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 Operation Green Unternehmen Grun The United Kingdom fell to the Nazis in early August 1940, and Hitler gave his permission for the invasion of the Irish Free State in late September.  British forces in Northern Ireland have not surrendered, and Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Eammon de Valera stands by Ireland's neutrality and calls for an end to the partition of Ireland.  Churchill and the government (and Royal family) have escaped to Canada, and the US maintains its neutrality.   At 7.00am on the morning of September 30, 1940, German airborne units parachute and glider assault into Rineanna (Shannon) and Baldonnell (Casement) aerodromes in the Irish Free State and Aldergrove airfield in Northern Ireland.  Simultaneously, amphibious forces will land on the Waterford and Wexford coast lines and establish two beach heads.  The airfields have to be secured intact by the paras thus allowing JU 52s to fly in reinforcements. The Irish Defense Forces are under s...
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Crossing the Ukraine: What Could Go Wrong?

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 "Crossing the Ukraine: What Could Go Wrong?" I ran this scenario at Huzzah Con in May 2025.  It was early into the Russian invasion of the Ukraine when a Russian armored column of tanks and APCs arrogantly entered an urban area, and discovered the Ukrainians were not going to roll over and give up.  A number of vehicles were destroyed or damaged and two four man tank crews and a four man Russian infantry fire team having escaped their BDM find themselves separated in no-man's-land.  The Ukrainians want to (preferably) capture them or kill them, while the Russians want their "skilled" crews rescued.  The Russians came on their end of the table with three eight man rifle squads, and the Ukrainians started with one eight man squad and a stealth sniper.                                                    Two Russi...
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 I ran this scenario three times (Friday night, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon) at the Huzzah Con held in South Portland, Maine last weekend (May 17-19).  The outcome was the same on all three occasions, although twice it came down to the wire.  On September 25, 2007 the UN Security Council approved a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT). Ireland was requested to contribute peacekeepers.  During February 2008 the 97th Infantry battalion and a 50+ unit of the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) deployed to Abeche (the second city) in Chad as part of a European Union force (EUROFOR) CHAD/CAR.  It was based at Camp Croci with other EURFOR special forces.  The ARW conducted special reconnaissance patrols in southeastern Chad and also provided security while Camp Ciara was being constructed 5 km from the town of Goz Beida.  The town was the capital of the Sila region in Chad and was located 70 km (40 miles) from the Su...
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