"Looking for Finnish OOB information for the 1980s" Topic

All,

I am working on some scenarios for the Northern Shoulder of a Cold War gone hot set in the mid to late 1980s.

I have found good information on the forces of Norway and Sweden on hand. There is a very detailed wikipedia article on the structure of the Swedish armed forces in 1989. I don't know how accurate this is, but for wargaming it is good enough. link

I can find lots of information on Finland in WW2 and some current stuff, but my searches for 1980s-era information is coming up empty.

Do you all have any information or resources?

Look here. Just go down to later years.

link

Stephen,

I am looking for company/battalion/Regiment level information. Do the Micromark lists go up that high or are they lower level?

I don't have it open but IIRC these were division level plus their other works had higher level organizations. Follow the link. Plus on Yahoo Groups there is a TOE group.

I just downloaded the Micromark lists. Good stuff! Thanks for the pointer.

Alex you can download a 1989 NATO order of battle that includes a lot of information on all the neutral european nations including Finland at Pat Callagan's website here:

microarmormayhem.com

just follow the download links on the left hand side of the homepage.

It is mainly coy/bttn/bde level information.

The Yahoo TOE group has some info on mainly platoon level organisations for 70's to 90's but not a lot of higher level stuff.

There is also an old SPI Game called Nordkapp that deals with the hypothetical invasion of Norway/Sweden and northern Finland in the 1980's. That has a lot of detailed TOE's of Soviet, NATO and neutrals.

If you want to PM me I have a bit of stuff that may be useful to you.

The military balance books can sometimes help

amzn.to/2h4ZOOX

You might find Red Sky White Light by Jason Weiser very useful. It covers nordic platoon forces with some details around the finnish army.

available at armiesarmy.com as a pdf download

Keith