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Saturday, 25 February 2017

From MilesR: FOW Pacific War (486 Points)

A flames of War: Pacific Theatre submission for today. I finished up some Japanese and US Marines in 15mm. These minis are are from Battlefront and were actually nicely cast. No plastics all metals and resin tanks.

First up a Japanese infantry platoon. I really like playing the Japanese in FOW. Its a list that will not win tournaments but every game you're in it to the end. This unit has 54 figures in total.

A second Japanese infantry platoon and, you guessed it another 54 figures. The platoons light mortars can really be useful in the right moments.

Two support platoons in the form of a 47mm AT gun section and a heavy machine gun platoon. The At unit has 11 figures and 2 guns while the MG unit has 15 figures and I'm taking no points for the machine guns.

A light tank platoon in the form of 5 Type 95 Ha-Go tanks.

and finally 2 command stands for the infantry company. I'm not all that thrilled with the flag....

Next up is the start of my US marine force - a basic infantry platoon with 42 figures and two LVT's

A marine engineer assault section with 27 figures

and lastly an amphibious tank platoon.

Lets see that totals to

Japanese
Inf Platoon 1 54 figures
Inf platoon 2 54 figs
MG Platoon 15 figs
AT Platoon 11 figs / 2 guns
Command Stands 6 figures
Tanks 5 vehicles

Japanese Total 318 points

Marines
Infantry 42+27=69 figures
5 vehicles
Marine Points 168 points

Total points 486 points

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I find that with submissions like this I have a difficult time focusing on anything in particular, so I will only say: Cripes! Miles! You're a [bleeping] painting machine! Seriously, I'm always struck dumb by what people like you, Dave, Martin, Tamsin, etc. can generate in a short period of time. It's truly astounding.

Lovely horde of South Pacific warfighters, Mr. Reidy. I look forward to seeing how you get on with the Marines. Enough said.

486 points it is. Yeesh.