7 Nov 2009 Scenario 40: Parachute Assault.

This game was played solo using 1/72nd fictional 1960's figures and Morschauser's Modern Rules.    

After the border incident covered above, the Roscian Army was mobilized  and defense posts were set up at strategic points including the bridge over the Recyklid River. Two pillboxes were hastily constructed to house the MG's (perhaps concrete might have been more effective than the corrugated cardboard that appears to have been used.) and sandbag redoubts provided for a mortar, recoilless rifle (field gun) and 10 infantry squads. The bridgehead was too small so 4 squads were stationed in  the burnt out shells of the surrounding villages. The silence of the dawn was shattered  by the sound of approaching aircraft and the rattle of dice as the pilots tried to determine where to drop their cargos. The Rhinos end up clustered about a drop zone a foot north of the bridge while the Lion Brigade landed about 2 feet away to the South West.\Another throw of a die determined that the Naryatrians had achieved surprise and got first move. As luck would have it, 1 squad hand landed close enough to move into anti-tank grenade range of 1 pillbox (I was treating the pillbox as equivalent to an Armoured Car that can't move) and with a 6, lobbed a grenade through the slit . 

On the far side, one of the Lions dropped almost on top of an LDF squad and was wiped out in the ensuing melee, despite landing behind him. A series of sharp firefights with the occasional assaults followed but with 1 pillbox destroyed, the other facing the wrong way and the Rhinos inside the defenses by turn 2, the outcome was not long in doubt. Within an hour, while there were only 4 Naryatrian squads still functioning but the bridge was secure.