Some may know of Jake, he was a member of the group of New Zealand players based in Wellington who helped play-test Modern Spearhead back in the late 1990’s, and who then hosted numerous ‘mega-games’ of Spearhead and Modern Spearhead through 1997 to around 2010. He was/is well informed on modern military related matters. Jake compiled the following lists of optional and unofficial MSH TO&Es and data cards (and other information) on his website that is no longer available.
UK Territorial Army Brigade is from Rhys Batchelor. The South Koreans, US Special Forces, US Combat Engineer Battalion and the Cuban lists come from Randy Howk. The USMC and Royal Marines lists come from Austin Smith.
Jake also recommended Nowfel Leulliot for excellent ultra-modern French TO&Es. For excellent information on the Indian Army try Bharat Rakshak and for general orbat information of all kinds he recommend Orbat.info. He also pointed out David Manley has done some excellent historical TO&Es for South Africa and the war in Angola. Note: Some of these sites no longer exist so I cannot provide a valid link, or in a couple of cases Jake had listed contact email addresses which I have removed for privacy reasons.
Note that we approved of Jake’s Data Cards being published publicly at the time despite them partially reproducing some content drawn directly from the copyrighted Modern Spearhead material – as this expanded the available data for MSH gamers. However please remember when using these resources that no part of Modern Spearhead rules, TO&Es or Data Cards should otherwise be reproduced publicly in any form – so please do not republish this material elsewhere as it is for MSH gamers’ own personal use; nor reproduce any part of the official MSH rules as these are protected by Copyright.
John Moher & Alex Macris
All files are are in PDF to allow easy download and printing.
With regard to the items not yet available, I am slowly reformatting these and will eventually get all Jake’s content back up over the next couple of years – all going well. It is taking longer than originally expected as the source material is webpages which need a lot of cleaning up as Jake’s old webhost inserted a lot of redundant code in them. If you are after something specific that is not yet up here then either leave a comment, or post n the Spearhead and Modern Spearhead Facebook Group, and I will endeavour to do that item next.
MSH TO&Es
USA
- US 5th Infantry Division (Mech) 1976-84
- US Light Infantry Division
- US Brigade Unit of Action
- US Combat Engineer Battalion
- US 2ACR 1990s
- US Special Forces
- USMC
UK
- British Army 1960s
- British Army 1970s
- British Army 1980s
- British Army 1990s
- British Army 21st Century
- UK Territorial Army Brigade 1980s
- UK 3 Commando Brigade
- UK 16 Air Assault Brigade
- UK “Op Telic” Iraq 2003
Western Europe & NATO
- Belgians 1980s
- Canadian 4 Mech Brigade 1980s
- Danish Army 1980s
- Dutch 1980s
- Dutch 1990s
- French Division “Daguet” in Gulf 1990-91
- French 1990s
- Franco-German Brigade 1990s
- German Panzer Brigade 1990s
- German Armoured Recce Bn 1960-94
- German Bundeswehr during the Cold War
- Greek Armoured Brigade
- Italian Army
- Norwegians 1990s
- Swedish Arctic/Infantry Brigades 1980s
- Swedish Armoured/Mech Brigade
- Spanish Army
- Turkish Armoured Brigade
Soviet, Warsaw Pact and Former Soviet bloc
- Polish 7th Naval Assault Division
- Russian Tank Brigade 1990s
- Russian Tank Division 1990s
- Russian Motor Rifle Brigade 1990s
- Soviet Naval Infantry
- Soviet Airborne Division
- Yugoslav Army 1990s
Middle East
- Arab armies
- Egyptian II Corps Kuwait 1991
- Israeli Army 1990s
The Americas
- Cuban Army
Far East & Pacific
- Australian Army
- Chinese People’s Liberation Army
- Indian Army
- Japanese Army
- North Korean Infantry Division
- North Korean Mechanised Brigade
- North Korean Armoured Brigade
- North Korean Motorised Brigade
- Pakistani Army
- South Korean Army
- Taiwanese Army 1990s+
- Vietnam 1965-1975
MSH Datacards
- Belgium
- Canada (beta v1)
- China (PLA)
- Denmark
- French (Modified/Expanded)
- Greece
- India (beta v1)
- Israel (1990s+)
- Japan
- Netherlands (beta v2)
- North Korea
- Norway
- Pakistan
- South Korea (ROK)
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- United Kingdom (Revised incl. Saxon & FV180 CET)
- Warsaw Pact (Revised & Comprehensive)
- Yugoslavia (pre-1992 break-up)
Additional MSH Resources
- FAQ Rules Clarifications for Modern Spearhead.
- Modern Spearhead Aircraft – a comprehensive listing of modern combat aircraft ratings for MSH.
- Soviet SAMs – new data for Modern Spearhead.
- Tank Update – an updated set of data for MBTs in Modern Spearhead.
- Tank Protection Levels – A feature to help wargamers interested in the relative armour protection of modern tanks.
