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Finnish Civil War 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR By Niklas Hirvelä 2012 This is non-official, non-commercial fan product to Force on Force miniaturegame from Ambush Alley games. All pictures in this document are Public Domain licence, because their copyrights have been expired in EU. In this small supplement we will introduce armies and weapons from Finnish Civil War (Suomen sisällissota) and Finnic kinship war(Heimosodat). First there is little suggestion what rules to use and what not from the original game. After that we present to you organisations and stats in main sides of conflict. Finnish Whites commanders Short history lesson Finland gain independence in 1917. In that time, there was huge tension between Whites (mostly conservative nationalist, farmers and upper class, also swedish speakers) and Reds (mostly sosial democratics, industrial workers, tenant farmers). War was fought from 27 January to 15 May 1918. About 37 000 people died during war, most victims were reds. After Civil War, White army fought against British army (and finnish red volunteers called Murmansk legion) in Murmansk area and against Soviet Russia in Karelia. They also helped Estonian army in Estonian War of Independence. These fights were called Finnic kinship war from 1918 to 1922. Check more information from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War RULES You do not neet to use air mobile rules or any air support rules. In Finnish Civil War there were only few bombing flights and they weren't even close to hit anything, because no one had any training to those missions. Also, you do not need any offboard artillery, because all artillery stopped firing long before attack. Artillery was poorly trained (or it even wasn't trained at all), so it was too risky to fire when own troops were close to battlefield. Both sides used some artillery guns to direct fire in short range shooting. Finnish reds called "punakaartilaiset" We recommend to use all armies as regulars. If it doesn't sound good in your ears, use all armies as irregulars. This is just because there were not much difference between sides, both were equally amateurs. Use all light machineguns as medium support weapons (+2 Firepower Die) and all heavy machineguns (+3 Firepower Die) as heavy support weapon. Use normal handgun rules (no shooting beyond Optimum Range, Bonus Die in close combat and no Negative Die Shift) to pistols. Use on board mortar rules to mine throwers. Use Outgunned rule if other side has machinegun against normal rifles. Medics were very rare in battlefield and they limited gear to do anything, so we do not encourage to use medic rules often in the game. Use your imagination and creativity with organizations, they were very various and all examples in this booklet are ideal organizations from papers, which were very very uncommon in battlefields. GUNS Here is list of common weapons used in Finnish Civil War. Pistols were normally used by officers, but some common soldiers had them too from dead enemies. Light machineguns were rare in both sides (except germans) same with mine throwers. Germans in Helsinki Whites: Pistols: Nagant revolver M/1895, Mauser M/96, Husqvarna M/07 and FN M/03 Rifles: Mosin-Nagant M/91, Winchester M/1895, Berdan M/1870, Vetterli M/1871, Japanese rifles M/97, M/02 and M/05. Light machineguns (AP:2/AT:0): Chauchat M/15, Lewis LMG. Heavy machineguns (AP:3/AT:0): Colt-Browning M/1895, Vickers MG, Maxim M/1905 and M/1910. Mine Throwers (light mortars): 91mm russian Miinanheitin (only indirect fire, min range 75cm on board). Germans: Pistols: Mauser M/96 Rifles: Mauser M/98 Light machineguns (AP:2/AT:0): MG08/15 Heavy machineguns (AP:3/AT:0): Maxim MG-08 Mine Throwers: 76mm minenwerfer (direct fire or indirect fire min range 75cm on board). Reds: Pistols: Nagant revolver M/1895, Mauser M/96 Rifles: Mosin-Nagant M/91, Winchester M/1895, Berdan M/1870, Vetterli M/1871, Japanese rifles M/97, M/02 and M/05 Light machineguns (AP:2/AT:0): Lewis LMG Heavy machineguns (AP:3/AT:0): Colt-Browning M/1895, Maxim M/1905 and M/1910 Mine Throwers (light mortars): 91mm russian Miinanheitin (only indirect fire, min range 75cm on board) ORGANIZATIONS White Army Whites Iniative level: D6 Confidence level: D6 to D8 Supply Level: Low to Normal Troop Quality/Morale: D6 to D8/D6 to D8 Suojeluskunta Rifle Squad Squad Leader w/Mauser M/96 Jefreitteri (2.Squad leader) w/Winchester M/1895 6 x Suojeluskuntalainen w/Mosin-Nagant M/91 Rifle Platoon Platoon Leader w/Mauser M/96 Second Leader w/Mauser M/96 5 x Rifle Squads Rifle Company 5-10 men HQ w/pistols or rifles 3 x Rifle Platoons Rakuuna Jääkärijoukkue Dragoon squad Rifle Squad Squad Leader w/Nagant Squad Leader w/Mauser M/96 revolver 8 x Jääkäri w/Mosin-Nagant 20 x Dragoon w/Mosin- M/91 Nagant M/91 Rifle Platoon Dragoon Platoon Platoon Leader w/Mauser Platoon Leader w/Nagant M/96 revolver 6 x Jääkäri Squads 3 x Dragoon Squad Kuularuiskujoukkue Machinegun Team 6 x Gunners with one Maxim M/1905 Machinegun Platoon 2 x Machinegun Team German Army German Platoon Iniative level: D8 Confidence level: D8 Supply Level: Normal to Abundant Troop Quality/Morale: D8 to D10/D8 to D10 Rifle Squad Squad Leader w/Mauser M/98 8 x Riflemen w/Mauser M/98 LMG Team 4 x Gunners with one MG08/15 Rifle Platoon Platoon leader w/Mauser M/96 2 x Rifle Squad 2 x LMG Team Machinegun Platoon Machinegun Team 6 x Gunners with one Maxim MG-08 Machinegun Platoon 2 x Machinegun Teams RED ARMY Punakaarti Iniative level: D6 Confidence level: D6 to D8 Supply level: Low to Normal Troop quality/morale: D6 to D8/ D6 to D8 Rifle Squad Squad leader w/Nagant revolver M/1895 12x Punakaartilainen w/Mosin-Nagant M/91 Rifle Platoon Platoon leader w/Nagant revolrer M/1895 2x Rifle Squad Rifle Company Company leader w/Nagant revolver M/1895 Comissari w/Nagant revoler M/1895 4x Rifle Platoon Kuularuiskuplutoona Machinegun Team 6x gunners with one Maxim M/1910 Machinegun Platoon 4x Machinegun Team Armoured cars Red side had four armoured cars, two of these were Austin model 1917. They were in Helsinki, where White Army captured them in Battle of Helsinki. Other two cars were Armstrong-Whitworth Fiats, one in Tampere and one in Viipuri. Both cars were captured by whites in battles. Because of Finnish weather in winter and spring, cars didn't see much of use, because they could only use main roads in the cities. .
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