Bedecon Motostrelkovy

After much indecision I have finally settled on a list, though I need a few practice games to make sure it works the way I think it should.A Red Army (confident trained) motostrelkovy. So tonight I've painted up the SU 100s and finished off another three JS 2s I was working on the other night.

Red Army Motostrelkovy (CT)   

            HQ      35

15x      Motostrelkovy (SMG)           240

8x        Motostrelkovy (SMG)           130

9x        Razvedki- M3A1s- FT          205

3x        JS 2- 3x AAMG (FT-Guards)          420

4x        SU 100           310

4x        SU 76 150

4x        57mm AT       160

4x        120mm Mortars         95

                        1745

 

I decided against the Spetnez purely so I can take the 120mm mortars as a template weapon. There is a reasonable chance of defending in a number of missions so I felt the mortars would give more tactical flexibility than the spetnez, and will target open topped vehicles and gun teams. However that being said, it still has plenty of infantry, including Razvedki, so I capable to grabbing objectives attacking too. As for the units selected, I’ve tried to select units I wanted to run on the table top first and foremost, hence the inclusion of the iconic SU 76 which is a great looking model that rarely sees time on the table, a pity really as over 14,000 of them were produced in real life. Their role will be to target gun teams (especially motorsied and mobile artillery) and lightly armoured tank hunters such as marders or hornisse that are a bane to the JS IIs and SU 100s. The SU 100s and JS IIs 2s give some long range punch vs panthers and other heavily armoured tanks and give me two units that opponents need to be mindful of and ignore at their own peril. Likewise the Zis 2s give a good option vs medium tanks and half tracks- good range, high rate of fire and reasonable AT so will be deployed to counter medium tanks and to protect the flanks of the heavy tanks, or on defence to protect the infantry. The infantry will lead the attack, supported by the tanks and SUs, as will the razedki, or they can dig in on an objective and hold on till reserves arrive. So overall the force has plenty of flexibility for a variety of situations so should do okay. Sounds good in theory, I need to get some practice games in.

Craig