Betrieb Rostiger Zenturio - part 1

Operation Rusty Centurion was a Little Cold Wars game played a couple of months ago.  In brief it's 1961 and the wicked East Germans are using the distraction of Berlin Wall construction to launch an incursion into the British sector of West Germany.  With seven players and in total almost a division worth of kit, I believe this was the largest indoor LCW game to date.

The air forces gather.  All 1/72 models provided by Pete and I.

The players.  If you'd bought toy soldiers like the you'd send them back.  Anti-clockwise from front left: Lloyd, Matt, Martin, Tom, Russell, John and Pete.

I provided most of the toys but Russell brought his own DDR regiment(-).

Planning was done in advance using scans of BAOR maps.  

The British brigade.

DDR forces amounted to two and a bit tank regiments, plus various assets.  Nearest the camera is the Stasi detachment.

The British defensive plan.  We'll see how it worked out next time.