Fight Out The Aden Emergency With Eureka Miniatures
October 24, 2016 by brennon
Eureka Miniatures will be providing you with the troops you need to fight out the battles between the British and the Yemeni Tribesmen around the port of Aden (The Aden Emergency) during the period of 1963 and 1967.
The Tribesmen were dressed in their traditional garb and carried stolen weapons. All of the men carried the Jambiya dagger which would be decidedly useful in combat.
As well as the rifle armed soldiers there's also some machine guns and sub-machine guns too. They are going to be putting up a stalwart defence against your British soldiers.
Glengarried Men
Fighting for Aden there's a selection of British soldiers wearing the famous Glengarry Caps.
"The 'Glengarried Men' represent the famous Argyll and Sutherland regiment, which re-took the town of Crater, in Aden, from Arab nationalist guerrillas in a text book operation, preceding the final withdrawal of British troops from the region."
Alongside the regular soldiers you do get access to plenty of special weapons with this set too. It's a fascinating period of history after World War II to play out as Britain decided to close down it's colonial interests.
As a flashpoint during this period, it would be fun to play it out and learn more about it.
What do you think of their collection?
"The Tribesmen were dressed in their traditional garb and carried stolen weapons..."
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Wonder if we’ll see the SAS as they were in action in Aden.
You never see the SAS…
True dat
Mirbat was’nt it ? That was one hell of an action, is’nt there a statue of SS Labalaba somewhere ?
Back OT, the mini’s look great and you can never learn enough military history.
all the troops look good.
The troops look great . Did they have any support vehicles like the Saladin or Ferret armored cars ? And if so , who makes them in 28mm ?
Full name of regiment is the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , I trained and served alongside them back in the 80s. I was KOSB. Mad Mitch was there boss at Crater and locked the whole place down , anything that moved with a weapon got clobbered.
Just noticed the middle bottom fig is Probably meant to be Mad Mitch , it’s a good likeness to photos I’ve seen, also radio op to his left is holding his SMG mag which is a bit Hollywood as it would detach when firing and cause a jam ( for the purists out there ha).