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Originally Posted by Louied
Rainbow, I'm not suggesting wholescale recruitment of Gurkhas, but according to SGTTUK, when the Sino-Soviet War started in August 1995 and the Army went on full alert, I can see the return of all the 2nd Bns (which would give us eight), perhaps a Para Bn or Coy, and full Engr, Logs, & Signal Regts/Sqns. Additionally perhaps an artillery regt. Basically all this had existed prior to 1969 and the artillery regt was planned but the Malayan Emergency put it into abeyance.
I am thinking along the lines of some Bns possibly getting Gurkha Incremental Coys.
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That sounds feasible. 2nd King Edward VII’s had a 2nd Battalion until 1992. Arguably if someone put the brakes on that (not impossible - amalgamations didn’t always happen IRL and in T2K V1 any reductions after 1989 are debatable) then you’re only talking about raising three extra Infantry Battalions plus the other arms and beefing up existing units is more under the radar than raising new ones (British Battalions getting incremental Companies also has the benefit of being under the radar)
I also agree that NI would stay as it was IRL (I wasn't advocating that as a solution, it's way too big a butterfly I think)
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Originally Posted by Louied
BAOR PART II
So starting from my IRL ORBAT:
https://www.orbat85.nl/documents/BAOR-July-1989.pdf
1) a ninth Armd Bde being added to BAOR, it was a wish that was expressed many times throughout the 80's. Personally I envisioned the Guards Bns (two) and Household Cav regt in BAOR being consolidated (there is a document at Kew titled "Reformation of a Guards Bde in BAOR" however this document is being held from release due to, as stated, "correspondence with members of the Royal Family"). Now to make up numbers, the loss of an Armd Regt and two Armd Inf Bns from their parent Bdes. I took the Armd Regt in the UK that was split between Bovington/Catterick that assisted in Training and made it a fully fledged Armd Regt (its TTW role was providing the ADR, however I just reformed 5th RTR to take over the role). OR the second Armd Regt in 22 Armd Bde could have been used. This Bde had four Bns because it's TAOR was in front of the Hildesheim Canal (the Water Sandwich was on the west bank), with the redeployment, IRL of 19 Inf Bde, 22 Armd Bde was reinforced with an additional Armd Regt. The two Inf Bns can be found from UKLFs, either from the two JTP 362 Bns (see my doc, both were equipped with SAXON and had a TTW role of LOC duties. When released there are indications they would have been used in the Water Sandwich). OR Inf Bns which were in the MHD role (I'll get back to my thought on this when I touch on the MHD discussion)
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In a T2K context what's your thoughts on giving both the Welsh and Irish Guards a second Battalion, which would bring them into line with the other Foot Guards Battalions pre Options For Change? In theory one could also de-amalgamate the Blues and Royals to create a 'new' armoured Regiment and thus make a Guards Armoured Brigade possible (obviously the discussion about manpower would be a concern).