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STALINGRAD Bolt Action Mega Battle!
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About the Project
Inspired by the Ontabletop.com 'Spring Clean Challenge' I have dusted off my Soviet Army for Bolt Action, which is 'Stalingrad themed'. I have dug out half painted and many still boxed kits and blister packs to start/re-start and hopefully finish the ridiculous amount of Soviet's, German's and Scenery that has been stuck in gamers limbo for years. I particularly look forward to getting a German army up an running to challenge my Soviet's, and to base the elements on real units (such as the 100th Jager Division). I also need to get scenery to theme the board built and finished. No Stalingrad battle (let alone a MEGA BATTLE [which Stalingrad very much was!]) would look right without a mass of smashed grey buildings, and a ruined concrete and brick wasteland. It's ambitious, but I have a LOT of unpainted miniatures and scenery that is crying out to get done, and the end result will (God willing?) be achievable and great fun for my gaming group and I. Like many gamers we all have a favourite battle that we would like to have masses of models and scenery to play with our mates. In those terms. this is my Waterloo (in a gaming bucket list way, rather than my ultimate personal downfall!),
Related Game: Bolt Action
Related Company: Warlord Games
Related Genre: Historical
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2023
This Project is Active
Stalingrad Landing Stage.
A commissar takes desperate measures to restore discipline amongst routing Strafbat troops, as a Naval Infantry NCO prepares to receive fresh troops via ferry, whilst the last of his men stave off the closing enemy. The landing stage hangs by an horse hair.
Miniatures by Warlord Games:
Soviet Infantry plastic box set
Scenery by 4ground:
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/ports-of-plunder/ports-of-plunder-short-dock-with-stairs-04?sort=p.model&order=DESC
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=urban%20ruins
Discount code: TTMINI5
Panzer III Platoon.
What’s better than a single Panzer III, THREE Panzer III’s!
Miniatures by Warlord: https://store.warlordgames.com/products/panzer-iii-plastic-box?aff=42
Scenery by 4Ground:
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/indie-design/tftb-master-builder-series/tftb-grudinin-mill-chimney
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=urban%20ruins
Discount code: TTMINI5
Sdkfz231 Armoured Car.
This rather striking looking vehicle is going to be placed in a ‘Stalingrad Armoured Kampfgruppe Reinforced Platoon’ (see Warlord’s ‘Stalingrad Campaign Book’), as the Armoured Car choice.
It is a ‘wheeled vehicle’ and can move 12″ on regular terrain, or a whopping 24″ on roads. It however cannot cross ‘rough terrain’, which makes up much of Stalingrad, and will rely on Pioneers to remove barbed wire road block. It can however move swiftly on roads, having 2 x 90% pivots per movement, so to threaten enemy small and artillery teams, and generally make a nuisance of itself.
It is armed with a Light Autocannon and a co-axial MMG. It will be great for taking out small enemy teams in cover, and critically knocking out enemy transport vehicles, and hopefully taking out some of their passengers. On occasions where the 231 cannot cross terrain, the 40″ range of it’s autocannon will give it a decent amount of long range punch to threaten enemy infantry, teams and light vehicles from a distance.
It has the ‘Recce’ special rule, which means that it can retreat out of harms way if shot at, potentially wasting an enemy units shooting for a turn.
As long as it is used in accordance with it’s strengths, and not used in an anti tank role, it should be a great asset to my Panzergrenadier infantry.
Miniatures by Warlord Games:
Sd.Kfz 231 (8-Rad) Armoured Car
Scenery by 4Ground:
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/28mm-road-barbed-wire-barricades?search=barbed%20wire
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=urban%20ruins
Discount code: TTMINI5
Stalingrad Water Feature.
I really struggled to find a water feature that I liked, then I spotted the ‘La Haye Sainte Sand Pit’. I turned it into a Polluted Pond for my Stalingrad project. It could equally be utilised for 40K, Star Wars Legion or even 15mm Napoleonic’s as intended.
German Pioneers
These guys with a Veteran Unit rating, access to up to 6 SMG’s, an LMG and a Flame Thrower, can deal out more damage than any other squad available to the Germans.
They come in a 30 man box set using Warlord Games’s Blitzkrieg German plastic sprues, with additional metal heads, a host of weapon and specialist equipment arms.
The range of variation in the metal heads has allowed me to field a unit of characterful individuals, all with unique ways of camouflaging their helmet (Ooh, Er, Missus!). I have painted one with a ‘Soviet Amoeba pattern’ cloth cover, as well as an Hungarian equivalent, and the chap with a battered and bandaged bonce particularly stands out. Not at least that He is carrying a Teller Mine.
Miniatures by Warlord Games:
Blitzkrieg German HQ (1939-42)
Scenery by 4Ground:
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/28mm-road-barbed-wire-barricades?search=barbed%20wire
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=urban%20ruins
Discount code: TTMINI5
Barbed Wire is available in some Campaign Books, and I am keen to utilise it in my Stalingrad Battles. I like the 4Ground kits, and the way the models can be easily placed almost anywhere on the tabletop. The Pioneers are able to remove whole sections after taking a down order when adjacent.
Soviet Gaz AAA Fuel Bowser.
I love the model and have been itching to get it assembled, painted and on the gaming table.
I intend to home brew some special rules for it, so that I can use it as a mobile objective in my games of Bolt Action. I’m going to count it as an ‘armoured carrier’ as the fuel tank is made of steel, and it hit by a flame thrower or heavy weapon, I plan to use an explosive template.
It will be capturable in a similar way to capturing transports, but it will not be removed, just taken over by the enemy player. I can’t reasonably see many drivers being willing to put up a gun fight in the driver seat of this vehicle.
I will also ask the community for ideas that can shape my special rules for this fantastic, characterful addition to my Stalingrad Mega Battle.
I love the model and have been itching to get it assembled, painted and on the gaming table.
I intend to home brew some special rules for it, so that I can use it as a mobile objective in my games of Bolt Action. I’m going to count it as an ‘armoured carrier’ as the fuel tank is made of steel, and it hit by a flame thrower or heavy weapon, I plan to use an explosive template.
It will be capturable in a similar way to capturing transports, but it will not be removed, just taken over by the enemy player. I can’t reasonably see many drivers being willing to put up a gun fight in the driver seat of this vehicle.
I will also ask the community for ideas that can shape my special rules for this fantastic, characterful addition to my Stalingrad Mega Battle.
Miniature by Warlord Games:
Scenery by 4Ground:
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=urban%20ruins
Discount code: TTMINI5
BA-64 Scout
I love this model, definitely the “Cheeky Monkey” of my Soviet forces. I love the way Warlord have captured the less the complete utilitarian look with the un-smoothened weld lines, and I have tried to highlight them with my painting.
It’s cheap and costs only 15 points more than an MMG team at Regular, and it’s fast at 12 inches, and on a road it’s very fast at 23 inches movement. It may be ‘open topped’, but with Recce, it can get out of trouble very quickly.
It may lack and real punch being equipped with a lone LMG, but it has the potential to be a real nuisance, tearing off to target enemy weapons, officer and artillery teams. Many a time have I lost an objective to a few surviving enemy infantry models, this could offer a solution to getting a bit of fire power to where it is needed. In the end stages of the game, a few pins last minute and the odd infantry kill could make all the difference. Just don’t expect it to delete any large enemy Veteran infantry squads.
For a small unit of inexperienced infantry, the BA-64 is a credible threat.
To recreate this scene:
Miniatures by Warlord games:
Scenery by 4Ground:
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/28mm-model-kits/28mm-world-at-waw/28mm-checkpoint?limit=50
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=urban%20ruins
Discount code: TTMINI5
Tank Duel.
Another much needed addition to my Stalingrad miniature collection, is a Panzer III J. It provides a much needed ‘anti-tank’ weapon to the German’s arsenal, but also looks cool!
This model has been constructed from the same plastic Warlord Panzer III kit as the previous Panzer III L. It has the slight edge over the later model and the T34/76 that it is going up against, in that it has strengthened rear armour. This “extra-arse-armour” will be particularly useful in an enclosed city fight, where enemies will often be up close and very personal.
I have used the transfers to mark this tank as a member of the 24th (Leaping Horsemen) Panzer Division.
To recreate this scene:
Miniatures by Warlord: https://store.warlordgames.com/products/panzer-iii-plastic-box?aff=42
Scenery by 4Ground:
https://www.4groundpublishing.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=urban%20ruins
Discount code: TTMINI5
