I run MOGADISHU with a 1:1 figure scale, so the OB will show you how many for the whole battle. You can get the same effect by going 1:2, but then you may not be able to put a name on every Ranger figure! Or you could do just one of many smaller parts of the battle:

1. Initial Delta Team Assault/Snatch
2. Medal of Honor Scenario -- Delta Snipers at Black Hawk Crash site #2.
3. "Escape Scenario" Evacuation of _____
4. "Main Convoy Ambush" of Ranger Extraction Convoy
5. "2nd Ambush" 1st Ranger Relief Convoy
6. "Escape Scenario" of combined Extraction/Relief Convoys
7. "Alamo Scenario" -- Ranger/Delta Teams at Black Hawk Crash site #1.
8. Armored Relief Force to relieve rangers/Delta at Crash site #1.

At times I pre-programmed the 1st two Helo crash sites into the scenario, but did not tell the players where until they found it. Other times I simply said, "Bird went down, you don't know where yet." When running the game with my students in class, I used an overhead-video camera, and only let the General in charge watch from above. He had to direct the guys on the ground by radio, and only he could see where the crash sites were. (This is sort of how it happened, as the CinC was watching from his CP on video.)

US Forces for Mogadishu

Initial Assault

75 Rangers in 4 blocking positions
4 MH-6 loads of D-Boys to take building(# 1) 6 per bird
17 Choppers:
4 BH for Ranger insertion
2 Rocket MH-6
4 MH-6 for D-Boy insertion
1 BH for C & C
2 BH orbit in CAP (3 D-Boy snipers each)
1 BH Rescue (15 Ranger/PJ crew)
1 BH off coast (Durant)
2 additional (est. MH-6 )

1 P3 Orion

"Lost Convoy":

4 5-ton trucks
8 armored HMMVs w/M2 .50cal machine guns and MK-19 automatic grenade launchers
Rangers, 2 of Delta, 1 of SEALS

Relief Convoy #1: (link up w/"lost convoy" and return to base)

4 HMMVs w/M2 .50cal machine guns and MK-19 automatic grenade launchers (3 from "lost convoy")
3 5-ton flatbeds

Relief Convoy #2: (ambushed at K4 and return to base)

9 5-ton flatbeds
12 HMMVs w/M2 .50cal machine guns and MK-19 automatic grenade launchers
150 Rangers

UN/US ARMORED/INFANTRY RELIEF FORCE ["Quick Reaction Force"]

4 Pakistani tanks (old US M-48's) w/Pakistani crews
28 Malaysian Armored Personnel Carriers (BMP-1 w/Malaysian driver/gunner/commander
TF of Three Infantry Companies (150 Infantrymen) of the 10th Mountain Division