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Hey Dakka peoples. Trying to decide whether or not to kill my income yet further by starting a FoW force. Perusing the rulebook and the D-Minus 1 expansion, I came up with the following list, which I'm using to represent 'D' Company of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry because

A) I'm from Oxfordshire
B) I've been looking into a little bit of the story of Pegasus Bridge (just purchased Stephen Ambrose's book on it)

1500 points, because that used to be the standard.

1 Airlanding Company HQ (Company Command SMG Team, 2ic SMG Team, 1 PIAT team) - 85 points

3 Airlanding Platoons (Command Rifle/MG Team, PIAT Team, Light Mortar Team, 5 x Rifle/MG Team) - 230 points each

1 Airlanding Pioneer Platoon (Command Pioneer Rifle Team, 3 x Pioneer Rifle Team) - 105 points

1 Airlanding Machine-Gun Platoon (Command Rifle Team, 4 x Vickers HMG) - 160 points

1 Airlanding Platoon, Royal Engineers (Command Pioneer Rifle/MG Team, PIAT Team, Light Mortar Team, 4 x Pioneer Rifle/MG Team) - 240 points

Priority Air Support (Typhoon) - 220 points

TOTAL 1500 POINTS

C & C on the effectiveness and historical accuracy of the list (fluffiness seems inappropriate in FoW!) is encouraged, nay, demanded from you all :-p


FOR BLIGHTY!

It is a good, solid list. I'm not sure about the historical accuracy of it as I am unfamiliar with the exact composition of that particular company.

If I was making an army from the same list, I would probably go the same way as you but would add a recon platoon to avoid ambushes. This would also give you some flexibility to take out enemy artillery which will easily outrange your mortars. That and Tetrarchs are incredibly cool.

The other main concern is that you are quite weak against armour, but it looks like you have enough mortars to smoke heavy armour until some typhoons can get in.

So in short, good list and once it is sitting on objectives it will be incredibly hard to shift, but is probably a bit vulnerable to artillery or soviet armoured shock lists. It will look extremely nice painted up though so I hope you go ahead with it and share some pics of the WIP

I can't find a good breakdown of the company's exact equipment. I know for the Pegasus Bridge engagement (got to finish that book) they used three gliders, so I should probably add Coup de Main options to my Combat Platoons, but it's just so expensive, points-wise.

Tetrarchs are unfortunately right out from an equipment standpoint. I did debate switching the Pioneers or the Machine Gun Platoon for a recce platoon, but I'm not sure which.

As I'd mostly be playing for fun/playing to paint if I do end up purchasing this (anything I buy will end up in WIP in Painting & Modeling, even though I suck, because a task liek that keeps me encouraged) so I'm not sure how often I'd face Soviet Armor lists.

Artillery is very much my Achilles heel. Will have to consider that.

Just checked out your FoW miniatures from the link in your thread. They look great, ut not so great hat I couldn't get there, so thanks for the inspiration. Now just got to figure out the purchases. So far, I figure:


* Parachute Company Box set would cover the Company HQ, Airlanding Platoons and Royal Engineers

* Typhoon Box covers Air Support
* Presumably the Para Machine-Gun Platoon would work for the Airlanding Machine-Gun Platoon

But what would I need to reprsent the pioneers? And would I need additional Mortar or PIAT team models?

The paras MG platoon is the right one. The pioneers I think are just another airlanding platoon, using counts-as because there are no dedicated models for it that I am aware of.

From my rough counting you'll be 1 mortar short but should be ok for PIATs. If you just get an airlanding platoon for the pioneers then you'll have a spare mortar which will make the numbers work.

Dont take my words for gospel though, I'm just going by the flames of war online store. Might be best to ask on the flames of war forums for people more in the know about the specifics.


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Oh also, I thought of one other weakness in your list - snipers. If you have to move anywhere at all, they will pin you so much it will make you mad

Maybe get some tetrarchs up to 1750 points as an option to drop back on to counter snipers and artillery?

I can't find a good breakdown of the company's exact equipment. I know for the Pegasus Bridge engagement (got to finish that book) they used three gliders, so I should probably add Coup de Main options to my Combat Platoons, but it's just so expensive, points-wise.

Actually there were six gliders involved in the operation to take the canal bridge (Pegasus Bridge) and the river bridge (Horsa Bridge). Both are close to each other. 5 of the six gliders landed on target. The other landed some distance away near a bridge on the Dives having mistaken that for Horsa Bridge. If you want a detailed breakdown of the units equipment I have one, but its mainly an infantry formation. They did however take extra PIATs (they were very prone to damage in airborne landings) and stocked up on grenades.

Tetrarchs are unfortunately right out from an equipment standpoint. I did debate switching the Pioneers or the Machine Gun Platoon for a recce platoon, but I'm not sure which.

Tetrarch tanks were deployed in Normandy. 19 of them were landing during the evening of the 6th June (20 were sent but one crashed through the nose of its Hamilcar glider over the Channel causing both to drop into the sea) belonging to the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment. They conducted recon operation in the Bois de Bavent area. By August all but three had been withdrawn, the last three remaining served with Headquarters troop of 'A' Squadron. The rest had been replaced by Cromwell tanks.

As I'd mostly be playing for fun/playing to paint if I do end up purchasing this (anything I buy will end up in WIP in Painting & Modeling, even though I suck, because a task liek that keeps me encouraged) so I'm not sure how often I'd face Soviet Armor lists.

Artillery is very much my Achilles heel. Will have to consider that.

6th Airborne had dedicated artillery support in the form of the RA Airlanding batteries. These were armed with the American 75mm pack howitzer and although an excellent weapon suffered from logistics problems as it used ammunition not found anywhere else in the British inventory. They also made use of large numbers of mortars, grouping together battalion assets to form larger batteries capable of sustained supporting fire. They also had the benefit of naval and air support for the campaign.