ANZAC and Netherlands vs East Germans and Polish, Almeldo Netherlands August 14, 1985

The ANZAC and Dutch have put a fair bit of kit in the wooded section with a section of ploughed fields, made of felt furniture pieces.

Gun buggies are rearing to go up the road note the new entrenchment pieces I made from furniture felt pieces picked up in one of the stores in Sanirjak, Nunavut.

East German, Polish and a small Soviet contingent at the start line

The Polish T-55 regiment readies to advance.

 The NATO offensive continues. While the East Germans and Polish Division push south west, NATO forces are blocking the Warsaw Pact drive. 

The initial Warsaw Pact advance saw them rush into contact. The Warsaw Pact recce units tried to rush into town but were stopped by the Dutch armor and Dutch reservist infantry. 5/7th RAR gun buggies were able to halt the BTR-60s while the Australian Cavalry recce halted the Warsaw Pact infantry rush on the entrenched Milan teams.

The Royal Canadian Dragoons

 In 1985, the Canadian Armed Forces saw 1 armoured regiment in West Germany. This regiment, The Royal Canadian Dragoons were equipped with the Leopard 1A3 which was called the C1 in Canadian service.

The regiment was based at CFB Lahr and provided the armoured battalion for 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.

Due to my returning to ESL teaching, I have been able to increase the strength of my forces.

Currently the RCD have

1 HQ Squadron of 3 C1

4 troops of 4 C1

1 Lynx Recce troop

I Currently have the HQ Squadron decaled, and part of 1 troop. The rest I will be upgrading during Easter, 2023.

Netherlands 42 Tank Battalion

 This Leopard 1 battalion currently has 1 HQ tank with a peloton of 4 tanks.

So slowly, the Dutch are clawing back against the Warsaw Pact

They also have an M113 Recce squad 

Soviets and Czechs vs American and Canadian

 So a Soviet force with Czechoslovakian back up attack a line of hills held by American and Canadian forces 

Infantry basing, Plastic Soldier Company Soviet Infantry

 I decided to buy a set of urban rubble infantry bases. For the most part, they work for Team Yankee, just a few bits are of Second World War so they can be bits and pieces which found themselves in use again.

Hey, just look at Ukraine, and Bosnia had lots of old kit being used. 

HQ section

Currently, I will be using the bases for my Soviets, but now that I have seen them, I will look into getting more for my future units.

I'd like to do a British or Canadian force in the rural bases.

And in 2025, I'm painting another set.

ANZAC Brigade 1st Armoured Regiment marches on

 So I was able to get another set of Leopards which had the ANZAC cards as well as the Dutch and Canadian cards.

The bad news is I'm out of super glue, but as the local store here in Nunavut has rubber cement to repair tires I have an alternative source. Which has worked just fine.

However I have a squad in green which will just have to do until I get glue back to build the next 5 I just got plus the 4 I still have to build.

And not to mention the additional 10 that arrived from the Aviation Museum in Nova Scotia which are now the 1st Cavalry Regiment.

NATO is getting ready for an offensive.

So the 1st Cavalry Regiment will have 

HQ of 2 Leopard 1

2 troops of 4 Leopard 1 each need to get painting on them. I'm humming and hawing on if I'll do them in Soviet green or the multi camo.

Land Rover Anti-tank 2 troops with 2 gun buggies each

Cavalry patrol M113 fire support with M113s (need to get the actual ones, I'm using Vietnam outfitted ones at the moment.)

The infantry section is mostly Vietnam looking but the Milan teams I did up in the 1980s uniforms.

T-55 Warsaw Pact

 My initial T-55 which I was able to get were the Roco ones in the 1990s. Eventually, I painted them as East Germans.

Polish ones without the special paint job

one of the first Plastic Soldier kits I built as a very vanilla one

My entire T-55 tanks a mixed division now. This one has Polish, Hungarian and East German

In the 2000s, my then wife allowed me to order some metal kits for my birthday around 2002, those kits have likewise added to the Polish and Hungarian force.

Now with Team Yankee, the main Warsaw Pact Nations being Soviets, East Germans, Poles and Czechs, I'll build them as such.