Colours 2013 - A Change of Plans!

Hello All,

As you may have read myself and Alex were aiming to get our EW desert armies done by for Colours 2013 (see Just Deserts). Well it seems there was a little mix up in the UK tournament scene (which I'm not going to go into here) and the event is now LW. So as I was already up for the challenge of getting an army painted for the event I thought sod it and I'm now planning on getting my new 2nd ID list done for Colours 2013.

Now before everyone rolls their eyes at playing 2nd ID there are a few good reason for me collecting them. Firstly I had a lot US Winter Infantry left over from my Winter US Para army (which funnily enough was the same reason I did the Market Garden Paras!). Secondly the list really fits my style of play, I think despite loving tanks I'm an infantry player at heart and to that end a Veteran infantry player, but I like Infantry that can attack and with the Winter Training rule the 2nd ID should have no problems attacking. Finally the most important reason, I love the Winter US infantry models, sure one or two look a little odd but they are some of my favorite Battlefront models.

The army as it stands, it's all now built, I just need to do the hard part....

I played around with the list a bit mainly cropping and changing between three infantry platoons (my normal preference) and two infantry platoons. I finally choice two platoons as a few top tournament players said it was the better choice and although I'm not sure about it I thought I'd give it a go and see if playing with two platoons changed my mind on the option.

Confident    Veteran	Rifle Company (2nd I.D.) Colours List	USA Late-War
Infantry Company

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Rifle Company HQ (2nd I.D.)  p.49	2	Cmd Carbine team	15
Combat Platoons
Rifle Platoon (2nd I.D.)  p.49	1 1 6 3	Cmd Rifle team Bazooka team Rifle team Bazooka team	215
Rifle Platoon (2nd I.D.)  p.49	1 1 6 3	Cmd Rifle team Bazooka team Rifle team Bazooka team	215
Weapons Platoons
Machine-gun Platoon (2nd I.D.)  p.50	1 2 4	Cmd Carbine team Bazooka team M1917 HMG team	170
Regimental Support
Anti-tank Platoon (2nd I.D.)  p.51	1 3	Cmd Carbine team M1 57mm gun (late)	100
Intelligence & Recon Platoon (2nd I.D.)  p.52	1 3	.50 cal Recon Jeep .50 cal Recon Jeep	100
Support Platoons
Towed Tank Destroyer Platoon (Veteran)  p.69	1 2 1 4 4	.50 cal Recon Jeep Recon Jeep Cmd Carbine team M5 3" gun (late) Bazooka team	335
Tank Destroyer Platoon (Trained)  Confident  Trained   p.69	1 2 4	.50 cal Recon Jeep M20 Scout Car M10 3in GMC (late)	310
Field Artillery Battery (Trained)  Confident  Trained   p.72	1 1 1 1 4	Cmd Carbine team Staff team Observer Carbine team Jeep M2A1 105mm howitzer	140
Field Artillery Battery (155mm) (Trained)  Confident  Trained   p.72	1 1 1 1 2	Cmd Carbine team Staff team Observer Carbine team Jeep M1 155mm howitzer	110
Air Observation Post  p.77	1	L4 Grasshopper AOP	40
Company Points:			1750

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The list covers all my normal checklists of smoke, recon, good anti tank and good anti infantry. The four HMG's and two Bazookas from the Heavy Weapons platoon will mostly be attached out to the two infantry platoons giving me two fourteen man platoons.

I'm looking forward to trying out the mix bombardment rules with the 155mm's and the 105mm's. Combined they make for a nice 6 gun, Anti Tank 5, Firepower 3+ bombardment, add in the AOP and thats a decent bombardment even if it's trained.

I have built the game and have as I type 9 weeks to paint it... glad I have a fair bit of time off work between now and then!

Well wish me luck and as always thanks for reading

Ben