Avernos, the Desert Squirrel.

the HQ is one of three compulsory choices in building your reinforced platoon, for my list I’ve chosen a veteran First Lieutenant, with an additional veteran to accompany him. That rocks in at 103 points. He has a +2 morale modifier for units within 6″ and can pull three order die with “snap to action” (two standard dice and a bonus for the German Blitzkrieg). They tend to be my default choice.

I’ve chosen a veteran because if/when he gets hit it’s harder to polish him off, also he has the option to have up to two additional soldiers with him. Don’t do that, a two man team counts as a small team and has an additional -1 to hit them. Adding a third means you have no such modifier, and while he gains two meat shields they will suffer many more hits.

Weapons for the HQ are as modeled, from available infantry small arms (no light machine guns @Limburger 😛 )with no points cost, so feel free to go nuts.

knowing what we were getting, and how limited time can be for the build itself, I decided to work out a list in advance of the bootcamp itself so I could get straight into the assembly. As I didn’t have the new campaign book I based the list on Rommel Triumphant from the Armies of Germany book, but since getting the book I’ve found it can be run as a 1941 DAK Light Divison. So with that in mind what have we got in the box?

So the army contains 30 plastic infantry, 3 boxes of Opel Blitz/Maultiers, a metal command blister, metal 81mm mortar, metal 50cm Pak 38, metal MG34, Resin 8-rad and a resin horch. That is a chunky bunch of tiny fighting men and surplus to requirements if we only need to get to 1000 points.

So for the purposes of this we shan’t be needing the Horch, one of the trucks the spotter and 3 of the plastic infantry. The rest will give us a decent 1001 pt list.