I have two days of work left before I’m officially on holiday, but we’re not off to France straight away for a change, as the rest of the family are all away for a week camping or on school activities. This means that, in between a bit of DIY around the house and walking the dog, I will have a few days all on my own to play around with. One thing I will be doing is some serious background reading for my various current projects, including the Sandbox Skirmish 15mm post colonial thing.

As I mentioned earlier, I’ve just expanded my modern US forces for this to build a full platoon with support options, so I thought that this book would be excellent inspiration. I’m not planning to wargame Mogadishu itself but it’s very much along the asymmetrical lines of my ‚imaginations‘ contextual setting of the project, for the British, the US and also the French forces that I’m planning to assemble in the longer term.