North Korean bikers

[redcoat2]

I would like to make a suggestion for the North Korean OOB (obat19): add a motorcycle unit for the Korean War period.

I remember reading somewhere that the North Koreans used motorcycle troops for recon. That would make sense because their mentors – the Soviets – also used them for that purpose.

North Korean motorcycle troops during the Korean War:



The bikes look like Soviet M-72s. They were armed with 7.62mm DP LMGs (obat19/ Weapon 010). A North Korean motorcycle unit in WinSPMBT would be very similar to the Soviet motorcycle sections in WinSPWW2 (e.g. spob11/ Unit 306).

Osprey’s Men-At-Arms Series 174: The Korean War 1950-53 states that the North Korean KPA had a motorcycle regiment – with 3,500 men - at the start of the war: the 603rd Motorcycle Reconnaissance Regt. When I ‘googled’ it I found this article which briefly mentions the North Korean use of motorcycles during the war.

[DRG]

Done and apparently there is still one Regiment with 2000 men active

Don

[redcoat2]

Thanks Don.

Thinking about motorcycles in general, I suspect that a few more motorcycle units could be added to winspmbt.

Communist bikers

It is possible, for example, that motorcycle units are missing from a few Communist bloc OOBs. There are motorcycle units in the East German (i.e. obat36/ Unit 239) and Russian OOBs, but some other Warsaw Pact countries may need them as well. Czechoslovakia, for example. A 1960s photo of Czechoslovak M-72s:

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/5...tovelkyds3.jpg

Poland may be another example. Some photos of Polish M-72s:

http://odkrywca.pl/forum_pics/picsforum10/moto.jpg

(1950s)

http://www.poszukiwanieskarbow.com/F...iles/3_746.jpg

http://www.poszukiwanieskarbow.com/F...iles/4_105.jpg

(1960s)

Taliban bikers

In more recent times the motorcycle has been used by the Taliban (obat22). They’ve been used by groups of fighters and by scouts.

Photo Source: Militaryphotos.net

[Imp]

In more recent times the motorcycle has been used by the Taliban (obat22). They’ve been used by groups of fighters and by scouts.

May not have been the Taliban but played versus similar type of force a while back.
Motorcyclists had Mols or similar came out of nowhere & tried assaulting my vehicles something I was not expecting, hairy suicidal made me think exelent this game can still surprise you.

[Suhiir]

I added the KLR motorcycle to my USMC OOB.
Sure it's just a messenger vehicle not a combat one, but for company size operations they make a fun little scout vehicle and I "needed" one for an ambush scenario I was working on.