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Thanks mate That is what I always aim for, I want to be able to take on everything with my armies, a bit of a budget issue as well but the other bonus is that you get to know your army inside and out.
Oh I`ll be getting some shturmoviks all right

True, but it`s all good. I spend 1.5-2 hours on two infantry bases, I paint them assembly line style. Less the paint doesn`t dry before the next layer, more I forget details.

R

Looking really good, can't wait to see it all painted.

As for the Soviet gun bunnies, I think there might have been a reason they preferred to fire over open sights.

Thanks mate! Me too

R

So had a 1000 pts game against Borg`s British Para. We didn`t have entirely valid lists but we played with what we had with the main goal of testing out artillery.

Here`s my Motostrelkovy:

HQ, Motos Coy incl komissar team & 2* platoons, M4A2 coy, T-34/76 coy and 4*76mm ZiS-3 w/observers

Here`s Borg`s British Para:

HQ, HMG platoon, Mortar platoon, full arty battery, 1 para platoon and AT platoon.

One thing I noticed when I organised the board is that I need more terrain. More specifically hills, hedges and a few more buildings, oh and roads. A lot more open than I had hoped for per now..

Now I forgot to write down notes and take more pics but here`s the endstate:


In short the main thing that we learned this battle is:
- AT platoon must be dug in and not in the open otherwise tanks will take it out :lol:
- HMGs are sweet! One, as in ONE HMG team took out over half of a 2/3 strong Motostrelkovy Company
- Artillery works best as a pinning machine, can take out smaller targets far back but still..can work quite well with direct fire against light/medium tanks or dug in infantry.
- combination of tanks & infantry advancing at the same time is very solid and hard to shift.
- quantity is a quality of it`s own 8)

R

Bit murky pics but the light conditions up here are worsening so quite hard to take good pics at this scale.
I also had to mix up my own wash since I was almost out of Devlan Mud and I don`t have any stores close by..after:
- empty mixing pot
- last remains of devland mud
- splash of gryphonne sepia
- dash of ogryn flesh
- drop of flesh wash
- hint of chestnut ink
- and a healthy chunck of brown ink

I ended up with something I was happy with :lol:

Still, here`s the SMG platoon for Motostrelkovy Coy #1:


And here`s the Batalion HQ:

I managed to bling the batalion commander with some gold, I think you can spot it.

Terrain will be later as I have sick kids and don`t have that much time on my hands even if I`m at home.

R

Looking good and I'm looking forward to seeing terrain. The pics are a bit blurry, but just seeing things progress is always interesting so thanks for continuing to share.

Thanks mate! No problems, I try to spread the FoW virus all over the interwebs

R