Over the last twelve months or so I've been gathering together the various bits I need for an IABSM US Rifle Company, using both the discontinued Flames of War range of winter troops for the Ardennes and the new plastic version of the US infantry for Operation Cobra. It's difficult to find the winter stuff now and it goes for ridiculous prices but the post Xmas sales have been a bonus.
I now have enough figures, AFV's and equipment for both options, with the latest acquisition of some M1917 machine gun platoon packs making it possible to assemble one or the other complete with armoured support. The only thing I haven't got is a 57mm anti-tank platoon but I think I can use the Forged In Battle set for that, at least for the breakout from Normandy configuration.
This has been one of my long term project plans, going back to the publication of the third edition, so I may well get round to it now that I have all the whistles and bells? The only thing that puts me off is the Chain of Command alternative, which involves fewer figures overall and for which I have some lovely Peter Pig late war British and German figures stashed away. It does seem a bit more complicated, though, and I can't quite get my head around individually based figures in 15mm.
I'll guess just have to bite the bullet and make up my mind between platoon and company level wargaming. No rush, as I have plenty of other things to do in the meantime and no shortage of half finished things at that!
The quality of 15mm castings these days is superb so I would be tempted to go with Chain of Command. I would give your leaders different bases from the rest of the troops though.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I've kept the Peter Pig figures to one side with an eye on CoC (that sounds so wrong). The great thing is that there are so many crew figures in the range there's no shortage of the extra poses you need for the heavy weapons and teams.
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