Sales on Soviets

Now like any discerning wargamer I am partial to a good deal and when I saw that a local store (well not so local but I digress) Milsims was selling the Tanks: Modern Age starter set for $10 aud when buying ten or more you had to be sure I was going to buy ten of the buggers. 

This lucky haul plus a Team Yankee starter set and a BMP company starter that they just had lying around when I went to go pick up my order came together to create a lovely T-64 battalion. 

In all its cheap cheap glory

Because of the way that this army has been put together it is not the most optimised army ever but it does match my idea of what would be hitting NATO armies after the first offensive actions. Half strength companies of tanks with smaller companies of infantry in second line IFVs was exactly what I was thinking of when this list came together. The frogfoots could have been fitters but I had two left over and two came in the starter box so it was cheaper to run them and they fill out 14pts so well worth for a force like this. 

I was a little unsure of the BMP-1, the design always sat second best the the BMP-2 in my eyes. But after building nine of each the 1 is so nice to put together. I was slamming one out in under three minutes at one stage. It was just so nice to get them together quickly.


The infantry was another story, I have always been a NATO man and I have really looked down on soviet equipment aesthetically. But I must say that these battlefront plastic infantry have really converted me, the poses are really nice and the way they convey the soldiery of the USSR is amazing. Because of this I have put together another company to paint a little differently for my Ukrainians (again another army I will show off in due time). 

The full list 


I am not the best list writer ever and this army definitely represents this but 16 T-64s and some infantry hopefully will be decent. I haven't had the privilege of a game of 2.0 yet but a fully painted army must have a better chance of winning than an unpainted one right? Right...?

-Connor 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Falling in love with new old games (Team Yankee)

Image
I think this may be a common occurrence for hobbyists that are in the hobby for a long enough time to come back to a game that they thought they would never come back to and then go way too hard way too fast.  For me this was Battlefront's WWW3: Team Yankee. I had enjoyed it years ago with a mate back when my Abrams were getting cut down in droves vs his leopard 2's. Now its been close to a decade since then and I have recently sold my Team Yankee collection. Perusing through local store shelves and making an impulse buy after thoughts of cold war forces and tanks galore.  That impulse buy was a platoon of Abrams that this time ended up being painted in my national colours for the ANZACs which led the spiral of realising that the 15mm scale and the cold war aesthetic (its a weird 80s-90s combo) was something that I just vibe with. The aforementioned Abrams  From this unit I have ended up painting an entire ANZAC army in a month. The way that the system and models (Battlef...
Read more

When inspiration hits

Image
 I for one will never say that I am the most focused hobbyist, although I have been described as otherwise by others. I am very much the finish 75% of a force and move on kinda guy if I can’t get something done quick enough.  Lately I have been adding projects into an app called Figure Case which has highlighted a few things. One, I have too many miniatures and when the figure is not yet finished and is close to 3000 and only includes projects and models I care about is kinda nuts. Secondly is, I have many piles of partially finished units. More primed and discarded parts to projects but definitely half started things that have ended up hidden.  Today I chose to try and finish one set of those in an attempt to finish some armies or finally decide to try and sell some parts of my unfinished collections (looking at your Spartans).  The lucky unit was a raptor squad from my Red Corsairs army.  These guys already came from a previous attempt to build a Sons of Horus...
Read more