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Building a Perimeter Outpost

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The Perimeter Outpost Company is one of my favourite lists to come out as part of the
Pacific Bulge series of Intelligence Handbooks. For me it is a combination of the interesting
Vietnam platoon organisations that have a little bit of everything, the history of the 28th Infantry
Division and finally, Reluctant Veteran! Being Reluctant is not such a big a problem as
you might think when you are hard to hit (and therefore hard to pin or break).
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Platoon Teams Points

Perimeter Outpost HQ 2x HQ Teams 15 points
1x Trench Line

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Outpost Platoon 1x HQ Team 210 points

4x Rifle Teams
1x Bazooka Team
1x M1919 LMG Team
1x M2 60mm mortar Team
1x M1919 HMG
1x M1 57mm (late) gun
3x Trench Lines
1x Gun Pit
2x Barbed Wire Entanglement
Outpost Platoon 1x HQ Team 210 points
4x Rifle Teams
1x Bazooka Team
1x M1919 LMG Team
1x M2 60mm mortar Team
1x M1919 HMG
1x M1 57mm (late) gun
3x Trench Lines
1x Gun Pit
2x Barbed Wire Entanglement
Outpost Platoon 1x HQ Team 210 points
4x Rifle Teams
1x Bazooka Team
1x M1919 LMG Team
1x M2 60mm mortar Team
1x M1919 HMG
3x Trench Lines
Outpost Fortifications 2x Minefields 200 points
1x Anti-tank Obstacle

From here on out the company gets easier as the platoon organisations are much more traditional. Suffice to say though
that my list would include M24 Chaffees or Tank Destroyers of one flavour or another and Artillery. That gives me some
fast moving heavy hitters to balance out the more static infantry platoons.

My Shopping List
My next step was to work out the blisters or boxes that I needed where I would end up with the least number of left over
bits.

Blister / Release
Description Quantity Contents Used
Box Date
4x HQ Teams
UBX35 Rifle Company (Winter) 1x 12x Rifle Teams July 2012
3x Bazooka Teams
3x M1919 LMG Team
US760 Weapons Platoon (Winter) 1x September 2012
3x M2 60mm mortar Team
US755 HMG Platoon (Winter) 1x 3x M1919 HMG September 2012
1x HQ Team
US503 M1 57mm gun (Winter) 1x August 2012
2x M1 57mm gun
BB131 Trench Lines 3x 10x Trench Lines Now
BB119 or Log Emplacements: Gun Pit Markers 1x 2x Gun Pit Now
Log Emplacements: Gun Pit Markers
BB149 2x Gun Pit September 2012
(Winter)
4x Barbed Wire
BB132 Barbed Wire 1x Now
Entanglement
2x Minefields
BB130 Obstacles 1x Now
1x Anti-tank Obstacle

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So what as left over?

I was surprised by how little was left over, I had half a dozen infantry teams, a small pile of Bazooka teams (but building
an American force it always pays to have a stash of those!), a single HMG, LMG and 60mm Mortar team and some more
Fortifications (some of which I could add in to my platoons), I was thinking of dropping the Outpost Fortifications until
someone (thanks Dvalin) reminded me that they were compulsory.... that would have freed up some points to add a 4th
Outpost Platoon - oh well, back to drawing board for a new plan on how to use up the extras!

I also noticed once I had the company based up and sitting in front of me (other than the pre-painted terrain the rest was
still unpainted sadly….) that it did not take much imagination to turn the force into an Armored Rifle Company (and I hear
those are pretty competitive at the moment too!). I had my Rifle teams, Bazookas, Mortars and LMGs – just dust off those
half tracks and it was two armies for the price of one!

Next step, paint the army...

~ Chris.

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