Friday, 3 March 2023

From MilesR: Teeny Tiny German Armored Corps (289 Points)

I may have gotten into 3mm WW2 gaming in a bigger way than just doing the Pacific Theater.  In my defense, the shopping cart at Pico Armor is very persuasive and led me down the primrose path of getting a bunch of Germans and maybe some Russians too.


First up is a 1941/42 German infantry division. 

The divisional assets include an artillery regiment which can be equipped with either artillery or nebelwerfers, a pioneer battalion and a recon Battalion with Panzer II's.


Next are 3 Infnatry regiments - here's the first regiment.  Each regiment has 3 battalions.
Regiments 2 and 3.  All of the Regiments are missing there infantry gun battery (1 each) but the good folks at Pico were more than happy to send those along and they should arrive any day now.
Just for fun, I added a Fallschirmjaeger regiment.

And some Stugs.  I have some earlier model Stug IIIB (short barrels) and will get those painted up in a week or so.

Gotta have Stugs.

Next up is a 1941/2 Panzer Division, which will be modeled after the 11th Panzer or "Ghost Division"
Up first is 1 of 2 mechanized infantry brigades (each of which has 2 battalions).  The one upfront still needs it's transport which will be Opel trucks.

Next is a Panzer jaeger Battalion equipped with Marders, a Recon battalion which a mix of Kradschutzen (motorcycles) and armored cars.  Finally to the right are some towed AT and a 3 battalion artillery regiment
The heart of nay panzer division is it's armored regiment which has 2 battalions of Panzer III's and one of Panzer IV's
Lastly the third regiment of the division - a fully mechanized infantry regiment, plus some 88's just for fun.
In the back are some optional Panzers - 5 companies of Panzer IVH's, 3 companies of Tiger I, 3 companies of Panzer ivD (short barrels) and a 3 Panther companies
A last look at 11th Panzer.  I'm going to be running a East front themed campaign at the club so you may see a handful of similarly scale Russians

As for Points here's my rough estimate

51 Infantry bases / 7 figs each / 0.25 per figure = 89.25

17 Heavy Weapons bases /4 figs each / 0.25 per fig = 17.0

9 HQ's w/ 2 vehicles each / 1 point per Vehicle = 18

18 artillery/gun batteries and lets go with 0.5 points each = 9 points

156 Tanks / Halftracks / trucks at 1 point each = 156

Total Points = 289.25, lets round that to a neat 275 points


Friday Minion: Aha, more teeny tiny tanks! Always pleased to see some of my favourites, stugs and panzer IIs, and it actually makes sense to have nebelwerfers on the table at this scale. Lovely stuff. 

I see no reason to round these down, have the full complement of 189 points (all well earned, and nothing to do with my lackadasical spreadsheet wrangling)





8 comments:

  1. See the first sentence of my last comment and cube it. At least you're not trying to field these on a Pacific Atoll (or are you?). Looks amazing Miles.

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  2. Tiny indeed, but still quite impressive!

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  3. Impressive work, Miles! :)

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  4. Marvelous, the Miles we know and love

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  5. Nice work, Miles! It seems you have fallen down a rabbit hole, I suspect a pastoral French countryside and few villages are next! ;) they do look grand though!

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  6. I also love Pico's stuff and can completely understand the allure of wanting to do... an entire panzer corps(?!). Wow, lovely work ansd well done Miles!

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