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 🙂

The Six Day War : Part Two

Painted up and based the next group of Arab and Israeli armour. These have had the sand bases lightened which I think looks slightly better 😀 once again the colours don’t quite look right on the photos making them darker than real life. I have as usual deliberately given some variation in schemes to help identification on the battlefield.

Arab PT76’s a couple to use as command tanks

BTR152 troop transporters

And Israeli Centurions....this is the worst photo as they are fairly light grey green, it just doesn’t show against the lighter background☹️

I am now on with some T55’s 😀

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.