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CWC Commanders Big Game Weekend

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This weekend was the annual CWC game hosted at The Unit by the inestimable Richard Phillips. The set up was the proposed invasion of Denmark by various Soviet and East German NVA forces.  The area of operations was a bathtubbed area around the splendidly named Middelfart and it's bridge linking the island of Funen/Fyn and the city of Odense to mainland Denmark. My battle was to involve naval infantry and VDV forces on the eastern end of the bridge seeking to sweep aside Danish forces defending the bridge approach. The main table was the Western area with a combined force of motor rifle and tank regiments taking on scratch NATO forces of West Germans, US Airborne and British.  The view looking west along the E20 highway. NATO to the right of me, WarPac to the left, here I am stuck in Middelfart with you...  Myself and Simon landed with the best part of 5 battalions of Naval Infantry plus tank support of T55AMs and mighty PT76s. We had one round of s...