The Six Day’s War 1967 : Cold War Commander

Finally got enough of my Arab Israeli forces to the stage where we could reasonably get them on the table and we were keen to try out Cold War Commander for the first time. You will spot some of the Israeli armour didn’t get their bases covered in sand but I will remedy that soon.

Anyway as a test we didn’t set up anything complex or historically based two reasonably well matched forces clash somewhere in the Sinai.

The Egyptian forces IS3’s, some T55’s, some antiquated SU 100’s, T34’s and some lighter PT76’s

The Israelis have three strong tank formations Magach’s (M48’s), Centurions and some slightly obsolete Super Sherman’s. The Egyptians are going to find it tough as they are pretty much outgunned especially on range

The T55 cruise onto the battlefield whilst the lighter Infantry support PT’s immediately start taking casualties from long rage fire

The long range fire is coming from these ‘big boys’

To the south the Israeli CO has taken control of the high ground with the Magach’s but they come under fire from the wadi where the IS-3’s have halted. Big mistake here by the Egyptians who should have pushed their tanks into the wadi for cover and they will pay for this later

The ground is open for the T55’s to advance

The Infantry support has been al but wiped out but Egyptians reserves having been delayed are coming on in the centre

Two of the Magach’s are now burning

But despite their Very heavy armour two of the IS-3’s are also burning, they really should have moved into cover

The centurions have had to redeploy having been caught in the flank and losing two of their number

Trying to exploit this the Egyptians have sent the T55’s on a long flanking advance

They do eventually get into position and. Are able to take out another centurion but it is a little late in the day

A wider shot of the battlefield towards the end whilst the Egyptians still have the T55’s they have been held back in the centre and in the distance

Having eventually all but one of the IS-3’s the super Sherman’s are sent forward

At this point we called a halt to the battle. Probabaly a minor win for the Israeli’s but more importantly nice to get these forces on the table. The project was always meant to be a minor diversion into some more modern gaming in the desert. I do have a few more bits to paint which I will complete soon and then hopefully another battle sometime soon.😀

1967 Six Day War begins.......🙂

Gradually the Christmas bug is clearing away, with the help now of antibiotics and steroids ! No Tour de France for me this year. Instead I have started working on some Arab Tank forces for my new Arab/Israeli project. I have ordered a number of new bits for the project but already had a number of items which I was planning to build the expansion around.

A small group of SU100’s

A formidable force of heavy JSIII tanks

Some long in the tooth T34’s (these will play as T34/85’s)

All these are appropriate for Arab forces from 1948 through to 1967, and can be stretched slightly further at a push. The pictures have given a slightly odd colour as in real life they are quite sandy yellow. I plan to add a bit of variety with other units as at 6 mm it isn’t a great idea to paint everything exactly the same. Having now looked at the bases I might lighten the sand on the base slightly to reduce the contrast with the background basecloth, again under the natural eye this isn’t as obvious. I am now awaiting a parcel from Heroic and Ros for the rest of the Arab and Israeli force to arrive. I do have a few trucks and such like which I might get done....😀 the fun part is during the research I have discovered the Syrians had Quite a bit of old German armour and I have a few bits floating around for them too.