I have done all the initial prep work and the everything is ready for primer (or re-priming in some cases).What you see is a British Airborne Platoon based on the organization in Chain of Command. I admit that I was unsure of the composition of Section 3 as it has two Bren gunners. After haunting some forums and digging deep I found that there was a spare Bren gun issue to the platoon. It makes sense that rather than waiting for one of the three assigned guns to break to assign it to a section and create a section that could serve as a base of fire for the platoon.
Everything is from Warlord Games. I started this platoon when all you could get was metal. The issue is there are way to many Sten guns and not enough rifles. I have a stash of Sten gun equipment soldiers now. I also built up as many of the support units that I could. That is why I have a fourth section of Airborne troops, there are 3 Vickers, 2 3" mortars to go with that. I still need to build a section of regulars that I is another support option. Hopefully I can use that as a nucleus for a British motor platoon.
Not sure when I'll have time to start priming but everything is sitting in the booth waiting for the fun to begin.
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| An overall look at the platoon with the supports. This is before I finished putting everything on 25mm bases. |
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| I needed 8 more figures so I turned to the plastic Airborne box to flesh things out. Overall I'm pretty pleased with these, but they are definitely a bit bigger and bulkier than the metal troopers. |
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| A look from the Back |
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| Platoon HQ section |
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| 1st section. |
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| 2nd Section |
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| 3rd Section, they have the extra Bren gun and the sniper. |
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| The extra Airborne section |
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| Support weapons. These are support weapons and crews. Within Chain of Command these need 5 man crews. Typically some kind of counter is used (a die or something equivalent) to count down casualties. I'm thinking something right on the base itself or maybe just go with kill rings. |
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