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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: Jemima Fawr on October 17, 2018, 09:36:16 PM
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This week I have mostly been sticking placky Leopards together...
http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2018/10/17/beware-of-the-leopard-15mm-plastic-leopard-1-tanks/
(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/8053/Py7TmA.jpg)
(https://imageshack.com/a/img924/2465/42ZXZy.jpg)
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Like the Canadian one most :D
4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade?
When I went to Gagetown, they still had the C2s, but of course we have nice new IIA6s now.
If you need any inspiration for Canadian stuff, let me know. I served recce in the 90s and have a trove of info on Canadian material.
And FYI the FoW book on the Canadians is full of inaccuracies and fantasy.
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Like the Canadian one most :D
4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade?
When I went to Gagetown, they still had the C2s, but of course we have nice new IIA6s now.
If you need any inspiration for Canadian stuff, let me know. I served recce in the 90s and have a trove of info on Canadian material.
And FYI the FoW book on the Canadians is full of inaccuracies and fantasy.
Cheers Grant!
Over the years I have gleaned a lot from a ubiquitous ex-RCD officer (There are some who call him 'Tim') and a lot of other Canadian veterans who haunt wargames discussion groups. And Macksey's 'First Clash' was the book that gave me the Cold War wargaming bug in the first place. Please do have a look at this and let me have it with both barrels :) : http://www.fireandfury.com/orbats/modcwcanadian.pdf
Yeah, I get that impression. I don't play TY or FoW, but a lot of the TY stuff I've seen has me scratching my head. M125s...?
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Really thorough!
Good info there for the gamer. I read Macksey as part of my RESO training to be a recce officer (reserve).
One small change - the reserve regiments of armour were squadron sized, but were tasked with providing a troop to reg force units in the event of a conflict. So there would be a squadron training, and one ready-troop at any given time.
This also changed in the late 80s/early 90s with the doctrine known as Total Force Concept where whole companies and squadrons would deploy alongside their sister regiments.
This indeed came to fruition during Afghanistan for the infantry, whereas armoured troops and gunners were absorbed and assimilated for deployment by the reg force regiments in Afghanistan.
A bit later than what you’re shooting for, but aim high, expect fall of shot ;)
Can’t wait to see more of your work, I’ve done 4 CMBG in micro scale before. And painted all the catalogue models for GHQ Miniatures that are Canadian. (As well as others... Op. Serval to Mali is another area I’m interested in!)
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Like the Canadian one most :D
4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade?
When I went to Gagetown, they still had the C2s, but of course we have nice new IIA6s now.
If you need any inspiration for Canadian stuff, let me know. I served recce in the 90s and have a trove of info on Canadian material.
And FYI the FoW book on the Canadians is full of inaccuracies and fantasy.
Did you know Colonel Taylor when you were there, or was that a couple years before your time?
I was friends with his son while we worked together for about 4 years and there were many Stories.
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Really thorough!
Good info there for the gamer. I read Macksey as part of my RESO training to be a recce officer (reserve).
One small change - the reserve regiments of armour were squadron sized, but were tasked with providing a troop to reg force units in the event of a conflict. So there would be a squadron training, and one ready-troop at any given time.
This also changed in the late 80s/early 90s with the doctrine known as Total Force Concept where whole companies and squadrons would deploy alongside their sister regiments.
This indeed came to fruition during Afghanistan for the infantry, whereas armoured troops and gunners were absorbed and assimilated for deployment by the reg force regiments in Afghanistan.
A bit later than what you’re shooting for, but aim high, expect fall of shot ;)
Can’t wait to see more of your work, I’ve done 4 CMBG in micro scale before. And painted all the catalogue models for GHQ Miniatures that are Canadian. (As well as others... Op. Serval to Mali is another area I’m interested in!)
Fantastic! Thanks for that! Did they have a full squadron's-worth of vehicles, or did they have to share the vehicles of the single active Troop (as seems to be common practice on this side of the pond nowadays)?
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lovely, they are on my to do list... one thing I have noticed in regard of -1V and AS1 is that they lack the toolboxes. Differently from the general users both the Netherland and Australia had toolboxes on the side rather that just the the tools. It is a quite noticeable difference. Yet it appears that BF did not catch it...
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Nice paint jobs.
I had assumed that the Team Yankee miniatures game is another Retro-Ultramodern game based on the book (I found the GDW board game while looking for my Twilight 2000 stuff).
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Fantastic! Thanks for that! Did they have a full squadron's-worth of vehicles, or did they have to share the vehicles of the single active Troop (as seems to be common practice on this side of the pond nowadays)?
There were actually enough vehicles for an almost regiment; we had enough Iltis for 2 squadrons, so 6 troops, plus HQ Sqn, along with various support vehicles. The Iltis was like VW Rabbit on steroids and cheap. Ours were built by Bombardier, and had drain plugs in the floor. The German version had a solid floor pan and would float for fording ... not ours. o_o
Fram - I don’t recall meeting a Col. Taylor, but at Gaetown there were Colonels everywhere, and being the common combat arms officer school, very busy.
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There were actually enough vehicles for an almost regiment; we had enough Iltis for 2 squadrons, so 6 troops, plus HQ Sqn, along with various support vehicles. The Iltis was like VW Rabbit on steroids and cheap. Ours were built by Bombardier, and had drain plugs in the floor. The German version had a solid floor pan and would float for fording ... not ours. o_o
Fram - I don’t recall meeting a Col. Taylor, but at Gaetown there were Colonels everywhere, and being the common combat arms officer school, very busy.
I had a ride in an Iltis at Kenora Militia Barracks during a cadet exchange in 1989! :) I didn't fancy going to war in one... I also had a ride in a Windsor Carrier that they'd restored.