Effectively not the WHOLE eighth Military… just some Diggers…
I used to be tempted to name it “Taking Stock of the Desert Rats”… however, technically, the Desert Rats is simply the seventh Armoured Division and, whereas in some unspecified time in the future I would like to have among the armour the seventh fielded… there weren’t no diggers within the BRITISH seventh Armoured Division.
None of that is newly painted (effectively… I did repaint the 25 Pounder – because it had been olive inexperienced!?)m simply taking inventory of what I’ve and fascinated with what, if something, I’d add at some future date?
All of my eighth Military in North Africa forces.
It isn’t lots… But it surely’s a begin… and to this I might completely, in some unspecified time in the future, add a pile of armoured choices – in all probability some Matildas to start out (as that is what would have populated the Military Tank Brigades that possible would have been supporting the Australians. I going with them being Australians as a result of… effectively… half of them are very undoubtedly Australians of their iconic Slouch Hats… and the remaining in tin hats may me extra smart Australians!
This is what this may seem like in Bolt Motion:
Rifle Platoon
Platoon Commander
30 factors (Common)
First Infantry Part
1 NCO + 4 males (Common ) 50 factors, +5 Males @ 10, + Mild Machine-Gun @15, +Submachine-Gun @4 = 119 factors
Second Infantry Part
1 NCO + 4 males (Common ) 50 factors, +5 Males @ 10, + Mild Machine-Gun @15, +Submachine-Gun @4 = 119 factors
Truthfully I may in all probability combine and match these to there may be an assortment of slouch hats and tin hats all through the power… If there may be simply the 2, although, having them in numerous hats makes the 2 sections simpler to determine!?
Artillery Platoon
Artillery Platoon Commander
30 factors (Common)
25 Pounder
Mild Howitzer 45 factors (Common) + AT shells @5 factors + Gunshield @5 factors = 55 factors
Spotter for the 25 Pounder
+10 factors
Armoured Troop
Rolls Royce Armoured Automotive
70 Factors (Common) + Command Automobile @10 = 80 factors
Did Australian Infantry Divisions have Armoured Automobiles of their reconaissance models…? I’ve not concept… It is simply what I happed to have (from WW1 gaming!)
TOTAL: 443 factors
Not lots… I would want a good bit extra to make this right into a viable power… There are staggeringly few makers of metallic eighth Military miniatures anymore. I believe most of those had been produced by Battle Honors…? and it would not seem like they make their WW2 line anymore. Perry Miniatures and Warlord video games have plastic eighth military troops they usually’re so low cost… it is onerous to compete with that, I assume…
So part of me looks like possibly that is all I want and this power will predominantly be armour!?
For proper now it will do for a recreation of 5 Males at Kursk… however type of even lacks the stuff that may very well be rolled for on the random assist tables…
TO DO
I believe I’ve a second Rolls Royce Armoured automobile someplace… so I may truly make a troop of them. Aside from that, I’ve nothing else to assemble or paint for this power right now.
I did order 2 Pounder and 6 Pounder Anti-Tank Weapons and groups… they need to be right here subsequent week. However that may actually solely add 50 and 70 factors, respectively… Fortunately, they present up as a part of an Artillery Battery (Platoon) so I needn’t dig up one other officer!
STILL TO GET
I would like to get a bunch of armour for these – and I do not imply Second El Alamein/Supercharge/Tunisa type of Desert Warfare… I would like to have a power of these loopy little (and BIG) tanks they’d in North Africa when the Italians invaded or for Wavell’s offensive (Operation Compass) as much as the introduction of the Afrikakorps…
Just like the Mk VI Mild Tank, or the Cruiser Mk I (A9), or Cruiser Mk II (A10), or Cruiser Mk III (A13)… or possibly the Matilda II – which, as I discussed, was what populated the Military Tank Brigades which might have been supporting Australian Divisions… I am a bit of reluctant to get these as they’d such loopy thick armour, it was troublesome for the Italians (and later Germans) to really destroy them with the weapons they’d obtainable on the time (discovered THAT enjoying Flames of Warfare)… and My intentions are at all times to construct issues that make historic sense and never take silly damaged stuff that my opposing power would not have the ability to cope with…!? That is not enjoyable!?
(taking a look on the guidelines, it is just rated as Medium Tank 8+… so.. that is not THAT dangerous…)
Warlord Video games DOES promote a Matilda II troop… That may add 475 factors to the power!
It will be some time earlier than I can add anything to this. I went a bit of overboard ordering issues the previous couple of weeks… and really want to get all of the stuff I’ve (or not less than the stuff I not too long ago purchased) painted earlier than I’m going shopping for anything!
I could or might not add a heavy weapons platoon with mortars and machine-guns…
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