Marines in Afghanistan. But… for the first time ever I had camera/computer problems and I lost some pictures. Twenty-eight pictures, to be exact. Somehow I took and downloaded the first twenty pictures, lost twenty-eight, and then downloaded the last picture. There’s no way I’m going to post the batrep without those pics, so it looks like I’ll be going back upstairs to recreate the fight from my notes and take pictures. Doesn’t sound like much fun…
V/R,
JackJack:
I want to thank you for costing me money. While looking up the MERC figures on Flytrap’s website I blundered across the Skirmish Sangin Scenario #5 pack. Well, I bought it but with shipping so high from NZ I could not justify just the one purchase so I bought more Taliban! I don’t need more Taliban! But I could not help myself! I now have almost 150 Taliban figures plus technicals and crews! And now I’ve bought more!
Well seeing this clear imbalance in forces I went to Khurasan and bought two packs of their modern military contractors. But with shipping so high from the US I could not Justify just the two packs so I bought US mortars, TOW’s, HMG’s, more BTR-60PB’s, more BMP-1’s, etc. the list goes on! Luckily I was able to stop before I bought a company of 1980’s Soviet Infantry and a company each of BMP-2’s and BTR-80’s or the bill would have skyrocketed.
Thus, I’m now in the hole to the tune of $225.00 CD all because of six Eureka Aussies! Now, I could blame this on a profound lack of self-control on my part, but I prefer to shift the blame onto you as an enabler! And now I find myself wondering if any manufacturer makes Taliban on motorcycles with single and double crews! Damn you, sir, for waving a red cape in front of someone who is so clearly full of bull!
Cheers from the poor-house.
Rod Robertson.
Jack:
“But Old Glory does 15mm Taliban motorcycles…”
Ya bast’rd! I’ll get you for that Jack! Somehow, some way, I’ll getcha!
Old Glory you say,… Gotta go!
Jack:
I just looked at the Fire Force Taliban from OG-UK. I’m gonna drop more money because of you on more Taliban, more technicals, motorcycles, pack-mule trains, MRL’s and Ancient Gauls and Dacians! Damn your hide, sir. This will be my undoing!
Rod “in the poor-house” Robertson.
No cheers for you!
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