Modern African Battle Photos
The First battle
The first battle of my campaign
took place at objective A59, a border checkpoint with a small
village just inside the Uwandan side of the border. The attack
took place at night, and involved a small rebel force from the
Uwandan Liberation Front (ULF) over-running the border checkpoint
and trying to take control of the village.
Above, a view looking East toward
Mugabia, the border post is in the far distance.
A view from the Mugabian side.
Rebels worked their way through
the brush and stormed the border post, much to the surprise of
the snoozing border police inside. The first phase achieved without
a shot.
Rebels surrounding the village elder's
house. The elder and the handful of village guard men fought off
the rebels, despite being out-numbered four to one. The Rebels
managed to kill a couple of villagers, and each other (it was
a night battle with poor visibility), but none of the village
guard.
A couple of days later in a village
a little south of that above...
The local village chief, on the
roof of the building to the upper left was speaking to his villagers
about the noble cause of the ULF, when the crowd went on a rampage
(it was helped by ULF freedom fighters inter-mixed amongst the
crowd). Uwandan forces were present, as trouble had been anticipated
(unfortunately I didn't take any pics until well after the shooting
had started.
A Uwanda Army halftrack surrounded
by rebel and army casualties.
A view of the chaos from east road
into town.
The village chief rejoicing in the
chaos that he has caused.
Uwandan army troops fought hard
but were caught divided, and ambushed. Both forces suffered heavy
losses, but the town was lost to the rebels.
Meanwhile, back at objective A59,
Uwanda Army troops were deployed to protect the village against
any further ULF attacks.
The border guards (in the older
green uniforms) get some firepower in the way of a ferret.
Uwanda troops along the road at
the east end of the village
Uwandan army troops discover that
they are both outnumbered and surrounded as ULF militia advance.
A Saracen hunts for rebels south
of town.
Mugabian forces show themselves,
and despite taking heavy losses, force Uwanda to withdraw from
town. A59 is lost to the enemy.
Sometime later, after failed negotiations,
Uwanda throws diplomacy to the wind, and decides to take the town
by force.
Above, Mugabian forces at a roadblock
south of town.
The Mugabian perimeter holds firm
with a captured Saracen along the west side of town.
Fireflies advance...and then blow
up under intense fire from artillery, recoiless rifles and especially
RPGs.
The fate of objective A59 is decided.
Mugabian BTRs counter-attack, sweeping up fragments of Uwandan
forces.
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