As you will probably have noticed I live in Belfast - at the present time a very bitter city - and recently I was toying with the idea of attempting to reproduce the situation on the table-top. I must stress here that "The situation" is not a case of being shot at as soon as you poke your head round the door - it is very localised, and where I live apart from army patrols and the odd explosion we have no contact with the trouble. Within these areas, however, the army are in continuous danger, not knowing when they will be attacked, or when a riot will develop. But back to my original theme, that of reproducing this on a table-top. After some thought I found it almost impossible to reproduce the situation when a soldier hesitates with his finger on the trigger because the person throwing a nail bomb is an 8-year old child; when a soldier shoots the man who has killed a companion but when he reaches the spot the man's gun has been removed, and the soldiers are accused of 'murdering' an innocent man. Apart from all this I would not imagine that there would be much use in collectinr figures to represent those who shoot men without cause, who place bombs meant purely to kill and maim, and to disrupt the Government in Northern Ireland. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 120 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1971 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com