Wednesday, 27 January 2021

Khalkin Gol/Nomonhan - Japanese Forces

 The Japanese forces were as expected, largely infantry based with their standard knee mortars in their 4 rifle company battalions. They also had a large number of tanks but these were largely Ha-Go or I-Go tanks and struggled against the Soviet Armoured Cars, which mounted an effective 45mm gun.

Most of the figures are Early War Miniatures, with a variety of manufacturers for the vehicles including IBG, 172scale.com, BPM. The mules are Raventhorpe with additional 'bits' to tell them apart from each other.

64th Infantry Regiment HQ:

RHQ

Gun battery - 75mm Mountain Gun

Anti-tank battery - 37mm A/T Gun




Infantry Battalions

1st Battalion and 2nd Battalions, 64th Infantry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment.

HQ with A/T rifle

4 x Companies including knee mortars

Heavy Weapons Company - 2 x MMG and 70mm gun




2nd Field Artillery Battalion

 2 x 75mm Field Gun Batteries

1 x 120mm Howitzer Battery


Yasuoka Detachment

HQ, AA Platoon (20mm), 3 sniper teams


3rd Tank Regiment

1st Company - Type 97 Chi-Ha, 2 x Type 89 Otsu

2nd Company - 3 x Type 89 Otsu

3rd Company - Typy 97 Te-Ke, 2 x Type 94 TK



4th Tank Regiment

1st Company - 3 x Type 95 Ha-Go

2nd Company - 3 x Type 95 Ha-Go

3rd Company - Type 95 Ha-Go, 2 x Type 89 Otsu



Air Support

1 x Ki-27 'Nate' fighter
1 x Ki-15 'Babs' bomber


A bit of fluff:

A couple of stands to show Banzai charges:


Finally, a team photo:




4 comments:

  1. Lovely bit of work mate, on a army that does not get as much attention as it axis counterpart.

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  2. Thanks Nige - yes I think you're right, and those that are, are usually more in the Pacific theatre rather than the 'northern far east' theatre of China/Soviet border. I'm looking forward to getting them on the table.

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