Know your enemy! Nato vs Warsaw Pact

Know your enemy! Nato vs Warsaw Pact

Friday, 2 December 2016

Bundeswehr Fallschirmajer 1990

My German Airborne Division is made up of 3 boxes of Revell Fallschirmajer which I bought in Japan about 2002.



I have enough figures to form the entire division. I have painted up and based most of the figures to field the units below.

Fallschirmajer Battalion 261

Airborne Support Battalion 262 This will be modeled by 2 Wiesel 1x20mm gun 1xTOW

Fallschirmjager Battalion 263

Fallschirmajager Battalion 313

Fallschirmjager Battalion 373

Airborne Support Battalion 272: This will be modeled by 3 Wolf Jeeps 2xMG3 1XTOW

Warrior IFV building

I'm beginning to build a Warrior IFV for the Queen's Own Highlanders

This has been a very long work in progress. I bought the kit in Japan in 2003. It was kept in storage from 2003-2015. I only began working on it in 2016!

And still I haven't finished it!

Today I might get
some work done on it.




This has since been painted up to represent the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordon and Cameron's)
With the TY v2 coming out in late 2019, I will be able to flush out the battle group 






Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Irish film The Siege of Jadotville

Good film about an Irish infantry company as part of a UN mission in the Congo in 1960s

Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Warsaw Pact: Polish 20th Warsaw Tank Division (20 Dywizja Pancerna) 1985,

This division is fielded on the gamming table as such:
BMP-1 with infantry

This comprises of the 49th Warszawski Mechanised Infantry Regiment

24th Drezdenski Regiment
Tank Battalion HQ with Division

T-72 company

BTR-60 mounted company

14th Sudecki Anti-tank Artillery Regiment

BRDM-2 platoon of the 8th Reconnaissance Battalion

start of a BTR-60 company of the 12th Mechanised Infantry Regiment attached to the 20th Division from the 4th Pomerania Mechanised Infantry Division

BMP-2 company another company of the 49th MIR

T-55 company of the 24th DTR

BMP-2 infantry company

support options are for BM-21 Hail of the 26th Rocket Artillery Battery

and a Carnation battery but these are modeled with Su-100s for the moment. these would be for the 36th Artillery battery

I also now have the cards and the information booklet for this force for the Team Yankee series
the new Warsaw Pact Artillery Template, which can be used for any side, but this one is in Soviet colours.
As of 12/15/2018, I was able to purchase the Team Yankee Suplement, Polish People's Army, as part of their Warsaw Pact Forces in World War 3 series.
In this game, the idea is that the Poles would attack Denmark and The Netherlands.
As the East German city of Lubeck is on the German border and they would drive through Northern West Germany to invade Jutland, and to also head towards Bremen to drive the Dutch back to their homeland.
The main force for this is the 20th Warsaw Tank Division. As part of the Polish 1st Army, they would be the main force to attack in NORTHAG.
At the moment, my Polish force is small. It contains the elements listed above, but over time, I will build this force up. 
The main bits to add will be a T-72 battalion, a BMP and OT-64 companies.
Some anti-tank and Anti-aircraft units will also be added.


Warsaw Pact: Polish 6th Pomeranian Air Assault Division 1988

The 6th Pomeranian Air Assault Division is made up of a company of Airborne infantry. They are fielded as a light unit having no attached armor or artillery.
Pictures to follow.
In time I will be adding some MI-24 Hind gunships to the Division.

Warsaw Pact: Polish 7th Naval Assault Division 1988

The 7th Luzyaka Naval Assault Division which I built consists of the following troops and equipment:

1 OT 62 APC
1 PT-76 Amphibious Tank
1 T-54 Tank
1 SU-100 SP Gun

Infantry consist of 1xRPK, 1xRPG-7,7x AK-74, Officer armed with VZ61,

This division is now attached to the 36th Guards Naval Infantry Regiment.
This ensures that the Soviet and Polish Naval Infantry can be fielded as a Naval Assault Division.
Originally I had modeled this division with the majority of my minature collection, but I have divided these between the 20th Warsaw Division
2020 upgrades to the force include more infantry, an actual BM-21 Launcher