Too Fat Lardies

G'day all, Here are some notes on the IJA at the time: In 1937 the Marco Polo bridge incident precipitated the start of World War 2 in the Asia-Pacific region. It also coincided with a significant reorganisation of company & platoon TO&E within the IJA. This changed the platoon from four 12-man Rifl...

Sorry, couldn't resist. Here's another on ATR. ANTI-TANK RIFLES Heavy ATR: Heavy ATR (20mm) [AT 4, HE 1] require a crew of 5 and cannot move if the crew falls below 3 personnel, cannot move and fire. • Lahti L-39: (Finland) 20mm semi-auto, 50kg, MV 800m/s • Type 97: (Japan) 20mm semi-auto, 52kg, MV ...

Here's another one regarding tank machineguns. AFV MACHINE GUN RATINGS: Bow MG: These things were situated low to the ground (giving them a poor view), had a very restricted field of fire, were not stable and could only be aimed by fall of shot (limiting their effective range). Their marginal utilit...

You asked for it!! As an inveterate rules tinkerer and someone infatuated with minutia, I cannot resist making house rules to reflect my research and understanding. I'll try and avoid spamming this thread. To start with, for those of us who have models of 3"/81mm mortar teams and would like to use t...

Just like the US Marine para-battalions, they never did an operational drop. Made up for it in Indo-china after the war though.

Hamsen's and Mitter's books are good; I'm re-reading them again as they provide some interesting perspectives on the theatre. Despite some large scale disasters, the Nationalist Chinese Army didn't fight nearly as badly as the Japanese (and some Americans) claim. Likewise, the Communist didn't do ne...

Thanks again andysyk, I'll use the stuff provided here to work up some platoon lists and see how they go. As for a PSC, I'm looking at one focused on the initial capture of the airfields and their securing. Scenarios such as secure the drop zone, take out the AA site and clear the beach defences all...

Thanks very much andysyk, this beats anything I could find. My main area of interest is the Asia-Pacific theatre but I've always had a fascination for the proposed invasion of Malta. Way back (last century) I purchased the Avalon Hill box game Air Assault on Crete , which contained a secondary game ...

Agreed MLB, I have that book as well. Its a great reference.

I'll vote got Harmsen's books as well!!