Any Recommendation for Early WWII Pacific Battles?

[10thMountain]

Hello,
      I would like to game early WWII Pacific battles with US troops in Brodie helmets, any recommendations?
Thank you

[Uncle Brian]

Wake Island is the first thing that comes to mind.

[carlos marighela]

As does the Philippines.

[fred]

I suspect the OP means figure recommendations?

[carlos marighela]

15mm Eureka. US Infantry and cavalry + Japanese.

28mm Pulp Figures do USMC suitable for the period. Brigade Games Caribbean Empires range can be used with head swaps for tin helmets. IMO Eureka make the best WW2 Japanese.

[Etranger]

What Carlos said. Eureka also have Philippine Scouts IIRC.

[Truscott Trotter]

Eureka are great and match well with my Warlord metals ans even plastics
They do PNG troops , the Fillipino scouts are done by Company B IIRC
Warlord do 3 Burmeses /Siamese scouts in metal

[carlos marighela]

Eureka are great and match well with my Warlord metals ans even plastics
They do PNG troops , the Fillipino scouts are done by Company B IIRC
Warlord do 3 Burmeses /Siamese scouts in metal

By way of clarification. The 15mm Filipino Scouts (regular army types) are in the Eureka range.

Company B (the miniatures company not the Sydney theatre troupe) make a range of 28mm Filipino guerrillas suitable for mid and late war. By curious coincidence Mike Broadbent sculpted both the 15mm Eureka range and the 28mm Company B range.

[Uncle Brian]

I suspect the OP means figure recommendations?

Other replies have given some great recommendations. As an alternate option, you might consider plastic 1/72 figures. Strelets make a couple of sets that have some quite useful figures:

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1825
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=2344
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=2140

[KpActual]

Eureka are great and match well with my Warlord metals ans even plastics
They do PNG troops , the Fillipino scouts are done by Company B IIRC
Warlord do 3 Burmeses /Siamese scouts in metal

Do you know if the Eureka Japanese match up well with the Warlord ones?
Curious if the eureka Australians do as well seeing that the warlord ones are bigger then normal sculpts

[carlos marighela]

I have both the Eureka and Warlord Japanese, both plastic and metal and they complement each other fairly well, although the Eureka figures are much better sculpts.

I don’t have the Warlord Australians but I have examined them in the flesh so to speak and they would tower over the Eureka versions. The Owen guns are aso ridiculously over sized. The only ones that I contemplated buying were the prone Piat and Boys AT rifles as the difference wouldn’t show so much.

For completeness sake, I also have some of the Perry 8th Army metals in shirt sleeves and trousers. These are titchy compared to the Eureka Australians, although with some judicious pose selection and basing can be made to fit. They would like children next to the Warlord figures though.

[Ewan]

Or these for early war Americans
https://www.stevebarbermodels.com/store/WW2-USA-Early-War-c38002555

[NTM]

ERM have a few packs of Wake Island defenders in 20mm

https://shop.eastridingminiatures.co.uk/us-marines-91-c.asp

I think Raventhorpe produce some too.

[KpActual]

I have both the Eureka and Warlord Japanese, both plastic and metal and they complement each other fairly well, although the Eureka figures are much better sculpts.

I don’t have the Warlord Australians but I have examined them in the flesh so to speak and they would tower over the Eureka versions. The Owen guns are aso ridiculously over sized. The only ones that I contemplated buying were the prone Piat and Boys AT rifles as the difference wouldn’t show so much.

For completeness sake, I also have some of the Perry 8th Army metals in shirt sleeves and trousers. These are titchy compared to the Eureka Australians, although with some judicious pose selection and basing can be made to fit. They would like children next to the Warlord figures though.

This helps a ton thank you!

I was considering using the Perry 8th army and warlord 8th army for early war Brits in Burma as well. The Perrys are just to slight imo compared to the Warlord ones.

[genew492]

Early War Miniatures has a small range of US figures in Brodie helmets for the Phillipines in 20mm as well as large range of Japanese. Eureka also makes 20 Japanese.