New Year and the prequel to a number of forthcoming linked scenario's.
Based loosely on Operation Barras: 2020
A patrol of 12 soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment and their Sierra Leone Army liaison officer were ambushed by the West Side Boys militia while traveling in Sierra Leone. The patrol was captured and taken to the West Side Boys' base in Gberi Bana
On 10 September 2000, a combined force of D Squadron, 22 Regiment Special Air Service (SAS), Special Boat Service (SBS), and 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA) launched an assault on the West Side Boys' base. The operation aimed to extract the hostages and neutralize the militia.
The rescue mission was successful, with all five British soldiers and their Sierra Leone Army liaison officer being freed. The operation resulted in the deaths of 25+ West Side Boys and the capture of 18 others. One British soldier was killed, and twelve were wounded.
In our scenario Zikangian regulars launch a divisionary attack on south of the village to draw out the militia men whilst waiting in the bush are 4 teams of special forces tasked with rescuing a team of UN observers who had been captured a few weeks earlier.
A large village in the middle of the table with several huts containing numerous militia men, trenches cover the river bank. At the rear of the village a lorry park of captured vehicles, together with a couple of armed technicals.
At the far end of the table a small cluster of huts where the hostages were being held.
To the north militia men grab there weapons and head to the main village.
With the firefight ongoing in the village many of the guards were stripped away from the compound, the special forces moved out from the bush. The specialists cleared the remaining militia men and secured the hostages. Too weak to move through the bush they needed to be escorted to the lorry park.
The militia men were forced to turn back to the counter the special forces stiffening their defences with a technical, for a moment it it's heavy machine gun put the rescue party under pressure. But some excellent shooting wrote off the red truck.
Superior training and some good fire and movement tactics allowed the specialists to make their way to the vehicles.
The hostages were freed but with 5 elite special forces killed and the a section of regulars killed and being forced back from the village it was not the victory they had hoped for.
Across the boarder - Legs Akimbo fumed his plan was coming undone to raise his cause, now he would need to cross the border and come back to Zikanga.
Great fun and a great scene setter for future games.
What a splendid table and a great game too by the sounds of it. 👍
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