BAOR mid 1980's Stocktake

Well October was officially "No Blog Month" - my first month without an update. But I had a reasonable excuse - a holiday in New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup. Didn't get to any of the games - wrong part of the country - but did enjoy soaking up the experience. And have found the perfect retirement destination.

I'm not sure how much or how regularly I'll be getting updates up for the next little while either with real life and other competing events getting in the way of getting much done - and no one wants to read a blog of just waffle... so, we'll see what I can do.

Enough excuse making. I've needed to do a decent stocktake for a while now and find out exactly what I'm missing to complete my mid 1980's BAOR force. This force represents (in my imagination anyway) a 1-for-1 reduced mechanised company plus some attached Battalion assets.

Here is what I am currently able to field:



Here is the company + additional assets broken down a little diagramatically (and kind of amateurish manner as well!)



The Guide
(Things missing are in bold)

Green - Company CO, Radio Operator, Company Sergeant - should perhaps have more - need to investigate that further - FV432

Blue - Company 2IC, Radio Operator, Sergeant (?) - not sure about this one - need to investigate that further - FV432

Not sure about what other assets the Company HQ might be able to bring to the party - like a sniper section...

Purple - GPMG Sustained Fire Team - possibly party of the Company HQ - 2nd GPMG Sustained Fire Team

Yellow - 1st Platoon (from Right to Left)
Platoon Leader, RTO, Platoon Sergeant, Light Mortar, Medic
3 Sections
Fireteam A - Section Leader, MAW Gunner, Assistant Gunner, Rifleman
Fireteam B - Section 2IC, GPMG Gunner, Assistant Gunner, Rifleman
4 x FV432
2 FV432, 1 x MAW Gunner

Red - 2nd Platoon (from Left to Right)
Platoon Leader, RTO, Platoon Sergeant, Light Mortar, Medic
3 Sections
Fireteam A - Section Leader, MAW Gunner, Assistant Gunner, Rifleman
Fireteam B - Section 2IC, GPMG Gunner, Assistant Gunner, Rifleman
4 x FV432

White - ATGM Section
So far just the 1 Milan Team
Platoon Leader, RTO, Platoon Sergeant, 3 Milan Teams, 3 FV432, 2 Spartan MCT

Orange Brown - Mortar Battery
2 FV432M with mortar teams, Sultan & Spartan (not shown)

Light Blue - ADA Section
2 Blowpipe Teams - need to do further reseacrh on how these would have been transported, did they have command element etc.

Grey - Artillery
105mm light gun + crew, tractor (not shown).
105mm light gun + crew

2 x Abbot
2 x GPMG Turreted FV432 (for use as Platoon Leader vehicles - just to tell them apart)

So that's it for the stocktake. I now have a better idea of what's missing and what I need to pursue to finish off this unit. Fortunately, possession of a large number of FV432s will also help me with my next unit - but more on that next week

Have fun...

Richard