Completed the non vehicle units

Well I have basically completed all the foot troops.
Except for some ammo crates for the artillery.
Things to note:
2 spare platoon HQ stands .. just in case you need to split into three combat platoons at half strength.
There are 2 bazookas in the LMG platoon.
There is one bazooka in the mortar platoon.
The Bazookas and LMG’s up to 5 teams can make combat attachments to the combat platoons.
The two artillery batteries allow a double width template or
An 8 gun battery which re-rolls misses can range in on the “Hit em with everthing you got” rule. Because both batteries have a staff team.
And of course the staff team allows a time on target attack too.. with 8 guns! twice the rerolls!
The mortar platoon observers are the CHQ and 2iC which have no +1 penalty to range in. Thats why there is no observer in the mortar platoon.
The Sherman M4A3’s (not painted yet) has tank telephones.. allowing your Combat platoon troops to use the Eyes and ears rulls to remove gone to ground status of your target!

anyways pictures:

Company command and spare plt HQ's

Artillery battery comand carbine team, observer and staff team

Battery, yet to have ammo crates added.

All the foot forces

Bases coding

Trying to see what source book matches the figures we have

Have glued some of the US airbourne to bases today.

Still playing around with arrangements on others to get the optimum field of figures and bases.
Will probably reduce some stands to three figs instead of four.. but they look fine.
Still frustrating between the army lists in “Road to Rome”(RR), “Hells Highway”(HH), Market Garden (MG), Nuts (NN)
HH has two artillery batteries in the 75mm pak howitzers but RR doesn’t
RR has 4 shermans with improvised armour but the combat platoons are reduced to 6 teams instead of 9.. and it has two command teams per platoon not one.
Problem is the US airbourne have really different options throughout the books.. subtle but massively game changing.
The HH list has no US armour.. only UK armour support from 30th Corp.
Funny thing is there is a ten points difference between the two books for the same list.
I use 82nd airbourne whenever I can .. I just think there cool and a I new someone who was all about the eagle being the best and I don’t like that.. plus the eagles were the get out of jail card
for the heros in the LOTR all the time .. so anti that! besides All American …. F$^&* yeah! lol

So if there was anything extra needed I would say… 1-2 carbine command teams. 1x60mm mortar team .. and that would allow you to make any of the following lists. Oh bazookas always help.. get some of those too.

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Boots on the ground

I have made some more progress with the US airborne.
Finally finished painting all the gloves.

That’s 150 plus sets of gloves.. except the radio operators who only wear one glove.
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