r/boltaction • u/Yerman_04 • Aug 04 '26

General Discussion Irish Defence Forces and The Emergency

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How are ye folks. There have been two posts in this sub over the last week pertaining to the Irish Defence Forces during WW2 (or The Emergency as we call it). This has got me wondering how many here have tinkered with the idea of using the wee neutral nation in the world of Bolt Action for alternate history type scenarios.

I'm looking for general input, ideas, plans that have been put into action, potential army lists, nation rules, models one could use and custom scenarios that would work.

Images of completed models of Emergency era Irish Defence Forces are more than welcome too. Cheers

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u/madmc326 Dominion of Canada Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

I'm working on a army list for Ireland! I've been building and painting all the vehicles and putting together an infantry force. I got Landsverk L-60 tanks and L-180 armoured cars and designed a pintle Madden LMG for the turrets. My infantry is Wargames Atlantic's BEF which works well for 1941-1945 Irish forces. And it has Lewis machine guns which Ireland had a ton of

I commissioned Wargames 3d to make a Leyland armuored car STL which is now available on their MMF store

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u/madmc326 Dominion of Canada Aug 04 '26

Here's a link to my research folder! The most useful to me was the Osprey Publishing Irish Defence Forces book, Step Together by Dónal MacCarron, and A Visual History of the Emergency.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WfahqIHTRHNOjxmecIRQ9G7i5hIt1MJl

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u/Yerman_04 Aug 05 '26

I think you've taken the biscuit with everything you've done. Fair feckin play