Having last week tried NORTHAG as a big multi-player game, yesterday I put together a much smaller game to play at home on my 6 x 4' table. Wanting something a bit different the scenario was set of the Danish island of Bornholm, and pitted my mate's Soviet Naval Infantry against my plucky Danes. The forces were less "high tech" than last week with the Soviets fielding T55s and BTR60s, and the Danes Centurions and modernised M41 Walker Bulldogs.
With less armour on the table, infantry played a more prominent role in the game, particularly for the Danes who dug-in to defend the objective, the NATO listening post and communications tower shown in the photo . The Soviet Naval infantry had a hard time of it as they lost thinly-armoured BTR60s to artillery and mortar fire which also destroyed some on the embarked fireteams. However the Danish armour found that even the 100mm gun of the T55 was a potent foe, and was almost wiped out with just one tank left broken down away from the combat.
Once again we thought the rules played well. It was nice to see infantry finally having a role in a Cold War game, and the infantry rules pretty slick and feel right .The smaller size game also seemed to pose more command and control challenges as each side only had 8-9 orders to play with each turn , which meant hard choices about what to activate.
Once again the models were all the land forces were Heroics and Ros, with the newer models such as the M41, Centurion and T55 being particularly good. The large hovercraft was by Scotia and the smaller a 3D print. The buildings were Timecast, with the Communications Tower an old out-of-production sci-fi model. Finally, the mat was my new 1/300 coastal mat by Tiny Wargames.