World War II Wishlist?

[Raider4]

Oooh, put me down for these as well.

Cheers, Martyn
As well as the A9 and A10 that are supposed to be on the way ....

[Sandinista]

me too

[fred.]

Para's on foldup bicycle
Para's on 125CC Enfield "Flying Flea"
Para's with folding handcart
Airlanding with handcart

Engineer with Pole charge
Engineer with Bangalore Torpedo
Engineer with Satchel Charge

Seperate ammo containers (17Pdr wooden boxes, 6Pdr aluminium, small arms ammo boxes)

These would be good. They're not available elsewhere and would enhance the airborne range.

Ammo boxes and the like would be generally useful for adding to artillery bases.

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

I have spoke to Leon about this, just want to see if anyone else would like this.


would it be possible to have some russian tank crew's harf out of the turret holding flags to look like they are sending a signal other tank crew's?

Funnily enough I was thinking about converting a figure to wave flags for the same reason over the weekend. 

Regards

Edward

[NTM]

Engineer with Pole charge
Engineer with Bangalore Torpedo
Engineer with Satchel Charge

Did they actually carry all that stuff though? I have read the Wings of the Wind by Peter Stainforth he was an engineer at Arnhem and I do not recall talk of pole charges and bangalores. It may have been they did not have reason to use them and possibly they were used on other operations.

[fred.]

I wasn't sure if the engineers were meant to be Airborne or just general ones.

But if they are meant to be Airborne, then I'd think Satchel charges definitely. The other 2, maybe not at Arnhem but probably for D-Day. The Merville Battery assault had several gliders with very heavily equipped assault troops (though I only think 1 of the gliders made it to the general area of the battery).

[The_Shootist]

Did they actually carry all that stuff though? I have read the Wings of the Wind by Peter Stainforth he was an engineer at Arnhem and I do not recall talk of pole charges and bangalores. It may have been they did not have reason to use them and possibly they were used on other operations.

Pole charges are home made from sand bags packed with plastic explosives. So dont need to be carried. But these are a generic airborne engineer not just for Arnhem, what about the 6th and their fight across Europe to the Baltic.

I could always get specific and ask for a airborne "Saw" Trailer or maybe a compressor trailer and engineers using warsop rock drill?

Other items carried among others are :
camouflet sets. No not a spelling error.
General wade Charges used for blowing the Orne/Caen river bridges.
Beehive Charges
Ropes
hand Tools
picks shovels etc.....a special drop was organised on D+1 i think to drop a load of shovels and picks.
AT mines.
Folding trolleys
Prima cord, fuses and other stuff that goes bang.
At Arnhem 9x flame throwers per Airborne Squadron/Platoon.

[YORSTONS]

Hi Leon,

Any chance of some high command figures, maybe in greatcoats or without, you could even throw in a figure of H himself. Or maybe a personality pack with Guderian, Rundsted, Panzer Myer ect.

[lentulus]

It would also be fun to have, say, Zhukov, Chuikov, Rokossovski, Khrushchev and the "Big Mustache"

Personality figures in general are a nice idea, providing nice looking distinctive command figures even if not in the role of their nominal character.  But every country should have a selction.  You do have some for the desert, which is nice.

[Sunray]

personality type figures can enrich a game.  I use 1/148 N gauge civilian figures to represent VIPs and politicians in my bush war scanarios.  Even armed a few city types in suits and trench coats to represent secret service.

But yes, high command and staff officer types have their place on the table.  Gets my vote.

Sunray out

[fred.]

Yes a few character figures are nice. The Arnhem command pack is good. And the command packs made by another producer are quite nice.

The only downside is that most people will only want the odd pack, unlike rank and file troops.

[lentulus]

Yes a few character figures are nice. The Arnhem command pack is good. And the command packs made by another producer are quite nice.

The only downside is that most people will only want the odd pack, unlike rank and file troops.

You could mitigate that a bit by offering paired "front packs" with appropriate personalities for each.  And charge more - individual SYW and FIW commanders are more expensive than standard, I presume for just that reason.

[nikharwood]

I'd get more personality packs...Rommel & Monty are great, ditto SYW personalities - it's nice to have mini-me's on the table 

[YORSTONS]

Come on guys we need more VOTES!!!!!.

[big_paul182]

Yes please

And a vote for anything Chinese

Paul

Brisbane/QLD/OZ

[Leon]

Cheers for that one, I would expect them to be very popular.  I'll add them to the list.  The only problem with personalities, as someone has already said, is that people don't tend to buy more than a single pack.

[YORSTONS]

Leon,

Thats no exscuse. The customer is king - remember.

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

Some time ago there was a discussion about British Cruiser A9s and A10s. 

Should be soon, the designer started them last week I think.

Any news? 

... pause while dog spills beer over mousepad, desk and carpet ...

I'm giong to proxy the A9 with the A13 for now but it'll get confusing when I need to use A9s, A10s and A13s alongside each other. 

Regards

Edward

[kustenjaeger]

Leon

I hope your designer is feeling better.  Did you get any news on the A9/A10 front at Warfare - I forgot to ask on Saturday.

Regards

Edward

[Leon]

Leon

I hope your designer is feeling better.  Did you get any news on the A9/A10 front at Warfare - I forgot to ask on Saturday.

Unfortunately there's been no improvement in his situation.  They think it's something to do with anxiety, but he's going to see a neurologist to see if they can help.  This does mean that he'll be out of action up until at least the end of February.   

On a more positive note, we did speak with a couple of prospective sculptors over the weekend, who are going to do a couple of test models for us, so we'll see how they come out.