Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Platoon Forward - Lebanon Style


In getting ready for my first Platoons Forward campaign I used the rules and modified them slightly to fit a Lebanese militia faction. From my rolls I think we come from a religious organization.

The road looking towards the village.
My concern is that in the past my PLO can win a game but normally there are few troops left standing.

As we are guarding the southern approaches to the town we have acquired an old truck that will enable us to move half of the unit at a time.

Platoon Commander (Avg Die)
  • Pragmatic
  • Religion
  • Even

Second in Command (D4)
  • Egotistical
  • Religion
  • Even
  • Military Family
o   +1 Officers
o   +2 Major and above

Headquaters
An RPG Team of two men and a radioman

Support
LMG Team of three

Squad #1
4 AKs
1 RPG-7

The Bigman's Headquarters (Looks a lot like a warehouse out of Clear and Present Danger.

Squad #2
4 AKs
1 RPG-7

Squad #3
4 AKs
1 RPG-7

 
 Showing both sides of the road.
 
Squad #4
4 AKs
1 RPG-7

Roadblock on one of the two roads.

Number of squads was determined by an averaging die as the PLO and militias really did not follow any formal TOE/OB.

Next up the aggressor.

5 comments:

  1. This looks great with brilliant terrain! Really looking forward to seeing how the action unfolds and how the rules set pans out.

    Regards,

    Monty

    ReplyDelete
  2. You should post this on the Platoon forward Stories Blog. This should prove to be great fun. It will be interesting to see how well the militia fares as all of my experiences with modern militia troops are that they take lots of casualties in these games.

    ReplyDelete
  3. I have the same experience Chris. My best game was one were my bigman lost every one of his men, but himself.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I have listed listed you for the viral "Stylish Blogger Award", details here:

    http://panther6actual.blogspot.com/2011/04/and-winner-is.html

    For the inspiration I get from reading your blog.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Thank you Ashley. I am glad you enjoy it. Hope you will follow these adventures in Lebanon.

    ReplyDelete