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Bolt Action Unboxing: Marder Zug
February 27, 2018 by johnlyons
We're looking at the Marder Zug III Ausf H for Bolt Action from Warlord Games.
Combining the chassis of the Czech-built Panzer 38(t) and the captured Soviet 76.2mm PaK 36(r) L/51 anti-tank gun, they provided minimal protection for their crew but were mechanically reliable and effective tank destroyers.
This kit includes 3 sets of tanks with 3 crew each, as well as the usual damage markers, decals, and instruction booklet.
How would you have won the war with the Marder?
Yay, it’s John & Justing with a Tank (well, close enough, at least). Not even close to enough rambling, but one takes what one can 😉
Oh, and John? About the Valentine? Should I mention the Archer Tank Destroyer? Because that’s a Valentine chassi. With less conversion than most Tank Destroyers (just compare it to the rebuilds necessary for a Marder III Ausf M, or a Hetzer (that one is practically a new chassi, with just a few things kept, though many looking similar)
Didn’t the Germans have to delay the start of Barbarossa to pull Mussolini’s forces out of a tricky place?
Great question @hobbyhub – the answer is: partially, and indirectly. By the end of 1940, the Germans knew they were going into the Soviet Union the next year. So von Ribbontrop and the Foreign Ministry starts working through the winter of 40-41 to build up a series of alliances in the southeast of Europe – Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Croat-dominated Yugoslavia, in order to brace the southern flank of this massive invasion. There were also overture made to Finland to bolster the northern wing, but that’s another story. Everything’s great as the date for the invasion (first “Otto,” then “Barbarossa”)… Read more »
Thanks Jim.
I would have argued for a great war style bombardment of the city, artillery and air, while by pass and cut off – Next to the maxim “do not fight a land war in Russia” is “Do not get bogged do down in urban fighting, in hostile territories” …
@johnlyons the Germans over-engineering anything?! Much less a weapon of war at this time, that is as you say where the beauty of the reengineered vehicles come in. No Porsche to try to create a new engine, when you need parts of the front yesterday
Very interesting again.
I love the ww2 unboxing with John, you always get more than just a model being shown.
Best unboxings on the interwebz 🙂
Great unboxing and history lesson!
And speaking of history lessons, is there anything you don’t know about the second world war @oriskany ??? 😀
I knew nothing of the coup in Croatia instigated by the British… Always love reading your accounts as I am enlightened a little more every time. 🙂
Benefit of getting old. 😀 Just never stop reading.
Checking up a little afterwards … I did overstate or mischaracterize one thing … the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) didn’t so much “instigate” the anti-Axis coup, as it was already deep in planning, but they did speed it up and “redirect” a little to ensure the new government in power would be friendly to Allied foreign policy interests.
There might not have been a government in the world that was with out pressures from all 3 – Allied, Soviet and Axies – (or 4, as the US and UK did not always sing from the same hymn sheet) secret services . Covertly or in the “open”. Many of the messes that was created at the time have come back to haunt us – the war and disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 90s for instance.
A great video Guy’s love John’s historical speeches naughty Justin breaking the tank.
Wasn’t their a Marder in the village fight at the end of Private Ryan folk’s?
Marders – cute, characterful and deadly
Using the other guy’s stuff – the funniest stories come from North Africa, like the ammo dumps that changed hands back and forth so rounds from the same batches were fired at both sides.
New Tank Rule: tie Justin’s hands to the chair so he cannot break anything 🙂
more rambling please 🙂
Sorry , but that kit is not a Marder III H , The Marder III H ( SdKfz 138 ) had the 75mm Pak 40/3 gun and looked like the museum vehicles Lance put in your video ( larger crew/gun shield pretty much covering the driver’s compartment ). This kit is a Marder III ( SdKfz 139 ) with the 76,2mmm Pak 36 (r) Russian gun . The Germans built about 360 of these with about 66 going to North Africa , the rest went to Russia . Nice looking kit though , probably have to get a couple at… Read more »
Or officially: Panzerjäger 38(t) für 7,62 cm PaK 36(r)
🙂
I dare any non-German to say that 3 times fast 😉
not a problem … but then I can speak German without having to butcher simple words like ‘zug’ (which never ever sounds like the English ‘tug’ … )
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/De-Zug.ogg
@setesch :
‘PaK’ = Panzer Abwehr Kanone (= anti tank gun)…. correct ?
So how would you convert this for 40K or Antares or whatever? Replace the gun with a plasma cannon? Or a Tesla coil? Maybe replace the tracks with some hover tech?
I’m sure for Dust / Konflikt 47 replacing the canon with a tesla coil or lasers would be the way to go.
And I think you probably could ork-ify the thing a bit to make it fit 40k.