Tuesday, December 7, 2010

FoW Soviet Storm Battalion

Well, having purchased the FoW book "Stalin's Europe" and having some 15MM Soviet troops on hand, I am gonna build a Soviet force...1500 points worth. Here is the content of that force, tell me what you think:

Battalion Headquarters     35 pts.      35 running total pts.
•    1, Company Command SMG Team           
•    1, 2-in-Command SMG Team
•    1, Komissar Team


Strelkovy Company               270 pts.     305 running total pts.
Headquarters Section
•    1, Rifle/MG Command Team
•    1, Maksim HMG Team                       25 pts.        330 running total pts.
•    1, Komissar Team                               15 pts.        345 running total pts.
Rifle Platoon 1
•    7, Rifle/MG Team
Rifle Platoon 2
•    7, Rifle/MG Team


Shturmovye Group              315 pts.       660 running total pts.
Headquarters Section
•    1, SMG Command Team
Assault Group
•    7, SMG Team
Reinforcement Group
•    2, SMG Team
•    5, Storm Team


Tankovy Company            440     1100 running total pts.
Headquarters Section
•    1, T-34/85 obr 1943
Tankovy Platoon 1
•    3, T-34/85 obr 1943
Tankovy Platoon 2
•    3, T-34/85 obr 1943

Artillery Battalion              125 pts.      1225 running total pts.
Headquarters Section
•    1, Command Rifle Team
•    1, Staff Team & Horse-drawn Wagon
•    1, Rifle Observer Team                     15 pts.       1240 running total pts.
Gun Platoon 1
•    2, 76mm ZIS-3 Field Gun
•    2, Horse-drawn Limber
Gun Platoon 2
•    2, 76mm ZIS-3 Field Gun
•    2, Horse-drawn Limber


Limited Air Support         200 pts.    1440 running total pts.
•    IL2-Shturmovik

Antiaircraft Company     50 pts.     1490 running total pts.
Headquarters Section
•    1, Command Rifle Team
AA Gun Platoon 1
•    2, 37mm obr 1939 AA Gun
•    2, Trucks                                          5 pts.    1495 running total pts.

My thought is that for city battles, I may skip the aircraft and even the anti-aircraft guns in favor of other infantry.

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