Taliban Amubush (Skirmish Sangin) and a thank you

 Played my first ever moderns game using Skirmish Sangin rules. Very good game to play if a little uncomfortable due being a little to close to home but it's a game.

The rules are for small scale so we basically had 8 figures a side with the Taliban waiting in Amush for my Infantry patrol.

First fire went to the Taliban who took out one of my squad leaders with a sniper shot. Thankfully all went against the Taliban after that. The Minime tore them up with it taking top gun of the bout. Due to good movement into cover and some good shooting from my 2 Scots the Taliban soon started racking up the casualties.

With the less men they had the harder they became to hit and they were able to get another hit on the patrol with one squaddie taking a serious wound.

My least valued rifleman was able to bring it all to end with a wonder hit on a well defended Taliban foot soldier. Amazing considering my top soldiers kept on hit nothing against the last guy.

Over all a good game and ill be playing more for sure. Might try out Force on Force for larger scale games. Now to paint my other British and SAS, make a compound and make they Range Rovers :)

Taliban Sniper going for the kill

Squad Photo :)

 AWI game that was on at the club and looked really good.

A special thanks goes to Loki at http://napoleonicwargamingadventures.blogspot.co.uk/ for this great give away that he had on his blog. I was drawn from a hat to win this beauty and it not sits proudly on my book shelf with my other treasured minis.

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28mm Empress Moderns 2 Scots (RHF)

This is easily the most daunting thing i have ever painted. The thought of painting MTP camo on such gorgeous figures scared the life out of me but i forced myself to do it.

Personally i don't think it's bad. It's not going to win me anything but im happy to game with them. They look a tad too green i think but then again i was in Tesco this afternoon and a Cadet Officer walk past me in his full MTP and it did look very green.

Although they can be any regiment in Afghanistan mine will be the 2 Scots (Royal Highland Fusileers)  as i got these figures just at the time that 2 Scots lost 3 of it's boys in Afghanistan.

This is to the 3 lads that never came home to their loved ones.

CORPORAL William Savage (30)

 Fusilier Samuel Flint (21)

Private Robert Hetherington (25)

The two pilots will be great for a Black Hawk down style game and i couldn't not paint one of them to be a certain Ginger haired pilot who does us proud.

On the table at the moment are Perry desert rats. They are going to be a quick paint job with a base layer and army painted dip. I just want to get them done as im not sure if ill get to game with them but might try out Chain of Command with them.

I should also have some Arryns and Starks finished soon as well for my Roberts Rebellion project.

I picked up the North Star highlanders at the local Glasgow games store this afternoon when getting some paints for the Desert Rats. 

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