Sold: Burma 1945 collection

Burma 1945 collection: £1250.00

Sold 

Since we moved back to the UK and downsized, I want to move on some of the stuff that I'm just not playing with anymore.

I had a blast researching and painting this collection, but being honest with myself I've used these troops and terrain once in the past ten years so they can go to someone who can give them the use they deserve.

So, what do you get for £1250.00:

• Over 200 infantry, enough for two platoons of 14th Army British, one Platoon of 14th Army Gurkhas and two Platoons of Japanese plus plenty of support options. All magnetized and supplied in three magnetic receptive 4L Really useful boxes.
• Three armoured vehicle: A Sherman V of Probyns horse, a Universal Carrier and a Chi-Ha
• Four scratch built buildings, a pair of log bunkers and about 24" of entrenchments.
• Terrain pieces, a well, a Burmese toilet and some objective markers plus a 9L Really Useful box of jungle terrain (some of which you can see in the photos).

Most of the figures are from The Assault Group, but there are a few from Warlord Games, Artizan Designs and Too Fat Lardies.

Posted in the UK for £20.00, or collect from Ruddington, Nottinghamshire.

Some more images:

I'd suggest reading Quartered Safe Out Here by George McDonald Fraser, it was my inspiration for this project!

If you search the Battle of Meiktila on the Scrivsland blog, you'll find many of the painting and gaming articles I wrote when creating this force.

Francs Tireurs

The last time I played a France 1940 game with James I used a Francs Tireurs and although it's only a game mechanic thought it would be a good idea to have a figure or two to represent them so decided to pick up pack of them from Crusader Miniature.

The first pair are armed with a shotgun and a captured MP40, while the second pair have a rifle and a sub-machinegun.

I painted some of them with vintage Horizon Bleu kit left over from the last war.

They are a lovely set of figures, hopefully the France 1940 stuff will get a run out again in teh not too distant future.

German Officers and NCO's

When James and I played some Chain of Command a couple of weeks ago it irked me that my German leaders were on the same sized bases as the rank and file while the French ones stood out more on the larger bases.

A quick order to Northstar I picked up a pack each of German Infantry Command and German Infantry in Greatcoats Command 

One of the benefits of keeping the blog is that I can easily find articles like this one I wrote five years ago with the paint recipes. 

The figures are based on Renedra 30mm round bases so that they stand out from the other troops in the force.

The first four will be used as senior leaders while this next four will make suitable junior leaders for our Chain of Command games.

 I may now do the same for some of my other forces.

Probing the Soviet lines

 

Thursday evening saw James (not that James, the other James) playing another game of Chain of Command.

James arrived and we started setting up to play after dinner, but after Victoria sliced off the tip of her thumb preparing dinner there was a swift bit of first aid and I took over dinner making duties.

Eventually the blood was staunched, dinner was eaten and we got down to the game!

The table was set up with some rolling hills and a rural road network with a couple of small farms and some tree lines and areas of woodland.

We randomised a scenario and would be playing "The Probe" James with a 1942 Panzer Grenadier platoon and myself with a Soviet Rifle Platoon, both from the Winter Storm PSC.

We both started with a whopping force moral of 11. The Patrol phase saw a heavy concentration of jump-off points on the left hand side of the table, I had two in the farm with one on a hill on the right while James had two in the woods on the left and one behind a small hill just outside the woods. I do like the cloth over hills terrain, but it's a bugger to see the hills in some of the photos.

The Soviets created a strong defensive line in the farmstead, protected by a lot of fire from the large hill in front of it, while the Germans created a strong base of fire in the edge of the woods.

We both jockeyed for positions that would allow two sections to fire on one enemy section but only get return fire from a single section, especially with how deadly those MG34 are.

Soon both a Soviet section and a Panzer Grenadier section had been broken and were running to the rear. The German Feldwebel turned up to bolster the line and was immediately shot in the throat.

With a Force Moral of 11 it was always going to be a bloodbath with the Germans having a dead Senior Leader, a wounded Junior Leader and a broken section while the Soviets had two wounded Junior leaders and two broken sections we were soon both on a Force Moral 4.

A moving section of Panzer Grenadiers had a long range shot at one of my broken sections, from ten shots needing fives he scored nine hits, I proceeded to roll five sixes, the section was gone, the junior leader dead and two poor Bad Things Happen rolls saw the game end. 

Not sure why we set up all that terrain, all the action took place in the left hand third of the table.