Review:
by Bill Rutherford
GHQ, in support of their (insanely) large line of 1/285th armor miniatures, has released the first three of what I hope will be an extensive line of tables of organization and equipment (TO&E). The first three TO&Es deal with the US 1944 Armored Infantry Battalion, Medium Tank Battalion, and Army and Marine Infantry Battalions. Each is a six page (3 sheets) set of charts perforated for your 3-ring binder. The TO&Es are exhaustive, detailing their subject organizations all the way from how many vehicles are contained in the HQ company HQ of a 1944 armored infantry battalion (2 - a jeep and a halftrack) right down to how many .45 cal pistols and how many field musicians (as opposed to garrison musicians???) a USMC Series D Infantry battalion contains. They're accurate, too - I checked my limited reference collection and GHQ is on the money. I didn't know, for example, that a person who conducts camouflage is known as a camofleur... Anyway, if you do WW II miniatures, at $2.95 each, these are a bargain when you look at the (rising) cost of reference material. Available from your local gameshop, or, failing that, directly from GHQ at at 28100 Woodside Road, Shorewood, MN 55331. More Reviews
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