"6mm infantry packs" Topic

Any suggestions on who sells packs of WW2 infantry "company" packs? I'm really only familiar with GHQ and prefer NOT to use their infantry. I don't like the size and look of them and to my knowledge they don't sell infantry by the "company" packs.

I know of Heroics & Ros and Baccus, but not sure if they sell packs of infantry by "company" level. Nor am I familiar with their shipping times to the US.

Any other considerations?

Thank you

Adler miniatures in UK do Company packs and their figures are really good.

Thanks Battler. I'll compare them to Baccus and H&R.

for ww2 i use adler for all the rest i try to use Baccus

Not seeing on the Alder site company level packs of infantry, also, the shipping to the US is somewhat cost prohibitive.

2D6 Wargaming do company packs.
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However they do not yet cover all armies.

For Adler you need to purchase a pack of infantry, one of the light machine gun, and maybe a mortar pack, a heavy machine gun pack, the AT weapon pack, and a command strip or two to get radios. Baccus does have some company packs

@ Greg G1 – well, 2D6 does have Germans and US, so that's a plus. I'll compare them to the others.

@ Rakkasan – appreciate that info.

Time to compare prices and shipping!

H&R infantry come in what might be described as platoon packs. If you are basing at 1-to-1 unit scales (that is you want to see 8 to 10 actual figures for a squad, and 30 – 35 figures for a platoon) then you can buy three of their infantry packs and one of their support weapons packs and you'll have a company + some few battalion support weapons that might be assigned to support a company in action. Depending on the nation and the specific force TOE, of course (ie: US Infantry companies have a different TOE than Armored Infantry companies, vs. Armored Recon companies, etc.)

As I do squad-basing with a bit of an abstraction on the number of actual figures (4 figures on a stand represents a squad of 8 or 10, 2 figures on a stand represents a support crew of 2 to 5, etc.) I can usually get by with one or two infantry packs and a weapons pack per company, and have enough figures left over to do crews for vehicles, maybe some scouts, etc.

So far, the assortment of figures/poses/weapons types in the H&R packs are the best I've seen for building reasonable TOE units.

Hope that helps.

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

Thanks Mark. It's between H&R and Baccus. Baccus seems to be a tad cheaper and at this scale I'm not sure detail is an issue at this viewing range.

' shipping to the US is somewhat cost prohibitive.'
The postal cost of an G3,(inf) GS 3A (LMG), 3C ( Tank hunters), 3D (81mm mortars), 3E (HMGs) and a couple of HQ strips cost £5.85 GBP p&p.
We calculate postage at cost value.
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CaptainCold69 -

Have you made, or are you planning on, armor/transport purchases? If you are, that may impact your infantry selections due to scale.

@AGamer – all my armor is going to be 3d resin printed.

this is good to know, I am also looking to start 6mm WWII. I will look into Adler.