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Empress Release Four New ANZAC Packs For Vietnam Wargamers
May 22, 2020 by brennon
Empress Miniatures has released four new packs of ANZAC miniatures into the mix for those of you playing out your Vietnam War battles. We start with a pack of Officers, NCOs and Scouts w/ M16s.
This set gives you a nice collection of dynamic figures who are all in the middle of patrolling. They look like they are staring off into the jungle as they've just heard gunfire or the rustle of an ambusher about to leap on them. Each of them is wearing their distinctive hats and the sculpts themselves are packed with detail.
Blow Them Up!
Next, we move onto the Owen SMG & Grenade Launcher Pack which gives you a good shock unit for charging the enemy. Those SMGs are perfect for close-quarters combat and the grenade launcher allows you to crack open a fortified position.
Again, the miniatures are packed with detail and you'd have a lot of fun painting these up and then drenching them in weathering materials to show how beleaguered they are. I imagine as soon as you got off the helicopter and started trudging through the jungle you'd end up covered in mud, sweat and probably a fair bit of blood.
Lay Down Covering Fire!
Next up is a team which can lay down some covering fire. This gives you an M60 Team which is both set-up and ready to fire and also in the middle of booking it to a new, safer, position.
It's good to have the two variants here and I would most certainly use them to represent the machine gun team on-the-move and then dug in. It might be a bit unnecessary but I think it would add another level of narrative to the experience.
Medic!
Finally, we have perhaps a scenario-specific pack. This gives you a Command With RTO And Medic With Casualty.
Here you could have the Medic And Casualty being the pair that you need to rush towards through oncoming fire, hoping to evac them as quickly as possible. You could also have the Command element of the pack stranded deep behind enemy lines. Maybe you roll each turn to see if they can get the radio working whilst your troops are rushing forward to try and help them?
What do you think of these new packs from Empress Miniatures?
"I would most certainly use them to represent the machine gun team on-the-move and then dug in..."
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Before anyone asks – they are 28mm figures.
It can be very hard to tell these days by just looking at the figures.
(Though now that I look harder, I do see that the it highlighted in the “Related Tags” section off to the right.)
Yeah we (nearly) always put the scale on the left-hand side if we know.
Nice does the the Australian troops see much action I know they have been used in some U.N. Humanitarian assistance’s
Yes they have. Stolen from Wiki. During its history the Australian Army has fought in a number of major wars, including: Second Boer War (1899–1902), First World War (1914–18), the Second World War (1939–45), Korean War (1950–53), Malayan Emergency (1950–60), Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation (1962–66), Vietnam War (1962–73),[6] and more recently in Afghanistan (2001 – present) and Iraq (2003–09).[7] Since 1947 the Australian Army has also been involved in many peacekeeping operations, usually under the auspices of the United Nations, however the non-United Nations sponsored Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai is a notable exception. Australia’s largest peacekeeping deployment began in… Read more »
I thought Anzacs where cookies….
no they were biscuits
Having served in the Australian Infantry albeit in the late 1980s I can never recall a section fielding 4 M-16s ?? 2 maybe ..the bloke with the M-79 grenade launcher (which we called a “wombat gun” )might have had one as well. the owen gun would have been used by the same people in the section that used the M16, the scouts., and most of the section in the rifle group and the gun group (aside from the gunner… obviously) would have had SLRs ( as they used the same round (the 7.62 mm NATO rimless)as the M-60 …so if… Read more »
Empress makes a a few SLR armed diggers for their Vietnam range as well.
https://www.empressminiatures.com/anzac-forces-110-c.asp
Definitely on my shopping list. The only other pack I would wish for is a mortar team.