Hello All
The last leg of my US leg infantry (pun of sorts intended) is finished! I will admit I was struggling to find the time to paint them up so I sent them over to our own Matt (Papa Bear) so I could finally start playing some games!
Matt painted the models while I did all the basing as I wanted to make sure it matched the Helicopters I had already done.
I tried to make the basing look like the guys were walking through elephant grass, to do this I used Warpainter Turfs. I’m pretty happy with the results.
As I talked about all the way back in January I have gone for the 25th Infantry to start with. The company is based on an force backed up by a Black Horse Cav platoon like in the book Black Horse Riders.
I also added a Slick to be an Observer for the artillery – this will be turned into a normal Slick when I add the options to use this guy as Air Cav. While I was tempted to start with Air Cav I decided that I had too many rules to learn so an infantry company with a few helicopters would be easier, and give me something to look forward too!
| Confident Trained | Rifle Company (25th Infantry) | USA Vietnam |
| Infantry Company | ||
| Platoon | Qty | Unit | Points | ||
| Headquarters | |||||
|
2 1 |
Cmd M16 Rifle team Medic team |
35 | ||
| Combat Platoons | |||||
|
1 6 2 1 |
Cmd M16 Rifle team M16 Rifle team M60 LMG team M67 90mm recoilless gun |
170 | ||
|
1 6 2 1 |
Cmd M16 Rifle team M16 Rifle team M60 LMG team M67 90mm recoilless gun |
170 | ||
| Support Platoon | |||||
|
2 | M48A3 Patton with loaders hatch .50 cal MG | 275 | ||
|
3 3 |
M113 ACAV M551 Sheridan |
335 | ||
|
1 1 |
UH-1B Hog OH-6 Loach |
155 | ||
|
1 1 3 |
Cmd M16 Rifle team Staff team M101A1 105mm howitzer |
100 | ||
|
1 | Observer UH-1D Chuck Chuck | 10 | ||
| Company Points: | 1250 | ||||
| www.EasyArmy.com | Source document: Tour of Duty Book |
By the time you read this I will have played my first game against Jersey James’ Vietcong, look out for an AAR very soon.
Going forward I would like to add the options for Air Cavalry (as I talked about above) early next year and I have my eye on either a full Black Horse Cavalry or Armored Infantry- going full Black Horse is the current club house leader.
I hope you have enjoyed the read and until next time
Ben
Can't seem to see the Tropic Thunder crew in there?
…but seriously, those helicopters are gorgeous
A compliment from gorgeous George… Must be good 😉
Ben, in your army list it has a UH-1B Hog, but in the photo there's an AH-1 Cobra. Which is it? 🙂
Thatsa mistake, it should have been a cobra. That explains why I was able to the upgrades on the pattons which I wasn't able to before… Duh!