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Fighting in the Green Hell: Chaco War 1932-1935

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Here is a new project that I have been working on since 2022, Green Hell: Chaco War 1932-1935 , a 15mm scale campaign module based on a little known inter-war conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay. A bloody affair which saw the smaller Paraguayan army defeat the larger and better equipped Bolivians at nearly every turn, the "Green Hell" refers to the arid and treacherous conditions of the the Chaco Boreal, the borderlands between the two warring nations which were thought to contain a vast amount of oil. For three years the two countries waged a brutal war marked by WW1 style frontal assaults, artillery bombardments, and sieges along with warplanes and even a few British tanks. The Chaco Boreal itself was a third combatant in the conflict-drought conditions along with poisonous insects and snakes made it extremely difficult terrain to fight in. Foreign advisors and European military equipment were readily available to both sides with this set of 15mm miniatures reflecting tha