The NORKS Drive Forward

Troops bring forward ammo and reload.

The troops use the radio to call the next higher HQ to notify them of the enemy tank breakthrough.

A recoilless rifle fires.

Then enemy machine guns scythe down more infantry.

Another bazooka fires and the round bounces off again.

The Commie tanks roll past more dead and dying troops.
 

Casualties

The North Korean tanks kill and wound many of the Americans.

But only a few of the North Korean tanks are damaged.

Only one man left in this foxhole out of three.

Two more dead.

Some give covering fire as others withdraw.

 The long line of North Korean tanks continues to move up!

Bounce

 

A recoilless rifle fired!

A hit!

It bounced off!

The North Korean tanks just keep coming.

Still they keep up the rifle and machine gun fire.

But the North Korean tanks are unfazed.

Imex Conversions

North Korea often had propaganda teams that would dance and sing to inspire the troops and the civil population.

This pose started as a dead guy laying on his back.

I cut off his canteen and re-positioned it, and then glued him to a base.

The four man 120mm mortar team.

Heavy machine gun team.  In my rules set a three man heavy machine gun team can fire indirect fire.

A surrendering man becomes a relaxing soldier.

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North Koreans

IMEX makes one set of North Korean and one set of Communist Chinese troops for the Korean War.

I have been trimming them off the sprue.

And has been trimming the plastic, and gluing the mortars and machine guns together.

They also got a few conversions.

These are the special troops I was working on, the regular infantry are in their box and the wounded / dead guys are in the spares box.

One of the sets comes with a Japanese heavy machine gun, many were left over in Korea after World War Two ended.

You don't get much of a machine gun crew, just the gunner, so I added a seated guy, probably wounded, as the loader and a kneeling man with binoculars.  Four of the Japanese machine guns I "transferred" to my WWI American army as they used the Hotchkiss machine gun which was the basis for the Japanese gun.  In exchange, I gave the North Koreans four Esci WWII Soviet machine guns.

The North Korean come with great 82mm mortars but I wanted to increase their firepower, so I added a Pegasus 120mm Soviet mortar.  I converted some figures as a scratch crew for them.  The arms and mortar shells left over from the Pegasus set were added to "wounded" North Koreans.  I still gotta come up with three more 120mm mortars.

Each battery of four mortars got one man with binoculars as a forward observer, and a small ammo supply dump.