Borduria Invades Syldavia

 I promised more pics but can't fined the blasted camera; I had many more to post! Wat I shall do is take more pics with another camera to show the planes and particular units so stay tuned.

There is something about depicting imaginary wars that excites me more than real ones. I suppose it is because I already have a fair idea about the real ones but imaginary ones are open slather. Of course, in one way all our wargames are 'imaginary' but ones with fictional basis allow a lot of latitude.

In any Padre Padre Paul wright is working on a new wargame book for the interwar period and asked me to review his draft and to play test. It was with some trepidation that I play tested with wargaming mate, Mat, the rules as it takes me quite a while to get my head around new rules so I set up a game with a trimmed down and slightly different version of the rules.

So we had only one plane per side so we could get used to the rules, didn't refer much to changes of altitude of planes, left out orders and some other aspects of the game that were interesting but we were playing our first game. We also left out the templates to place against vehicles. These were also an interesting idea that one shoots the matchstick or nerf gun at the template and leave a mark which shows if it is a critical hit. Instead we just differentiated between template hits and a direct hit on the vehicle.

THE ARMIES

We are depicting an 'interwar' battle between Syldavia and Borduria (countries from the Tintin series). We have done this before wit slightly different troops and vehicles. (Isn't it funny how we automatically know WHICH wars the war is between? 

Last time we used mostly WW1 tanks and it was not too different this time, mostly because my WW2 tanks are mostly Tigers and Shermans. However, I did paint up two Schneider tanks from Col's tanks (I highly recommend them because there were very few parts to assemble) which were on the Syldavian side. The Syldavians also had a British tadpole tank and tankettes as well as an armoured car. The Bordurians had a massive 'evolved' WW1 tadpole tank which had three medium guns and machine guns. This is a homemade wooden toy I picked up some years ago, However the top part is not a revolving turret. The Bordurinas also had a large number of tankettes with twin linked machine guns (the vehicles converted from metal personnel carriers).

The Bordurian troops were bsically WW1 and WW2 Germans bit with some black clad storm troopers for assault. There were quite a few submachineguns and close quarter weapons as well as three flame throwers. There were two heavy MGs and a medium horse drawn artillery piece.

The Syldavians had a few anti tank infantry rifles but only one flame thrower and an absence of submachine guns but a sprinkling of light machineguns. They had a super heavy artillery piece. The Syldavians were all WW1 and WW2 French in Adrian helmets.

Below: Syldavian infantry, including anti tanks rifles (actually Bren guns).

                                 General Pierre Matrack of the Syldavian army in a rather rusty truck.

Syldavian troops with anti tank rifles move to their right flank (which will come under heavy pressure)

                      Syldavian heavy gun, which proved ineffective as it was positioned facing the centre but Bordurian attacks happened on the flanks.

                                       Syldavian tanks cautiously moved up the centre road.

                                                      Syldavians on their left flank.

  Bordurian tankettes move against the Syldavian left flank. The machinegun them but a brave Syldavian flame thrower takes out one of the tankettes.

                       Bordurian elite shock troops or storm troopers infiltrated to a forward position.

                                                Bordurian heavy tank and anti tank gun.

View from the Bordurian side

                                            The Syldavians had cover from a hill,,,for a while.

                I'll make another post with further description and conclusions. Stay tuned.