apart from the officer who looks like he has just escaped from a mental home good effort, I have two tanks the snow leapard and the bulldog, and a friend has two, I have in my large garden set up a combat course, the plot is 12 terrorists have hijacked eight UN aid workers and are holding them in a mosque, MY old sqd (22) SAS have been given the task of getting them back, to do this they have been given two tanks as the mosque is 88 miles behind the lines and the use of aircraft is out as they have the latest in russian radar with GTA missiles, the engines on the tanks have been treated to make them as quite as possible, now they have to go to a start line and the first tank starts off it has to go through a minefield in which a narrow path has been cleared, just wide enough for the tanks metal tracks, soon there is a pill box with anti-tank rockets which has to be taken out, this is followed by a pill box and trench also with self guided anti tank rockets and 50mm cannon, then comes a anti tank barrier of trees which have been fallen and piled up so that when the tank climbs over them its bottom is exposed to the gun on a russian tank which was taken out by the RAF but the turret still works as does the gun, here the tank has to make a sharp left turn to avoid another mine field and comes face to face with a big trench with a large lumber of 50 mm cannons in it, then there is a tall radar tower which must be destroyed, beyond this is the mosque, in the top of the tower is a lookout with a rocket launcher, now the mosque must not be damaged as it will cause an uprising of all the arabs in the country, in the hours of darkness a SAS member climbed the tower and painted a red line, the red line is to denote that only that part of the mosque above the red line can be touched. , the tower top has to be taken out without damage to to the rest of the mosque, once this has been done a squad of eight SAS will blow the doors and storm the inside, should the first tank fail the second will try, we carry out the exercise as a competition, all buildings are constructed from balsa so that the hits can be seen and counted, trenches are considered to be destroyed if and when two pellets are in the trench, we have different coloured pellets for different type amo white is high explosive on contact, yellow is for air burst with shrapnel, and florescent pellets are both tracer and armour peircing