The Factory

Intelligence gathered from a warehouse raid has disclosed several locations which have been used as a weapons manufacturing facility. Team One and Team Two have been sent to the most promising locations...

Rainbow will try to secure the main factory buildings and bring outlying buildings and any parked vehicles under control. No materiel is to be allowed to escape.

The ruined factory complex was a perfect base of operations for the arms dealer

But lax outer security allowed the Rainbow team to approach along a wall...

...while a mercenary group gathers in the main factory building's courtyard

Orlov's main technical expert, Ivanov is taking a break in the factory annex, away from the dangerous materiel in his care.

As the assault element continues up the wall, the sniper and fire support teams cut across open group to take up position overlooking the main factory 

The assault element opens up the attack wiping out a mercenary machine gun team in a ruined generator house. However as they contemplate their advance, they notice a well-situated IED against the wall

A mercenary group, racing inside the factory annex grabs hold of Ivanov and engages Rainbow outside. They're biding their time to make a run for the car to escape up the road

Rainbow's assault element races away from the exploding IED - somehow they escape with just nicks and cuts

A mercenary group in the woods is giving the sniper team a hard time, but the Rainbow machine gun team puts them down 

They decide to reposition back to the generator room (possibly to the 1st floor above) but are taken out from the Mercs in the factory

Two mercenaries turn up in a car on the road; instead of heading up to the factory to help out there, they see an opportunity to capture the two Rainbow operators who've just been shot down

Rainbow pour fire into the factory annex, preparing for their assault 

The newly-arrived Mercs capture a Rainbow operator, despite the attempts of the sniper team to stop them

Having set C4 to the materiel inside the factory, destroying the evidence, two mercenaries race out of the explosion's radius

They pick up Ivanov on the way out, avoiding any engagement with Rainbow

A nail-bitter for all concerned. It looked like the Mercenaries were being wiped out with impunity, but a little loss in focus by Rainbow resulted in the Mercs having a second bite at completing their mission.

The Rainbow team commander critiques his approach in the postmortem

Rogue Spear

NSA intercepts have indicated that notorious arms dealer Yuri Orlov is taking delivery of weapons grade plutonium from Russian dissidents. Analysts fear that he is creating suitcase nuclear weapons and selling them onwards to noted terrorist leader al-Zawahiri.

Rainbow, the multinational counter-terrorism unit, has been dispatched to interdict both parties before the exchange can take place and recover the contraband material.

The campaign will comprise three or four scenarios and is inspired by Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and the spin-off PC Games.

I'll be running this Force on Force mini campaign on the Saturday and Sunday of Leprecon (on from the 7th-9th March in Goldsmith Hall in Trinity College Dublin). Visit their site.

Project Build Winners

The polling booths for the 2013 Project Build closed yesterday over on The Guild.
This year my effort was pretty poor, but I have higher hopes for next year...

So, without further ado, the winners' podium!

Piers in 3rd place with his wide variety of World War 2 work. [on 20 votes]

An inspiring casualty station

And some nice little panzers in grey

All his tasks: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Panzerfaust200 in 2nd place with his combined task of German KG Wotan & the town of Neustadt (on 27 votes)

Kampfgruppe HQ

And the Neustadt church

All his tasks: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

and in 1st place: Mausmann with his double-barrelled tasks of Moderns and World War 2 stuff (with 31 votes)

Some dinky BDRM-2s

All his modern tasks: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

and some fantastic German infantry

All his WW2 tasks: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

So congrats to the podium finishers.

My personal favourite would have been Chris S (just behind Piers on 17 votes)

World War 2 Soviets

Warsaw Pact

All his tasks.