Wednesday, July 19, 2023

New Megablitz Unit: The Egyptian 16th Infantry Division

 Been a while since I posted anything. I've started work on an Megablitz Arab/Israeli war game. I haven't had time to label them yet, but here's my first Arab unit, the 16th Infantry Division. It is also the first unit I've made with a lot of 3-D printed items. 

The Division as a whole. 

The 16th Division Headquarters and a couple of AA companies


The Recon battalion with a PT-76, BTR-40, and T-54. The BTR-40 and T-54 are 3-D prints.


The 16th and 112th Infantry Brigades. Each have 3 infantry battalions, a T-34 battalion, and artillery battalion with 122mm M30 howitzers. The T-34s are 3-D prints


The 3rd Mechanized Brigade. Organized the same as the infantry brigades but mounted on BTR-152s, and BMP-1s. The tank battalion is also equipped with T-54s. The T-54s and BTRs are 3-D prints.

The 41st Artillery Brigade with a D-30 Battalion, D-74 Gun Battalion, and a battalion of 160mm Mortars. The 122mm D-74 is actually a 3-D print of a 130mm M-46, the look rather similar. The 160mm mortar is also 3-D printed. 

Here we have the combat support battalions. These include ( from Right to Left, Front Row) the anti-aircraft battalion, ATGW battalion, antitank battalion, engineer battalion (Back Row) assault gun battalion, another ATGW battalion and the independent tank battalion. The assault gun and extra ATGW battalion were attached to the division from other units. The BRDM-AT, SU-100, and T-54s where also 3-D prints.

I hope to have every thing ready by the Fall. In Megablitz news I'm planning to take another shot at the first Megablitz game I did, Gembloux Gap. I'm debating if I should go 3mm on my WWII units to, but I already got a lot in 6mm, not that I cant convert it to other uses, I.E. FFT.