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Etranger wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:04 pm They're for his Dutch East Indies force. They'll give the Japanese a bit of a shock.

That's right. However, they've been modified for KNIL service: two tanks in each platoon can only traverse right, while the other two can only traverse left. It's traditional.

For a bit of extra fun, some of the Brigade Anti-Tank Companies and possibly one or two of the Recce Battalions still had AMX-13/105 light tanks on the books at the start of the 1980s.

I "could" deploy Centurions & AMX 13 from the 'reserves' deployed in the shed.

Did the British ever deploy Centurions to Malaysia? I know they had some in HK & of course the Australians had them in Vietnam.

Paras and Centurion I' s Vs Viet Minh or Indonesian rebels are a "what if"!

At the defence of Coral centurions were firing flechettes, I have never heard of tanks in either the Malayan emergency or in Konfrontasi. The jungles are very different. Vietnam was generally more open forest than Malaya and Borneo where the third layer was much thicker.

Points updated... 61 28mm foot for me. 305 pts

I am a cheating bastard! 30 of those were done on January! Total adjusted...

21 infantry, 7 cavalry, 1 elephant and a dog. Counting the elephant as a vehicle and the dog as a figure, that’s 200 points.

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:39 am At the defence of Coral centurions were firing flechettes, I have never heard of tanks in either the Malayan emergency or in Konfrontasi. The jungles are very different. Vietnam was generally more open forest than Malaya and Borneo where the third layer was much thicker.

Nor I, although the British did deploy armoured cars etc. The Japanese didn't have much trouble deploying tanks in 1941-42.

True, but they seem to have stayed on the roads, perhaps that's why the Brits stuck with wheels in the emergency.

No idea re Cents in the Far East, sorry. Yes, the British used Saladins and Ferrets in Malaya and Borneo, but as discussed they were restricted to the road network, the same as the Japanese tanks had been in 1942 (Slim River, etc) and again when they invaded Burma. In the Burma Campaign, the only time you really saw open-country tank manoeuvres in Burma unshackled from the road network was when they were fighting on the central Burmese 'Dry Belt' in 1942 and 1945, or on the Imphal Plain in 1944.

Am I correct that the Brits in Burma never had an armoured division, it was just armoured brigades?