"Brown" AVF in Doomed Battalions - where to sort them?

[von Marwitz]

In my ongoing work to transfer to RAACO, I came onto a number of "Russian brown" vehicles that came in "Doomed Battalions" IIRC. Italian tankettes, American M3A3 (a), M3A1 (a), AEC II (b), etc.
I had stored them among the Allied minor vehicles up to now.

Question is:
Where are they supposed to go? With the Russian AFV?
Is this supposed to be some lend-lease stuff, vehicles captured or vehicles to equip partisans?

What does the GS hive-mind say?

TIA,
von Marwitz

 

[BattleSchool]

These are (communist) Yugoslav AFV.

See Yugoslav vehicle notes.

I put them in their own A78 insert, and the Russian case. They see use in a few scenarios, but always with Russian/Partisan MMC, etc.

See, for example, FrF68 A Hasty Farewell. Mattias managed to use four of the five AFV types.

 

[Paul M. Weir]

The Soviet brown ones are Partisan, almost exclusively Yugoslav (IE Tito's mob). A mixture of captured Italian and LL from British stocks, though obviously some originally US built.

As for where you store them, that's your call. I am inclined to keep them separate from Soviet as some minor depletion numbers and the like may be different. I keep my partisans at the end or to one side of my Soviet storage anyway, but that's just me.

 

[jrv]

Have you never heard of the E-Z-Put-A-Way counter storage system? Put them in a big, black, plastic garbage bag with all the rest of your counters.

JR

 

[von Marwitz]

These are (communist) Yugoslav AFV.

See Yugoslav vehicle notes.

I put them in their own A78 insert, and the Russian case. They see use in a few scenarios, but always with Russian/Partisan MMC, etc.

See, for example, FrF68 A Hasty Farewell. Mattias managed to use four of the five AFV types.

Ahhh, yes! Now I remember.

Thanks, people!
von Marwitz

 

[Augie]

I have them in my Allied Minor AFV and Ordnance Plano, since that seems appropriate

 

[von Marwitz]

I have them in my Allied Minor AFV and Ordnance Plano, since that seems appropriate

I am tending to go that way. It will depend on how the inserts in the RAACO Assorters will match up in the end.

von Marwitz

 

[bprobst]

Note that although the counters in DB were "intended for" Partisan AFV operations, some of them do turn up as normal Lend-Lease vehicles in a few German-Russian scenarios.

E.G., Russian Vehicle Note 54 = Allied Minor Vehicle Note 34 (M3A1 SC).

I sort them with my Partisans (which live in a few dedicated compartments of my Russian Plano).

 

[jrv]

The nice thing about the E-Z-Put-A-Way counter storage system is that you can also put your RAACO boxes in the big, black, plastic bag. It solves two problems.

JR

 

[olli]

I put them in with my Russians, seemed the best way due to the colour.

 

[csiemers]

I put them with my partisans.

 

[ASL Maineiac]

The nice thing about the E-Z-Put-A-Way counter storage system is that you can also put your RAACO boxes in the big, black, plastic bag. It solves two problems.

JR

And all your maps too!

 

[von Marwitz]

The nice thing about the E-Z-Put-A-Way counter storage system is that you can also put your RAACO boxes in the big, black, plastic bag. It solves two problems.

JR

Incidentally, I think this is the storage system that my wife would propose as well. She could likely add a number of additional problems atop the two aforementioned that this could solve for many of us.

von Marwitz

 

[BattleSchool]

And all your maps too!

In that case, I'd recommend upgrading to one of these sturdy, red-denim bags.



Word at the Pole is that one bag will accommodate Olli's entire ASL collection, and still leave room for a dozen copies each of Red Factories, the Korean War module, etc.

 

[BattleSchool]

Incidentally, I think this is the storage system that my wife would propose as well. She could likely add a number of additional problems atop the two aforementioned that this could solve for many of us.

von Marwitz

That sounds more like a long-term, off-site storage solution.

 

[von Marwitz]

That sounds more like a long-term storage solution.

I guess you are about right.

Maybe we should get rich and propose that to the managers of nuclear power plants for their nuclear waste?

von Marwitz