{"id":10140,"date":"2020-09-29T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2020-09-29T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:54:56","slug":"finished-a-platoon-of-german-wwii-infantry-in-winter-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=10140","title":{"rendered":"Finished a Platoon of German WWII Infantry in Winter Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many moons ago, my friend Greg game me a couple of extra sprues of German WWII infantry in winter dress. It was enough to make two squads. So, I ordered a box from Warlord so that I could make a full platoon. As with all these plastic sets of Germans, there are never enough rifles and too many assault rifles and submachine guns. I wanted the Germans to fit from 1941 to the end of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the reinforced platoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had barely enough rifles to make four normal ten-man squads, and I had to use a couple of semi-automatic rifles that will mostly go unnoticed on the tabletop. I also used a few extra rifles from the later war Panzergreandier set. Each squad has one machine-gun, a squad leader with a submachine gun, and an assistant squad leader with a rifle or submachine gun. The rest of the men are riflemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another view of the platoon. You can see four squads in the front, three extra machine-gun teams and two leaders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were enough figures and parts to make three more machine-gun teams. So for late war, I can swap out two riflemen in three of the squads for a gunner and his assistant gunner. As the quality of their infantry deteriorated, the Germans sometimes put extra machine-guns in their squads to compensate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A close up view of the squad leader and machine gunner in one squad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another view of some of the soldiers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of the heads came with cloth covers on the helmets, so I painted them in white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two leaders, two extra riflemen with Panzerfausts, and three machine-gun teams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have a bunch of Russians in winter kit for my Winter War games, so I am looking forward to putting these on the table when the plague subsides. I also have a couple of squads of American infantry in greatcoats, so there might be a 1944 Western Front game in my future as well.<\/p>\n