Alan Hamilton

Decals from Warlord Games https://store.warlordgames.com/products/british-79th-armoured-division-hobart-s-funnies-decal-sheet  The AVRE markings are the blue squares with four digits.

79 Armd Div Markings described https://tank-markings.blogspot.com/p/79th-armoured-division.html

As the crews were RE not Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) they would pr…[Read more]

I have not tried to use the tool you mention.  I suspect the reason actually is that the Scots Guards did and do not have Highlander platoons.  The Highland Regiments were and are Line Regiments that nominally recruit locally.  The Scots Guards nominally recruit from the whole of Scotland – Lowlands, Highlands and Islands.

If you want “H…[Read more]

Exaggeration it may be but then the exaggeration was made by the German users and also manufacturers who printed “Nur Für Gewehr” on the boxes. Steel cases were difficult to get right. The label “Für Gewehr” or “Nur Für Gewehr” basically means that function firing of this lot showed problems (usually stuck cases in the chamber; Hülsenklemm…[Read more]

I would very much like a bit more emphasis on rule writing.  At the moment “rules” and “fluff” are jumbled together making it difficult to find a “rule”.  Could we please have the book divided into a Historical section(s) with all the “fluff” and “Hollywoodisms” in there and a section just devoted to the core rules in a logical way.

On the s…[Read more]

Not sure how to attach pictures.

The kurzer 8 cm Granatwerfer 42 Team – figures from the German Heer Grenadiers and maybe Blitzkrieg sets.  Mortar is a 1/76 Matchbox mortar shortened and slightly detailed.  The Mortar bomb might be a British PIAT round (it was in the bits box.

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Matchbox Dingo scout ca…[Read more]

QUOTE – 4 + 5) in comon use English IE & EG are interchanageable, basically used as the same thing – heres a non-exahustive list of examples… however both your examples are outliers & I’d need to check their rules….

For clarity – The two terms are not “commonly” used interchangeably they are “incorrectly” used interchangeably.  In a set of rules…[Read more]

I have  converted (kitbashed) models ever since I started wargaming in the 1960s.  In those days there was only Airfix readily available.  So if I wanted anything not on the Woolwoths Airfix shelf I had to convert or scratch build it.  Fortunately the Airfix magazine had monthly conversion articles.

So even now I convert if I need som…[Read more]

Thank you so much. This confirms some information I have and adds more details. Very helpful.

Excellent, thanks.  I said it was my colleague’s great-grandfather in fact it was his grandfather who had worked in Siemens as a pattern maker and had also served in WW1 in the artillery.   In the battalion he was a section leader armed with an Italian rifle, 15 rounds of ammunition and two hand grenades.  At the start of the fighting he had bee…[Read more]

Interesting information about the flamethrowers.  May I ask your source? I am researching 3/115 battalion for a former colleague whose great grandfather served in it.

The Volksgrenadier Divisions were organized around small cadres of veteran soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers mainly from shattered or other Infantry Divisions. Their ranks were then filled out with whoever the Replacement Army could find. Naval and Air Force personnel made redundant through losses and fuel shortages, recovered…[Read more]

The best I can do is:  Pioneer Battalion (organization as of 1 April 1944).  I don’t have the company, platoon, section breakdown.  Of course, the figures are what the unit was supposed to have.  Reality was almost certainly different.

UNIT
Offs
NCOs
Pvts
Rs or Cbns
Pistols
Sub-MGs
LMGs
Hv MGs
81-mm Morts
Flame Throwers
Mtr Veh…[Read more]

On paper the organisation was a battalion of 642 men based on the standard Heer (Army) triangular system – 3 sections to a platoon, 3 platoons to a company and 3 companies to a battalion with associated support platoons for engineer, medical, transport (bicycles were authorised), communication (civilian telephones), administration etc.  The en…[Read more]

There were many WW1 artillery limber. Virtually every gun and howitzer type had its own specific limber.  That said most were externally similar and most served in both world wars either unmodified or with new ammunition racks, new wheels and suspension for new guns etc. I suppose it depends on how accurate you need your model to be.

Have look…[Read more]

If it is a late war light mortar then why not buy the SdKfz 251 mortar upgrade sprue and convert the 8cm mortar to the short version? It should not be too difficult.

There is a 2″ mortar in the weapons sprue in the Commandos box https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/british-commandos/products/commandos?variant=31468967821392#images-1

Not that I know of. I have used 20mm bases right from the start. My opponents use 25mm bases and there is no great problem.

I have even used 20mm (1/72) figures and vehicles for a very aesthetically pleasing game.

The MP40s are in the post this afternoon.

Nigel, If all you need are 2 MP40s then I have them in my bits box.  PM me your address so I can post you one MP40 butt extended and one on a sling butt folded.

Alan

Always nice to see conversions. I mix and match between various sets and also make or repurpose figures that I need for scenarios.

I needed a panzerschreck so made one.

Flamethrower

Simple headgear adjustments produced a Highland command group of Major, CSM, Piper and Padre