Sunday 4 February 2018

Chain of Command - Para Support!

Continuing the theme of the Para list from Chain of Commands 'Pint Sized Campaign' Kampfgruppe Von Luck, the support options for the British Paras defending the town are quite limited, but I can cover them with most of the figures from my BA British Para list.

In the campaign, the Brits are very short of numbers and support and subsequently would probably struggle to play a battle with many of these options present at the same time, so there may be a crossover of figures within the support lists.

Medic.  Medics work quite differently in CoC, and are only there to protect your Senior Leaders from getting wounds and/or dying.  There is also the option to have another PIAT team if required or a 2" mortar team.


You can also select an extra section as two seperate teams, a Bren team and a rifle team.  If you select both teams, they come as a full section with a Junior Leader with a Sten gun.  This section is not part of your platoon, and are considered to have been picked up.  I like to think of these chaps as having battled through the enemy positions after a bad drop, and picking up a few injuries and souvenirs along the way.



 More expensive support options are available, in the form of a 3 man Flamethrower team.  



 a Forward observer for a 3" Mortar Battery - (the wounded para is there to represent the Senior Leader if he is wounded in a game, he carries the wound for the entire campaign)


and finally the 6 pounder ATG.  The Germans in this campaign have access to a 15cm Self Propelled Howitzer, the Lorraine Schlepper.  This Airborne 6 pounder only comes with 3 crew, so I've borrowed some others from the 75mm Pack Howitzer teams I use for Bolt Action.



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