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Hello All

Carrying on from my Early War Soviets, I now have my eyes set on Mid War and Late War Soviets. My first lot, 21 Plastic Soldier Company T-34's. More pictures can be seen on the blog here



Next on the list are some T-70's, SU-100 and recon.

Thanks for looking

Ben

How did you make the flag?

 George Spiggott wrote:
How did you make the flag?

Its the Flames of War Special Character Commander Dedov, he comes with both turrets which is very useful.

Ben

The next update for the painting log, two platoons of SU-100's, more pictures can be seen here.



Next up is a company of T-70's

Thanks Ben

did you magnetize the guns on yous SU-100s? If you did, what size of magnets did you use? I'm going to magnetize mine and calculated and measured that 2mm x 1mm magnets would be perfect.

 Halkomahooli wrote:
did you magnetize the guns on yous SU-100s? If you did, what size of magnets did you use? I'm going to magnetize mine and calculated and measured that 2mm x 1mm magnets would be perfect.

I didn't as I want to pick up a box of the plastic SU-100 and Su-85s when they come out and I can't see myself needing 12 SU-100's but I will when I do the ISU-122's and ISU-152's.


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My newest addition to the army, a company of T-70's, you can see more pictures here



Thanks for looking

Ben

Hello All

Been a while since my last update, so here is a Matilda Horde. As always you can see more pictures here



Next up I have a company of Stuarts and 21 Soviet Shermans ready to go.

Thanks for looking

Ben

I wanted to post a reply on your blog but couldn't because it had all those stupid ID security measures. Why is posting anonymously considered so sinful these days?

What I wanted to discuss was you saying that taking Matildas is good in the current meta. Why? A slow tank rating gives the opponent basically an additional shooting phase. Or two. It interacts poorly with other tanks as the gun only can scratch the paint of them. TA2 is good in assaults but the problem is getting stuck in there. Some people propose the idea of letting the su100 take care of the tanks. But the positioning on move or shoot tanks is very difficult. So what is so great about the Matilda?

They're slow tanks, yes, but they're slow tanks with FA 7 and SA 6 for a lot less than 34/85s. The speed doesn't really matter if you have both the ability to bounce lighter AT and the numbers that allow you to shrug off losses caused by heavier AT.

The gun also doesn't matter much, either; if you're taking on most MW and LW tanks with Matildas then you're either doing something wrong, or you're winning so decisively that there's nothing else they can be doing. The 3 shots of a basic Matilda II are nothing for infantry or gun teams to sniff at, especially when they have as many as 10 Matildas bearing down on them.

The fact they also cost a healthy amount less than something like a 34/85 means that your opponent is having to pour just as much fire into the Matildas as he would the 34/85s, but you're not losing nearly as much per tank.

Use Matildas to crush gun teams or to sit in front of infantry and blaze away with their RoF 3 guns, either offensively or defensively. Use the points you've saved from not having to buy T34s to get some dedicated AT and to fill in other gaps.

What avatar 720 said, plus if you take something that let's you infiltrate the slow tank stat makes no difference.

I will agree they don't look great on paper but they are 260pts for 10, that's cheaper than some veteran infantry platoons, and ta 2 is great in the current artillery and infantry heavy meta. The spare points you get over the better more expensive tanks means you can get 6 or 8 platoons, something hard with the t34/85.

Also I know blogger is a pain if you don't have a log in, your not the first person to say that

Hello All

A quick update today for my Soviets, 4 SU-122's. You can see more here



The long talked about Stuarts are next, I promise.

Thanks for looking

Ben

I'm about to start a Late War Soviet Tank Army and this blog is awesome. Lots of great pics, and I even learned something from Avatar 70's post. Thanks for posting.