Back in the Desert 1967 Arab/Israeli War

Putting aside all the American Civil War obsession and I managed a third game yesterday which I will blog later in the week. We squeezed in a return to the Sinai Desert in 1967. No real historical context to the battle but we had two roughly equal armoured forces looking to capture the high ground in the central part of the battlefield. A fun way to get my small collection of Arab/Israeli takes onto the table 😀. I didn’t take too many pictures....fair to say desert conflicts in 6 mm are not as photogenic as 28 mm ACW ! However.......

Israeli centurions pushing forward

Arab forces move rapidly to take the high ground

SU-100’s cross the valley supported by heavily armoured JS Tanks

A full battalion of Israeli Super Shermans

Israeli Magach’s open up at long range

Starting to cause casualties amongst the Arab T55’s

A wider shot of desert the Arabs having the advantage by taken both hills

Advancing PT76’s are too weakly armoured and are badly mauled by the Magach’s 

But the super Sherman’s aren’t able to hold the high ground

Stalin’s best push across the open ground

...and the Israeli centurions can’t react quickly enough 

Tanks from both sides are in flames....but the Rab forces are getting the bets of it

The Magach’s can fight at long range but are unable to move forward to take the objectives

The depleated Arab Forces hold the high ground to claim a minor victory

A fun game and nice to get the Arab Israeli forces back on the table 🙂