| The following pages relate to wargaming the
various conflicts, and potential conflicts, in the decades following the end of
World War II with military miniatures.
In the early 1980s I keenly followed
military developments, but with other financial commitments, and wargame
interests, I was unable to keep pace with changing military equipment and
my active wargaming of the Cold War lapsed. |
French AMX-30s await the Soviet
advance. Models by Navwar.
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Instead, it was replaced
with a focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Unfortuntely this also lapsed as the
rules available at the time did not deal with the level of conflict I was
more interested in modelling.Since
obtaining a copy of Modern Spearhead my "moderns" wargaming has
restarted.
Initially with the Arab-Israeli Wars of 1967 and
1973. However more recently I have started to once again to build
armies of the Cold War, specifically the European theatre in the late
1970s and early 1980's.
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Elements of a Soviet Airborne
battalion deploy from Mi-8 helicopters during a Modern Spearhead game. Models by Navwar. |
Modern Spearhead uses a figure scale where each model vehicle
represents a platoon of between three to five vehicles. A stand of infantry equates to a platoon of infantry. The
rules have a time scale where each turn represents around 15-20
minutes, though I tend to think of the time as 20-30 minutes. Finally, two ground
scales are offered. The normal scale where 1" on the table represents 100
metres andan alternate ground scale where 1" represents 125 metres.
This alternate ground scale is what I use when playing games locally. It allows reasonably
large games to be fought on a smaller table and prevents a few long range
weapons dominating a smaller table.
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