The beast awakens

 

The rest of the force cautiously enters the city while the officer leads his HQ group to check out the temple.

As the officer climbs to the top of a column the force starts moving further into the city.

 

As he stood there, long tentacles appeared from a well in the temple and snatched him...

 

 

It was so quick that noone knew what had happened. The corporal led a couple of men to investigate.

 

 

Suddenly a winged, tentacled monstrosity rose up before them.

 

 

One brave soldier fired at the nightmare while the rest of the force panicked. Hastily reversing to try and turn around, two of the tanketes colled with each other... (Rolling for combat/morale, I treated each tentacle as separate and with 'god' facing Hordes. One tentacle rolled a 1 as the man it was facing rolled a 6!)

 

 

Utter panic as Cthulhu surveyed the scene before him...

  

Intermission - a WW2 puzzle

 Sorting through some of the things from my mother's things I found this interesting newspaper article dating back to 1942. I don't recognise any of the names but... their is an 'A. MacFarlane' there. My Great Grandfather was called Alexander McFarlane - he died in 1899 so obviously not him! But why else would this article have been cut out if there wasn't some family connection in the photo? Certainly, my family was involved in shipbuilders - four of the fitters who died on the Hood were related. So, were the army wrong with Alexander McFarlane? - unlikely? (the known Irish side of the family were Flynns strangely, that name was changed - they were originally O'Flynns.). Or did the paper get it wrong?

No idea.

Skirmish in the ruins

 

As the ambushers fire on the Japanese one of the soldiers is hit and falls to the ground.

The Japanese return fire as they face their attackers...

But as their return fire is ineffective and they lose another man, although one of the attackers also falls. The soldiers decide to charge the ambushers instead ...

The charge results in two more attackers down as the survivors withdraw.

 

And the rest of the force enters the city as the first section takes up a defensive position in case of another attack.

Ruins in the jungle

 

Crossing the stream the Type 97 TE-KE tankettes stopped as the path lead to the entrance to a ruined city, the low surviving walls into the jungle on both sides. The tankettes stopped at the entrance as the officer and his command group came up to evaluate the situation.

No point sending the TE-KEs in - not a good place for tanks! The 1st Section got the job of checking the entrance out...

 

Along the overgrown passageway they went. At the it opened, as the section started to spread out, they came across the remains of a cyclopean temple-like structure ahead of them.

 

Shots fired! Figures clad in brown robes egged on by a strange purple robed figure! Caught by surprise the section readied itself for combat...

Somewhere in the Pacific

 

A couple of under strength infantry sections and three light tanks edge their way alone an overgrown jungle track in an attempt to outflank Allied forces...

All goes well until they are slowed by a stream crossing the path...

The terrain gave me a chance to use a load of one foot square terrain pieces I bought at a convention many years ago. Probably about thirty years ago.

A plethora of elephants - Review

 In total, 52 of the things...

I think that's enough on elephants for now. The Garrison herd is now up to size that I am happy to call reasonable!

 (Future thought: the elephants under the SKT label)

Vanha elephants finished

Almost. Just noticed I haven't painted on their beards!

I also keep thinking I should probably paint the inside of the elephant's mouths, but not going to.

So, bar basing and touching up some paintwork, elephants all done.

 Next thing to do - line up all my elephants as a Review.