I put together a Bundeswehr Divisional Recon Battalion
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Spahpanzer Company
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There should be another Spahpanzer Platoon but how many armored cars do you need to put on the table?
Heavy Recon Company
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The Heavy Recon Company is a pretty powerful unit with two Tank Platoons, two Mech Infantry Platoons, an Engineer Platoon and a SP 120 mm Mortar Platoon.
Tactics are the opinion of the senior officer present.
I'm on vacation this week so I'm working on trees for my table. Reading up on this article: http://elenderilsblog.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... trees.html as the base point. I'd used hot glue to fix my trees to the bases instead of using milliput (note: hot glue does NOT hold onto pennies). With that failure in front of me I used elmer's (PVA) to cement the hot glue to the base. That seems to be doing the trick. I've finished 25 trees. Only 215 left to do.
It's been a while, and the recon TOE may be different, but I believe German tank platoons are four rather than five. If your info is different, please update me.
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It's been a while, and the recon TOE may be different, but I believe German tank platoons are four rather than five. If your info is different, please update me.
This TO&E is from the 70s and early 80s when the BW still had 17 tank companies on the US model so platoons of 5 tanks were the norm although the 3 tank sections of 3 tanks in the Spahpanzer company are unusual.
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Tactics are the opinion of the senior officer present.
I'm working on an 80s Argentinian army - TAM tanks, VCTP IFVs, AMX-VCIs, M113s and a few trucks. A strange army choice, and one which I have had in a box for over 20 years. No GHQ models though
I wont post any pictures here but will link to my pocketbucket folder instead. Eventually these will end up on my website.
Thanks! I should have figured that out from the vehicles you were using.
All blessings flow from a good mission statement.
Pogo was right. So was Ike.
"A Gentleman is a man who is only rude intentionally." (Churchill)
Give credit. Take responsibility.
There should be another Spahpanzer Platoon but how many armored cars do you need to put on the table?
Heavy Recon Company
One can never have too many (or enough) Luchs on the table. I have Luchs done up in UN colors for the Balkans as well as full Light and Heavy Recon Battalions. I love this Army Structure for the BW.
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Well, pretty much all my hobby time is used on 1/285 projects these days. I have been painting some old GHQ casts I picked up years ago at local conventions. I have also been painting buildings and terrain pieces and mostly Russian and German WW2 kit. I got a good amount of South Africans and Commies done for my Bush Wars games. Finally, I have started basing up a lot of the minis, AFV's included, to protect the miniatures as well as to get them ready for use in Command Decision games.
I added some pics of my stuff to my blog (see below hyperlink).
Here is a sample of a couple of my favorites. Not the best cell phone picture, but I just love the model. I rescued this old GHQ cast from a bargain bin at a convention and turned it into a nice gaming piece: