Elements of Destruction -- Cangames 2015

On Sunday at Cangames this year I ran a Force on Force game (as has become customary).

This years game was an American special forces raid on a terrorist camp containing weapons of mass destruction. I am going to split my discussion of this game into 2 parts: This first part will be some pictures and an after action report and the next post will be about the sceanrio itself (since someone had asked). There already some AARs on Mike's blog and on Stan's blog

The sun is just rising on a sleepy East African city as the Delta Force commandos arrive.

An antiquated (but strangely still functional) Honest John tactical nuclear missile launcher sits in a square under the shadow of the ruins of an old Italian colonial building.

Everything is peaceful looking at first...

as Delta Force head towards the launcher,

the warheads,

and a cache of possible chemical agents.

The launcher and stockpiles are quickly seized but when the helicopters arrive for extraction, a Nike HAWK SAM battery reveals itself in the ruins of the colonial building and shoots down one of the helicopters.

Reinforcements are on the way from a supporting Ranger unit who manage to set the main gate alight before they have passed through it.

At this point, I was to distracted by running the game to take any more pictures (so I recommend you check out the blogs I mentioned at the beginning) but after a hard fight the US forces managed to take out the SAM battery and the Elements of Destruction were back in the hands of their rightful owners.