News flash- First sightings of M.O.B.

NBC news reporter Randy Love reports from Eastham northern Zumata

That large numbers of men and vehicles have been spotted leaving Zumatan army barracks just south of the town of Eastham heading towards the Mbote border. Reports suggest these troops are not Zumatan army but CIA backed Mbote exiles seeking to over throw the communist regime in Mbote and restore former president Bon T'luse to power.

More to follow.........

News Flash - Zumatan forces sieze border post of S'mosa

Reports are coming in from the conflict zone of Zumata/Mbote of a daring attack by Zumatan forces to sieze the river crossing of S'mosa. A Zumatan force code named force Jumbo and consisting of fast moving light armour supported by naval forces and helicopter borne Zumatan SAS seized the crossing after heavy fighting.

A helicopter coup de main to sieze the river crossing was quickly relieved by armoured cars and infantry in APCs. At the height of the battle an attempted attack by lorry mounted Mbote militia was stopped (see picture above) by accurate artillery strikes called in by a forward artillery spotter attached to SAS forces.

Despite the success of the operation Zumatan forces were forced to retire after Zumatan heavy armour, sent to relieve them, was delayed in fighting with M'bote armed forces further south.

More details to follow.

http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com/2011/11/newsflash-mbote-militia-blunts-zumatan.html

News Flash - Zumatan forces cross Mbote Border

BCC Correspondent Bob Beasley reports that Zumatan royal army forces crossed the Mbote border at 6.00hrs this morning. The Zumatan Royal Guard Division (pictured above) leading the way in their British made Centurion tanks. An hour before the Zumatans crossed the border targets on the Mbote side of the border were reported to have been subject to heavy artillery and air attacks.

Military analysts believe that Zumatan forces first objectives will be to secure the Npungwe river line and the town of Npungwe before striking south towards port Tchumba. Zumatan Naval force have also been reported to have been seen entering Mjuba bay and are expected to carry out naval landings south of port Tchumba.


General Henry "Big Buba" Chokwe (pictued above) who is in command of the Zumatan invasion forces held a press conference an hour ago. " Despite our best attempts at peace the left wing extremists of the Mbote goverment have forced us to act to protect both our country and our rights to the islands of Mjuba bay that belong to Zumata as set out in the 1896 treaty of London."

General Chokwe added "I have no doubt that highly trained personal of the Zumatan armed forces will bring about a swift and complete victory for Zumata."

More news to follow.

News Flash - Zumatan Air force launches raid on Mbote

BBC correspondent Bob Beazely who is currently in the Zumatan capital of Westchester reports today that Zumatan forces have launched a series of air raids today in retaliation for yesterdays naval clash in Mjuba Bay.

While the Zumatan air force launched attacks on several key targets along the Zumatan Mbote border. Royal Zumatan navy fleet air arm A-1 skyraiders launched a devastating surprise attack on Mbote naval forces based at Port Tchumba (see pictures above). Unconfirmed reports suggest that several ships and dockyard buildings have been hit and smoke can be seen rising above the city.

Reports of Zumatan army divisions seen leaving their bases around Westchester and heading towards the border have yet to be confirmed.

http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com/2011/11/newsflash-pdrm-naval-patrol-intercept.html

NEWSFLASH - Zumatan Navy launchs new battleship

Zumatan Minster of Defence Mr Dod'g Gezzer reported today that the Royal Zumatan Navy has launched a new battleship ZNS Big Buoy (pictured above) on to Lake Bagombo. Mr Gezzer said "ZNS Big Buoy is the first in a series of new ships to be launched on to Lake Bagombo in a effort to curb the aggressive stance of neighbouring Mbote" Mr Gezzer went onto say " This new vessel is a feat of Zumatan engineering and includes no less than thirty coffee machines as well as some bloody big guns"

Mr Gezzer refused to answer rumours that ZNS Big Buoy is so large that it has stay in the middle of Lake Bagambo for fear of running a ground.

In further news Mr Gezzer also revealed that in a further sign of the close ties between Zumata and it's once colonial master the UK members of 22 regiment the infamous SAS have been in Zumata trainng a new Zumatan SAS troop for the last six months.

Finally Mr Gezzer denied that the launching of combined Zumatan Army Navy maneuvers in the region of Lake Bagombo is in anyway linked to the discovery of large amounts of natural gas by Mbote in the same area in the last few days. Mr Gezzer said " We have had these military maneuvers planned for several days and will be practicing naval assaults in the Mjuba Bay area."

Members of the press in the area reported a large Zumatan naval flotilla leaving port this morning heading towards Mjuba bay.


http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com/2011/11/newsflash-bagombo-gas-strike-reuters.html

cheap tanks

Saw these in my local Works shop. At £2.99 i thought it was worth a punt for my AK-47 UN forces that I'm building. It's sold as a 3D puzzle, is 1/90 scale (slightly over sized for 15mm), is made of plastic and doesn't look half bad when put together. Even the paint job is pretty good. It took about 5 mins to put together and didn't require any glue. This one will probably get re-painted white to match the other UN stuff I have. I think I might pick up another one or two as I quite like them and they're dirt cheap. They also do a Tiger 1 for any WW2 players out there.

Cheers Jon

Indiana Jones toys for AK-47

Hi all,

here are some pictures of some Indiana Jones toys that I picked up in Tescos for a couple of quid each. Their scale isn't clear but they look right with 15mm miniatures to me.

The first one is a German truck http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indiana-Jones-Titanium-Die-Cast-Vehicles/dp/B001CEC6NC

They didn't require much work Indiana had to be removed and I took the box out of the back. Then it was just a simple re-paint. I rather like them they were dirt cheap and are very nice little models.

The other model is the jungle cutter http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B002GOLIM2/ref=dp_otherviews_2?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&img=2

For this one I removed the blades and gave it a new paint job and it's now an armoured bulldozer for Lumatan pioneers. If it helps for scale comparison the miniatures with the trucks are oldglory 15mm moderns while the one with the bulldozer are irregular miniature 15mm modern soviets. Both these ranges are at the taller end of the 15mm scale.

Cheers Jon

AK-47 Royal Zumatan Navy

Hi all,

been a while scene my last post but I've been busy finishing off another army for my Zumatan Dictatorship the Royal Zumatan Navy. For years I've admired all those WW2 D-Day you see at wargames shows and in glossy wargames mags. So when I saw the rules for Boats and river craft in the AK-47 rules I was struck road to Damascus like and decided to do a navy. Like all AK armies there are five units

Unit 1- Professionals (1st troop Zumatan SAS)

x4 S/A bases, x1 transport helicopter (Wessex) air support from fleet air arm Cessna

unit 2 - Regulars (Royal Zumatan Marine commandos)

x4 S/A bases, x2 LVTP (MG)

Unit 3 - Militia (Royal Zumatan Navy sailor's landing party)

x10 S/A bases, x3 LCA landing craft

Unit 4 - Regular (HMS Cleopatra jet powered patrol boat)

counts as x2 A/C one with tank gun one with A/A gun

Unit 5 - Regular (PTB 212 ex ww2 us)

counts as x2 A/c one with tank gun one with an A/A gun

As well as painting up the units I made three army specific objectives in the form of some bunkers to capture.

Miniatures are a mixture of Peter Pig and Skytrex. Both ships are old Heller model kits. the Landing craft are conversions of 1/76 Airfix pontoon bridge boats. The air support are cheap toy die casts. The marine LVTP in full and waterline versions are from peter pig. The armies not quite finished as I haven't painted up any dead markers yet and I need to paint up four sailor heavy weapon bases form the political charts.

As any army I doubt this will be very effective, and the rules and scenery may needed fudging. After all I can't really defend with this army and the table needs a large body of water. I'm also tempted to use the the artillery support rules from the Lebanon supplement to represent naval gun fire and shore batteries.

Anyway enjoy the pictures.

Cheers Jon

AK-47 terrain

Hi all,

today's post is just a completely random selection of pictures of terrain I've knocked up for my AK-47 games. I've always been a dyed in the wool 25/28mm man so when I started out I had no 15mm terrain let alone anything modern or African.

I started off with some jungle/scrub templates (bottom picture) these are made from various model railway scenic kits on hardwood bases. Then I added some polystyrene hills using the same railway scenics.

Buildings where next. The airport building (third pic from bottom) is a 1/87 Heller plastic kit. The other buildings where scratch built from card and include an apartment block, some shops and some shanty buildings. At some stage I plan to add some of the Peter Pig resin buildings as well. The pylons are 1/87 railway scenery purchased of e-bay I think they look great of the wargames table.

Of course if you've got buildings you need a few vehicles a quick rummage in my sons car box and a look around Toys'r'Us furnished me with some lorries and cars in looks about right scale. I painted some of the trucks up to make a U.N. aid convey. The aeroplane was a cheap 1/1oo scale plastic kit from e-bay it's something Soviet (i can't remember what though) and is really just to furnish the airport.

Cheers Jon