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Like the Canadian one most 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.
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)?
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. 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.