Mountains!

It's taken me a while to upgrade my desert terrain with mountains.  Last summer I cut and coated the bases and painted the peaks in the reorganised workshop.  With warmer weather I have used evenings to finish the texturing - I think I could do more but I've got the look I was wanting to achieve. 

The terrain for the next Thursday night try out for the Iran-Iraq War is ready.

I'm only half way through creating enough terrain to go fully operational but I should have it completed by the end of Summer - I might organise a half table operational game just to make sure the mountain rules work effectively.

Saddam's Mig 21s bomb suspected Kurdish positions in Northern Iraq.  Change the markings and it could be Afghanistan. Change the armies and it could be the Northwest Frontier, Tunisia, Italian East Africa......

Meanwhile I need to concentrate on JoS and then hopefully we might get some temperate terrain completed.

Just in case you wondered how it was done - I like to think it is therapeutic.

The Iran-Iraq project is moving along nicely and the mountain terrain allows me to put on another further Thursday night game.  Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I develop new formations, rules and scenarios.  This is helping me create an operational game that has the unique flavour of this war but should give us a balanced game between two quite different armies, in-spite of all the 1980's equipment.  Although the scenarios are quite brutal for one side, I do think this is the nature of modern combat - I'm planning on the operational game giving us more pause and sense that either side can win.