Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Bolt Action: Burma '44





Finished my Japanese Bolt Action army - for now at least (an army is never really finished).

It is a company of two platoons commanded by Captain Honda, Lt Suzuki and Lt Yamaha. One of the sections is a grenadier with three mortar teams and one is veteran. All the sections have LMGs and a couple have anti-tank grenades.

The company is well supported with an additional  medium mortar, MMG, 70mm field gun and three loonies with shaped charges on poles plus a Chi Ha T. 97 'medium' (ha ha) tank and a T. 95 light tank (a Vickers 6 ton).

I see this force as defensive as befits the situation in Burma after the Kohima disaster.

Opposing is a British assault company of two reinforced platoons led by Major Cad (who looks a lot like Terry Thomas). One of the platoons has three understrength sections of Chindits with LMGs who are my flanking force. The main platoon has three sections of regular troops (one is not shown in the photo as I couldn't be arsed to fish it out of the garage).

The company is supported by a Vickers MMG, a medium mortar and a 6pdr anti-tank gun pulled by a bren gun carrier. Tank support is an M5 Honey light tank and a Sherman III.

The Honey and Sherman have a frontal armour of 9 on the front. The best Japanese gun is on the T. 95 and is a light low-penetration anti-tank which can't penetrate 9-strength armour. The Japanese tanks have light frontal armour of 8 strength which is penetrable by the three British anti-tank guns.

So it's down to the loonies with the exploding pikes!

Will give a Batrep after play.
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12 comments:

  1. Steve J.22 October 2013 at 16:31

    Look forward to your Batrep. I'm afraid the Far East has never grabbed me as an area I want to wargame, despite always liking the Japanese tanks and their funky camo schemes.

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    1. John Lambshead22 October 2013 at 20:35

      The Burma Campaign and China look interesting.

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    2. Steve J.22 October 2013 at 20:51

      Agreed, especially the early conflicts in China, including with the Soviet Union.

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    3. John Lambshead22 October 2013 at 22:10

      Oh yes, Khalkin Gol, where Russia found they had a home grown honest to Marx tank general.

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  2. Syl22 October 2013 at 16:51

    Very beautifull.
    Banzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai

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  3. Zzzzzz22 October 2013 at 19:20

    Banzai !

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  4. ColKillgore22 October 2013 at 23:02

    They look great, and looking forward to a battle report

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  5. John Lambshead23 October 2013 at 11:42

    The loonies will be the wild card.

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  6. legatus hedlius25 October 2013 at 09:41

    I bought some Warlord plastic Japanese for Pacific wars but am now thinking about Burma instead. It's the Gurkhas!

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