Friday, 22 February 2013

Getting ready for the tourney.

Tomorrow I am going to play in a tourney which I have been looking forward to for a long time. It is a 1750 points Late War tournament and will be all Blue Vs Red  games with 3 missions to play. There will be a total of 26 players.
The tournament will be held in the big museumhall of the Oorlogsmuseum Overloon.

The list I am going to use:

Book: Market Garden
Company: 101st Airborne Division Parachute Rifle Company

Headquarters
-Company Commander, Carbine team
-2iC Commander, Carbine team
-2 Bazooka teams 70

Combat platoons
-Parachute Rifle Platoon #1: HQ section (Command SMG team), 3 Rifle/MG squads (9 Rifle/MG teams), Mortar squad (60mm Mortar, Bazooka) 355
-Parachute Rifle Platoon #2: HQ section (Command SMG team), 3 Rifle/MG squads (9 Rifle/MG teams), Mortar squad (60mm Mortar, Bazooka) 355

Weapons Platoons
-Parachute Machine-Gun Platoon: HQ section (Command Carbine team), 1 M1919 LMG section (4 LMG's) 100
-Parachute Mortar Platoon: HQ section (Command Carbine team), 2 M1 81mm Mortar sections (4 Mortars) 125

Support Platoons
-Airborne Engineer Platoon: HQ section (Command Pioneer Rifle team), Weapon Squad (2 Pioneer M1919 LMG's), 2 Operating Squads (4 Pioneer rifle teams), 3 Pioneer Bazooka teams, Pioneer Supply Handcart 295
-Airborne Anti-Tank Platoon: HQ section (Command Carbine team), 4 Gun sections (4 M1 57mm Guns), 2 Bazooka teams, Jeeps 180
-Glider Field Artillery Battery: HQ section (Command Carbine team, Staff team, Observer), 1 M3 105 mm Howitzer section (3 M3 105mm Howitzers), Jeeps 90
-Glider Field Artillery Battery: HQ section (Command Carbine team, Staff team, Observer), 1 M3 105 mm Howitzer section (3 M3 105mm Howitzers)
-Airborne Anti-Aircraft artillery Platoon: HQ Section (Command Carbine team), 1 M2 .50 cal gun section (2 M2 .50 cal AA gun) 50

Air Observation Post
-L-4 Grasshopper 40

Total: 9 platoons. 1745 points

Beside the tourney there will be a demo table focused on the battle of Overloon. And also a Bolt Action demo table.
Of-course I am going to try to take as many pictures as possible of the Museum, the Tourney and the Demo tables and post them on my blog.


Thanks for reading.



4 comments:

  1. Ditto the Generals comment X2!

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  2. All best - nice list too seems nicely balanced

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  3. Good luck, interesting to see the effect of local expectations as in the UK I would have gone with all the M3's and more A/T, yours will probably work better against infantry.

    Joe

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