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All,
This is the first fight in my next campaign, following the Cuba Libre saga. The short story is, Cuban exiles evicted the dictator, and now have created an expeditionary force available for worldwide deployment in the defense of freedom and democracy. You can see the full story here:
http://cubalibrewargame.blogspot.com/2015/11/cronistria-cries-for-help-aka-next.htmlSo a Special Operations task force is heading to the Balkans to help a fledgling democracy, Cronistria, break away from Yugoslavia. I will be playing this campaign in 20mm with Elhiem figures, using Ivan (Weasel’s) rules, “Five Men in Normandy.”
It’s 0645 on 5 April 1990, and Task Force Trojas has conducted an administrative move (clandestinely) into northern Italy or Austria (sorry, OPSEC rules prevent us from sharing the exact location 😉 ), staged its gear, and is infiltrating by team into Cronistria. Each team is crossing at a different location, with a different objective rally point and different partisan contact on the other side. All teams successfully crossed the frontier without incident, until it was GySgt Dos Santos’ Team 6-3’s turn (if you’re wondering why he’s a Gunnery Sergeant, it’s because in the CLEF, Special Operations come from any of the four branches of service).
Team 6-3 moved to the border, and had just crossed when things started to go wrong, which is why we’re here, right?
The opposing forces: at top are the five shooters from Team 6-3, while at bottom are the seven men and one armored personnel carrier of the Cronistrian National Guard.
Overview of the table, north is up. The table is about 3′ x 3′, with the frontier wire running north-south) at left. Team 6-3 will enter at left and must destroy the enemy patrol and/or exit ALL men off the right board edge. There’s a burned out house in the northwest, a small residence in the southeast, several patches of rough, rocky ground, several haystacks (concealment, not cover!), and a couple rocky outcroppings.
The enemy is trying to cut swathes in our line using its APC-mounted MMG.
Just for old time’s sake: wouldn’t be one of my batreps if I didn’t have somebody firing a rocket, would it? To see how the fight turned out, please check the blog at:
http://cubalibrewargame.blogspot.com/2015/12/cuba-libre-cronistria-fight-1.htmlWow, what a fight! And what a way to start off the campaign in Cronistria. The fight was fun, quick, plenty of drama and decision making, and things never go as you planned. One more fight to write up and post, stay tuned!
V/R,
JackKyote – Not that Panda, these guys have nothing to do with anyone from the forums.
Rod – “Damn Cuban elite forces can’t even speak English! Are they special forces or Special Ed. Forces?”
What in the hell are you talking about?An accurized M-16 is one that has had modifications to make it more reliably accurate (better hold a zero, better hold a grouping, and provide a tighter grouping) and extend its maximum effective range on point targets. There are various things done (forgive me, I’m not an armorer or a sniper), but the accurized M-16s had different buffer systems, different upper receivers (some were re-chambered for 7.62mm), some had free floating barrels, some had barrels made out of some different material (I don’t know what), some had threaded barrels to take a suppressor, they had different optics available, etc… It was extensively done with the M-16A2 series of rifles, in the Marine Corps it was a non-standard alteration.
And hurry up.
V/R,
Jack
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