Yesterday's Tomorrow's War game

Pictures of a TW game at my home. We played a scenario that I wrote for Stargrunt II years ago based on the Blackhawk Down events. A shuttle carrying the President and his bodyguard crashes in a jungle deep in enemy territory. Com equipment is down and they dare not leave the wreck. Marines will need to reach them and escort them to one of three LZs nearbyto be picked up by a transport VTOL. In the meantime enemy troops close in on the shuttle wreck. The Marines have a VTOL gunship for air support and two transports.

The table setup. Lots of trees! The crash site is In the middle of the table.

One of the transports made from an old HappyMeal toy.

An enemy Combat Walker (Rebel Minis). 

The gunship hovering over the crash site while Marines approach the wreck.

RH Miniatures Marines on the ground. Faced with the Rebels coming in all around them in ever-increasing numbers and with no reinforcements their losses amounted to over 50% during the game.

The President (on the phone, trying to reach help) and his bodyguard in the wreck.

Enemy jungle fighters moving through the jungle

The gunship strafing the jungle with devastating effect. I over-armoured the gunship somewhat, making it practically invulnerable for the Rebel's RPG's.

Here the president is running toward the transport. No Rebel units where nearby so he made a safe run off te table.

Scratchbuilding Tomorrow's War

Having recently been gripped by the terrific Ambush Alley ruleset Tomorrow's War I have started collecting figures and vehicles for this game in 20mm scale.

Since money unfortunately does matter, plastic 1/72 will form up the infantry and some creative scratchbuilding will provide most of the vehicles. In the coming months I will post several sub-projects in this context.

The first among these is the VTOL Black Mamba gunship derived from an old Revell 1/72 Apache Longbow kit. Rummaging through the bit box produced a few jet engines from long gone models and plasticard and putty made it into a menacing gunship.

Another example is some light artillery. Source materials here are plasticard and parts from the bit box, more specifically from a set of EM4 mechs I received from a friend some years ago. Here are the as yet unpainted models shown below.

The smaller Mech types from the EM4 sets turned out to be excellent figures for heavy power armour.

EM4 power armour with a Caesar 1/72 Special forces trooper

RHModels excellent 20mm Imperial Battle Troopers 

Next epsisode will deal with recreating VTOLs from the movie Avatar (or at least something similar) from ultra cheap plastic helicopter toys and some drinking cups and plasticard. Stay tuned!