It was a quasi contemporary scenario. Iraqi forces had invaded a portion of the occupied territories to help their Arab brethren. Meanwhile, the local Palestinian militia thought this would be a good time to take up serious arms against the Israelis. Therefore, the outnumbered Israeli forces had to expel the invaders, put down the Intifada, and herd (I mean escort) Palestinian civilians to safer areas (relocation camps), while also trying to protect Israeli civilians from snipers, suicide bombers and general ruthlessness by the Palestinians and Iraqis. This with UN peacekeepers looking on with the intent of preventing further bloodshed. The battle was initially delayed due to bad weather (there were not enough tables on Saturday), so it took place on the 6th. The Israelis moved to expel the invaders who had cleverly/cowardly (pure dumb luck?) deployed themselves with the bulk of the Palestinian combatants between them and the Israelis. Therefore they had to tear through them to get at the Iraqis. One force of Palestinians had sneakily deployed in among the Israelis and cut loose with quite a ftisillade, even trying to dupe the UN into firing on the Israelis! This almost succeeded! Unfortunately there were issues of poor communication and the UN did not start firing (yet). The result of this ambush was the complete annihilation of the Palestinian unit who found itself overrun by Israelis. They also discovered that much of their ammunition was of inferior quality (AKA. many incredibly horrible die rolls!!!) and they only scored minor damage on the Israelis. After committing this horrible atrocity (Palestinian description for the media) the Israelis continued to smash into the bulk of the Palestinian forces who were deployed in a major city area. The result was some very bloody house to house fighting. Meanwhile the Iraqi tanks, who were apparently having fuel problems (moving on average about 2 inches a turn), deployed themselves online to meet the Israeli tanks sweeping around the city. This while the Iraqi infantry began infiltrating various city blocks. As the carnage grew, the UN moved to intercede by placing itself between the comabatants, to the Israelis annoyance, as the Palestinians kept moving to inform the UN forces of Israeli atrocities (in other words they kept hiding behind UN units). Then suddenly the area was shook by explosions as first a suicide bomber took out some hapless Israeli civilians (or as the Iraqis reported to anyone who would listen "The civilians were killed by an elite LN plane (white with a blue star?) flown by the imperialist President Bush! Everyone knows he was a pilot.") and then an enormous explosion from a car bomb ripped through a city block taking out a number of Israelis (who had conveniently walked up to the exact location of the bomb) and wounded a number of Palestinains within the blast radius, due to poor communications between factions. This was followed by another suicide bomber who threw himself onto the stunned Israeli unit who managed to survive the car bomb, this time the Israelis didn't dodge the bullet, or in this case bomb, and added to the death toll. A single Palestinian civilian, at ground zero of both explosions, did manage to survive. The UN did exchange a bit of fire with some Palestinians and knocked out a technical. Incidently, the Palestinians were of the same faction (player) who tried to lure the UN into firing on the Israelis previously (sorry Ron). Then, just as the Israeli armor rounded the city and began engaging, the Iraqi armor, a sand storm came up and the fighting was discontinued (it was getting late and we had to clean up). The Israelis had accumulated the most victory points, but not by much. Particularly, a certain Palestinian (Art) was scooting around whacking Israeli civilians or as the Iraqis kept saying, "It was an UN sniper who did it, we saw it!", that is, when they were not professing there presence as a "Piece Keeping Mission." (No, there are no spelling errors in that last quote). It was quite a bloodfest. Thank you to everyone who played and to those who allowed me to use their finely painted figures (Chris, Chris, Danny and Joe). Back to Table of Contents The Messenger November 2002 Back to The Messenger List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2002 by HMGS/PSW. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles covering military history and related topics are available at http://www.magweb.com