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So the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion of the ANZAC forces didn’t exist how nice.

 

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I know of it, worst thing about the NZ part, was that the Maori Battalion that had been on the western front for 3 years of hard fighting, was not used as an occupieing unit, as it was deemed wrong to have natives standing guard over europeans….

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not a biscuit, just a memorial from St Mary’s Church, Harefield, Middlesex.

 

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basically not in armour, flak jackets, that sort of thing.

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Best guess is, in British coats, no clue on facings and the fact that only 2 of them ever saw service, well pays your money and takes your choices.

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looks like more games than the last few years, and small games not just huge showpieces.

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Plastic soldier spray cans is your friend, they do a US tank green and a UK tank green.

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In your example, one of the things to remember is that unless planned in advance, a Bttn attack would not have a pre planned fire plan. This doesn’t mean they didn’t have fire support, but that it would need to be called in by Forward observers and unit commanders on the hoof.

 

In the Normandy campaign a hasty attack by British or American commands could result on a quiet day, of a hell of a lot more artillery hitting the enemy than the attackers expected, and on busy days, the bare minimum of support given. There is an account (might be in Jary, 18 platoon) about a company attack that called for support, and got everything including battleship shells on top of the targets, because the areas AGRA had no preplanned targets at the time they called for help, essentially every support gun was available.

 

they strolled into the position they had to take, with deaf and badly disorientated defenders milling around as they had been caught cold.

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That’s generous, you barely hit arsed at all Connard.

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The one thing that internet sources do well, is the ability to update small changes fast, where a print book needs to sell through and have demand for another edition before that can happen.

 

But, nothing beats browsing a book just looking for inspiration.

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If starting out, the Funckens (Most of them) and Haythornthwaites Penninsular war and Mollo on the AWI will do you just fine, what they are not and never pretended to be was definative, in depth coverage, but a very good general overview.

 

And no wargamer with an interest in the 18thC can fail be inspired by the artwork in the Funckens Lace Wars pair, indeed for a long time, the only source for Austrian and Some of the lesser German states.

 

Now if you want in depth analysis of the period etc… a simple uniform book is not the place to be looking in the first place.

 

Uniform and accurate uniform research is a deep rabbit hole that you only have to go as deep as you want.

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For your needs, the 2 volumes of Grant from Partizan Press, available via Calicer Books would be your best bet.

 

https://www.caliverbooks.com/Partizan%20Press/1680-1798.shtml

 

If you want more depth the books by Hall from the Pike & SHot Society (or as cd’s from Baccus) or the various series by Helion books.

 

It is a period where there there is a lot more foreign language works are becoming available in English.

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