D-Day: Sword beach Scenario 1

 Riva Bella. Coastal village on the Orne River estuary. 

49th West Riding Division engage German 716th Infantry Division in the town. The area has been damaged by bombardment.

716th Division Platoon:

Hq section

Infantry: Heer Grenadier squads x4

MMG x 3

1 mortar

1 Panzerschreck

1 Goliath team

1 sniper

1 75mm gun

1 PaK 40

1 motorcycle side car MG

1 Stug III

49th West Riding

Infantry:

Support 

Bolt Action Campaign D-Day: British and Canadian Sectors

 

Newest book to my Bolt Action collection. I picked this up at Lantcelot Games in Blockhouse, Nova Scotia. I'll have to see about getting 28mm figures for the collection so that I can play in tournaments that they have there.

Fun fun

Samurai do Sensha

 The Japanese in the Pacific war had tanks like all other combatants however the government had pursuit of conquest with the Imperial Japanese Navy rather than the army.

What the Imperial Japanese Army got were these tanks

Getting painted, adding tracks and replacing tracks which came off.

The crazy thing about my collection of Japanese tanks is that it has taken me 20 years to get them this far along as moving, work, life and general getting around to it.

A few of them need some restoration work and paint 

Another interesting personal connection I have to these kits is that I once lived in Kita-Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, Japan where the majority of their training was conducted.

The training area now is 90% built up as residential area with a small training area reserved for the Japanese Airborne division.

Japanese tank doctrine was based on their experience in fighting in China during the 1930s when they began their conquest of Asia. The Imperial Japanese staff concluded that their main land opponent would be the Chinese and to a lesser extent the Soviets.

The British, French, Dutch and Americans would be dealt with via the Navy. 

However, the war did not go the way the Imperial Japanese staff thought it would and despite succeses in China and battle with the Soviets, Japanese tank production and development did not progress as it did for the other combatants.

More Reference books

 

This one I bought in Japan in 2002 in Tokyo 

All of these books I bought in the early 21st century. This one was in 2003 in Dartmouth 

Chapters Halifax 1999

Each book has a quick reference which I use when doing research on my armies.

New Guinea 1942

Photo from Battles of the 20th Century 

Temple Press Aerospace, London, 1989

 Another campaign that I want to work on is thos one involving the Japanese and Australian forces.

2nd Battalion, The Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders in Malaya, 1941

 This article shall take a look at the figures I've done up for the early war against the Japanese. I've model them off the Matchbox/Revell Germany release of the 8th Army which I got either in Tokyo or Calgary around 2014

I've rebased them and will have to get some games going

Milne Bay, New Guniea 1942

 I'm going to pit an Australian force against a Japanese one.

Japanese sailors banzai charge the Australian position only to be cut down, a lone Mmg giving covering fire

However on the left flank, the Naval party breach the line

The naval line firing on the Australian position 

Troops fixing bayonets to Banzai

Some of the support, a 75mm gun which was eventually taken 

Australian troops with a Vickers Machine gun 

The Australian 2pdr gun with infantry support 

A Vickers light tank

Australian militia 

I have several different units to field but I'm going to go with what I have.

Australian Militia section

Australian Imperial Force section

Support includes 2pdr Anti-tank gun, vickers Mmg and mortar

IJN SNLF force