A recent game me and the boy played, although Skirmish Sangin is designed for the war in Afghanistan it works really well for any modern low level skirmish scenario or theatre. South Armagh fits well with the British Army's fight with PIRA. There's other content relating to Skirmish Sangin on the blog just check out the subject headings.
The basic game scenario was that following a PIRA ASU being compromised the 7 man unit had fled across the fields towards a British 4 man patrol from the recce platoon of the resident battalion.
Here's the terrain, the game was played using my 28mm figures
Some details
The Brits deployed first in the hedgerows
The compromised ASU entered from the bottom left hand corner of the board running
The engagement went as expected with the Brits following the "Yellow Card" procedure and initiated an ambush this caused massive morale checks on the terrorists who after a short firefight surrendered, of the 7 the result was 1 shot dead, 1 seriously wounded, 4 surrendered and 1 managed to run off last seen heading towards the border.
Regulars will already know I really rate this system and as usual it performed well.
Dougie
Looks like a great game. The casualty figure seems realistic for a modern conflict. Where is the car from?
ReplyDeleteThanks Matias the car is a Cararama 1/43 diecast, I have weathered it using my normal tecniques
DeleteGreat looking game.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the markers from?
Thanks Ben I was given the markers by Colin Philips, the Skirmish Sangin designer after helping out at the demo game at Salute 2014, I know warbases do clear bases to your spec.
DeleteGreat game, please do more, great to see the Northern Ireland themed game.
ReplyDeleteThanks the system is ideal for this level of game and it works for most theatres
DeleteReally enjoy your post about this era of conflict. Sangin works great for these low intensity small model count games.
ReplyDeleteThanks completely agree 👍
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