Spetsnaz At Tcherbevan

Unable to sleep tonight so I'm up at 2 a.m. posting details of the next Andreivia scenario. Here are the Russian forces:

First VDV Spetsnaz Squad (Tac 4)

Platoon Commander Assault rifle, Pistol 4L

BMD Driver Pistol 4

BMD Gunner Pistol 4

Gunner Clip-fed LMG 4

Grenadier RPG, Assault Rifle 4

Asst Gunner Assault Rifle 4

Asst Squad Leader Assault Rifle 4L

BMD-1 airborne infantry fighting vehicle

Second VDV Spetsnaz Squad (Tac 4)

Squad Leader Assault rifle, Pistol 4L

BMD Driver Pistol 4

BMD Gunner Pistol 4

Gunner Clip-fed LMG 4

Grenadier RPG, Assault Rifle 4

Asst Gunner Assault Rifle 4

Asst Squad Leader Assault Rifle 4L

BMD-1 airborne infantry fighting vehicle

Third VDV Spetsnaz Squad (Tac 4)

Squad Leader Assault rifle, Pistol 4L

BMD Driver Pistol 4

BMD Gunner Pistol 4

Gunner Clip-fed LMG 4

Grenadier Assault Rifle, GL 4

Asst Gunner Assault Rifle 4

Asst Squad Leader Assault Rifle 4L

BMD-1 airborne infantry fighting vehicle

VDV Spetsnaz Sniper Team (Tac 4, self-ordering unit)

Sniper Self-loading rifle 4

Spotter Assault Rifle 4

VDV Support Team (Tac 5)

Team Leader Assault Rifle 4L

Gunner AGS-17, Assault Rifle 5

Loader Assault Rifle 5

The Platoon Commander, if in a BMD or in the control tower, can call in air support in the form of a circling MiG 27.

Russians Attack Tcherbevan Airport

Saturday 27th November will see another action in the on-going conflict in Andreivia.

Given its strategic position between Georgia and Turkey, it was always inevitable that the Russians would see Andreivia's civil war as trouble in their own back yard. Now word has come in of a Russian attack on the Andreivian capital Tcherbevan's International Airport.

The game will be played at St John's church centre, Meols, Wirral, Merseyside on Saturday 27th November as part of a fundraiser for Help For Heroes. Potential players please let me know by commenting below.

More details to come - particularly of my plans to build an airport control tower.

Move Andreivian tales are told

I was over in the northwest on Thursday and popped in to see the Deeside Defenders at their regular Thursday evening session.  A very pleasant time was had and I managed to get in a game of Hordes of the Things with John Woolley.

Most interesting, though, was the news that Mick Aherne and co have been played several Andreivian games (using Arc of Fire) in recent months.  

Mick has apparently done some research into the fighting in the far east of Andreivia on the Armenian border.  I think we need to know more!

  

Flags of the Andreivian Factions

Andreivian government:







Blue St. Andrew’s cross on a yellow field. This flag combines the symbol of St. Andrew, the patron saint of Andreivia, with the national colours representing the clear blue sky and the fields of golden crops.

Andreivian Armenian:

Blue, red and yellow horizontal tricolour. This symbolises the Armenian blood shed for the land of Andreivia under the clear Andreivian sky.

Andreivian Turk:

At the hoist, one red vertical stripe, half the length of the flag, that contains a white crescent and star. At the fly, two equal horizontal stripes, the upper blue and the lower yellow. This flag combines the crescent and star on a red field of Turkey, with the Andreivian national colours of blue and yellow.

Source of inspiration and imagery: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/country.html

The Andreivian-Armenian Report

Phil Gray has submitted the following report. It would be improper for me to pass any comment as to its accuracy.

A peaceful mission to demonstrate against the occupation of Hill 154 by NATO forces was brutally suppressed by NATO and its stooges in the Andreivian goverment and so-called Andreivian Turkish community.

The Andreivian-Armenian Rainbow Alliance sent a delegation to the area to point out to NATO that their presence on Hill 154 was a gross insult to the national memory of the Armenian Andreivian people; it being the location of St Denis' famous visitation by the holy spirit in 1322, and of his subsequent martyrdom at the hands of the barbarian Turkish overlords.

To our shock and dismay our attempt to place flowers of remembrance on the outpost fence was met with lethal force by NATO forces inside the post, and our minibus (laughingly described as a tank by pro-NATO propagandists) was not only fired upon but set alight by collaborators in the Andreivian armed forces.

Our attempts to remonstrate with these swine met with some success - we had persuaded the crew to converse with us - when NATO intervened again, escalating matters still further with an air strike against our peaceful party workers.

Fortunately our documentary camera crew were filming the scene from a distance, so were able to record the atrocity, and we shall be making this available over the world wide interweb as soon as our ISP is freed from its (NATO-inspired and Andreivian-Turkish facilitated) DOS attack....

Hill 154 - The Andreivian-Turk Account

Account by Steven Carr:

The story of the battle Hill 154 and the tragic fate of the heroic Andrievian Turk volunteers who went to the aid our brothers of the Turkish army as told by a wounded survivor who has just made it back to his village.

After receiving information that there was going to be an attack on the Turkish radar site on Hill 154 we small band of volunteers, armed only with light automatic weapons and grenades, set out to fight alongside our Turkish brothers.  

After a long hard march across the desert we caught sight of the hill and its radar site.  The Andreivian forces were already making their attack.  We decided to make for a low rocky hill within range of the radar hill, where we would set up a base of fire to provide support for the defenders of the site.  We approached with caution fully expecting the Andreivians to have set up their own base of fire on the hill.  But no, the hill was unoccupied! We quickly took advantage of the cover on the hill and took up firing positions.  Before us the battle raged. 

To our front the Andrievians with infantry, a tank and APC were on the approaches to the radar site and were fully occupied trying to attack the site while also trying to prevent interference from a large band of, very well equipped, Armenian bandits.  The Turkish defenders seemed to be in some confusion, leaving their bunker, sometimes firing a LAW, retreating back inside before coming out again.  From the safety of the bunker they successfully wiped out an Armenian unit that had just reached the first large plateau on the hill.

To our left what looked like a reserve force of Andrievian gendarmes were milling about.  We don’t know if we were spotted but this reserve unit started to move away from our position, moving into line of sight of the observation slits. They were subjected to fierce plunging fire from above and retreated back towards our position.  This was our chance. We opened fire and hit ….. nothing.  We did however, attract the attention of the Andrievian command, who called in an airstrike.  An Andrievian Skyhawk streaked over our position. The bomb landed in our centre but we were such good cover that only two of us were wounded.

In the meantime the Andrievian tank was pouring shot after ineffective shot at the radar bunker and their infantry were struggling to get through the wire.

After recovering our senses we turned out attention to the Andrievian reserve again.  Our next two bursts of fire put paid to them.  Our next objective was to join our Turkish brothers on the hill to help them fight off any further attacks.  

In front of us, on the lowest slope of the hill, the Andrievian and  Armenian APCs had been fighting at point blank range.  This fighting became confused.  The Armenian APC caught fire and their infantry swarmed over the Andrievian APC.  A sudden catastrophic explosion ended this fight as a NATO jet thundered in and scored a direct hit on the melee.  The Armenians had had enough they fled the field.    

On the hill the Andrievian tank was manoeuvring around to try to get a shot at a more vulnerable part of the bunker.  Suddenly there was a mighty crack and the tank exploded. Had the Turkish LAWs finally hit their mark?  Anyway it was problem solved for us. By this time, the Andrievian commander had personally led his troops over the wire and was sheltering in a dead spot at the wall of the bunker.  Not for long. The Turkish infantry came out again and wiped them out.  We prepared to join our Turkish brothers.  

Our commander wanted us to move but because of our position in thick cover we became confused and it took a while to organise ourselves.  Finally we moved.  Most of the group broke cover and moved across open ground.  Only I, and my wounded comrade became separated, moving slower because of our wounds and didn’t clear the cover of our hill.  Suddenly a boxy APC appeared around the corner of the escapement to our right.  NATO infidels!  A few of our number got off a quick burst of fire.  The APC stopped dead.  Unfortunately it was not alone and two more APCs appeared.  Heavy machine gun fire started to land among our group.  Tragically the Turkish troops opened fire in support of their NATO allies and our brave little band of heroes was destroyed.

Hill 154 Fighting - First Pictures

At the start of the game, Andreivian Army vehicles approach the radar station. The BMP-2 (left) would lure the Turkish defenders into firing off all of their 66mm anti-tank rockets to no effect.

The Andreivian-Armenian forces arrive, ably directed by Phil Gray.

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