Another game of "Brink of Battle" with a Modern Warfare theme. Patrik put his elite troops up for a 750 points game against some of my newly painted up Iraqi army. 
The game was rather one sided, we came to the conclusion that you can't really play proper super elite troops like the Seals against common rabble. I lost 6 out of 10 guys (not really remarkable if you think about them being regular Army vs Navy Seals). But either you have to give the Seal's proper opposition, like "Spetsnaz" troops, or make a scenario similar to "Black Hawk Down" where a small group of soldiers have to hold out and the enemy receives endless reinforcements for a couple of turns until relief troops arrive and can extract the besieged squad. Just throwing regular grunts at them is not that fun if you look for a points balanced game between two 
such different forces.Everything else works very well and as intended though, it's just our forces that are bad matchups and need some scenario balancing.
The rules of Brink of Battle simply do too good of a job at creating real elite forces with the wargear and traits (something other games almost always fail). The problems with this however is that you get one sided battles, I could probably take down one or two of Patrik's soldiers if I just camped behind a building with all my guys, but that is not my style of gaming.
We will make up something cool to make the game more balanced and feel right thematically next time.
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