Reply To: 20mm WW2 Waffen SS Winter Infantry

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Thanks @piers  I think smaller  scales seems to work better with moderns given the kill distances.  There is a club here in Canberra that play Team Yankee using GHQ 1/285 Micro Armor. It looks much better than 15mm models.

“IN” the city of Stalingrad quite true there were no SS. However I may have made the dangerous assumption that the upcoming Stalingrad supplement covered a time period and not just a location. Personally from a historian point of view I don’t really like Stalingrad as it is somewhat of a black hole with its gravitational forces pulling the attention of historians to it at the cost of many other battles along Eastern Front. Manstein referred to it as a vain struggle. The crossing of the Volga would have been much easier at Saratov to the North of Stalingrad which was far less defensible for the Russians, but because it was Stalin’s town.

Personally I want to get back into true historical gaming. At the moment the group seems fascinated in a fictional timeline of a new war that started mid 45 in Poland when British and Soviet forces accidentally exchanged fire and Churchill’s plan to attack the Russians became public. I am surprised just how evenly matched the two army’s are. An IS-2 does not handle a hit from an improved disguarding sabot round from a 17 pounder. Before this series of games ,my money would have been on the Russians. Currently the British are winning by one game who are being commanded by our least experienced player.

 

Getting back to the main point I greatly like the “earthy” look to these figures and the T-34s that you previously posted. I am looking forward to seeing more work from you along these lines. 🙂