Korea 1985: It's WAR!!!!

As some of you will no doubt have noticed, I have been modelling quite a bit of 1980’s material over the last few months, this is not some sort of mid life crisis, or a cry for help, but rather a campaign project that Al (from http://20thcenturywargames.blogspot.com/) have been developing since the start of the year.

The project revolves around a fictional 1985 Cold War Invasion of the Republic of South Korea (ROK), by the North (NK). In essence the Third Korean War (There was a second border type conflict in the late 60’s).
Our plan is to war-game certain Units throughout the fictional conflict, and build in reinforcements and losses that affect the Units and Sub-Units value on the field. We plan to have a game at least once a week (Plans rarely survive contact) and continue until the matter is resolved.
We see at least seven Phases of the Conflict.

1. Surprise Invasion of the South by the NK.
2. Withdrawal of ROK/Allied Forces down the peninsular
3. Defence of Seoul and other major industrial or populated areas.
4. Deadlock.
5. Reinforcement.
6. Offensive operations by the South/Allied Forces.
7. Destruction of NK forces in the field.

We plan to game at least one of each phases presented and in some cases more, and have in fact gamed a crossing of the DMZ yesterday. Given that both of us were still a little quiet from ANZAC Day the day before we managed to sort out a few problems quite quickly and an enjoyable first game was had. Bootneck forgot his camera so you will have to take my side of the story as gospel.

Rules used are Command Decision Modern and in some cases we bend them to make it a little quicker or easier. Rivet counters beware! In some cases we don’t have the models or correct stuff, we could not give a toss about it, to us it’s about the game rather than a chunk of metal.

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