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goat major wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:38 pm How many points for completing a games room ?

In what scale?

I'm good for 12x 28mm foot so far. Off to the races!

So far 43 artillerymen and 10 guns in 28mm since 1st Feb

First batch (all 15mm):

Four 1980s Dutch Centurions (QRF):


Two India Pattern Wheeled Armoured Carriers, one of them converted to a mortar carrier (Flames of War):


Two Japanese Type 97 Trucks (Flames of War):


Two Indian Daimler recce cars (Skytrex):


So ten vehicles = 120 points.

valleyboy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:25 am So far 43 artillerymen and 10 guns in 28mm since 1st Feb

On that basis I hope you can't make it to Ayton with an army this year!

Did Centurions soldier on with the Dutch till the 80s, I thought they went Leopard?

They're for his Dutch East Indies force. They'll give the Japanese a bit of a shock.

That 105mm APDS will go straight up a jungle track punching neat holes in the front and back of a company of Ho Wis.

RMD wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 10:45 pm Four 1980s Dutch Centurions (QRF):

Oh no, don't say you're gearing up for "Infamy, infamy!!!" as well?

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:24 pm Did Centurions soldier on with the Dutch till the 80s, I thought they went Leopard?

They did indeed. The Cents and the remaining stocks of Leopard 1NL were all meant to have been replaced with 'improved' Leopard 1-V in the late 1970s/early 1980s, but the Leopard 1-V had severe teething problems, so the Cents soldiered on. Curiously, the Leopard 1NLs were mostly replaced before the Cents! In the mid-1980s the Cloggies gave up waiting for any more Leopard 1-Vs to roll out and instead opted for Leopard 2A4. For a time there were Leopard 1NL, Leopard 1-V, Leopard 2A4 and Centurion Mk 5/2 all serving in the Cloggie Army simultaneously (though battalions were all of one single type).

The Tank Battalions of the 42nd Armoured Infantry Brigade, 52nd Armoured Infantry Brigade and 53rd Armoured Brigade were equipped with Centurion Mk 5/2 at the start of the 1980s. The remaining brigades (11th Armoured Infantry, 12th Armoured Infantry, 13th Armoured, 41st Armoured, 43rd Armoured Infantry and 51st Armoured Infantry) were equipped with Leopard 1NL (in the process of conversion to Leopard 1-V), as were the 102nd, 103rd and 104th Reconnaissance Battalions.

In 1985 the Leopard 1s of the 41st Armoured Brigade, 43rd Armoured Infantry Brigade and 103rd Reconnaissance Battalion, as well as the Centurions of 53rd Armoured Brigade were replaced with Leopard 2A4. The Centurions of 42nd Armoured Infantry Brigade were similarly replaced with Leopard 2A4 in 1986 and the last Centurions of 52nd Armoured Infantry Brigade were replaced with Leopard 1-V in 1987. The newly-raised 105th Reconnaissance Battalion also received Leopard 2A4 at this time.