Rare Sighting of DSM-34 SP AA Vehicle

A rare sighting of the T34 AA conversion on the streets of Tcherbevan known as the DSM-34 SP AA vehicle in Andreivian service.

New Scenery

I have a couple of Andreivia games planned.  Here's a new piece of scenery for one of them....

The Oracle Speaks

Richard Phillips has taken to referring to me as the Oracle of Andreivia.  This, it seems to me is only fitting.  What's the point in having your own country if you can't enjoy ultimate executive power there?  So I thought I'd pass a few comments on some of the toys we saw at Crisis Point IV and particularly some of Ian's contributions.

First up, an apology to Ian.  He suggested a couple of time that he'd like the Andreivians to have Chieftains and T-80s, neither of which really seemed, well ... right, to be honest.  T-80s represent the latest military technology for the Russians in the early 1990s and I don't see them handing them over to the notoriously independent-minded Andreivians.  Likewise, I can't see the Brits selling Chieftains to a communist regime. So for now I think we'll stick to the known T-55s, T-62s, Type-61s and JS-IIIs (as well as left-over T-34/85 with some of the reservists).

Where I do agree with Ian is that Andreivians definitely have a number of locally produced vehicles on adapted T-34 chassis.  A few blurred shots of them can be found in the background of recent news coverage:

This T-34-derived APC is known as the DKM-34
to the Andreivian Army.

The DH-34 armoured howitzer system mounts
a 122mm gun on a T-34 chassis.

Sadly, the news reports don't seem to have capture a picture of the DSM-34 SP AA vehicle.

Also definitely in Andreivian Army service is the Khmali armoured car seen her in the background as a Mujaheddin fires on NATO troops.  The Khmali mates a Scimitar turret to the chassis of a WW2-era Humber armoured car.  Quite how the Andreivians managed to source these on the world arms market is something of a mystery....

Links to Andreivia Battle Reports

This is the festival of links to reports of past Andreivia games.  I'll continue to refresh it as new games are played and reports are posted.

Return to Tcherbevan

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/crisis-point-2015-day-one.html

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/crisis-point-2015-day-two.html

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/crisis-point-2015-more-day-two-pics.html

http://redstorm2016.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/crisis-point-iv-return-to-andreivia.html

http://redstorm2016.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/crisis-point-iv-return-to-andreivia_30.html

http://redstorm2016.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/crisis-point-iv-return-to-andreivia_31.html

http://redstorm2016.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/crisis-point-iv-return-to-andreivia_73.html

http://sedimentswargameblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/crisis-point-2015.html


Battle For Tcherbevan

http://redstorm2016.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/crisis-point-3-pictures-part-one.html

http://redstorm2016.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/crisis-point-pictures-part-two.html

http://redstorm2016.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/crisis-point-pictures-part-three.html

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/battle-for-tcherbevan-day-one.html

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/more-of-crisis-point-iii.html

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/battle-for-tcherbevan-cast-and-crew-list.html

http://russellphillips.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/battle-for-tcherbevan-crisis-point-iii/

Practice Game

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-week-to-go.html

SAS in the Southern Hills

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/holiday-gaming-part-4-arc-of-fire-again.html

Street-fighting in Tcherbevan

http://thelandofcounterpane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/holiday-gaming-part-1-arc-of-fire.html

Spetsnaz at Tcherbevan

http://andreivian-tales.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/spetsnaz-seize-tcherbavan-airport.html

Hill 154

http://andreivian-tales.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/battle-for-hill-154.html

http://andreivian-tales.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/hill-154-fighting-first-pictures.html

http://andreivian-tales.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/hill-154-andreivian-turk-account.html

Tuzkhur Valley

http://andreivian-tales.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/first-reactions.html

http://willwarweb.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/andreivian-victory.html

That Turkish Workshop

Here are some shots of the finished workshop.  Click to embiggen.

Matrix Game Turn 2 Summary

After Turn 1 the Andreivian Armenians had gained excellent intelligence about Russian deployments at the airport.  The Russians had landed Naval Infantry at Mdinar but had lost two major vessels in an accident off-shore.

In recent days the Andreivian Armenians have been increasing their Anti-Yeltsin rhetoric and calling for volunteers from the Armenian diaspora but as yet this doesn’t seem to have borne fruit.  Meanwhile there is evidence that strong pro-Armenian propaganda from the Russians is causing some Armenian militia leaders to question the anti-Russian policy of Serj Benkian.

The Andreivian Government published some photographs purporting to show the aftermath of atrocities by Andreivian Turks against the Russians.  The authenticity of these pictures has been widely questioned and they don’t seem to have positively swayed world opinion.

The Government’s photographs may even have had a negative result.  Turkey has so far not deployed troops across the border other than to secure the area around the Dagras Hills radar post  (see our game at Hammerhead in 2009).  She has, however, now significantly increased her strength in the border zone.

Anxious that the presence of Turkish troops on the ground in Andreivia would put NATO’s even-handed stance in question, the western alliance has rushed more British and Italian forces to the region.  AFP reports that a small unit of Italian Special Forces has been deployed to Tcherbevan.

Turkish Quarter WIP

Among the basic building boxes I created recently was this large flat-topped building.  At the time of construction, I wasn't sure whether it would be a large 20mm scale building for Andreivia or a small 28mm building for Pavis.

In the end I've decided it's to be a concrete structure used as a small vehicle repair shop somewhere in the Turkish Quarter of Tcherbevan (or perhaps in one of the Andreivian Turkish villages).

The fluorescent red colour is, you'll be pleased to hear, temporary.  It just happens to be the colour of the textured masonry paint I use to give my buildings that roughcast feel.