The New(ish) Model Army

The great drawback of WW2 collections has got to be the repetitiveness of the colour schemes.  Happily the addition of irregular force elements is a welcome break and a chance to paint something with a wider selection of colours. I’ve been looking for a partisan set for a while but hadn’t come across one that I like until recently. I’m not a big fan of metal as I prefer working with plastics - ease of glue and cutting etc. So it was good news when Wargames Atlantic announced they were releasing their new French partisan set. I’m now four dudes in to this set and am pretty pleased with it. The set has 32 figures offering pretty good value for money. The figures are nice - reasonable poses although only having four different bodies in the set there’s a danger of them being repetitive. The spruce has a good selection of weapons although I would have liked another rifle on there - at present each spruce only has two rifles on them which means the squads are going to be bit too heavy on...

The joy of the internet and in particular this site:   http://wio.ru/tank/oz/oz-en.htm . 15th Guards Mechanised Brigade, part of 4th Guards Mechanised Corps.  Fought on the Budapest Campaign and so appropriate to play through Warlord’s Fortress Budapest Campaign.  Guards honorific therefore reasonable to include some veterans in the mix as well as greener replacements.  Mechanised Brigade therefore lend lease light armour such as White Scout cars and Universal Carriers are in as well as truck borne infantry plus the freedom to bring a T-34 or two when required.  Brigade includes an independent recce company therefore scout squads are not implausible (I think).  Most of the required support options available - mortars, Zis-3 medium howitzers, Bde engineer company for assault Engrs (not that I’ve ever intended to field then) and AA MG Coy (quad maxim - why not?). The only thing in mind that I’d like to include at some point but might not be appropriate is a l...