Brits at Rise of the Tenth

I shall also be doing general brit infantry, and as its Italy, no Blanco! bring my no4 but as I'm medic Im not sure whether I should just stick with the 1928??
Like the idea on the fire and manoeuvre, should be good!

Foolish Englander swinehund, did you not know that General Heinrich Von Vietinghoff has reinforced his position with a crack unit of Gebirgsjäger. The only fire and movement you will be doing is firing and falling back!

Perhaps you should use this thread for your tea making roster

maybe stick to the tea as you cant even count there are 10 of you you forgot yourself

Possibly. I might have excluded myself from the count deliberately. Or I might have miscounted.

Changed the helmet net on my Mark III last night.

Cheers
Martin

Can't speak for my friend (who lurks here under the name Worrywort) but I can do airborne, though have got some battle dress now so perhaps more likely regular infantry. If things are extremely chilly I might pack a greatcoat, which may be slightly impractical for moving around in but preferable to being frozen.

I'll be coming as standard infantry - X Corps probably 56th Division 7th Bn Ox & Bucks, but may be No 2 Commando so I could tenuously use the Garand.

Either way leather jerkin if it's very cold.

Cheers

Charlie

"I might pack a greatcoat, which may be slightly impractical"

I have played wearing a German greatcoat, it was fine although the coat tails got extremely muddy.

You might be better off with just a woolly jumper under the BD, but greatcoats keep you warm while hanging around. I can't say I've ever been that cold in British gear, not even when the tent had ice on the inside in the morning.

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Martin

When exactly is this set?

As it's billed as a continuation of Road to Avelino I'm assuming just after Salerno so September/October 1943. While KDs may be most appropriate unless there is some exceptionally unseasonal weather I shall be sticking to wools.

the game is sat as the above post says , but our games will never be you need to wear so or so , its up to you if you want to be right on the button go for it

will always run as Germans vs Americans/Brits

or Germans vs Russians

the only time we will specify anything is if its a restricted weapon game, but more on that at a later date

The German standing orders [link]http://www.ww2airsoft.org.uk/php/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=248&t=17584[/link] are the sort of thing I had in mind for us if people are up for it. Naturally we will approach this as cheery, capable and flexible Tommy Atkins rather Germanic automatons.

One thing which Tim forgot is that to make it work we'll both need to divide into two groups, and it is also handy to number off individually so the march column is in the right order. There are different ways to form the skirmish line, the one in the German diagram is the hardest, much easier to form to a left or right flank, but we can try this stuff out.

There are also different ways to do fire & movement, alternating groups is the method in the manual, but if we really can't manage it (it is very hard when people are shooting at you!), then individuals pepperpotting forward in short rushes can work too. The main thing to avoid is everyone just diving for the nearest tree and blazing away just outside effective range, which is all a bit airsofty.

Looking forward to this a lot now, and as it is Italy, I've broken out the unblancoed webbing.

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Martin

2nd lieutenant Stojanovic reporting for duty. As the token Polish player I will be turning up in the usual garb of 1st Independant Parachute Brigade at this stage of the campaign I will be totting my ZB30 LMG if anyone would like to volunteer to be mine No:2??

Paz

The German standing orders are the sort of thing I had in mind for us if people are up for it. Naturally we will approach this as cheery, capable and flexible Tommy Atkins rather Germanic automatons.

Copying our standing orders? Admitting the Germans are already better? I think you will need to take plenty of tea and leave the guns in the safe zone

No point in reinventing the wheel. That is the thing with Germans, always over engineering and no sense of humour

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Martin

No point in reinventing the wheel. That is the thing with Germans, always over engineering and no sense of humour

Cheers
Martin

But our sausages are better