Historical Miniature Wargames
W. Baxter’s “Soviet Air Land Battle Tactics” from 1986 is a recommended read for any Cold War enthusiast. It offers an interesting insight into the thinking behind soviet tactics, and a wealth of examples of standard doctrine. The material in the book is gathered from published Soviet sources, military journals and other documents from the other side of the iron …
The Red Army encountered German Sturmgeschutz assault guns for the first time in 1941. The advantages of assault guns were that they were less expensive to produce than tanks with rotating turrets and that a larger gun could be fitted onto the same chassis. The Soviet Union was struggling with raw material shortages which made assault guns an attractive proposition.
I have been painting some cold war era soviets for our Force on Force games. Sandsmodels from the UK has recently re-launched their 20 mm Soviet motor rifle infantry and VDV figures. They also do engineers and artillery crew. UAZ staff car. The nice resin model comes with four metal crew figures. The picture is from one of our Force …
These scenarios are the battles that occured in our Blitzkrieg Commander campaing inspired by Operation Bagration, the Soviet 1944 summer offensive in Belarus. By this time the Soviets had truly mastered the art of Blitzkrieg, and in a lightning campaign they destroyed the German Army Group Center and liberated vast tracts of Soviet Union from occupation. Wehrmacht would never recover …