Wayne's Japanese Hohei Chutai

Wayne’s Japanese Hohei Chutai

Wayne’s Japanese Hohei Chutai

While working on both Banzai and Gung-Ho, and then the digital Pacific briefings afterwards, I’ve had many ideas on which forces I’d like to make. There is plenty of choice, but in the end I decided on the Japanese. You can’t really refight the battles of the Pacific Theatre without them.

I’ve also had a few ideas on what campaigns I’d like to theme my force for, but I’ve decided to initially keep it so they can be used in a variety of campaigns, from the conquest of Malaya and Burma to New Guinea, the island fighting to the defence of the Philippines. This means to change my force to suit each of these campaigns it is just a matter of fiddling a bit with the type, composition, and number of my support platoons.

Wayne's Japanese Hohei Chutai
So initially I’m starting with my basic Hohei Chutai infantry company with the Fearless Veteran option (though I may later run them as Confident Trained once I add more platoons):
Platoon Pacific Late-war
Hohei Chutai HQ    
Company HQ with 2x Command Sword teams 50 points 50 points
Add Regimental Standard to 2iC team 75 points 75 points
     
Combat Platoons    
Hohei Platoon    
3 Rifle Squads (I'll paint three Nikuhaku teams as well) 335 points 335 points
Model the teams with Banners for  +25 points +25 points
     
Weapons Platoons    
Hohei Machine-gun Platoon    
Type 4 92 HMG 160 points 160 points
Hohei Batalion Gun Platoon    
Type 2 92 70 guns 70 points 65 points
     
Regimental Support Platoons    
Hohei Rapid-fire Gun Platoon    
2 Type 1 37mm guns 115 points 50 points
Hohei Regimental Gun Platoon    
2 Type 41 75mm guns 150 points 135 points
     
Divisional Support Platoons    
Tank Platoon    
2 Type 97 Te-Ke (MG) and 3 Tyle 97 Te-Ke (37mm) 245 points 190 points
Heavy Anti-aircraft Gun Platoon    
2 Type 88 75mm guns 325 points 85 points
Eight or more crew with ROF 3 +20 points +20 points
     
Total 1930 points 1550 points
Wayne's Japanese Hohei Chutai

These are a little over my initial points target of 1500 points, but it gives me a little room to adjust things as a see fit before a game. I’m sure there a plenty of other things I’ll add to this force as time goes by. 

Hopefully this won’t take me too long to paint. I’ve already had a bit of practice during the development of Rising Sun as I painted a bunch of the Battlefront Studio’s Japanese infantry.

~Wayne