With my British Armoured Car Company finished except for the Typhoons for the Battlefront Euro-Tournament in September, its time to start on my next army for the Newbury Colours and Reading Warfare Tournaments.
Both these are running MidWar Tournaments and as I like the Eastern Front was a choice between Germans and Russians.
With the latest release of the KV-1e models by Zvezda, it had to be Russians, so Mixed Tankovy Batalon from the Eastern Front Book.
You have to take 3 Combat Platoons so I've gone for Red Army (Fearless Conscripts)
T-26 Tankovy Company (10) T-26S obr 1939 @205pts
Medium Tankovy Company (10) T-34 obr 1941 @605pts
Heavy Tankovy Company (6) KV-1e @620pts
This compulsory takes up 1430pts of the total 1750pts
So now some Corps Support (both of these are Fearless Trained):
Razvedki Platoon - 1 Command Rifle/MG, 6 Rifle/MG Teams and 4 captureed Sd Kfz 251 halftracks @160pts
Guards Rocket Mortar Battalion - 4 Katyushas, 1 Truck, 1 Command Rifle, 1 Observer, 1 Kommissar @150pts
Grand Total of 1740pts and 5 Platoons (tried to fit a 6th platoon in but could not without sacrificing tanks)
Thats 26 Tanks, a bit of infantry and some Artillery. I know they will be easy to hit being Conscript and have to bunch up.
But should be able to out-shoot any other Tank army - looking on the forum it looks like a lot of other people are taking Russian Guard Tankovy (so lots of T-34's).
What I love about this force is it's all Zvezda models except for the infantry and cost me £2.50 a Tank - so overall cost me a third of what it would buying Battlefront.
Once I've finished painting them, they should look AOK (it's only when you pick them up do you realise....)
Anyway some photo's