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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: Rick F on February 22, 2021, 01:27:39 PM
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Try painting these without constantly humming "Sunshine of your love" impossible lol
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Couple more
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Last ones
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They look great well done. :-*
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indeed they do
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Nice variety of camo patterns.
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Thanks for the comments everyone. Cheers Ash, I'm getting ready for the SASR.
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Thanks for the comments everyone. Cheers Ash, I'm getting ready for the SASR.
Re SASR I'm thinking the conversion route could be the way to go, the bloke with the 203 & the chap with the modified M60 could be a good starting point.
Hope many blokes in a patrol? I'm thinking five or six...
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Re SASR I'm thinking the conversion route could be the way to go, the bloke with the 203 & the chap with the modified M60 could be a good starting point.
Hope many blokes in a patrol? I'm thinking five or six...
Good plan mate, should be fairly easy, there's enough weapons now to cover it. 5 in a patrol according to my research. I'll dig out my "The odd angry shot" DVD to get in the mood, apart from a vague anti war feel it's a cracking film and well researched.
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Excellent on on these :-*
I assume you do realise that we have more ANZACS in the plan including SASR?
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I assume you do realise that we have more ANZACS in the plan including SASR?
Excellent news, you may have just saved a lot of minis from my destructive tendencies...
Just out of interest, how far off are we talking?
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Not sure to be honest. We have a got a lot of other stuff to get through and I am currently researching the SASR to get it right. There seems to be a lot of inaccurate information out there which is common to do with anything that has an SAS tag ;)
Need to get the Landrovers all crewed with Aussies so there is a logic in doing those and some more infantry packs all at the same time. ;)
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Not sure to be honest. We have a got a lot of other stuff to get through and I am currently researching the SASR to get it right. There seems to be a lot of inaccurate information out there which is common to do with anything that has an SAS tag ;)
Need to get the Landrovers all crewed with Aussies so there is a logic in doing those and some more infantry packs all at the same time. ;)
Good news Paul, I remember you saying you were doing them, but you know the patience/attention span of a wargamer lol I've no doubt you've been inundated with comments and tips about them, you can't go far wrong with getting these two books, I picked them up when I was over there on exchange a fair few years ago.
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Second the recommendation for the David Horner book. All you wanted to know and probably a fair bit more as it also covers their deployment during Confrontation and also a bit post- Vietnam IIRC there was a reprint a few years back which updated it a bit.
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Re SASR I'm thinking the conversion route could be the way to go, the bloke with the 203 & the chap with the modified M60 could be a good starting point.
Hope many blokes in a patrol? I'm thinking five or six...
Varied with time, mission and on occasion the SOPs of the particular squadron. Early on there was quite a bit of flexibility in patrol size with 3 Squadron.1 Squadron was apparently pretty fixed on five man patrols but in general terms anywhere between four and six men per patrol. Horner gives the following stats:
Of the 1391 patrol missions carried out patrol size was
Four man patrols: 197
Five man patrols: 732
Six man patrols: 263.
There were also a small number of larger patrols as part of specific missions.
SAS patrols did work with the SEALs and there was an exchange program that saw some individual SEALs attached to SAS patrols. There were a couple of SEALS that took part in a ten man patrol in late 1967. So you can use them as is with the SAS if you fancy. Similar exchanges and attachments took place with US Army LRRPs.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I will seek that one out. ;)
Currently reading Behind Enemy Lines by Tim O'Farrell.