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The Soviet Airborne Invasion of Ireland (Revisited) So after a four year hiatus, I brought back my Russian airborne invasion of the Irish Republic "Cold War Gone Hot" scenario at a local convention as I am planning to run the game at "Little Wars" next month.  The map had a couple of changes.  I replaced a field with a pub building and improved the secondary roads.   My research on the Irish military relies upon Adrian J. English's book,  Irish Army Orders of Battle: 1923-2004, and  provides  a breakdown of unit organization, weapons, and the location of forces. (Unfortunately, the book needs to be edited for typos).  Back in 2022, I play-tested the scenario with friends (and the Irish didn't do well) before running the scenario at a wargaming convention that May, and the Irish won all three times!  The rule set used was "Force on Force, Modern Wargaming Rules" (Cold War Goes Hot). In the summer of 1982, Soviet Airborne troops (or VDV: Vozdus...
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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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