Since @oriskany mentioned me I might as well take part.

Round 2 of trying to paint some 28mm Afghan War Soviets.

1. HBO/BBC Rome is good it’s the show that made GoT Possible.

If you’re into older stuff Shangani Patrol is pretty good. Made in Rhodesia in the 70’s. Think Rorke’s Drift but there’s on 25 people and they’re all Wild West cowboys and it ends like the Alamo. Historical movie and pretty good considering when/where it was made.

Bridge too Far is great.

If you’re after a good book I’d recommend Horse Soldier or 12 Strong (same book can’t remember the title) about the US sending Special Forces in Afghanistan days after 9/11. Don’t watch the horrendous movie they made from the book (as I did last night) it’s terrible. They gloss over all the interesting stuff, end the movie in the middle of the book, don’t even get into the problems of CIA, Special Forces and Mercs working together without talking to one another (Spoiler alert in the book they talk about an incident where one group is trying to talk down some Taliban in a building while another is trying to storm it while the CIA is calling GPS Missile Strikes in on it). Yeah fantastic book awful movie.

2. My week’s been good, started off pretty rough but tomorrow is my niece’s 1st birthday and Baptism so it’ll end pretty good.

3. I’m from Australia so it’s winter here. It’s actually not an issue 90% of the time the only problem is I live in a DONGA (Tin Shed but much more fancy) which is really well insulated but with no bathroom I essentially have to use the main house as an outhouse which isn’t so great at 3am in 5 Degree Weather.

4. My single biggest regret is that no one grabbed me aside and just beat the ever loving crap out of me. Little pukey embarrassment I was trying to act all cool with someone who was really not interested in me at all. PSA if you ever know some 17 year old who’s dating someone because quote “you’re the only one who asked me I guess” shake him violently and scream at him he’ll thank you for it.

5. Decided to start a Youtube Channel. At work I spend almost the entire day listening to Audiobooks so I’ve got time to do the research and it’s one of those things I’ve talked about doing for a while.

6. Getting into some Modern’s. Picked up some 80’s Soviets very cheap at Briscon (a Friend has Chechens) and next week I’m picking up some Rhodesians and “Terrs” for some Bush Wars games. Rhodesian Fireforce tactics are prefect for skirmish games. 32 Men in 4 man sticks with air support would parachute and helo insert at very short notice into the Bush to take out Guerrilla’s.

Turns out a lot of our Modern Counter Insurgency stuff actually comes from Rhodesia including MRAP’s which are a Rhodesian invention (the South Africans made them much better later on).

Soviet Afghan War is really interesting and easy to play since you just take a Scenario written for UK/US/AU Troops and swap them out for roughly equivalent Soviets.