Individually Based German and American Rifle Companies for IABSM

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Individually based 15mm troops for Company-level action

I've long been a fan of the "I Ain't Been Shot Mum" rules, but I've never played them as written.  There are several reasons for that, but the issue we're focusing on tonight is the idea that I've always played them with troops based in elements, rather than troops based individually, because, who's got a reinforced company's worth of (or two, if you're a solo gamer or otherwise have to provide both sides of every era/theater you game), right?  Well...

I now have a TO&E-built company of US Airborne infantry (left), plus some extras, plus a company of German infantry (right), plus some extras (and enough MGs to play as 'regular' infantry with one MG-42 per section, or panzergrenadiers with two MG-42s per section).

Here is the entire US company command element, with the CO, XO, 1st Sgt, and various comms, intel, supply, operations, etc..., NCOs.

A closeup of the CO and XO.

The XO's backside.  Oh, before I forget, pretty much everything is from Forged in Battle, though there are some specialists from Peter Pig.

A TO&E US Airborne rifle platoon, with the platoon command element (top), two 12-man rifle squads (middle), and a seven-man mortar squad.

A closeup of some of the poses.  You can see I did US flags on the right arms and 82nd Airborne divisional patches on the left shoulder.

A BAR gunner.  Yeah, the 82nd Airborne was fond of BARs ;)

An M-1919 machine gun team.

A 57mm ATG and crew from Peter Pig.

Ze Chermans...

I really like the poses of the FiB German infantry, so I'm just going to share some of that.

Another.

I love when sculptors do this: we've all seen this photo (though in real life he has his sleeves rolled up).  Of course, I just did a quick Google image search and can't find it...

Another.

An MG-42 team, in action.

And one on the tripod.

And a PaK with crew from Peter Pig.

So yeah, I don't just have US infantry and paras, and German Afrika Korps, FJ, and HG that are element-based, I also have a few hundred singly-based troops...  I put them on a desert basing scheme because my plan is to follow a company from the 82nd Airborne through a (fictional) campaign in Tunisia, then on to Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Holland, and the Bulge, even drew up a roster where I named every single soldier of the US rifle company...