A few random projects

Last weekends Day of Days has got me re-inspired towards Flames so I've been working on a a few bits and pieces for next years Day of Days- nothing lie an early start.

To date we've not really given EW a try, none of the guys have EW armies so we tend to play Mid War (our preferred era) or LW. Truth be told though, we play very little Flames these days and comps are probably where I get most of the games. Still Dale and Nigel both have British Mid War desert tank compnaies that can easily be morphed for EW- Dale has the remnants of his infamous  Stuart horde of a decade ago (32 Stuarts was enough for us to ban multiple companies in our standard games). So I've decided to look into DAK options.

I've had a few EW blisters lying round for far to long so have started to work on a few bits and pieces. I hope to get the guys together soon for a few 1100pt doubles games. 

I'm keen to try and run a kradschutzen kompanie (motorcycle infantry) so have ordered some motorcycles. I had one blister of DAK motorbikes lying round to get the project started. I intend to have 2 platoons worth as the core of my company which will be run supporting a panzer company. I must admt of am a fan of smaller points size and doubles or even triples games of FoW, the support options become a lot more limited and the forces actually better represent companies than the larger points totals do. So I am looking at running something like this:

Kradschützenkompanie 1100pt DAK Kradschutzen	German Early-War
Mechanised Company

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Kradschützenkompanie HQ  p.71	2	Cmd Motorcycle SMG team	65
Combat Platoons
Kradschützen Platoon  p.71	1 1 6	Cmd Motorcycle MG team Motorcycle Light Mortar team Motorcycle MG team	290
Kradschützen Platoon  p.71	1 1 6	Cmd Motorcycle MG team Motorcycle Light Mortar team Motorcycle MG team	290
Weapons Platoon
Schützen Mortar Platoon  p.66	1 1 1 4	Cmd SMG team Motorcycle & Sidecar Observer Rifle team 8cm GW34 mortar	125
Divisional Support
Tank-hunter Platoon  p.87	4	Panzerjäger I	335
Company Points:			1105

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Source document: Hellfire and Back!

My British have also had a bit of tidying up. I finally completed a platoon of 2pdr portees (not sure how long I've had the blisters lying round)

 And a couple of Breda portees- I am tempted to run a motorised infantry company (Jock Column) to be able to run these.

 My 25 pdrs have also had a bit of a facelift. A quick repaint and drybrush.

Today I've been tidying up a mittlre panzerkompanie (4x panzer IVs, 5x panzer IIs, 2x 8rads and air support) which will be used to support the kradschutzen.

 I also scrounged up another mortar team to make a platoon of 4 as part of the kradschutzen's support.

 I've come up with this to test out: 

Mittlere Panzerkompanie Medium Armoured Company	German Early-War
Tank Company

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Mittlere Panzerkompanie HQ  p.63	1	Panzer IV D	150
Combat Platoons
Mittlere Panzer Platoon  p.63	3	Panzer IV D	450
Weapons Platoon
Panzer II Platoon  p.61	5	Panzer II C (late)	280
Divisional Support
Heavy Panzerspäh Platoon  p.73	2	Sd Kfz 231 (8-rad)	95
Air Support  p.90	5	Limited Air Support Ju 87B Stuka	115
Company Points:			1090

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Source document: Hellfire and Back!

Finally today I made some pinned markers for Bolt Action.

 

 So overall, I've been fairly productive.  

Craig