My regular gaming oppo has been doing early war for a while now and has most of the forces for it. He does not have early Soviets however so I decided to complete what the club could do for the period.
Ive decided to do a Tank Battalion based on the early war PDF list available on the Battlefront forums.
Battalion Commander 1x T28
Medium Tank COY 10x T28
Hvy Tank COY 5x T35
Motor Rifle COY with attached MGs and Commissar team
Anti Tank Platoon 2x 45mm ATG with attached Commissar team
Anti Air Platoon 2x 37mm AA guns with attached Commissar team
This comes to 1500pts which is the size of game we would normally play.
Now there might be some of you who are quite new to historical games who have been introduced to FOW recently who would be forgiven for thinking Battle Front invented WW2 gaming! lol Sometimes I think BF think they invented it! They most certainly did not.
So with this in mind the above forces will include lots of non BF stuff. This is not because I'm down on BF, its purely down to cost vs best model available which is not always BF.
The above list is also just a starting point. Once it is complete (and I start playing with it) I will add other units so I can play a variety of different lists. The lists themselves are also just rough guidelines to us so we get an idea of balance. Most games played will be scenario driven and involve historical real world forces rather then lists people come up with to win tournaments.
I'm concentrating on finishing my WFB Dwarfs at the moment but I have made a start. I wanted my Battalion commanders T28 to stand out so I decided it should have the "horseshoe" frame Ariel. No one makes this so I used a standard BF T28 as the base. Ive constructed the frame from plastic coated paperclips and greenstuff.
Now I am aware it looks a little thick and out of scale but bare with me. If I had made it thinner and to scale it would get broken PDQ. It has to look OK and survive a normal gaming environment! lol
So here it is complete: