Monday, April 21, 2025

O Group- British for the Far east

Yet another wee side project. I recently learned that Battlefront are about to re-release their ranges for the Far East and Pacific. I've been umming and ahhing about whether to do 20mm or 15mm (to a accompany my 28mm force of course). I love the 20mm AB ranges but would need both British and Japanese forces so in the end, with hearing that Battlefront are about to release their Japanese range again, I decided to stick to 15mm.

So in the past week I've rebased and tidied up some BF 8th army troops which will be fine for the Far East and New Guinea in 1941-42. I added a pack of the Australian troops that are now long out of production and will add a 3rd company (in O Group terms) soon.

Currently the force would count as a worn battalion in O Group and comprises of: 

  • BATT HQ
  • FOO
  • 2x battalion mortars
  • 3x 25prds
  • 2x 2pdrs
  • 9x Combat patrols
  • 2x Rifle Companies 






I've no interest in getting the new Pacific book but the Japanese will make a good core for a Battalion in O Group.
The British are fine for 1943-45 but what were they thinking in the putting of this together. Why oh why do they incldue 6x 6pdrs! WTF? I know that FoW has become tanks of War in recent years but holy hell, that is a lot of anti-tank guns and looks to be pretty poor value for money  in terms of usefulness for that I need for later war in Burma. 


Craig
 

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