Konflikt '47 American starter army

My Konflikt '47 starter arrived earlier this week and I gotta say I'm pretty f*****g excited. I spent the entire week and a half camped out by the mail box waiting for the mail man to deliver me my American starter set. Now that it's finally here I thought I would share it with everyone. Without further ado let's get started.

The top of the box, I wish they had a points value like the regular army boxes but this cover art is pretty cool though. Actually all the Konflikt artwork is pretty cool so far.

 Removing the lid, the A4 rule book sits on top of the reference board and all the models are tucked neatly beneath. 

Looks pretty good, got some infantry on the left and the Konflikt stuff on the right. The Tesla turret is wrapped up in the bubble wrap.

Here's the turret for the Tesla Sherman. At first glance everything appears crisp and clean.

But then I noticed these extrusions which in all honesty won't prove a problem.

 Here's the rest of the Sherman, nothing special here just the regular Italeri/Warlord 1/56 Sherman kit

Here we have the Heavy infantry bodies, these had relatively few mold lines and were quite easy to clean up.

Right arms, when pictures were first posted of these by Clockwork and Warlord i thought they were going to be LMGs because they have a .30 cal look to them but instead they're considered assault rifles which is interesting.

Left arms, it would have been interesting to have these sculpted with Fallout esque power fists.

The heads, I didn't realise the neck indentation was going to be so deep on the bodes and that these heads would have such huge necks to make up for it because I want to do head swaps but some green stuff should do the trick. 

Last of the weird units the Coyote scout walker, personally I think it looks kind of dumb but since i own it I'll probably wind up playing it. On the bright side i didn't suffer the common problem people seem to be having where the box has two left arms and two left legs. 

The last thing out of the box are pin markers. I hope these start getting sold separately because they're so damn nifty. 

For scale on the power armor here he is next to a Warlord Chindit and A Red Star French paratrooper. In order to fit with the rest of the forces I have for Bolt Action I will be painting up my Konlfikt stuff for Indochina. Since most of France has been liberated the and the Allies need more manpower in the Pacific, France has raised an American equipped force to go liberate Indochina from the Japanese and to combat local communist uprising backed by the Russians to fight the Allies and the Axis both. 

Back to Indochina

I've owned Warlord's Pacific Theater book for a while and I decided to put it to use, by using the Chinese army list and totally forgetting all the other nifty rules that would have made the game interesting. For this scenario a small force of Vietminh guerrillas has encountered a platoon of paratroopers who are waiting for a column of reinforcements to arrive and extract them. The guerrilla cell has requested assistance from a local force of Giap's regulars.

The militia platoon on the right consisted a 2nd Lieutenant with an extra man regular, a scout team with SMG's veteran, 3 squads of 8 guerrillas with 3 SMGs each inexperienced, a light mortar regular, and a bazooka regular.

The reinforcement platoon on the left consisted of a 1st Lieutenant with 2 extra men one with flag veteran, a 3 man scout team with SMGs veteran, a 10 man X and Y force squad with 2 SMGs and an LMG veteran, 3 rifle squads each with 8 men with 1 SMG and 1 LMG regular, and for support they have a light mortar, bazooka, MMG, and a 75mm recoilless rifle all regular

The French para's who would be holding off the horde has a 1st Lieutenant with an extra man, a medic, 4 squads of 10 paratroops with SMGs and an LMG, a light mortar, and a 75mm recoilless rifle with the entire platoon being veteran. Their relief force is a 1st Lieutenant with an extra man in a bren carrier, a 5 man engineer squad with flamethrower and 2 SMGs in a bren carrier, and 2 squads of 10 "marines" with 2 SMGs and a BAR in a halftrack. Everything is regular.

The French Paras set up in the middle of the table with the guerrillas deploying just outside the outskirts of the village hidden in the jungle in hidden setup.

French infantry keep watch over the jungle, they know something HAS to be out there.

A squad of Para's moves out into the jungle and into contact with the VM scout units

Hearing their comrades being engaged a guerrilla squad launches an assault to try and relieve the pressure  

The guerrillas are killed to a man but at a costly toll for the French squad

The scout units attempt to fight their way out with fists and butt strokes from their weapons 

The guerrilla leader was coming to render assistance

but decided to assault the remainder of the squad in the longhouse

and the French platoon commander

Even with him holding such a precarious position reinforcements are moving up behind him

With plenty of light indirect weapons to cover the assault

Killing medics is against the Geneva convention, butt he guerrilla leader didn't sign the Geneva convention, or even really know what the Geneva convention is. Fortunately for the medic he has no compunctions with killing a man and proceeds to do so accordingly.

The VM wave has started to hit the French positions

The French launch a hasty counter attack and buy some respite

but a second wave hits

By this time the French platoon has suffered over 50% casualties, the survivors regroup by the rice paddies as the sound of engines has started to be heard 

The relief force is making a mad dash to try and extract the stranded platoon

While the main force was engaging the paratroopers several AT teams moved to the most likely avenue of appraoach

The last VM squads are moving in for the kill

The VM make a dash for the house killing several Paras with their sporadic fire on their way

The house won't protect them from the retribution brought by the survivors

French engineers slowly work their way up the road eliminating the AT threats

Having lost almost his entire platoon the VM Lieutenant launches into a charge with his two men in a last ditch effort to take all the paratroopers with him

While several do go down five men from the platoon manage to fall back to the relief column as the VM artillery falls on the village behind them