Master list for the new Korean War range - Input required!

[Leon]

Is the M50 (already done - MDV27) the same hull as the easy 8?

Should be, it's the welded hull with the same suspension setup, but I get a bit lost with all the Sherman variants, so I'll check on Dave where we are with it.

[fsn]

Please, please, please could we use some common sense and ensure that the first ranges are compatible?

For example, if one is the Winter clad Chinese, could they not be paired with South Koreans in t-shirts and flip-flops?  

I know this won't happen, but I've been looking at the voting.

Also please more Burp guns!


Australians

[Matt J]

Isn't Nick Frost in that Aussie photo 

[nikharwood]

Isn't Nick Frost in that Aussie photo 

Haha - nicely spotted

[Sunray]

Please, please, please could we use some common sense and ensure that the first ranges are compatible?

For example, if one is the Winter clad Chinese, could they not be paired with South Koreans in t-shirts and flip-flops?  

I know this won't happen, but I've been looking at the voting.

Too early in the preferendum to call what trends emerging - although I did think the early war Brits would lose out in popularity to the 29th Brigade in their smocks and more modern appearance.    Keep voting Commandos ! Only elite on the table with a 5/30. (1)

I have one hypothesis.  The AFVs - particularly the Centurion - have been out there for a long time.  Many gamers have painted up and based the
tanks .....and waited for the figures.  Are these gamers motivated by figures to compliment the tanks they  already possess ?  The sad news is the CPLA had no armour at the time of their 1950 offensive.  It will be little Chinese men against machines.

Another theory -  The Korean war was popular comic culture in USA. In the 1960s there was a plethora of war comics . I have read a PhD on Charlton and Marvel comics and their treatment of Korea.   Would there be a market for the American figures Stateside ?  The strong $ would make Pendraken very attractive, even with a retailer's margin.

(1) CWC rules for Korea has got a lot of the troop rankings and morale value simply wrong.  I have revised rules for my own gaming.

[pierre the shy]

I have one hypothesis.  The AFVs - particularly the Centurion - have been out there for a long time.  Many gamers have painted up and based the tanks .....and waited for the figures.  Are these gamers motivated by figures to compliment the tanks they  already possess ?  The sad news is the CPLA had no armour at the time of their 1950 offensive. 

Another theory -  The Korean war was popular comic culture in USA. In the 1960s there was a plethora of war comics . I have read a PhD on Charlton and Marvel comics and their treatment of Korea.   Would there be a market for the American figures Stateside ?  The strong $ would make Pendraken very attractive, even with a retailer's margin.

No Armour? borrow someone elses !    I've seen at least one picture of a Cromwell/Centaur? (sorry my post war British tank knowledge is limited ) that was captured by the Chinese.

Also need to remember that Korea was mainly an infantry war so there were only limited amounts of tanks around....its not the Eastern Front in WW2......there were no entire armoured divisions deployed, the biggest armoured unit used, at least on the UN side, was US Battalion/British Reigment level.

Quite interested in a Korean war force myself if one can find the right rules and game scale (platoon/company/battalion/brigade level) that the other people that I game with feel comfortable with.  Have to agree with Sunjester that its good that PM are prepared to commit to this era, certainly opens up a whole raft of future gaming opportunities once the range is available

 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

A Cromwell Pierre, they were in the Recce Troop, I assume 11 like the Stuarts, but don't know for certain. It weren't proof from 84mm Sabot.

On Shermans - I think all the ones in Korea were welded, not cast. Should be M4A3E8/76(W), although you would need to do a 105 turret with coaxial flamethrower for the USMC.

IanS