Avernos, The Australian 9th Division
The 8th Army
the only time British tankers enjoyed "brewing up"Once again my initial list is 1000 points and based on the Operation Lightfoot list from the Armies of Great Britain book. It seems that the north African lists in the books allow you to field lists at a lower model count than the specific Western Desert Campaign book, albeit without some of the bells and whistles. I like this as it means you can get a force up and running faster and then swap over to the campaign book once you’ve got the rest painted up.
what's in the boxSo once again we’re faced with a mixture of plastic, resin and metal. Let’s break it down the army box contains 30 plastic infantry with assorted options, bells and whistles. A metal command blister, with officer, NCO, medic and radio operator. A metal vickers machine gun. Humber armoured car and 2 resin Valentines.
that is a great bundle, do like that you get 2 Valentines. The 3 truck with the DAK bundle is kinda cool but I felt a bit let down once I saw the valentines and 25 pdr
What 25pdr? Was that Rob again… the valentines are nice unlocking them is a pain so I won’t be bothering with 1 of them for the 1000pt list
Sorry Gerry you’re right, the 25 pdr comes with the 1000pt army not the Bootcamp bundle. Yes that was Rob…….
they still look cool and you can never have too many tanks 😉
@avernos and @buggeroff – My records show 4 regiments of Valentine IIIs … about 200 machines in all … in Second Alamein (I mention Second Alamein because I think you mention Operation Lightfoot specifically). 40th RTR was with 9th Australian Division 23rd Armoured Brigade was attached to XXX Corps HQ, its three regiments attached to three infantry divisions for the battle: 46th RTR – also attached to 9th Australian Division 50th RTR – attached to 51st Highlanders Division 8th RTR – attached to 1st South African Division Obviously, the Valentine was a second-line tank by this point, the “main” tank… Read more »
Cheers Jim, I’ve just dusted this off with a view to getting things finished for once in my life 🙂
Funnily enough I got a sprue of the new Commonwealth minis which is the same as the British Africa box with with 4 different sets of heads, including ANZAC looking ones and I’m considering going for those over the standard British troops.
Now I know they have Valentines that may be more of a goer. I should be starting this in the next month. Reading and Research to get done first.
I was going to ask, why give you two tanks? You need at least 4 squads of infantry and
2 officers to even think about a second tank on a lot of lists?
Is that the way that the suggested list goes?
I do love Valentines. Looking forward to eventually getting mine built and painted and used in What a Tanker. ?
You’ll see in the list, but the British get infantry tanks without having to dip into multiple platoons
No wonder we won the war just look at that Officers posture.
Sure it’s a million degrees, you’re cramped into a metal box with half a dozen other men, Germany Commands all of Europe and you have to wear those ridiculous socks but still he remains straight backed, stiff upper lipped and holding his tea in the perfect Officers grip.
The German’s never really stood a chance.
I imagine that based on his hand being held at his lower back he was probably trying to rub some feeling back into it 😉
As I am rolling slowly but steadily through my own 8th Army project I will have a keen eye on this one looking forward to seeing your approach…
Sorry it got shelved while I tried to source some things. I’m about to get it up and running now though