Recreate Black Hawk Down With GameCraft’s Latest Resin Building
June 30, 2014 by dracs
GameCraft Miniatures have released a new limited edition 285th scale resin terrain piece that will allow you to recreate the Battle of Mogadishu on your tabletop.
This two part resin structure comes in at 7" x 5.6" and is 2.2" tall and recreates the main building on Hawlwadig Road in Mogadishu, which saw the battle known as Black Hawk Down. It is listed as the Black Hawk Down "Target Building" and only a limited number are available, so if you're interested in modern warfare be sure to give it a look.
Can any of you tel us anything more about the events of Black Hawk Down?
Read the book of the same title – the film was very much the down-sized watered-down version of the book as the film producers though the audience could not keep up with the number of major players and some of what happened was a bit too far beyond the pale even for Cert 18.
nice
It’s epic buildings like this that make 6mm gaming so tempting.
This was a capture operation for the target of a Somalian warlord. This was to be a combination operation by the US Army Delta Detachment and the 75th Rangers providing support and security. Due to some honestly bad luck the mission became compromised by a better than believed opposition and loss of two aircraft “Blackhawk Down”. There was also upper command failures, which resulted in delays of relief by elements of the 10th Mountain Division. The Rangers and Delta fought valiantly but not without losses to them and the 160th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment). That is a very basic… Read more »